Robert Strohmeyer - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Robert Strohmeyer

Article | 13/06/2009 New MacBook Pro can boot from an SD card

In the wake of this week's WWDC keynote, in which Apple announced that new MacBook Pro laptops will finally include an SD card slot, the tech press is...

Article | 13/06/2009 Safari 4 download stat is pure hype

I know I'm cruisin' for some abusin' at the hands of the Mac fanatics today, because twice in one morning I've felt compelled to bring a little skepti...

Article | 9/06/2009 New iPhones, new MacBook Pros, Snow Leopard, iPhone 3.0

Today at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, the Cupertino computer maker announced a host of new products before an audience o...

Article | 20/05/2009 Are baby boomers killing Facebook and Twitter?

The story is as old as the Web: A social network born among twenty-something college kids and young wired professionals sprouts up, apparently out of ...

Article | 21/05/2009 Beware the social media charlatans

Lately it seems I can't go anywhere without running into a gaggle of social media consultants bloviating about the wonders of social network marketing...

Article | 2/05/2009 Expand a small network with an Ethernet switch

Most home-office networks start with a PC, a router, and a modem. But when a small single-user network grows into a larger multiuser network, your ori...

Article | 30/04/2009 Twitter quitters just don't get it

A Nielsen report this week revealed that Twitter has an uncanny knack for hemorrhaging users. In fact, some 60 percent of new users bail on the servic...

Article | 10/02/2009 Google Latitude: An In-Depth Look

Google's location-tracking service, [[xref:http://www.google.com/latitude|Latitude|Google Latitude]], uses the GPS hardware found in smart phones (suc...

Article | 23/03/2009 10 business lessons from 'Battlestar Galactica'

You think your business has it rough? The people of Battlestar Galactica have lived through a recession you wouldn't believe. With dwindling resources...

Article | 11/02/2009 Google Latitude: everything you need to know

Google's much-anticipated location-tracking service, Google Latitude, uses the GPS hardware found in smartphones (such as Google Android phones and Bl...

Article | 10/01/2009 Windows 7 public beta: first impressions

On Thursday at CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the Windows 7 beta release. At PC World we've been running our ow...

Article | 4/01/2009 The 7 worst tech predictions of all time

Predicting the future ain't easy. That's why astrologers and fortune tellers tend to keep their forecasts as vague as possible. But in the high-stakes...

Article | 8/12/2008 10 invincible gifts for the cubicle warrior

If your workplace is like a war zone, add these combative time wasters to your arsenal so you can dominate the office battlefield.

Article | 12/08/2008 Apple MobileMe Syncing Service

To coincide with the release of the company's iPhone 3G, Apple overhauled its Mac-centric .Mac service and renamed it--seemingly without irony--Mobile...

Article | 3/06/2008 Desktop Linux face-off: Ubuntu 8.04 vs. Fedora 9

Over the past decade, Linux has emerged from a herd of obscure and nerdy operating systems to warrant a place in even the most technologically unsophi...