Jake Widman - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Jake Widman

Article | 20/08/2012 In Pictures: Tech for geeks and students

Here's a bunch of goodies that will prove useful to students, self-respecting geeks and anybody who loves a good gadget.

Article | 4/11/2010 Microsoft Office for Mac 2011: Clunky to cool

When I reviewed Microsoft Office for Mac 2008, I said the then-new version of the suite was "kind of like getting a new Chevy." In other words, it was...

Article | 30/04/2009 Facebook's privacy options

Facebook users -- and their managers -- who are concerned about keeping control of their information should get themselves over to the social network'...

Article | 1/05/2009 How Facebook mucks up office life

Imagine walking into a meeting and encountering not just your current co-workers, but all your colleagues and managers from jobs past, along with your...

Article | 10/10/2008 IT's biggest project failures & what they teach us

Every year, the Improbable Research organization hands out Ig Nobel prizes to research projects that "first make people laugh, and then make them thin...

Article | 10/04/2008 A new kind of Web - don't miss these 11 sites

Call them Web 2.0 sites or mashups - or come up with your own trendy term. Whatever you call them, there are sites popping up all over the Web that pr...

Article | 18/01/2008 Review: Microsoft Office for Mac -- better than iWork?

It has been almost four years since the last revision of Microsoft Office for the Mac, and Macintosh users can be forgiven for getting a little impati...