Stories about: Spool

Mark Zuckerberg, watch your back. Sergey and Larry? Consider early retirement.

Use the OS's own tools to maximize your PC's performance without spending a dime.

Emmy Award-winning HBO series was full of cookies, hackers and calling cards

Like many of you, probably, I tire-kicked Google Spreadsheets when it first arrived on the scene, then forgot all about it. A nice bit of AJAX hackery, I thought, but no serious competition for Excel. I was wrong, though, and here's an anecdote that explains why.

Office service packs don't usually include a lot of extra features and most of the changes in Office 2003 SP2 are bug fixes and simplifications. For instance, it reduces the number of security warnings you get when you install Access and lets you use the Office Communicator with Outlook, without needing to have Windows Messenger installed as well.

In the September 2004 issue of PC World, available now: Digital home alone -- a simple guide to creating your own digital world at home; The best free software -- 90 tools and sites to help you work smarter, communicate better and have more fun; Tune in to digital TV delights -- everything you need to know to become part of the digital audience; BYO Media PC -- how to build your own personalised media-savvy machine for TV, music and more; Web and you -- Grown up messaging: instant messaging enters the business world.In the Test Centre -- TV tuner cards. PLUS, Best Buys reviews of PCs and Notebooks, Tech.Files and Sweet Spot. Also, the regular sections of News, First Looks and Quick Takes, Here’s How, and Backbytes.

PLUS, on the cover CD: Free GAME -- CodeRED: Battle for Earth; Lite software --11 smaller, faster, free programs to try; Free program -- Firegraphic 6; plus Browsers, Essentials, Web essentials, Patches and updates, HelpScreen and Here’s How, Features, and Linux software.

Helios Software GmbH has made available a beta version of a major upgrade to its suite of network and prepress server software with the final version due in September.

There are a few things that you can do to make Windows 2000 Professional perform better. Most can be found in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) or the TechNet site, but they're buried deep and are hard to find.

Printing with Linux is very useful and, although manual configurations can be tricky, it is an essential desktop tool which should not be overlooked by Linux newcomers.