Stories by: Ben Camm-Jones

Learn how to clear out unwanted files from three popular Web browsers.

Suspect malware is lurking on your PC? Follow these steps to root out the baddies from your life.

Every time you go to the Windows Update site, your PC 'phones home', contacting the Microsoft servers so your copy of Windows can be checked for authenticity. This is all well and good, you might think. Microsoft doesn't want people to use pirated copies of its operating systems and it has every right to check up on this.

Every time you go to the Windows Update site, your PC 'phones home,' contacting the Microsoft servers so your copy of Windows can be checked for authenticity. This is all well and good, you might think. Microsoft doesn't want people to use pirated copies of its operating systems, and it has every right to check up on this.

We tend to shy away from hyperbole - but Webaroo has got us quite excited. We think this product, which allows you to browse for content without being connected to the web, could completely change the way you use the Internet. And best of all, it's completely free.

Offices with little desk space but heavy document scanning requirements find that most flatbed scanners are just too big - and very often not designed to be carthorses. The i40 steers a different course: as an upright sheet-fed model it has a petite footprint, and it's capable of scanning 1,000 pages per day.

You might think a price tag of $899 was a bit high for a 17in TFT display - about $100 too high. However, we reckon it justifies this extra cost.

We've seen a few notebooks geared towards home entertainment over the past few months, but none so fully featured as the Aspire 9504WSMi from Acer. Okay, it may not have the fastest processor or the best graphics card, but it does have a hybrid TV tuner.

The web giant's latest project, Google Space, made its debut in Terminal One of Heathrow airport Thursday. An area where holidaymakers and business travellers can sample the company's various services, Google Space will be at the airport until 17 December.

Previous Zen digital audio players from Creative have proved it isn't afraid to take on Apple at its own game. Now, with the Creative Zen Micro, it's going head-to-head with the iPod Mini.