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Article | 1/02/2011 Microsoft Word alternatives: Wordsmiths, rejoice!
Microsoft Word is ubiquitous: It's the standard word processor in most places of business, and it often ends up installed on home PCs due to compatibi...
Article | 14/01/2011 Windows on verge of dropping below 90% market share
Windows is on the verge of dropping below 90% market share, with smartphones and tablets posing an increasingly serious threat to Microsoft's dominanc...
Article | 13/01/2011 Wozniak: Voice recognition is computing's next frontier
Look for more robust voice recognition to take hold in the realm of personal computing, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in a brief interview this ...
Article | 12/01/2011 For an old or slow PC, try Puppy Linux 5.2
There's no doubt Canonical's popular Ubuntu Linux distribution gets the majority of attention in the Linux world these days, but there are myriad othe...
Article | 11/01/2011 10 new open source projects to watch
One of the most exciting things about open-source software is the sheer diversity of projects that are always under way. Aiming to recognize some of t...
Article | 10/01/2011 Master hand-drawn art
Think back to the first time you wielded a pen, pencil or crayon. Drawing is one of the first ways children express themselves visually.
Article | 10/01/2011 Apply the Orton Effect for Glowing, Vibrant Photos
There are a handful of photographers whom I've admired and tried to emulate over the years. Michael Orton is one of them. His soft, glowing, almost et...
Article | 8/01/2011 Is the Microsoft-Intel marriage finally over?
Cringely here, reporting from CES in Vegas, where rude beasts walk the earth (at least, the ones that don't crawl or slither), impeded in their forwar...
Article | 29/12/2010 The 20 Biggest Tech Failures of 2010
You can't appreciate the highs without looking at the lows. Here are 20 of this year's biggest failures in consumer technology
Article | 28/12/2010 20 Photoshop Tips for incredible artworks
Photoshop includes a huge number of tools, and here we expose some of its less well-known features and reveal new ways to use some familiar favourites...
Article | 8/12/2010 What's in the Tech Crystal Ball For 2011?
Market research firm IDC makes a number of tech-related predictions near the end of every calendar year, but its prognostications for 2011 may well be...
Article | 25/11/2010 The Golden Gobblers: Biggest tech turkeys of 2010
For the fourth year, I'm trotting out my nominations for the biggest turkeys of tech.
Article | 11/11/2010 12 amazing productivity boosters
It's official: I can no longer think of a single person I know (unless, of course, you count my two-year-old) who doesn't have more work on their to-d...
Article | 1/11/2010 The world's worst PowerPoint presentations
Yes, people who think that it's okay to put 100 graphs on one slide do exist. Learn from these examples how not to make PowerPoint slides for your nex...
Article | 1/10/2010 5 things Linux does better than Mac OS X
Were it not for Windows' long-standing installed base and overwhelming market dominance, it seems unlikely that anyone would argue seriously for the m...
Article | 30/09/2010 New adventures in digital painting: artists who are transforming brushworked art
If you thought digital painting was purely the preserve of dodgy fantasy art involving cliched depictions of elves and dragons, think again. A wave of...
Article | 17/09/2010 Internet Explorer 9: A visual tour
IE 9's main browser window takes minimalism to a new level.
Article | 17/09/2010 First look: Internet Explorer 9 beta makes waves
One of the best ways to see what's changed with the ninth and newest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer is to tune into beautyoftheweb.com and ...
Article | 14/08/2010 Mobile apps security: Apple iOS v. Google Android
The Apple iOS, which runs on its iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, has a flaw in how it reads PDF documents that makes it easier to hack. This flaw is exp...
Article | 14/08/2010 Getting Ready For Internet Explorer 9
After four platform previews aimed at demonstrating the power of the underlying Internet Explorer 9 engine to developers, Microsoft is ready to unveil...

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