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Article | 29/07/2005 Surge Protectors

By investing a little more in a surge protector, you can protect and prolong the life of your electrical products.

Article | 21/07/2005 Photo Printers

Nowadays, thanks to the digital camera, everyone is an amateur photographer. Now it's time to be an amateur photo developer!

Article | 20/07/2005 Memory

Whatever you're doing on your PC, its taking up valuable space in your system's memory.

Article | 20/07/2005 Portable DVD Players

Portable DVD players take your DVDs out of the lounge room and into cars, trains, buses, parks ... in fact, anywhere you go.

Article | 30/06/2005 Graphics cards

The graphics card is a key performance component, especially in respect to 3D games. Read on to find out what you should look for.

Article | 22/06/2005 UPS

Uninterruptible Power Supply, or UPS are designed to save you heartache and money.

Article | 22/06/2005 Sound cards

This buying guide will explain to you the relevant sound card technology, specs and must-know facts, ensuring you make the right purchase decision.

Article | 24/01/2005 PHP: Making an exception

Gavin Sherry continues his exploration of what makes PHP 5 so special. This month it's exceptional.

Article | 22/12/2004 PHP 5: New iterations

An iterator is a mechanism by which you can traverse the values in some programmatic construct, the most basic being the for() and while() loops. The ...

Article | 21/10/2004 PHP 5: New object model

Thanks to input from people all over the Internet, PHP has been developed at a very fast pace. While this has contributed to PHP's ease of use, it has...

Article | 10/09/2004 Error reporting: Part II

Last month we looked at PHP's extensive error reporting framework. This month, we'll be looking at customising error reporting, and providing much mor...

Article | 3/08/2004 Wireless Networking

Follow this guide to learn everything about wireless networking. Whether you're connecting to a wireless hotspot or sending data from your PC to a han...

Article | 2/08/2004 Digital Home

Before embarking on a home upgrade, it's worth taking some time to become familiar with the various systems, how they differ, and how they can be co-o...

Article | 21/07/2004 Error reporting in PHP: Part I

By default, PHP generates a lot of helpful information for developers when an error occurs in the execution of a script. This information is much less...

Article | 22/04/2004 Entry Level/Workgroup Server

This buying guide provides a thorough overview of server hardware with a focus on CPU-based, entry-level devices from Intel and AMD.

Article | 23/01/2004 Pattern matching with PHP

Matching patterns in strings is important in just about all Web applications that deal with data. PHP has a large number of pattern matching functions...

Article | 15/01/2004 Scanners

This Scanners Buying Guide will help you wade through the jargon that plagues this essential technology and show you how to pick the right scanner for...

Article | 21/12/2003 Interacting with directories in PHP

We have looked extensively at manipulating files on the file system. This time we will look at directories, the other major component of conventional ...

Article | 28/11/2003 Symbolic links using PHP

The PHP column 'PHP file system functions' looked at PHP functions that give developers more information about files and the file system itself. This ...

Article | 21/10/2003 PHP file system functions

In this column, we will look at the range of functions PHP provides for interacting with the file system. At their most basic level, file systems inte...