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WE LlKE...
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DVDs provioing th ils
ar only uso or
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WE DONT LlKE...
No more Last.fm
subscriptions
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scrobbling will no
longr b slling subscriptions, ano
will instao us thiro-party srvics
incluoing Spotiy ano YouTub or
all straming on th sit.
Cash machines
compromised
Criminals hav
xploito a waknss in cash
machins running Vinoows XP that
allows thm to withoraw mony by
snoing th machin an SMS.
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WEBSlTES & APPS
WEBSlTES & APPS
SOPTWARE
SOPTWARE
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1
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wb.
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You can brows by Channls
(sub|cts incluo nimals & Pts, Music
ano Comoy), Pookmarks ano Facbook.
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ar only or itms in th Now Playing
winoow. Hovr your mous ovr a clip or
th option to oownloao it.
Click th
arrow
to sav it to RalPlayr Clouo or
bookmark it.
looks at hunoros o
wbsits, but only thos w awaro
thr stars or highr appar in Pst
Nw Vbsits
Suprb. lmpossibl to ault in
trms o osign, contnt ano
aturs. Pookmark it now!
Vry gooo. Combins a smart
osign with appaling contnt.
Dinitly worth a visit
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WhereToWhatTo
whrtowhatto.com
Thr's a plasantly prsonal l to this
travl sit - oscribo as th proouct o
absolut wanorlust - with grat
aturs such as Spin My Glob, which
looks at a ranoom ostination vry
wk. Th contnt was still builoing
whn w visito, but w lik that you
can brows articls using a calnoar
ano viw bautiul travl photos in th
gallris. Our main criticisms concrn
th ovrus o xclamation marks ano
that th titl o th sit is asy to miss in
a too-clvr postmark graphic. Put it'll
b intrsting to s th oirction in
which VhrToVhatTo ovlops.
TRAVEI ROADSAFETY
RAC Road Safety
Champione
www.rac.co.uk/
chiloroaosaty
Haoo by an aroman nimations oog,
this RC roao-saty campaign wants
chilorn to us nimat lt sotwar to
crat short, animato ilms to illustrat
important roao-saty tips. Th irst
C,CCC ntris rciv a roao-saty kit
worth 5 ano th winning tam gts
,CCC or thir school. Th sit provios
animation tips ano ino or tachrs, ano
invits kios to nominat thir roao-saty
champion, such as thir local lollipop
prson. lt's a grat way to ngag
youngstrs ano prvnt accionts.
Copyright Ueer
copyrightusr.org
l you vr worry about rusing onlin
contnt, Copyright Usr (no rlation)
will kp you out o troubl. lt tlls you
vrything you no to know about UK
copyright law in a clar, concis ano
accssibl mannr. You can watch
high-uality vioos in which musicians,
writrs ano ilmmakrs oiscuss
copyright, ano gt answrs to common
ustions about protction, licnsing
ano inringmnt. Thr ar also hlpul
articls about gtting prmission to us
copyrighto work; th ruls o parooy
ano pastich; privat copying ano much
mor. lt's an invaluabl rsourc.
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pts.com
This luxury 'pt marktplac' is th
purr-ct plac to pick up a suo-ano-
shpskin bo or your cat, a 'Shrpa on
Vhls' oog strollr or a cornr toilt
or your rrt. lt ors an clctic
rang o slping, playing ano oing
prooucts rom inopnont sllrs,
which you can brows by pric, siz,
brano ano othr critria. V lik that
you can subscrib to rgular ooo
olivris, rom vry two wks to six
months, ano that costs ar mao clar
upront. Picturs o cut pts nlivn
th monochrom osign, but th tiny
Paskt ano Chckout links coulo b
mor prominntly oisplayo.
M and ad
mumsanooaosnt.com
Many parnting rsourcs ar aimo at
mums oaos, but this sit aims to
bring thm togthr. lts thoughtul
articls hav titls such as Human
parnting is tam parnting - babis
no it that way, which might souno
patronising, but th aim is to builo a
convrsation rathr than moralis.
Thr isn't much contnt yt, but posts
rom parnting xprts such as Duncan
Fishr (who ounoo th sit) hav
attracto plnty o commnts. w
mor photos woulo mak Mums ano
Daos mor appaling; whn w visito,
th hompag hao nothing but an
imag not ouno mssag!
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MOTORING
PARENTING
ServicePaIe
www.srvicpals.com
Th popular social ntwork or th armo orcs has polisho its osign ano irono
its crass or a rsh, moorn l that shoulo attract vn mor mmbrs. s wll
as th nw SrvicPals logo, th hompag now aturs a collag o military
photos ano givs you th option to sign up through Facbook. Th thriving orums,
which ar th crux o SrvicPals ano boast narly 69,CCC usrs, look smartr ano
loao astr, ano th gallry looks bttr than vr. Th sit is also marking th 7Cth
annivrsary o D-Day with an aomirabl 'Mt th Hros' campaign, which givs
schoolchilorn th opportunity to chat to vtrans on SrvicPals.
SOCIAI
NHS Jobe
www.|obs.nhs.uk
lthough som usrs hav rporto
problms with thir storo otails, th
rvampo NHS Jobs is clanr ano
asir to us than th prvious sit. Just
ntr som kyworos ano a location to
ino matching |obs, thn iltr th rsults
by salary, sta group, |ob typ ano oat
posto, as wll as 'Suitabl or nwly
ualiio applicants'. NHS Jobs has
thousanos mor vacancis than it oio
bor th rlaunch, ano thr ar usul
nw tools or tracking your application
status onlin ano gtting intrviw
rminors via txt mssag. Howvr,
w notico that parts o th ovic
sction still baoly no upoating.
JOBS
What Car MoT tooI
www.whatcar.com/mot
voio nasty surpriss whn you tak
your car or its irst MoT using this tool
rom magazin. Us th
orop-oown mnus to slct your
vhicl's mak ano mool, ano you'll b
prsnto with statistics cruncho
rom tsts o th UK's 5C top-slling
cars rom ugust 2C2 to 2C3. Ths
incluo th avrag pass rat ano a pi
chart showing th points th car ailo
on, such as tyrs, braks ano orivr's
viw o th roao. lt's a simpl but usul
tool, although has misso a
trick by not provioing oirct links to
aovic about ixing th most common
problms.
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BBC iWonder
bbccokionr
PPC iVonor is a nw actual ano oucational brano that provios th answrs to
scintiic, historical ano biological ustions in th orm o intractiv guios. Ths
combin contnt rom PPC raoio ano TV programms, ano wbsits such as Your
Paintings, with auoio ano vioo links by broaocastrs ano acaomics incluoing
Joan Pakwll ano Dan Snow. Oustions incluo things lik: 'How clos oio th
worlo com to pac in 94?', with hanoy 'Vhr nxt?' links at th oot o ach
guio. /lthough th bolo, tablt-garo osign sms a bit 'shouty' on a PC scrn,
iVonor is bautiully put togthr ano ascinating to brows.
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ScoIand No
otIaow.aiIyrcor.co.uk
This sit kps Scottish x-pats up
to oat with nws ano sport in thir
hom country.
Crah.ne
www.crash.t
Th motorsport nws, gossip ano
rsults sit now has a ooicato
vrsion or phons ano tablts.
BeoIion
www.btvoIutio.com
Crat ano shar btting
combinations using th bst ooos
rom 45 onlin bookmakrs.
Windo XP End of Serice
amiruiQxp.com
This Microsot sit tlls lss savvy
PC usrs i thy'r still running th
now unsupporto OS.
UK Waer Feare
www.ukwatrfaturs.com
Choos rom an xtnsiv slction
o watr aturs, ountains ano
ponos at this rvampo sit.
GET INGEAR FOR THE
GADGET SHOWIIVE
www.QaQtshowIiv.t
Gaogt bus shoulo hao to th
Pirmingham NEC rom 9-3 /pril as
th Gaogt Show Liv opns its
ooors to rval a wonorlano o
buzzing, blinking ano bonkrs tch
trats. Chck out th oicial wbsit
or otails ano tickts, ano photos
rom last yar. l you can't mak it
yoursl, hao to th Gaogt Show
Liv TV YouTub channl, whr
thr ar plnty o vioos to gt you
in th
mooo.
You can
xpct
lots o
crazy
nw clips to b aooo ouring ano
atr this yar's vnt onc it gts
unorway.
ONYOUR MARKS FOR THE
IONDONMARATHON
www.virQimoyIoomaratho.com
On 3 /pril, arouno 36,CCC popl will
b lacing up
thir trainrs to
tak to th
strts o th
capital to run,
|og, walk (ano
in som cass
crawl) th
grulling 26
mils o th Lonoon Marathon. You'll
ino otails o whr to watch th
vnt on th oicial sit. l you n|oy
running, you might lik an /noroio ano
iOS app callo Strava (www.strava
.com), which shars lnstagram photos
takn on th rout with your rinos.
This coulo b a antastic way or thos
participating in th marathon to shar
thir xprinc with spctators.
FINDYOUR NEAREST
EASTER EGGHUNT
www.astrQQtraiI.com
/lthough l oon't no an xcus to
stu mysl with chocolat, it's
always a rli whn Eastr coms
arouno ano l know vryon ls is
ooing it, too. You can work o som
o th xtra caloris at th Eastr Egg
Trail sit, which guios you to on o
25C organiso vnt-oays arouno th
UK on National Trust lano, whr
you'll ino gg hunts, ac painting
ano un
activitis or
all. Just ntr
your postcoo
to locat your
narst trail.
Thr ar also
oownloaoabl
packs you can us to crat your own
gg hunts at hom.
KATE'S WEB CAIENDAR
Kat RussII's top wbsits a apps for th xt 14 ays
Kat prsts Wbscap for BBC CIick a bIoQs at workiQthcIou.biz
ips, Iatest threats and |arQon-free info
KEEP ORPCSAFE
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rouros
Namo atr a mythical srpnt that at its own tail, Uroburos is a rootkit that
attacks Vinoows PCs. Rsarchrs at G Data (bit.ly/goata342) say it may hav
bn crato by stat-sponsoro Russian hackrs ano bn activ or thr yars
bor it was oiscovro. lt is highly complx spionag sotwar that works in
pr-to-pr moo, maning that incto PCs communicat with ach othr ano
sno stoln oata back to th attackrs. lt's not known how inction occurs, but
mthoos may incluo spar phishing, incto USP sticks ano social-moia attacks.
her han paying
up, wha can you do
if your P is infeced
wih ransomware7
ohn ccIes, via emaiI
Victims o ransomwar
typically ac two challngs.
Th irst - ano arguably th
most important - is to rcovr thir
ils. Th scono, which is asir, is to
rmov th malicious sotwar.
l you choos not to pay or il
rcovry, ithr on principl or
bcaus you
oon't trust that
th criminals
will ocrypt
your oata atr
paymnt, you can us any ocnt
anti-virus program to rmov th
malwar.
Rcovring your ils will b ithr
asy or impossibl. l you hav no
back-up thn you hav lost th oata
orvr. Currntly, vn oata-rcovry
xprts will not b abl to crack th
ncryption.
l you us an onlin back-up systm
that stors prvious vrsions (also
callo 'rvisions'), you shoulo b abl
to oownloao your ils intact.
PackPlaz (www.backblaz.com)
provios automatic back-up with
unlimito onlin storag rom arouno
3 pr month. lt kps multipl
vrsions o ils or 3C oays.
Your ustions answro by scurity spcialists.
This issue's expert: Simon Edwards of Dennis
TechnoIoQy Labs (www.dennistechnoIoQyIabs.com)
droid update risks
/noroio apps that appar sa coulo
bcom oangrous atr you upoat
your ovic, accoroing to rsarchrs
at lnoiana Univrsity. 'Pil-up' laws,
as thy ar callo, ar xploito by
apps containing apparntly
maninglss prmissions that ar
thn automatically granto in nwr
vrsions o /noroio, ospit thm
posing a potntial thrat.
bit.Iy/indiana342
Microsoft Word
vuInerabiIity
Mrly prviwing an RTF il in
Microsot Outlook coulo lav you
suscptibl to a malwar attack.
Microsot has rlaso a statmnt
aovising that is awar o limito,
targto attacks to Voro 2CC,
whrby opning a spcially crato
RTF il coulo giv th attackr th
sam rights as th currnt usr. lt is
possibl th vulnrability also acts
Voro 2CC3, 2CC7 ano 2C.
bit.Iy/word342
GmaiI tightens security
Googl has improvo th scurity on
all Gmail accounts by making an
HTTPS connction th only availabl
option. Following th intrcption by
th NS/ o mails movo btwn
Googl's srvrs, th company has
also nsuro that all this oata is
ncrypto whn snt intrnally.
bit.Iy/QmaiI342
GoogIe GIass spy concerns
Two US stuonts hav omonstrato
that spywar can b installo on
Googl Glass to intrmittntly ano
oiscrtly tak photographs,
rvaling th bhaviour o th usr
as wll as thos arouno thm.
Fortunatly, th stuonts oio not
ovlop th app with malicious
intnt - th sourc coo has sinc
bn supplio to th Caliornian
tchnology giant so Googl Glass
can mak a mor scur proouct
bor its consumr launch.
bit.Iy/QIass342
SECURITY
ALERTI
SECRIT Q8A
Provided you don'
connec direcIy o
he we on your P
Iapop, is i siII safe o use
afer 8 priI7
oIin hapman, via emaiI
/ lot o wb-baso thrats
attack Java, /oob Raor
ano Flash Playr. Kp ths
upoato ano, i you can, oisabl Java
in your browsr (bit.ly/|ava342). / ully
aturo anti-malwar program will
prvnt many attacks ano svral
anti-virus
companis will
continu to
support
Vinoows XP or
at last two yars (bit.ly/xpav342).
s i rue ha ndroid
devices don' need
securiy apps7
Suar Hordern, Faceook
Traoitional scurity apps, such
as anti-virus ano irwalls, ar
lss important on /noroio
ovics than on Vinoows PCs.
Howvr, othr scurity apps ar vry
usul. For xampl, VPN srvics
such as thos oro by F-Scur
Froom (room.-scur.com)
lt you connct to th intrnt using
public Vi-Fi without xposing your
prsonal oata.
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in its high-uality gaming prormanc,
whr it was astst in our tst with a ram
rat o 82ps. lt was also thiro astst in
Vinoows, with a bnchmark scor o .9.
Howvr, th cas isn't as upgraoabl as our awaro
winnrs, ano it was also on o th noisist computrs in this
group.
inc w tsto it, PC pcialist has upgraoo th alraoy
xcllnt graphics caro but kpt th sam pric, so you may
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h DinoPC Kavrian is a vry similar builo to
th PC pcialist lninity X, sharing MD's
Kavri -785 procssor ano th sam cas.
Howvr, th PC pcialist mool is 6
chapr.
Unortunatly, it was slowr than th lninity X in our
Vinoows tst, coming bottom o this group with a bnchmark
scor o .68. lt aro bttr in our gaming tst, placing ith
with a ram rat o 24ps. h prormanc is gooo, but you
can gt bttr or lss mony. h cas is suprb, though,
with a vast amount o spac or upgraoing, which ors som
romption against its prormanc.
h Viro2Fir Diablo Ultima is so similar to
th Chillblast Fusion Ouasar, it almost
coulon't ail to com scono. lt has th
sam cas, procssor ano mmory. Vhat it
oosn't hav is th sam haro oriv - th
Viro2Fir has a stanoaro agat P
mool, without th xtra boost th Chillblast
gts rom its hybrio haro oriv/D.
lt still cam clos to matching th
Chillblast's Vinoows prormanc, with a
bnchmark scor o .7. h Ml-branoo MD
Raoon R7 26X graphics caro gav it an og in gaming
prormanc, though, coming scono only to th CCL unit,
with a ram rat o 75ps in our high-uality Crysis tst.
Having th sam cas mans th Viro2Fir has th sam
roominss ano upgraoability as th Chillblast. Howvr, this
PC maks a lot mor nois vn whn it's iol, ano w ouno
th air intak ano xhaust ans oistractingly louo.
You'll no a lot o spac or th PC
pcialist lninity X, bcaus it towrs
abov all th othr PCs rviwo hr,
apart rom th DinoPC, which uss th
sam cas. hy also shar th sam MD
Kavri -785K procssor ano 8GP o
mmory.
h lninity X oion't light up our
prormanc tsts. lt scoro .73 in our
Vinoows bnchmark, which puts it
scono rom last, ano manago |ust 2ps
(ourth rom bottom) in our high-uality Crysis gaming tst.
his ocras in prormanc, howvr, is ost by a
(narly 2-pr-cnt) orop in pric comparo to th othr
awaro-winnrs. lntrnally, it's natly built ano has masss o
upgrao spac. lt's also th only unit to hav a ooicato D
(28GP) installo alongsio th stanoaro haro oriv (P), ano
it still has room or six mor orivs.
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My CIoud 2T
rom www.dbs.com
e tested: Fbruary 2C4
This solio N/S oriv, which coms with a 2TP
oriv pr-installo, is grat valu or mony
ano is rasonably straightorwaro to st up. lt
lacks aovanco aturs, such as R/lD, but
shoulo prov ioal or most hom usrs.
KEY SPECS
65CMHz Marvll /rmaoa XP procssor 256MP R/M
2TP capacity /noroio ano iOS apps On USP 3 port
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Toshiba SateIIite CS0--1S6
349.99 rom www.rQos.co.uk
Date tested: Dcmbr 2C3
This no-nonsns laptop has a
stanoaro kyboaro ano a matt
scrn, but its lack o xtrnal rills is mor than mao up
or by its ast procssor ano graphics, larg TP haro oriv,
DVwD rwritr ano USP 3.C port.
KEY SPECS
Vinoows 8 2.5GHz lntl Cor i3-32CM procssor 4GP
mmory 5.6in stanoaro (non-touch) scrn ,366 x
768 pixls rsolution TP haro oriv C/CC Ethrnt,
8C2.n Vi-Fi 38C x 24C x 32mm 2.3kg
MUITIFUNCTINPRINTER
Canon Pixma MX92S
120 rom www.ebuyer.com
Date tested: January 2C4
Outstanoing uality combino with
gooo print spos ano imprssiv spciications mak this
an xcllnt ink|t ovic. lt's not chap but its iv-
cartriog systm maks it conomical to run.
KEY SPECS
9,6CC x 2,4CCopi print rsolution 2,4CC x 4,8CCopi scan
rsolution 7.5cm colour scrn 25C-sht tray capacity
USP, C/CC Ethrnt ano 8C2.n Vi-Fi .5 pags-pr-
minut mono print spo 3.5 pags-pr-minut colour
print spo 49 x 396 x 23mm .7kg
BIUETTHSPEAKER
Cambridge udio Minx Go
99.95 rom
www.richsersounds.com
Date tested: January 2C4
Th Minx Go has xcllnt battry li, is grat valu or
mony ano is vry asy to us. /lthough it oosn't hav
th xtra aturs o othr, mor xpnsiv spakrs, its
souno uality is xcllnt, prooucing powrul volum with
no oistortion.
KEY SPECS
Two spakrs 3.5mm stro Plutooth (SPC) input
3.5mm haophon input 237 x 23 x 6Cmm .kg
On-yar rturn-to-bas warranty
RUTER
T Home Hub S
129 rom www.shop.bt.com
Date tested: Fbruary 2C4
Vith xcllnt ovrall prormanc ano a
grat st o aturs, th PT Hom Hub 5 is on o th
most capabl 8C2.ac routrs arouno. Vhatvr you no
to connct it to, now or in th utur, it's up to th |ob.
KEY SPECS
Vorks with /DSL, Ethrnt ano ibr connctions
Dual-bano 2.4GHz ano 5GHz 8C2.ac ,3CCMbps
thortical maximum spo 4 x Gigabit Ethrnt ports
x USP port On-yar rturn-to-bas warranty
236 x 6 x 3mm
BASEUNITPC
ChiIIbIast usion Ouasar
S00 rom www.chiIIbIst.com
Date tested: March 2C4
Th Chillblast Fusion Ouasar is a grat
all-rouno PC oring suprb prormanc
ano plnty o room or utur xpansion. lt's xpnsiv
comparo to othr bas unit PCs, but coms with a
iv-yar warranty ano a high-prorming SSHD haro oriv.
KEY SPECS
3.4GHz lntl Cor i5-467CK procssor 8GP DDR3
mmory Gigabyt G/-Z87-HD3 mothrboaro TP
hybrio HD/SSD haro oriv Vinoows 8. 64-bit 465 x
43C x 92mm Fiv-yar rturn-to-bas warranty
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FUII-SIZETABIET
ad ir
From 3 rom www.appIe.com/uk
Dae eed: Dcmbr 2C3
Th iPao /ir is /ppl's bst tablt so
ar. lt's slim, light ano bautiul to look
at ano us, with a bttr battry li
than prvious mools. lt also has a
supr-ast procssor ano an amazing
touchscrn.
KEY SPECS
9.7in scrn 2,C48 x ,536 pixls
rsolution 6-28GP intrnal storag
/7 oual-cor procssor 5-mgapixl ano .2-mgapixl
camras Dual-bano 8C2. a/b/g/n Vi-Fi Plutooth
24C x 69.5 x 7.5mm 469g
LG 42L690V
S49 rom
www.coopeIectricaIshop
.co.uk
Date tested: Novmbr 2C3
/lthough th LG 42L/69CV
oosn't hav lTV catch-up,
it ors a gooo slction o
subscription-baso
altrnativs. Th TV is asy to st up ano pictur uality is
xcllnt.
KEY SPECS
42in scrn ,92C x ,C8C pixls rsolution 3D support
2 x 2V spakrs 3 x HDMl ports x SC/RT (RGP)
sockt 3 x USP ports Ethrnt Frviw HD ano
DVP-S2 tunrs Eight-oay EPG
SMARTTV
E-READER
mazon KindIe Paperwhite
109 rom www.amazon.co.uk
Date tested: Dcmbr 2C3
Th upoato Kinol Paprwhit is still
th bst book raor, with a suprb,
papr-lik scrn, a long battry li
ano th biggst slction o titls to
oownloao.
KEY SPECS
6in scrn 758 x ,C24 pixls
rsolution Eight-wk battry li
8C2.b/8C2.g/8C2.n Vi-Fi Puilt-in
light 2GP intrnal mmory or ,CC books 69mm x
7mm x 9.mm 2C6g Supports /ZV3, /ZV, TXT, PDF,
MOPl ano PRC book ormats.
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SquirreISave
yar rom
.squirreIsave.co.uk
ate teted: /ugust 2C3
Vith its unlimito storag, ability
to hanol back-ups rom multipl
PCs ano rtntion o olo vrsions o your ils, SuirrlSav
is an xcllnt choic or backing up loaos o oata. lt's vry
asy to us ano grat valu or mony.
KEY FEATURES
/utomatic back-up Unlimito storag Rcovr olto
ils or up to 32 oays 256-bit /ES ncryption Pack up
any combination o ils ano olors UK-baso Copis
o ils kpt orvr Pack-up logging
Kaspersky lnternet
Security
24 (on yar, thr PCs) rom
www.amazon.co.uk
Date teted: July 2C3
Kasprsky striks th right balanc btwn solio
protction ano a gooo unorstanoing o what is sa ano
what is not. Th sotwar blocko 99 out o CC thrats
ano only rporto on als positiv. lt's a powrul
scurity tool to hav watching ovr your PC.
KEY FEATURES
Firwall Email scanning Parntal controls Gam
moo Prsonal oata protction Social-ntworking
protction Vulnrability scannr 3C-oay r trial
Serif WebPIus X6
81.S9 rom www.serif.com
Date teted: /ugust 2C3
Sri VbPlus X6 is a winning
combination o unctionality, as
o us ano valu or mony. lts combination o tools,
tmplats ano lxibility, ano th as with which it lts you
aoo xtra aturs, mak it an xcllnt choic or hom
usrs who want to crat thir own sits.
KEY FEATURES
3C tmplats PayPal, Romancart, Mal's E-commrc
paymnt systms Social-moia support /llows
hano-cooo HTML SEO tools Viogts incluoo
Graphics incluoo Ovrall sit-structur viw
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Norton PamiIy
Free rom www.symantec.com
Date teted: Octobr 2C3
This amily-rinoly sotwar
provios vrything you no
to kp th worst o th wb rom your PC. lt has all th
most important iltring aturs ano oos an xcllnt |ob
o blocking potntially harmul sits. Pst o all, it's r to
oownloao ano us.
KEY FEATURES
C-PC licnc Compatibl with Vinoows XP/Vista/7/8,
Mac OS X C.7+ Catgory iltrs Customisabl proils
Vhitlist/blacklist Rmot managmnt lM ano
social ntwork monitoring Plocks chat, nwsgroups ano
P2P Email support
dobe Photoshop
EIements 13
54.71 rom www.adobe
.com/uk
Date teted: March 2C4
Vith its tioy, uncluttro intrac ano pop-out trays,
/oob Photoshop Elmnts is a plasur to us. Th
sotwar provios vrything an amatur photographr
coulo no ano hlps you uickly ino th right oiting
tools, opnoing on how you want to work.
KEY FEATURES
Compatibl with Vinoows XP, Vista, 7, 8+, incluoing 64-bit
vrsions Punolo with photo organisr Guioo oits
Contnt-awar oits Popl-bautiir tools R/V
support
dobe Premiere EIements 12
S2.34 rom
www.baIIicom.co.uk
Date teted: Octobr 2C3
Prmir Elmnts 2's suprb
intrac mans its many
aturs ar accssibl, but natly tucko away. lt works
ually wll or bginnrs ano xprts, with instant accss
to two oiting moos ano lots o hlp ano guioanc. For th
pric, you won't ino bttr vioo-oiting sotwar than this.
KEY FEATURES
/utomatic oiting lmag stabilisr Export to multipl
vioo ormats Uploao to Facbook, YouTub ano Vimo
Surrouno-souno support DVD ano Plu-ray oisc-burning
Unlimito timlins Stop-motion captur
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ulti-tasking may spo up your work, but closing all thos
opn winoows can b tim consuming. This hanoy application
lts you slct multipl winoows ano xit thm all at onc. Tick
th winoows in th task list ano click OK. Vrsion 2 has a nw
intrac which lts you switch btwn stanoaro ano small
icons, ano nabl or oisabl sorting ano grouping o tasks.
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his simpl authoring tool can burn ils ano olors to oisc, crat auoio CDs,
gnrat ano writ imag ils, ano copy oiscs. /nyPurn can also crat imag
ils rom CD or DVD, convrt btwn imag ormats, ras rwritabl oiscs,
ano rip auoio CDs. lt supports writing to Plu-rays, too. Th availabl tasks can
b slcto rom th singl-scrn mnu. Th latst vrsion ixs numrous
bugs ano now lts you rsiz th program winoow.
Loao any vioo clip ano Thumbnail m will scan it ano prsnt you with a tilo
slction o thumbnails summarising th contnt. You can choos th numbr
o rows ano columns, ano spciy th wioth. Th thumbnail pag can b savo
to your haro oriv or uploaoo to lmagShack.
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ThumbnaiI me
www.tubI.co
Min requirements: Vinoows XP/Vista/7/8+ FiIe size: 2.3MP
www.ybur.co
Min requirements: Vinoows XP/Vista/7/8+ FiIe size: .MP
vIbI to buy ow prc 6. r Poto Grpc sQner 9
offers an amazinQ ranQe of options for optimisinQ and
editinQ your photos. !t contains a vast seIection of
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decorations and fonts, that are perfect for beQinners
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erasinQ bIemishes from photos, pIus 11 new Photo FX
pIuQ-ins, incIudinQ penciI, sepia and tiIt shift.
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Min requirements: Vinoows 8+
FiIe size: 9.92MP
VLC or Vinoows 8 is an xprimntal
port o th program VLC Moia Playr. lt
can hanol all popular multimoia il
ormats, incluoing Ogg, FL/C ano MKV.
Rier Ind Iothing
bit.Iy/riverisIand342
Min requirements: Vinoows 8+
FiIe size: 37KP
Th oicial app or th high-strt stor
lts you brows its rang o clothing ano
purchas itms via PayPal. lt supports
thr currncis - GPP, EUR, ano USD.
Thr's also a hanoy stor locator.
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Min requirements: Vinoows 8+
FiIe size: 3.MP
This app tachs you how to knot your
ti prctly. Thr ar guios or Four ln
Hano, Knt Nckti, Hal Vinosor, Doubl
Vinosor ano Princ /lbrt, with
aooitional knots coming soon.
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inoows 7/8+
Ie size: 67K
This altrnativ il managr mimics Vinoows
8's moorn intrac, with colourul liv tils
ano touch-rinoly navigation (although it works
|ust as wll with a kyboaro ano mous). You
can ithr install th program or run it without
installing. Th main intrac oisplays Libraris
(oocumnts, vioos, picturs, oownloaos, music
ano sktop), avorits (prsonal ano public
olors) ano rivs. You can xplor olors,
viw imags ano play vioos oirctly within th
sotwar. Th Viw ano oit mnus lt you
prsonalis th look, ano manag ils ano
olors. lmmrsiv xplorr also ors support
or harowar acclration, making transitions
ano animations silky smooth.
IMAGE EDITOR
lthough it's a vry arly builo, this photo oitor
is alraoy uit powrul ano has lots o usul
aturs packo into its intrac. lcon-illo
toolbars ar arrango on ach og o th
scrn. Th top bar incluos il, oit ano viw
options, as wll as buttons or slcting layrs
ano rgions o imags. Th lt-hano bar
incluos orawing ano action unctions, ano th
right-hano bar holos th tools. Th bottom bar is
hom to brushs. lt's not immoiatly obvious
how vrything works, but hovring your mous
ovr a button will tll you what a tool oos, ano
thr's a oownloaoabl P manual availabl
shoulo you gt truly stumpo.
Pixopedia
www.siQmapi-desiQn.com
Min requirements: Vinoows XP/Vista/7/8+
FiIe size: 2C.M
FIIE MANAGER
lmmersive ExpIorer
DISK-USAGE TOOI
vn i you hav a spacious haro oriv, it can
soon start illing up with larg programs ano
moia ils. TrSiz r hlps you iontiy
whr all your r oriv spac has vanisho to.
hoos a oriv or oirctory to scan ano it will
show you th siz o ach olor, sub olor ano
il in kilobyts, mgabyts or gigabyts. You can
sort th olors by nam or siz, ano opn, run,
rnam or olt itms. You can also launch th
program rom th right-click mnu.
Th latst vrsion o TrSiz uss th NTS
mastr il tabl (MT) or improvo
prormanc, ano has a nw column moo that
shows mor otailo inormation about
vrything that's on your haro oriv.
TreeSize Free 3
bit.Iy/treesize342
Min requirements: Vinoows XP/Vista/7/8+
FiIe size: 4.5M
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.piriform.com/recuva
Min requirements: Vinoows XP/
Vista/7/8+ FiIe sie: 4M
Piriorm's powrul r rcovry
tool has bn upoato to
improv th scur ovrwrit atur on Vinoows XP ano
to nhanc SS otction ano support. lt also aoos urthr
rcovry capabilitis ano xpanos th 'Show orivs' options
to incluo aooitional sttings.
BACK-UP SOFTWARE
Macrium RefIect Free 5.2.654
www.macrium.com/refIectfree.aspx
Min requirements: Vinoows XP/Vista/7/8+
FiIe sie: 4.9M
Th latst upoat to th r vrsion o Macrium Rlct
signiicantly improvs th cration o US rscu kits ano
aoos support or xtrnal US haro orivs. lt also maks
back-ups 3C pr cnt astr, ixs a w bugs ano shows th
tim rmaining in minuts or a back-up.
VIDEO CONVERTER
An Video Converter 5.5.8
www.any-video-converter.com
Min requirements: Vinoows XP/Vista/7/8+
FiIe sie: 9.9M
Th most intrsting chang to ny Vioo onvrtr is th
rmoval o porn wbsit logos rom its oo URL oialogu
box! Othr improvmnts
incluo ixing a problm
whn convrting crtain
MKV vioo ils that atur
subtitls, ano smoothr
navigation btwn vioo
sgmnts.
EBOOK SOFTWARE
CaIibre 1.29
caIibre-ebook.com
Min requirements: Vinoows XP/Vista/7/8+, Mac OS X or
Linux FiIe sie: 5.M
Notabl nw aturs in this upoat to th book sotwar
incluo support or savo sarchs - |ust click th Sarch
mnu ano choos Savo Sarchs to rviw your past
sarch uris. nothr nw option lts you spciy th
txt or a hyprlink whn you insrt on in an book.
PC OPTIMISER
GIar UtiIities 4.8..97
www.QIarysoft.com
Min requirements: Vinoows
XP/Vista/7/8+
FiIe sie: .9M
This upoat aoos support or
scrn-raoing sotwar, clans shortcuts mor thoroughly
in Vinoows 8 ano improvs th option to clos running
browsrs whn prorming a clan-up. lt also oisabls th
boot-tim orag whn you start your P in Sa moo.
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(www.whoisonmywii
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339 o , is
worth a look ano is vry
asy to us. lt picko up
my son's phon ano
Xbox ano, whn a rino
cam rouno ano
accsso my Vi-Fi with
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prmission), it alrto m
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conncto.
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Forums
Scrn capturs can b uso or all sorts o
purposs, incluoing provioing a hanoy
rminor o somthing. Snipock lts you
grab part or all o th scrn, thn savs th
imag to your Picturs olor ano also oocks
th grabs in a siobar, so you can rr to
thm whil continuing to work.
ln this gam, you play a alling man who has
to surviv or as long as possibl. Thr ar
oroios you can ostroy ano othr obstacls
to avoio. To ostroy oroios, you hav to |ump
through thm, rom on sio to th othr,
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Sze: .7M
This il-
managmnt app
mak clvr us o
OR coos to lt you
wirlssly accss
ils on your phon
using your tablt or
P. Onc both ovics ar on th sam
wirlss ntwork, simply ntr th spciio
URL on your laptop's browsr ano scan th
oisplayo OR oo using your noroio ovic
to connct th two via a usr-rinoly
intrac. Vb P Suit is also usul i you
want a astr mthoo than lutooth or
Booktrack
Mn requrements:
noroio 3.C, iOS 5
Sze: 3.8M
Vith so many -raors
availabl, ovloprs
no to ino a uniu
slling point to mak
thir proouct stano out rom th crowo. This
book-sounotracks app has bn gaining ans
on iOS or a w months, ano it's inally availabl
on noroio. Titls ncompass vrything rom
classic works incluoing Poo Pa ano 3holock
Holmo to thos by contmporary authors such
as Salman Rushoi.
CIoud Sx for
Dropbox
Mn requrements:
Vinoows Phon 8
Sze: 2M
Vith an oicial vrsion o
ropbox still not availabl
or Vinoows Phon, this
app is th nxt bst thing. louo Six lts you
manag ils storo in your ropbox account
as wll as oring a simpl ano r back-up
solution or your Vinoows Phon ovic. Th
app also aturs a hanoy link-sharing
unction that liminats th no to sno (ano
rciv) larg mail attachmnts.
My Scrpt
CaIcuIator
Mn requrements:
noroio (varis with
ovic), iOS 7
Sze: Varis with ovic
tr installing this
rcntly upoato app, you
will nvr no to us a
stanoaro calculator again. lthough scrawling
your sums on a virtual pic o papr may l a
littl unnatural ano clumsy at irst, th app's
slick hanowriting rcognition ano nat scratch-
out ano strik-through gsturs mak it a
plasur to us.
Stream Web
Mn requrements: iOS 7
Sze: 3. M
Scrnshots ar a vry ctiv way o sharing
somthing that you simply cannot xplain in
woros. Stram Vb is a
browsr or your iPhon or
iPao that maks this procss
vn asir. Using its
gstur-baso intrac,
you can cut anything out
ano shar it via a wio rang
o social ntworks. Ths
snapshots ar thn
convnintly savo to your
prsonal stram.
Web PC Sute
My Scrpt CaIcuIator
CIoud Sx for
Dropbox
Booktrack
Stream Web
transrring ils btwn your noroio ano iPao
- instao o scanning th OR coo, |ust ntr th
lP aoorss o th rlvant noroio ovic into
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Maps Measure
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Min requirements: noroio .6
Size: 697k
Th concpt bhino Maps Masur is
bautiully simpl. s its nam suggsts, it
lts you calculat oistancs btwn locations
on Googl Maps. Gon ar th oays o trying
to stimat th lngth o an o-roao bik rio
or a run arouno th block, bcaus Maps
Masur lt you slct multipl points ano
otrmin th
total oistanc.
You can also
switch
btwn map
ano satllit
viws.
REOE
mac.remote
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Min requirements:
noroio 2.3
Size: 2.5M
This hanoy app maks it
asy to b th J at
gathrings, without
sming anti-social.
lt lts you rmotly
control a numbr o
applications on your Mac, incluoing iTuns,
Spotiy, VL ano OuickTim - playing, pausing,
rwinoing ano ast-orwaroing songs ano vioos
rom a oistanc. Natly, it vn lts you ao|ust
th volum ano brightnss, ano shut oown your
computr.
BROER
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Min requirements:
noroio 4.
Size: 9C4k
Somtims opning a
link within an app ano
waiting or th pag
to loao can b a
toious ano tim-
consuming procss,
spcially i you hav
a slow intrnt connction. Link ubbl is a
mobil browsr that notiis you whn th pag
is ully loaoo, having procsso it in th
backgrouno, thn prouoly stats th amount o
tim it has savo you. lt intgrats oply with
th apps on your ovic.
PODCA
uPod Light - Podcast PIayer
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Min requirements:
noroio 4.C
Size: 3.3M
This light vrsion o uPoo Playr givs you
accss to two hours o poocasts pr month. Th
app synchroniss across
multipl ovics, ltting you
samlssly carry on
listning rom whrvr you
lt o. You can control th
spo o auoio playback
ano brows poocasts using
thir covr art. uying th
uPoo Licns or 2.78 will
rmov th monthly
two-hour rstriction.
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Min requirements: Vinoows Phon 8
Size: 29M Price: .49
This usul app, which has bn
availabl or a whil on noroio (bit.ly/
thory342noroio) ano iOS (bit.ly/
thory342iOS), can now hlp Vinoows
Phon usrs tak th irst stps
towaros oriving succss, with oicial
ustions licnso by th S.
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BiIIs Forecast
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Min requirements: iOS6
Size: 29.M Price: .49
ills Forcast hlps you kp track o
all your bills with on app. lt notiis
you whn your bills ar ou as wll as
provioing summaris o your wkly
ano monthly outgoings.
OOI
Castaway Premium
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Min requirements: noroio 2.3.3
Size: 2.9M Price: .2C
astaway Prmium lts you transmit
Facbook ano Googl + photos ano
vioos (as wll as thos storo locally
on your noroio ovic) to your
hromcast. n ao-supporto r
vrsion o th app is also availabl.
GAE
FootbaII Chairman
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Min requirements: noroio 2.3.3, iOS 5
Size: 7.7M Price: 2.99
For thos who still havn't givn up on
thir oram o taking a ootball tam to
th vry top, Football hairman lts
you xprinc th thrill o working
your way up through svn oivisions,
hiring ano iring managrs ano playrs
along th way.
CIOCK
Smart AIarm CIock
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Min requirements: noroio 4.C, iOS6
Size: 5M Price: .9
Now compatibl with noroio or th
irst tim, Smart larm lock uss th
acclromtr in your phon to rcoro
your slp cycls. Th app thn waks
you up ouring a light-slp phas so
your oay oosn't start with a |olt.
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GoogIe Cast
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that th Chromcast
has inally arrivo in th
UK, you can us this
xtnsion to sno contnt
rom your browsr to your
TV via Googl's straming
ovic. For xampl,
whn you visit YouTub, you'll s nw options that lt you
play ano paus vioos on your TV through th Chromcast.
Spreed
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This aoo-on trains you to
spo rao, so you tak lss
tim to rao onlin articls.
Prss /lt+V, slct th txt you
want to rao ano Spro will
oisplay it on woro at a tim at
up to 4CC woros pr minut.
You can chang th raoing spo, ont siz ano numbr o
woros oisplayo, as ruiro.
DownIoadr
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Downloaor lts you manag
your oownloaos rom Chrom's
toolbar rathr than th 'at
oownloao shl' in th bottom-
lt cornr. This maks it much
asir to opn ils, cancl
oownloaos ano rtry ailo
ons. You can also clar your
oownloao list in a singl click.
WikiMapper
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l you otn wast tim ioly
browsing Vikipoia, you'll lik
this aoo-on, which tracks your
activity on th sit. lt oisplays
th articls you'v visito in th
orm o a graph, so you can s
whr you'v bn ano how you
got thr. You can olt your
history to protct your privacy.
lmages OnJOff
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/s its nam
suggsts, this
aoo-on lts you
show or hio all
th imags on a
wb pag in a singl click. This is usul i
you no to consrv banowioth or |ust
want to brows without oistractions. Simply
click th toolbar button to turn imags on
ano o on th sit you'r viwing.
MaiIto utton
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Mailto Putton maks it asy to shar wb
pags via mail. Eithr click th toolbar
button or right-click th pag ano choos
'Email pag'. This will opn a nw mssag
in your oault
mail srvic
showing th
nam o th
pag insrto
in th Sub|ct
lin ano th
wb aoorss in
th booy.
ScroII uttons
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This usul aoo-on lts you |ump to th top or
bottom o a wb pag by clicking up ano oown
arrows on scrn, rathr than scrolling or prssing Hom ano Eno on your
kyboaro. Click th grn toolbar icon to show ano hio Scroll Puttons.
Erase Pacebook ds and Suggestions
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l you oon't want aovrts, suggsto pags ano gam rusts crowoing
your Facbook pag, you can us this aoo-on to hio thm all. Unlik th
similar tool rom /oblockPlus (acbook.aoblockplus.m), you can't
choos xactly which contnt to iltr, but it works vry wll.
II Search Engines on Your Tab
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This aoo-on turns your Nw Tab pag
into th bst sarch ngin on th wb
by ltting you switch btwn Googl,
Ping, YouTub, Twittr, DuckDuckGo ano mor. You can chang th logo
to giv it a prsonal branoing, ano click 'l'm not Fling Lucky' to run all
sarchs at onc.
SociaI Share Counts
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Fino out how many tims th pag you'r viwing has bn sharo on
social ntworks using this aoo-on. lt placs a bar at th bottom o your
browsr containing shar counts or Facbook, Twittr, Pintrst,
StumblUpon ano mor, so you oon't risk posting olo contnt.
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Linux Mint Ieaves an odd
taste
l was intrsto to rao in lssu 34C
that spcially rcommnos
Linux Mint 3 as an upgrao rom
Vinoows XP. My xprinc oos not
support this choic.
l movo to a osktop P running
Vinoows 7 som yars ago, but hlo
onto my olo Evsham P, which hao
bn running XP prctly happily, to us
as a spar ano as a tst machin.
Som months ago, l bgan to
invstigat Linux, installo Mint 3 Mat
ano ouno that it coulon't play vioo
clips without running an out-o-oat
Flash plug-in.
Mor rcntly l installo Mint 3 again
on a scono-hano Thinkpao T42, which
was in
lovly
conoition
ano
running
XP, but
Mint 3
killo that
compltly!
l am
prsntly
running Mint 3
on a uso Toshiba Satllit 2CC that
was running Vista ano, at last, l hav an
installation that l'm compltly happy
with. l l liv long nough (l'm 78 now) to
ac th prospct o having to mov
Vinoows 8, l'll probably stay with Mint.
Hithrto, in my innocnc, l hao
thought that any Linux OS woulo b lss
omanoing o harowar rsourcs than
Vinoows, but this is obviously not th
cas. Howvr, it's intrsting to play
arouno with a compltly oirnt
oprating systm, so oon't lt my
xprinc otr you, spcially sinc
Linux vrsions woulo appar to b mor
or lss immun to intrnt attacks.
l your P has a ocnt graphics caro,
you might wll b okay.
Weller, Web User Forums
The price is right at
Poundshop
Thank you or incluoing Hr For
Pouno (www.hrorapouno.com)
in lssu 34C. l oio not know that
anothr pouno stor hao gon
onlin. l hav also uso Pounoshop
(pounoshop.com), which is vry
gooo or popl who oo not liv
nar this kino o stor or hav th
tim to shop at thm.
l spno arouno 3C a tim, othrwis
th olivry charg maks th itms too
xpnsiv to buy onlin.
Th gooos com wll-packo in tight
plastic covrings insio a caroboaro box.
l rcivo on olivry within thr oays
ano anothr in nv.
Martin Fletcher, Thorpe Helsey
Why l've gone back to
Windows 7
l ully support olin hapman's
commnts about Vinoows 7 in lssu 339
o ('Nvr mino XP, what
about Vinoows 7?', bit.ly/wbusr339).
l too hav switcho rom Vinoows 8 to
Vinoow 7 64-bit, ano it ls lik coming
hom atr a bao holioay. My scannr
ano printr work smoothly without
having to spno ags nnoing ano
oownloaoing orivrs, ano l'v got a
propr Start button, Moia ntr ano so
on without using thiro-party programs.
Evrything |ust works. l spnt svral
mobil phon. Evn
i l hao oon, l nvr
us my SlM abroao
but buy a
tmporary SlM rom
th country l visit.
s or th pictur rcognition, l can't
b xpcto to rcognis vry photo
my many rinos (ovr CC o thm) hav
posto, ano l know som rinos lss wll
than othrs.
l ailo misrably ano, inuriatingly, was
locko out o my Facbook
account or th ouration o
my stay.
l can tll a similar story concrning
my Yahoo account, which l us or
Yahoo Mail ano Yahoo Mssngr.
l'o orgottn my passworo ano, sinc
rgistring with Yahoo, l'o chango my
phon numbr ou to xcssiv spam
txts ano colo callrs. tr so many
tris, my account was locko ano l'v
hao to abanoon it altogthr ou to
Yahoo's complicato passworo
rtrival systm.
Vhat is th situation or popl who
oon't own or want a mobil phon?
Som sits oon't vn allow you to
rgistr without on. no what about
popl lik m who travl a lot ano us
mor than on SlM to avoio
xtortionat roaming s?
Dale Butler, Hope Valley
y oro m a nw rplacmnt or a
ull runo. l chos th lattr ano coulo
not b mor plaso.
Many thanks to Maplin. /s you can
imagin, l will b shopping thr again in
th utur.
Paul Hildreth, via email
Le Iicence payers wach
iPIayer abroad
You rport in lssu 34C that th PPC is
to mak all iPlayr viwrs pay licnc
. /lso in that sam issu ('Pat Vb
Rstrictions') thr is aovic on how to
months with Vinoows
8, but l'm happy to
hav rio mysl o
it. Ys, l oio try
to gt th r
'upgrao' to
Vinoows 8.; in
act l trio nv
tims in all, but
got nothing but a
cannot install
mssag. So l want to |oin Mr Chapman's
crusao to sav Vinoows 7. Just tll m
whr to nno th rcruiting onc.
Adrian Wansborough, via email
MapIin's csomer service
is marveIIos
Last yar, l purchaso a Sagat 3TP
N/S oriv ano, although it worko nn
initially, l ouno its sotwar vry haro to
st up ano maintain. Th onlin support
was also limito.
My problm may wll hav bn ou to
th haro oriv having tchnical issus,
bcaus l ocioo to try using it again
rcntly, only to nno th oriv apparo
octiv ano was not conncting.
/s it hao bn only C months sinc l
purchaso it, l rturno th oriv to my
local Maplin stor in Portsmouth. /tr
oiscussing th problm with th sta,
Vatch iPlayr
whn you'r
on holioay
abroao.
Prhaps
/unti Pb
shoulo issu
xisting licnc payrs with a coo
allowing thm unrstricto accss to
iPlayr whn thy'r abroao on holioay,
so w shoulon't no to oisguis our lP
aoorsss. /tr all, w'v alraoy paio
our tlly tax.
Pon Hughes, Harlo
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broaobano spos promiso
by our lSPs, ano most o us
sur rgular or constant connction
problms, accoroing to a nw survy
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survyo by saio that thir
broaobano was too slow runtly
or all th tim (bit.ly/slow342).
has launcho a campaign
to orc lSPs to olivr th spos
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sign th onlin ptition at bit.ly/
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Proaobano inoustry rgulator
Ocom alraoy has a voluntary coo
o practic to nsur transparncy
ano gooo srvic (bit.ly/coo342),
but says that this approach
oosn't work. Millions o us ar
gtting rustratingly slow spos ano
having to wait oays to b rconncto
whn things go wrong, saio
xcutiv oirctor Richaro Lloyo.
lt's lss suprast broaobano, mor
supr-slow srvic rom companis
that xpct popl to pay or spos
thy may nvr gt.
Proaobano spo is innunco by
many actors, incluoing your oistanc
rom th tlphon xchang ano th
ag o your computr. S
ThinkProaobano.com's Spo Guio
or mor on this (bit.ly/spo342).
Put i thr's a signincant
oirnc btwn your broaobano
spo ano th stimat your lSP gav
you, or your spo is inconsistnt, it's
up to your lSP to sort it out.
You can chck your actual spo
using th r onlin tool Spotst
.nt (www.spotst.nt). l it's not
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RE YOU WORRlED ABOUT
HACKERS STEALlNG
YOUR PERSONAL lNFO ON
PUBLlC Wl-Fl7
No, bcaus l nvr us it. l us Thr
MiFi mobil broaobano, or |ust us 3G
on my phon.
$teve Ellis
l nvr us prsonal otails whn out
anywhr. l l'm sharing Vi-Fi, l'll
brows onlin, but only ntr croit
caro otails rom a scur location.
Hesperus Crescent
No, bcaus l oon't us it or anything
othr than accssing Facbook. l l log
in to my bank or buy anything, l us
3G or oo it at hom.
Gerrit Max
Simpl - oon't shar prsonal otails
whn you'r out ano about.
Pob Brown
W
lLL YOU BUY GOOGLE
CHROMECAST NOW lT'S
ARRlVED lN THE UK7
l'm hoping it will b rasonably prico,
so it's an impuls buy. Th act that
you can stram contnt rom th
Chrom browsr or a Plx srvr
(https://plx.tv) maks it a vry usul
aooition to any TV.
Ezyduzzit
l'm going to b a nc-sittr on this
on, wait or th UK rviws ano s
how th Roku HDMl stick prorms
(bit.ly/roku342). lt looks lik a nic git
to giv or rciv, but l think th Roku
is going to win this rac.
Bedstor
l bought on rom /mazon last
Dcmbr. l'll giv it svn out o C,
bcaus it has a limito slction o
apps at th momnt, though it's
bouno to xpano latr this yar.
Justin Lawes
/lraoy got on rom Pay. lt's a grat
ovic that w us constantly or
watching oownloaoo ilms via
RalPlayr (www.ral.com). V may
buy anothr or upstairs, too!
Caroline Pooney
A
RE YOU SURPRlSED THAT
BT lS THE MOST
COMPLAlNED-ABOUT lSP
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On th rar occasion l'v hao a
problm, it has bn rsolvo uickly.
Lynn $harpe
lt's th biggst lSP, but it can b
prtty arrogant in its approach to its
customrs. l'm on o thm ano l'm
not surpriso.
lan Phipps
l was with PT or many yars ano hav
to aomit l oion't hav any problms
xcpt with a Hub, which PT uickly
rplaco. l'v switcho to Sky bcaus
it's truly unlimito ano chapr!
Jason Cooper
l thought TalkTalk woulo still b th
most complaino-about lSP. Put lt's
ac it, thy ar all th sam no mattr
who you go with. /ll thy want is your
mony.
$hawn Adams
l'v bn with PT or yars, but l'm
unhappy with th prormanc o th
PT TV box. /nyon ls notic how
slow it is to navigat th intrac?
Chris Armstrong
D
O YOU HAVE A SECURlTY
APP ON YOUR PHONE OR
TABLET7
l hav th paio-or vrsion o Norton
on my mobil. l can't rmmbr
xactly how l got it, but it was r at
th tim. lt oos a ocnt nough |ob
ano it hasn't causo any problms yt.
Kevin Pivers
Ys, /vast. l woulo prr Comooo,
but it's rsourc-hungry ano my
/noroio ovic is low-spc.
lan Maddock
l us /VG on my scono phon, which
is /noroio.
Emmy UpTo-NoGood
l hav Lookout on my phon ano
tablt. Nvr hao any problms with
it. lt's r ano it vn hlps you ino
your ovic i it's lost or stoln.
Peter Harris
NE
Jane Hoskyn answers aII
your consumer questions
NINSTANT EXPERT GUIDE TO
/ rating systm
looks st to challng /noroio's
suprmacy on phons ano tablts.
avid Crookes taks a closr look
at Tizn
O
WHAT lS lT7
A
lt may souno lik a sot orink, but
Tizn OS (www.tizn.org) is an
opn-sourc oprating systm baso on
Linux. lt has th potntial to rival
/noroio, iOS, PlackPrry ano Vinoows
Phon, bcaus it can b run on
smartphons, tablts, ntbooks, smart
TVs ano in-car inotainmnt systms.
O
WHERE HAS lT COME
FROM7
A
Tizn has bn in ovlopmnt or a
coupl o yars as an opn-sourc
pro|ct within th Linux Founoation
(www.linuxounoation.org) unor th
nam Tizn /ssociation (www
.tiznassociation.org). lts backrs incluo
Huawi, Fu|itsu, Orang, Panasonic ano
Vooaon, but Samsung currntly
appars to b th strongst chrlaor
or Tizn.
O
WHY WAS lT CREATED7
A
Crtain companis in th mobil
inoustry sm kn to cut tis with
Googl. /lthough th /noroio oprating
systm has srvo th smartphon ano
tablt markt wll, it puts a grat oal o
control in th hanos o th sarch giant.
Vhat's mor, whil
Samsung has com up
with som massivly
popular ovics, such as
th Galaxy S rang, it's
strugglo to lock usrs
into using its own
srvics. lnstao, thy
buy apps rom Googl
Play, stram songs
through Googl Music,
ano sno ano rciv mails using Gmail,
whil Samsung's own apps ar largly
ignoro. Googl, in turn, raks in a
halthy proit o which th ovic
manuacturrs woulo lik a largr slic.
O
HASN'T SAMSUNG
TRlED THlS BEFORE7
A
lt has, with an OS callo Paoa
(www.baoa.com), but ovlopmnt
stoppo in Fbruary 2C3. Th intntion
was to us Paoa alongsio /noroio ano
Vinoows Phon in Samsung
smartphons, but Paoa has now bn
mrgo into th Tizn pro|ct.
O
lS TlZEN BElNG USED
NOW7
A
Ys. Th irst proouct baso on
Tizn was Samsung's NX3CCM
smart camra (bit.ly/samsungnx342),
which wnt on sal in South Kora ano
th US last yar. Manwhil, Systna
crato a Tizn OS tablt that's availabl
in Japan. Th most high-proil prooucts
so ar - ano th ons that hav got many
popl asking ustions about Tizn -
ar th Samsung Gar Fit smartbano ano
Gar 2 smartwatchs, which wr
announco at this yar's Mobil Vorlo
Congrss (as covro in last issu's
lnstant Exprt, bit.ly/wbusr34). Tizn
has also bn sn running on prototyp
vrsions o orthcoming smartphons.
O
WHAT lS TlZEN LlKE7
A
lt's a bit lik /noroio with som
lmnts o iOS. lt has homscrn
wiogts, a notiication tray ano an apps
orawr. Dynamic boxs on th
homscrn can b rsizo ano Tizn
closly supports wb apps as wll as
mor traoitional, installabl apps. Th
app icons ar rouno rathr than suar
ano it coms complt with a stanoaro
st o apps, incluoing Mssags, Contacts
ano Camra.
O
WHAT ELSE DOES lT
OFFER7
A
/ccoroing to th Tizn /ssociation,
th OS has aovanco multimoia
aturs, uss location-baso srvics
f $amsung's Bada O$
stopped last year, and it's now part of Tizen
$amsung's NX3M smart camera was the
first product based on Tizen O$
Firefox O
www.moziIIa.orQ/
mobiIe
Created by the
peopIe behind the
irefox browser, this
OS has a simiIar Iook
to ndroid. ike
Tizen, it's based on
inux, is open source
and aIIows you to
use HTML5 apps. !t is intended for
smartphones and tabIets, but pIans
are afoot for it to be used on smart
TVs, too.
buntu ouch
www.ubuntu
.com/phone
Iready the most
popuIar Linux
distro, Ubuntu's
mobiIe OS has
the same core
technoIoQies as
its Desktop version, which means its
apps can run on either system. !ts core
apps incIude Facebook, YouTube and
an RSS reader, as weII as emaiI and a
fiIe manaQer.
aiIfish O
saiIfishos.orQ
SaiIfish OS was
created by the
Nokia spinoff, JoIIa,
which recentIy
finaIised the fuII,
compIete version of
the operatinQ
system. !t can run
on some
ndroid
devices and works with
ndroid apps, too. TaiIor-
made Facebook, Twitter,
Whatspp and Foursquare
apps are aIso ready, and
SaiIfish has a IarQe,
supportive community.
ano th abilit t multi-tak U
can tak aovantag th multi-tuch,
calabl cn bcau th cn
lutin mak it a t cat
mathn ano tablt oila
oint i
O
HOWWlLL lT WORK lN
THE CAR7
A
Pth /l ano /noio hav
annunco in-ca intainmnt
tm ano Tin i king a ha in
what mi b a at-gwing,
lucativ ano buant makt v th
nt w a u lntant Et in
lu 8 (bit.ly/wbusr338). Th Tizn
ln-Vhicl platorm is also osigno or
us on aroplans ano buss.
O
WlLL THERE BE A
DlFFERENT APP STORE7
A
Ys, thr will. ln oror to builo up a
library o apps, Tizn launcho an
/pp Challng last yar (bit.ly/tizn342).
This asko ovloprs to proouc nativ
apps or Tizn using HTML5 - th OS on
which th wb stanoaro is baso. To
ntic thm, a $4 million incntiv was
oanglo in ront o th 54 winnrs who
compto in nin catgoris. Th C top-
rato HTML5 apps rcivo $5C,CCC
(3C,C) ach.
O
ARE THERE MANY APPS
OUT YET7
A
Thy ar slowly growing in numbr.
For xampl, music srvic 7Digital
(www.7oigital.com) rcntly announco
that it's working on a Tizn-baso MP3-
oownloao app that will work on Gar
smartwatchs. This will provio accss to
7Digital's 25 million songs.
O
WHAT APPS CAN WE
EXPECT lN THE FUTURE7
A
Th organisrs o th Tizn /pp
Challng notico that many o th
submitto apps also apparo on othr
mobil platorms ano that app
ovloprs ar commonly using
mioolwar that allows or Tizn apps to
b xporto. This mans it shoulo b asy
or ovloprs crating apps on anothr
platorm to xport thm to Tizn (inoo,
a company lnrawar in Kora has
crato an /noroio-to-Tizn convrtr).
That saio, it oos man that i you hav
svral ovics using oirnt oprating
systms, you'll hav to pay twic or
crtain apps.
O
WlLL SAMSUNG DROP
ANDROlD7
A
This is an important ustion,
consioring that Samsung appars
to b th main backr o Tizn OS at this
stag. For th momnt, Samsung is
saying its stratgy is or a multi-OS
approach, which mans launching both
/noroio ano Tizn ovics. Put that
coulo asily chang i Tizn provs
popular with mobil usrs.
Howvr, th switch won't b
immoiat. /rouno 6C pr cnt o all
/noroio phons solo ar currntly mao
by Samsung, ano /noroio is a ma|or
rason why popl buy thm.
O
WHAT MlGHT HAPPEN lF
SAMSUNG SWlTCHES7
A
Looking at thos igurs, on o two
things. Eithr Samsung sals will
nosoiv bcaus popl hav grown
attacho to /noroio or consumrs will
continu to n|oy Samsung prooucts ano
/noroio's markt shar will shrink, whil
Tizn's incrass. Samsung coulo no up
with th uivalnt o Vinoows Phon -
a ocnt OS that works vry wll but, or
whatvr rason, oosn't gt th sam
attntion as iOS ano /noroio.
O
WlLL GOOGLE RESPOND7
A
lt may oo. lt's asibl that i it ls
thratno, Googl coulo mak its
srvics mor oiicult to us on Tizn
ovics. Googl coulo also rus to
mak apps or Tizn which woulo man
no Googl Maps, no Googl Now ano no
YouTub.
O
COULD l MAKE APPS FOR
TlZEN7
A
Ys, i you hav th skills. Tizn
allows or th cration o HTML5
apps. lntrstingly, th gam-making
application GamSalao has tamo up
with lntl ano Samsung on a Tizn
promotion (bit.ly/gamsalao342). l you
ancy making a gam using GamSalao,
th oal ors $5C cash (3C.C) ano
thr months Pro mmbrship or vry
app publisho to th Tizn stor.
sic service 7 Digital is developing a Tizen
MP3 app for Gear smartwatches
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u can avoio paying or all kinos o things i you
know whr to look onlin. rvals
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ont py for moiIe
rodnd
m oil (www.smmoil.om)
lts you rows th w or r y
rning moil t or your tlt or
lptop. lt works on ll 3G vis s
wll s Cs with ongl or iFi unit.
/ll you hv to o is wth som vio
s (h on is typilly twn 3C
n 6C sons long) n you'll ru
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hoos th s you wth n rn
itionl rit y rrring rins. l
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t unls whih ost 3.5C or
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oil uss th hr ntwork (www
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gnrlly st n rlil.
ntil rntly thr ws nothr r
ron provir ll vivo whih
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wthing vrts to uil up your
moil rit us 3.5P o t
osn't go vry r. Dpning on th
vi you'll using to rows th
w you'll n to purhs m
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n lim your r ron.
ind free i-i wherever
you re
hr r wirlss ss points to
oun lmost vrywhr you go ths
ys - in hotls rsturnts o
rs irports n vn on trins.
h trik is to in th st ons tht
on't ruir you to |ump through
hoops or py xtr to us thm. Go to
r-hotspot.om (www.r-hotspot
.om) ntr your lotion n th sit
will isply omplt list o r ss
points in th immit viinity.
i-Fi Hotspot Dirtory (www
.hotspot-lotions.om) n Jiir
(it.ly/|iwir342) r similr sits n
oth r vry
omprhnsiv.
h lttr ors
r i-Fi Finr
pps or /nroi
(it.ly/
|iwirnroi3)
n i (it.ly/
|iwirios342) so
you n in th
strongst
hotspots rom
your phon or
tlt.
What's the catch7
You'll n to mk sur you'r
ssing lgitimt n s wirlss
hotspot n not on tht's n st up
to ool unwry usrs n potntilly
stl prsonl t.
rder free crd for ny
network
You n uy l rs rom shops ut
moil ntworks will hppily sn thm
to you or r. Just go to th Fr l
stion o ompny's wsit or
xmpl EE (shop..o.uk/r-sim)
2 (www.o2.o.uk/rsim) or oon
(rsim.voon.o.uk) thn hoos
th numr o ls you ruir n th
typ (stnr iro or no whih is
th l us y th ihon 5+). 'r
ig ns o GiG (gig.om/
orrs/r-sim) whih lts you orr
oth stnr n iro ls or r
or you i how muh to top up
h month.
What's the catch7
Eh provir ors irnt py-s-
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espite what the adaQe cIaims, the est thinQs in Iife
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taIet is priced at 399.
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sheen off the freebie.
vrything bcaus apps ar
otn only r or a limito tim, such
as a wk or |ust 24 hours. Many apps
nvr orop in pric, lt alon bcom
r, but i you consior that many cost
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it i you rally want it, rathr than wait
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et a free sat-nav for your
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Many nw cars com with built-in
satllit navigation, but you can also
buy stanoalon (ano otn xpnsiv)
sat-nav systms rom companis
incluoing TomTom, Garmin ano Navman.
You oon't no to pay or a ooicato
unit, howvr, bcaus thr ar plnty
o apps availabl or your smartphon,
incluoing r ons such as Navr
(www.navmii.com). l you own a
smartphon or tablt, you probably
hav a sat-nav app installo alraoy,
bcaus th noroio ano iOS vrsions
o Googl Maps now or turn-by-turn
oirctions. Just ntr whr you'r
haoing to ano tap 'Start navigation'.
Th app will oisplay your location on a
map, ano provio spokn oirctions,
automatically upoating th rout i you
mak a wrong turn.
Spokn navigation in Googl Maps is
still in bta, so you may b routo
incorrctly or it might crash. V'v uso
th app xtnsivly ano hav hao no
problms so ar, but you may want to
bar in mino its bta status bor
rlying on it or vry long |ournys. Th
app can at through your battry li
too, so you'll want to kp your ovic
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acking up your important prsonal
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ail. Thr ar lots o r onlin-storag
srvics, incluoing Googl riv (oriv.
googl.com), Onriv (onoriv.com)
ano ropbox (www.oropbox.com), but
thy usually rly on you rmmbring to
uploao your ils manually.
l you'r th orgtul typ, you might
b bttr o using Mozy, which
provios automatic back-ups (mozy
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protcto. Vith a MozyHom account,
you gt 2G o onlin storag or r,
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n altrnativ is uooyackup (www
.buooybackup.com), which lts you
back up your ils or r to computrs
blonging to your rinos, amily ano
collagus. Th back-ups ar ully
ncrypto, so only you can viw thir
contnts.
Mozy asks you to provio prsonal
otails, incluoing your nam, postcoo,
|ob ano company siz. Howvr, you can
mak som otails up i you want to
protct your privacy. uooyackup
ruirs you to connct to multipl
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accssibl vn i on o your ntwork
uninstalls th sotwar, olts th
back-up or gos olin.
up to on o thm to us your SlM.
hck to s which PYG or bst
appals to you, ano oror a r SlM
rom that company.
Get paid-for mobiIe apps for
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Thr ar loaos o grat r apps
availabl or noroio ano iOS ovics,
but a lot o th bst ons hav to b
paio or, particularly i you oon't want
your scrn to b plaguo by aovrts.
Fortunatly, ovloprs rgularly host
sals to boost oownloaos o thir
prooucts, ano occasionally giv away
paio-or apps or r, or a limito tim.
ppl maks on iOS app r vry
wk, which you can viw in th
Faturo sction o th pp Stor, whil
mazon givs its ppstor usrs (www
.amazon.co.uk/appstor) a oirnt r
paio-or app vry oay.
To b notiio whn an app you'r
intrsto in bcoms r (or orops in
pric), install ppZapp (www.appzapp
.nt/n) ano st up an alrt, which you
can choos to hav olivro via mail
or push notiication. ppZapp is
availabl or both noroio ano iOS, ano
also has a Now Fr sction o apps that
you uso to hav to pay or.
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vr py for poto prnts
ough onlin photo-procssing
srvics such as Snapish (www
.snapish.co.uk) ano Photoox (www
.photobox.co.uk) oon't charg much or
inoivioual prints, th pric can soon
rockt i you rgularly oror big
batchs. ortunatly, most ma|or photo
ovloprs hav r introouctory ors
or prints ano i you'r clvr nough,
you can gt hunoros o photos
procsso or r. Th trick is ithr to
switch rom sit to sit or to rrgistr
with th sam on using oirnt mail
aoorsss. MonySavingxprt.com's
hanoy Photo Print inor (bit.ly/
msphoto342) hlps you track oown th
bst ors across all th main photo-
printing srvics. Just choos th
numbr o prints you no, along with
th siz ano papr typ, thn click
ompar. t th tim o writing,
Photobox was oring 6C r prints,
Pixum (www.pixum.co.uk) 5C ano
Snapish 4C.
Most ors ar only availabl to
irst-tim customrs, as you'll oiscovr
i you oslct Photo Print inor's
'lncluo r prints or nwbis' oals'
option. Onc you'v signo up ano uso
your r allocation, you'll no to look
lswhr or your nxt batch o r
prints, ano thr arn't as many gooo
oals availabl as thr uso to b, with
many sits prrring to or tim-
limito oiscount coos. lso, you'll no
to pay or postag, so your oror won't
b compltly r.
to up on fr foo
smps
Lots o companis giv away r ooo
ano orink sampls, ithr as physical
prooucts snt in th post or as vouchrs
that can b romo at your local
suprmarkt. Th bst way to ino out
what's bing oro is to kp an y
on th ooo & rink sctions o rbi
sits such as LatstrStu.co.uk (bit
.ly/latst342), ooo To Know (bit.ly/
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mooo342). MonySavingxprt.com
also has a gooo ooo & rink sction on
its rbis rbis rbis pag
(bit.ly/msooo342).
t th tim o writing, tasty-sounoing
sampls incluoo Robinson's Orang &
Pach Suash'o |uic, a r pot o
Moma porriog, Krispy Krm
ooughnuts, packs o orst rals
musli ano a Livwll
glutn-r wlcom pack.
V'r not suggsting you
coulo at or a wk ano
pay nothing, but you coulo
crtainly stu yoursl or a
oay ano vn strik th
right balanc btwn
halthy snacks ano ano
naughty trats.
You'r usually limito to
on sampl pr housholo,
ano ths can b uit
small (|ust a coupl o
tabags, or xampl).
You might hav to ill in a
lot o prsonal otails to b
snt th itms or vouchrs,
or 'lik' a company on acbook. lt's
worth stting up a sparat mail
aoorss to us or this purpos ano
nsuring your acbook privacy
sttings prvnt th company posting
on your bhal.
r fr ost off
l you hav a osta o lub caro
(www.costa.co.uk/co-club), connct
it to th company's acbook pag
(www.acbook.com/ostao) ano
you'll b abl to ntr promotions to win
r orinks ano ooo - or at last th
points uivalnt.
Th promotions only com along vry
so otn, ano thr's no guarant you'll
win nough points to claim th orink
you want - at last irst tim arouno.
v your w wrttn for
fr
tting a solicitor to orat a will or you
can b xpnsiv (5C or mor), but i
you liv in nglano or Vals ano ar
ovr 55, you can mak us o r Vills
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R
P
E
T
U
R
E
Xbox
Music (www.xbox.
com/n-G/Music)
ano zr (www.
ozr
.com), which both
hav xtnsiv music
libraris, although
thy only or
unlimito r straming or six ano
months rspctivly.
l you want to oownloao ano kp
songs without paying or thm, consior
grabbing thm rom YouTub using a
tool such as Frmak's Fr YouTub
to MP3 oom (bit.ly/mp3boom34),
which savs th auoio track in MP3
ormat.
Rmmbr also that mazon's
utoRip srvic (www.amazon.co.uk/
autorip) givs you r MP3 vrsions o
vry you'v vr bought rom th
sit. Just go into your louoPlayr
(www.amazon.co.uk/clouoplayr) ano
you'll ino all th songs waiting or you.
Vith r music-straming srvics, you
hav to listn to occasional aovrts.
onvrting YouTub vioos into auoio
ils is lgally oubious, ano you crtainly
shoulon't shar or rus th tracks, but
it's much sar than oownloaoing
albums via itTorrnt.
On orawback to mazon utoRip is
that it also convrts s you'v bought
or othr popl, which might not
always b to your tast!
Read aII your ebooks for free
l you hav a Kinol -raor, or us th
r Kinol app on your phon or tablt,
you can gt lots o xcllnt r books
rom mazon. Th rtailr has a sction
listing th top CC r Kinol
publications (bit.ly/kinolr34)
which incluos titls rom wll-known
authors, such as Jack Higgins, Ln
ighton, listair MacLan, ano F Scott
Fitzgralo. l you'r a mmbr o
mazon Prim, you can also borrow
Kinol titls or r - thr ar mor
than 5CC,CCC to choos rom. no
oon't orgt mazon's 'Sno sampl
now' option, which snos you r
xtracts rom books so you can try
bor you buy.
l you'r an avio raor, it's worth
bookmarking RaorlO's oaily-
upoato slction o r books
(uk.raori.com/rbis), so you
oon't miss any nw titls aooo to
th Kinol Stor.
l you own an noroio phon or
tablt, you can oownloao a gooo
slction o r books rom Googl
Play (bit.ly/googlbooks34). no i
you'r kn on th classics, thr ar
mor than 4,CCC out-o-copyright
titls availabl at Pro|ct Gutnbrg
(www.gutnbrg.org).
Many r books ar sl-publisho,
which mans thir uality is variabl,
although thr ar plnty o grat titls
rom nw ano upcoming writrs. Som
books ar only availabl or spciic
-raors, so you'll no to us a tool
such as alibr (calibr-book.com) to
convrt thm to th ormat you want.
apply or tickts on a 'irst com, irst
srvo' basis. You'll b mailo a
six-oigit scrning coo that you ntr
on th wbsit to accss a spciic
ilm-booking pag. Thr's a oirnt
coo or ach ilm ano ach scrning.
lso, you won't b abl to gt r
tickts or all your rinos.
ShowFilmFirst ors its mmbrs up to
two tickts or aoult scrnings, ano up
to our or amily ilms, although this is
still prtty gnrous.
Listen to aII your music for
free
You oon't no to pay 99p pr track to
oownloao songs rom iTuns or Googl
Play Music any mor, bcaus thr ar
mor r onlin straming srvics to
choos rom than vr. V'r
particularly big ans o th nw linkbox
Music (www.blinkboxmusic.com), th
simpl but imprssivly vario onlin
raoio srvic that ors stations baso
arouno gnrs, ocaos, artists, mooos
ano charts. Howvr, th bst music-
straming srvic is unooubtoly
Spotiy (www.spotiy.com/uk), which
won our Golo waro in lssu 336 (bit.ly/
wbusr336). l you'r a ormr usr
who abanoono th srvic whn it
starto imposing rstrictions, you'll b
plaso to larn that it rcntly
rmovo its limits ano ors r
straming or all. This mans you can
now listn to as much music as you
Cmlot ooublo th pric o
its Lotto gam rom to 2. l you play
a lot o lins on both th Vonsoay
ano Saturoay oraws, you might no up
spnoing a ortun on tickts, with littl
LibriVox (librivox.org) ors an
imprssiv collction o r public-
oomain auoiobooks, which hav all bn
rao ano rcoroo by voluntrs. Ths
incluo tals by Charls Dickns, Sir
/rthur Conan Doyl ano Lwis Carroll.
/uoioPooksForFr (www
.auoiobooksorr.com) also has a
grat collction to brows, whil Pro|ct
can tip th author. Finally, i you sign up
or an /uoibl subscription (www
.auoibl.co.uk/ors/rtrial), you can
oownloao on commrcial auoiobook
or r to listn to on your phon,
tablt, MP3 playr or computr. Th
basic plan costs 7.99 pr month but
you can cancl it at any tim.
Th uality o LibriVox raoings varis
uit oramatically, ano not |ust rom
book to book, bcaus oirnt
chaptrs ar somtims rao by
oirnt popl. /s you woulo xpct,
th r /uoibl book or is only or
nw customrs, ano you'll no to
rmmbr to cancl your subscription
bor th trial is up.
Gutnbrg's /uoio Pooks Pro|ct (bit
.ly/gutnbrgauoio342) ors r,
oownloaoabl txts rao by humans
ano (lss luntly) by computrs.
Pooiobooks (pooiobooks.com) taks
a slightly oirnt rout ano olivrs
srialiso auoiobooks in th orm o
poocasts. l you lik what you har, you
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svral r ons. Our avourit rcnt
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ruirs you to ntr your mail aoorss
(which it won't shar) ano postcoo. l
your postcoo is orawn ranoomly rom
th sit's oatabas you win 4C or mor.
On oraw is hlo vry oay, ano
winnrs must chck th sit to claim.
Misso claims roll ovr. Th priz mony
/ lot o prctly gooo urnitur gts
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hano sit Prlovo (www.prlovo
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bos. lt's worth taking a look at
Frcycl (uk.rcycl.org), too.
You |ust ino ano |oin a local group,
thn brows th aos.
Furnitur is otn larg, ano you'll ithr
hav to pay a ortun to hav it
olivro or collct it yoursl. This may
ruir you to travl som oistanc, ano
mayb vn hir a van. Th savings you
mak coulo b signiicantly rouco
onc you'v actoro in tim, ul ano
hir costs, so try to limit your browsing
to listings within a crtain oistanc.
Swap home and garden
wares
Ntcyclr (www.ntcyclr.co.uk) ors
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swap prooucts you oon't want or ons
you oo. /s wll as hom ano garon
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swap books ano magazins, lctronics,
builoing gar, urnitur ano much mor.
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supplir's wbsit, ano answr som
ustions about your hom ano
prsonal circumstancs to chck your
ligibility onlin. For xampl, Pritish
Gas has a pag at bit.ly/insulat342.
Your hom may not b suitabl or th
oro nrgy-saving improvmnts,
ano you currntly no to b claiming
crtain bnits to ualiy, incluoing
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Your bonus incrass by p ach tim
you visit th sit ano can b boosto
urthr by rcommnoing Fr
Postcoo Lottry to rinos ano
shopping through its partnr sits.
Not uit as much un but still worth a
look is Sarch Lotto (sarchlotto.co.uk),
which givs away tickts to th National
Lottry (Lotto or Euromillions). You
hav to sarch th wb through th sit
25 tims to gt on r ntry into th
oraw o your choic.
Vith Fr Postcoo Lottry, you must
rmmbr to chck th sit vry oay,
although it oos sno oaily oraw
rminors, which you can unsubscrib
rom at any tim. Vith Sarch Lotto,
your National Lottry ntry will b as
part o a synoicat with 9 othr playrs.
Th sarch rsults ar provioo by
Yahoo, which you may ino arn't as
gooo as thos rom Googl.
Gt r onn bt
Th oays whn you noo to go into a
high-strt bookmakr to plac a bt
ar long gon (although thy oon't
show any signs o going out o
businss). Onlin gambling sits ano
mobil btting apps ar massivly
popular, ano to oraw in puntrs, thy
otn or r mony bts. Ptro
(www.btro.com/promotions/mobil)
is currntly giving mobil gamblrs a
r C stak with no oposit ruiro.
Sky Pt (www.skybt.com) is oring
5, ano Villiam Hill (www.williamhill
.com) will giv you an (up to) 25 r
matcho bt, ano a 25 irst-oposit
bonus on mobil gaming.
Th ors ar only availabl to nw
playrs, ano usually on playr pr
housholo. Thr will likly b som
trms ano conoitions to b awar o
- you'll no to plac bts at ooos o
-to-2 or gratr, or xampl.
Rmmbr to always rao th small
print bor signing up.
ch fiIes
CCIeaner removes
(www.pirorm.com/cclanr)
is a brilliant r tool or claning ano
spoing up your P, but it's st to
olt som potntially important ils
by oault. Ths incluo all your
browsr cachs, your rcnt oocumnts
list in Vinoows xplorr ano vrything
in your Rcycl in. or this rason, it's
worth chcking xactly which options
ar slcto on th Vinoows ano
pplications tabs ano unticking any
itms that you want to kp bor you
click Run lanr.
lanr also lts you blitz crtain
cookis whil kping othrs, such as
thos that stor your usrnams ano
passworos or wbsits. Th asist way
to oo this is to us lanr's lntllignt
ooki Scan tool, which otcts ano
protcts cookis that contain login oata.
lick Options, thn ookis to viw all
cookis on your computr, thn
right-click th lt-hano column ano
choos lntllignt Scan. lick Ys whn
prompto to mov all your important
cookis to th right-hano 'ookis to
Kp' column. To aoo mor, slct thm
ano click th right-arrow button.
To stop lanr rmoving spciic
ils ano olors, go to Options, xcluo
ano click th oo button. Now choos
all ils, olors ano il typs you want
it to ignor.
Preserve essentiaI
browser data
Rgularly claring out your browsr
hlps to kp it running smoothly ano
protcts your privacy, but you oon't
no to olt all storo oata vry
tim. Your browsr's cach stors
lmnts rom wb pags so it can loao
thm uickly nxt tim you visit, so
mptying th cach can actually slow
you oown. Likwis, olting login ano
auto-ill orm oata mans you'll hav to
ntr th otails manually, which can
prov rustrating i you'v orgottn
your usrnam or passworo. ll th
main browsrs lt you choos what to
rmov bor prorming a clan-up: in
hrom, go to Sttings, 'Show
aovanco sttings', 'lar browsing
oata'; in irox, choos Options,
Privacy, 'lar your rcnt history'; ano
in lntrnt xplorr, go to lntrnt
Options, 'rowsing history', lt.
n vn bttr option is to us th
hrom ano irox aoo-on lick&lan
(www.hotclanr.com). This lts you
ocio xactly what to olt ano what
to kp by clicking its toolbar icon ano
choosing Options. l you'r not sur
what an option rlats to, click th
magniying glass nxt to it to viw th
Rgular clan-ups kp your P running
smoothly, but rmoving crtain ils
coulo slow it oown. Robert !rvine
xplains how to mak sur important
oata stays put
rlvant oata. ltrnativly, choos on
o lick&lan's prsts - Low, Moium
or High - to slct oltion sttings
automatically (High warns that it will
ras your passworos). Onc you'v
coniguro th aoo-on, you can prorm
a clan-up by choosing lar Privat
ata rom th toolbar mnu.
Take care when deIeting
dupIicates
lting ouplicat ils is a gooo way to
r up spac on your haro oriv, but it
isn't without risks. Programs such as
llup (www.alloup.o/n_alloup.htm),
uslogics uplicat il inor (www
.auslogics.com) ano lanr, which
now has a built-in ouplicat-il inor,
gnrally oo a grat |ob o locating
surplus copis, but thy'r not CC-pr-
cnt rliabl. Somtims th algorithms
thy us, which match contnt ano siz
as wll as nams, rsult in ils bing
incorrctly iontiio as ouplicats. This
mans that i you olt th supposo
copy, you'll actually los th original.
You shoulo ooubl-chck that thr ar
two vrsions o a il bor you rmov
What NOT to deIete
CIEN-UP TIPS
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no no Sysm Rso no Shoo
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kp mo hn on. ln ls yo
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ninsll nno pogms hogh
h inoos onol Pnl, o y sing
h spplio ninsll, h hn
oling hm mnlly. somims
is nl xly h n ny ls
o no is ho o ll hh is s
o mov. Th xlln ool
Sholo l Rmov l (.
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pogms insllo on yo omp
no hlps yo oio hih ons
s o g io o. h im is o o
o iv no givn movl png
opnoing on ho nosil i is.
Sl h is i?' to viw mor
inormation about th sotwar,
incluoing otails o vry il it installs
on your systm, its xhibito
bhaviours, how many othr popl
hav it installo ano how long or. l it
sounos lik somthing you oon't want or
no, click Uninstall to rmov it.
On o th most common Vinoows
myths is that claring th Prtch
olor, which is locato in :\VlNOVS,
will spo up your P. Th rason
usually givn is that th olor ills up
ovr tim so mptying it will thror
boost systm prormanc. ln act, th
opposit is tru, bcaus th Prtch
olor stors usul inormation about
how Vinoows ano programs loao, such
as boot-systm ils. laring th olor
manually rmovs th oata that hlps
th OS ano sotwar launch uickly, so
your start-up tim will actually b
slowr. ooitionally, unlik your browsr
cach, which can slow your suring
spo whn it's too ull, th Prtch
olor is sl-maintaining. lt's rstricto
to storing 3C-5C ntris ano clans
itsl automatically whn this limit is
racho to mak room or nw itms. So
although thr's no ral harm in
mptying it, thr isn't much point
ithr.
lt sms lik common sns, but it's
worth ritrating that you shoulo nvr
olt a systm il or olor unlss you
know xactly what it rlats to, or you
coulo caus srious problms on your
P. ils storo in th :\VlNOVS\
systm32 olor ar particularly
important, so avoio moving, rmoving
or mooiying thm at all costs. lan-up
tools such as lanr gnrally lav
systm ils alon, so manual oltion is
th biggst thrat. ln act, thr's vn a
nasty intrnt mm callo Systm32
osigno to hoax inxprinco P
usrs into olting th Vinoows systm
oirctory. lt is ssntial to th running o
Vinoows OS ano without it th
computr woulo not work at all (bit.ly/
oltsystm342).
n m l nhing n
mn i g
in h lking . h i
l ih gi n
mmnin l h n hin
h h p h hn hlp i.
hm nin h mn
(i.l/sarcham342) cuts through th
cluttr by ltting you sarch mazon
rom any pag, ithr by clicking a
sarch bookmarklt or right-clicking
txt to run a sarch. To gt a notiication
whn your sarcho itms all in pric,
us mazon's utton xtnsion or
hrom, irox ano lntrnt xplorr
(bit.ly/button342).
irox aoo-on mabayox (bit.ly/
amabay342) aoos a button to itm
pags on mazon ano ay, which lts
you s whthr th itm is chapr
lswhr.
Th olost ay sarch trick is to
misspll your sarch trm. r onlin
tool at ingrs (www.atingrs.co.uk)
has a grat ovanco Sarch tool that
inos auctions in which titls or
oscriptions ar misspllo, ano
thror oon't turn up in rival bioors'
sarchs.
V
Thr's no 'Vhat's nw' catgory or
aovanco sarch on Ntlix (www
.ntlix.com), th ilm ano TV straming
srvic that hosts th blockbustr
shows Boakig Bao ano Houo of
Cao. Unoicial sit Vhat's On Ntlix
(whats-on-ntlix.com) is an ssntial
companion that rvals which titls hav
|ust bn aooo to Ntlix UK
(bit.ly/ntlixnw342) or intrnationally.
Othr pags incluo 'ilm o th Vk',
'Popular on Ntlix' ano Last hanc.
TankTopTV (movis.tanktop.tv) lts
you sarch or contnt across a rang o
on-omano srvics. You can conigur
it to trawl your choic o r sits such
as iPlayr, ano paio srvics such
as linkbox (www.blinkbox.com) ano
mazon lnstant Vioo (bit.ly/prim342).
To ino mazon's bst on-omano
oals, us th hrom xtnsion
mazon lnstant Vioo inor (bit.ly/
amvio342).
l you want to ino out mor about a
ilm or programm bor or atr you
watch it, install th lMb ontxt Mnu
hrom xtnsion (bit.ly/imob342) ano
right-click som txt anywhr onlin to
sarch or ino on th lntrnt Movi
atabas (www.imob.com).
Find an oId GmaiI
meage
To ino spciic mssags in th oigital
lanoill o your mail archiv, click th
tiny arrow at th right o th sarch box
ano us th sarch paramtrs such as
Sarch boxs oon't always ino you what
you'r looking or. Jane Hoskyn looks at astr,
smartr ways to sarch your avourit sits
'lncluos th woros', attachmnt siz
ano oat rang. lick 'rat iltr with
this sarch' to st up an automatic
action or xisting or incoming
mssags that match your sarch,
such as snoing thm all to th in.
To sav tim, you can us simpl
mooiirs in th main mail sarch box.
Mooiirs ar woros that you typ
alongsio your sarch trm in th main
sarch box. or xampl, typ
subect:saturday to ino mssags
with 'Saturoay' in th titl. Som
mooiirs work togthr without th
no or a sarch trm. or instanc,
typ has:attachment to ino all
mssags with attachmnts. S
oogl's 'ovanco sarch tips' pag
or th ull list o mooiirs (bit.ly/
aovanco342).
lmrove GoogIe' image
earch
V'r amazo by th inicincy o th
oogl lmags sarch tool. lt oisplays
rsults as pop-up thumbnails that you
MRTER WYS
TOSERCH
'lncluos th woros', attachmnt siz
ano oat rang. lick 'rat iltr with
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og i o n
m ml.
Googl lmg Rippr (www
.googlimagrippr.com) is th bst
altrnativ. lt's not prct - it's not as
ast as Googl ano it otn links to oao
pags - but it's simpl, r ano has no
aos or login ruirmnts. Just typ in
your trm, choos options such as
imag siz (which Googl hios) ano
click 'Go!'. Th rsults ar oisplayo as
plain thumbnails, with no Flash or
pop-up boxs to conus you. Each
thumbnail is captiono with a Downloao
link that incluos imag oimnsions ano
a Viw Vbsit link that you can hovr
ovr to s th URL bor clicking it.
faer
YTbe
YouTub is anothr Googl srvic with
blow-par sarch tools. lt lts you iltr
sarch rsults by conoitions such as
vioo typ, lngth ano uploao oat, but
th procss is clunky ano otn oosn't
work. Chrom xtnsion YouTub
SmartSarch (bit.ly/youtubss342) is a
simpl altrnativ that spos up ano
stramlins your sarch. lt also improvs
on YouTub's buggy Vatch Latr tool.
Firox usrs hav mor choic o
YouTub aoo-ons, incluoing th
xcllnt YouTub Grio Sarch (bit.ly/
griosarch342). lt oisplays your normal
YouTub sarch rsults as a grio with
ratings ano a prviw playr to sav you
many oao-no clicks. Sarch ln
YouTub (bit.ly/sarchtub342),
also or Firox, lts you right-click txt
anywhr onlin ano slct 'Sarch in
YouTub' rom th contxt mnu.
Search yr brwig
hiry
ln thory, you can ino any wb pag
you'v vr visito (sinc you last
claro your browsr history) by
prssing Ctrl+H ano using th sarch
box. Put ths built-in tools ar rarly
powrul or accurat. Th Chrom
xtnsion Pttr History (bit.ly/
bttrhistory342) livs up to its nam by
provioing aovanco sarch tools such as
multipl kyworo sarch, oat iltrs,
tagging tools ano a suprb slctiv
history-olt tool that lts you prun
ano organis your history.
For Firox, History Submnus (bit.ly/
historysub342) automatically organiss
your oaily browsing history into sub
mnus that mak it much asir to
rtrac your stps.
Dicver wh'
eied y Twier
Fr onlin tool Snap Piro (snapbiro
.org) is a hug improvmnt on Twittr's
own sarch tool, which only covrs
twts posto in th last C oays. Unlik
Twittr's sarch, Snap Piro lts you ino
all th tims you'v bn mntiono on
Twittr; looks or ky woros ano phrass
in your own twts or rom a spciic
prson; sarchs your snt ano rcivo
oirct mssags; ano vn lts you limit
your sarch to somon's avourit
twts. You can sav any rsults as a
prmalink. Snap Piro ruirs crtain
prmissions to work, but it can't accss
your Twittr passworo ano will nvr
post on your bhal.
Fid ayhig i yr
Facebk ieie
Facbook rcntly stoppo ltting you
sarch your timlin, ano its Graph
Sarch tool has only hao a limito
roll-out. OSarch (bit.ly/sarch342) is
a thiro-party altrnativ which lts you
sarch your own ano your rinos'
timlins, as wll as othr popl's
public posts. lt's particularly usul or
inoing YouTub vioos ano wb links
that you'v posto ovr th yars. On
th oownsio, it asks or som onrous
prmissions, incluoing posting on your
timlin. Disabl this by slcting 'Only
m' unor 'Vho can s posts' whn
nabling th app.
l you'o rathr not install an aoo-on,
you can rtriv all your status upoats,
commnts, liks ano othr Facbook
activity rom /rchivobook
(archivobook.com). You only hav to
click onc, but th oata taks a whil to
assmbl, spcially i you'v bn on
Facbook or svral yars.
Fr onlin tool Social Sarchr
(www.social-sarchr.com) lts you
sarch public contnt on Facbook,
Twittr ano Googl+. You can thn iltr
th rsults by location or popularity.
hav to click
twic to ino
out whr th
picturs ar rom. lt's
tim-consuming ano
can put you at risk rom
ooogy sits or vn
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orst Iive webcam
Th Lprhaun Vath 'air-ath
bam' (bit.l/lprhaun342) ails on
so man lvls. or a start, thr ar no
lprhauns to s ano th rports o
supposo sightings ar risibl. Th
bam isn't ironi, |oll or lvr ano
baus it's in lrlano, ou'r basiall
staring at a oamp ilo.
Still, th lak o lprhaun ativit is
positivl ngaging hn omparo to
th suttling storm that is th nivrsit
o South arolina's Roah am (bit.l/
roah342), hih has bn apturing
riggling los-ups o liv okroahs
(giant aoagasar Hissing okroahs,
no lss) sin 993.
ltrnativl, sin th point o a
bam is to ath somthing
happning, lt's rais a glass to th
'pi ail' that is th nivrsit o
unslano's
ith rop
xprimnt
(.
thninthath.
om) hr
multipl
bams ar
traino on a
sampl o pith in
a glass unnl
hih is slol - ano w man slowly
- oripping rom th bottom. ach orop
taks yars to orm ano, sinc th
xprimnt bgan in 927, no-on has
vr sn a orop all, vn though it's
oon so ight tims.
Worst designed website
Vhil it's tmpting to nominat all
travl-booking wbsits (spcially
cross-channl rry companis), w
hav biggr ish to ry. So i it's plug-
ugly you'r atr, thn th Hosanna
Portal (www.hosanna.com) is haro to
bat, with its hioous, y-popping
graphics, baling 'navigation' ano
animato buttrlis that crawl all ovr
your scrn lik Maoagascan Hissing
ockroachs. lt's apparntly 'bst
viwo with lntrnt xplorr 6', but
vn that wrtcho browsr oosn't
osrv this. or an xtra nols-in-
your-ys visual trat, try th sit on
your phon.
ltrnativly, i you'o lik to visit
Vith vryon clbrating 25 yars o th
Vorlo Vio Vb, it's asy to orgt that it
hasn't all bn un, r ano li changing.
rounos up som o our last
avourit things
usr-xprinc hll, hao to rativ
anaoa (crativcanaoa.gc.ca), whr
lt is right ano up is oown (try scrolling
on th irst pag), crpy vioo avatars
rplac mor convntional navigational
tools such as buttons ano txt links, ano
th ack button has bn rplaco by
th Spac bar.
Worst Youube video
gain, w'r schwing thos ilms that
hav any whi o prossionalism about
thm ano zooming in on th ons that
highlight what maks us rail human
bings. So lt's har it or Joanna
Rohrback ano hr bizarr xrcis vioo
'Prancris', which ruirs participants
to high stp lik My Littl Pony (bit.ly/
pranc342). Not how, ospit th
winoy oay, Joanna's hair barly movs.
V'r obviously partial to tchnology
rviws, so w'v got to rcommno
The WORST
of the Web
op
has usr-xprinc hll, hao to rativ
ano w man slowl
th bottom. ach or
ars o th
gt that it
hanging.
our last
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WORST OF THE WEB
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/ Cboy's Vi ano hr singularly
pointlss unboxing o a Dll Mini
ntbook (bit.ly/ollmini342) whr,
halway through ano rapioly losing th
will to liv, you ralis that you'r |ust
watching hr waiting or it boot up.
feed
Hal a billion popl us Twittr, so w'r
spoilt or choic, but givn that th sit
is all about currnt trnos, w'r going
to giv our awaro to th attntion-
sking Kati Hopkins (KTHopkins).
Th x-Appontico 'star' pools ooious
viws o such staggring insnsitivity -
about poor popl, ovrwight popl,
|oblss popl, in act any popl who
arn't Kati Hopkins - that it can only b
olibrat.
Our runnrs-up in this catgory ar
Hugh Hnr (hughhnr), whos
Twittr o consists o th ilms h ano
th girls ar watching that vning at
th Playboy Mansion (whn thr ar
surly mor intrsting things going on)
ano Vlaoimir Putin (PutinRF_Eng),
who rrs to himsl in th thiro prson
ano lists th worlo laors h's bn
talking to on th phon (no inscurity
thr, thn, Vlao?).
Worst Wikipedia articIe
Our choic in this catgory isn't
bcaus th ntry is inaccurat or too
bri; nor is it too opinionato or littro
with 'citation missing' nots. Th rason
it's our pick or th worst o Vikipoia is
that it's an xtraoroinary wast o tim
ano nrgy. ln act, w'r not vn
going to tll you xactly what it's about,
although w can rval that it involvs
toilts. /no sitting oown. /no
clanlinss. /no as o us. Chck it
out or yoursl at bit.ly/wikipoia342 to
oiscovr th pitom o a bog-stanoaro
Vikipoia articl. lt's prtty much
summo up by th mssag at th top:
Th xampls ano prspctiv in this
articl may not rprsnt a worlowio
viw o th sub|ct.
Worst internet ceIebrity
Most o th classic wb 'clbritis' - or
xampl Psy or Justin Pibr - arriv
courtsy o a 'moia stratgy' so w'll
ignor thm in avour o th sl-mao
mastrs o th art such as Daym Drops
(www.oaympattrson.com), who
rviws ast ooo in his car, has hao 2C
million viws on YouTub ano can b
hiro to rviw your rstaurant. /tr all,
who oosn't want to s a man at
chickn wings bhino a string whl?
Thn thr's /nnoying Orang (www
.annoyingorang .com) - ys ano
mouth grato
onto an orang
that tlls
monotonous
'|oks' ununny
nough to oriv
a Puoohist
vgtarian to
ruitricio. Or
how about, hanos-oown worst in trms
o l'm-so-angry-l-coulo-at-my-scrn,
Mlissa Pachman (www.
mlissabachman.com)? Vhn sh
twto a photo o hrsl with a lion
sh hao killo in South /rica, it
prompto so much outrag that th
intrnt narly xplooo.
Worst internet memes
Our currnt bto noi is th uiz that
asks: 'Vhich [TV show/ilm/book
charactr] ar you?' Cu proictabl,
tim-wasting tosh as your answrs
gnrat a ranoom ano unsatisying
answr that lavs you ling
oisappointo ano oirty, but which
oosn't stop your social-moia 'rinos'
chrily sharing
thir rsults.
Hr's an xampl
rom Puzzo:
Vhich Shrlock
Charactr /r
You? (bit.ly/
shrlock342). V
giv up. Una
Stubbs? Th on rom Tho Hobbit?
Worst onIine game
This is almost too asy, bcaus it's
actually callo Vorst Gam Evr (bit.ly/
worstgam342), but or onc th wb
oos not li ano this sio-scrolling
misrabl xcus or a gam rally
olivrs. Your |ob is to guio a milkshak
ano a matball rom lt to right,
avoioing th occasional obstacl by
using th Spac bar. /no w man
occasional - w'v bn playing it or
thr minuts ano hav hao to avoio |ust
on thingummy, which looko lik a
chocolat button. Pitiul.
Worst onIine review
Thr is nothing it sms, as spitul as
a rviwr who has oownloaoo a r
titl or thir Kinol (bit.ly/amazon342)
ano ls haro oon by. Vith its puril
attmpt at
humour, l
irst thought
this might
b suitabl
or thr-
yar olos.
Put thn th
introouction
o a poor
attmpt at
porn rulo
that out.
Just orgt
it. Th book? Lonoon, tho Dogg ano
Mo, although w suspct th rviwr
isn't bing ntirly srious.
Mino you, that's milo comparo with
this rstaurant rviw rom Tripaovisor
- Horribl plac with horribl sta.
Callum bhino th bar liks to srv his
rinos whil ignoring you, ano th
managr is a snivlling wasl.
(bit.ly/tripaovisor342).
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2
ault, all your mail labls ar incluoo in your
archiv, so mpty Trash ano Spam irst. To xcluo som
labls rom your archiv, click oit, 'Slct labls'.
1
lick
'Slct all' twic to oslct vrything,
z
thn click th labls
you want to incluo.
lick OK,
thn on.
1
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'rat an archiv'. ll availabl srvics ar slcto.
1
To mak th procss uickr ano simplr, archiv on
srvic at a tim. lick 'Slct all'
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to oslct th tick boxs
ano click on, or xampl Mail (mail), to slct it.
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lick rat rchiv. Th 'My archivs' pag will opn
ano show an 'ln progrss' mssag
1
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siz.
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On th app's hom
scrn, slct th cog
in th top-lt, thn tap
Notiication. Tick th box i
you want your Notiication
ra to oisplay th
prcntag o charg
rmaining on your phon's
battry.
1
You can also
choos to oisplay th tim
rmaining or two oirnt
typs o activity in your
Notiication rawr.
l you want to b
alrto whn your
battry has oraino or
chargo by a crtain amount,
go to Sttings, tap 'harg
lvl alrts' ano thn 'nablo
lvls'.
1
Hr, you can st
th prcntag o your
battry's charg at which you
will rciv a notiication. Tap
th back arrow ano choos a
combination o souno, voic
or vibration alrts.
On th app's hom
scrn, tap th graph
symbol blow th cog.
Hr, you will s a otailo
graph o your battry usag
ovr tim. Us th plus ano
minus buttons
1
to chang
th scal o th graph, or tap
th prcntag symbol
to
toggl through othr graphs
oisplaying voltag or
tmpratur.
Rturn to th hom
scrn ano slct th
thr-lin mnu icon.
Hr, attry H oraws your
attntion to som nativ
noroio aturs incluoing
Usag, which is a summary o
th proportion o battry
powr uso by ach app
sinc charging. Tap any app
or mor inormation,
1
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uit
or uninstall it.
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Hv yu vr us r 2
wr yuv us wr
rrty? l you arn't sur what a
woro or phras mans, you can ino out
by right-clicking it ano slcting Din
or 'Look up' (opnoing on your vrsion
o Voro) in th contxt mnu. Th irst
tim you try this, you ar asko to
choos a oictionary. l was oro thr,
ano chos Ping bcaus it hao th
highst scor. From thn on, Voro shows
th oictionary oinition or th slcto
woro using your chosn oictionary. To
look up th oinition o a woro using
Googl or Ping in a browsr, typ
define: ollowo by th woro.
Dave Jacob, via emaiI
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Free tooIs for faster
downIoads
l us mor than on browsr, so l lik to
us a oownloao managr that lts m
track ano organis all my oownloaos
mao rom oirnt browsrs in on
plac. l st it to work with whichvr
browsr l'm using, incluoing Firox ano
lntrnt Explorr, so that all my
oownloaoo ils ar snt to my
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Pcaus oownloao managrs work
inopnontly o your browsr, you gt
astr oownloaos ano no intrrnc
with your browsr prormanc. SoMuo
is a brilliant xampl (somuo.com). lt's
r ano works across all platorms,
incluoing Linux. Unlik browsr-baso
oownloaoing, it oosn't rly on on
connction to th oownloao srvr.
lnstao, it braks th il into pics ano
rusts srvr accss or ach on. Th
rsult is astr oownloaos, vn with
rally big ils. /no i you'r oownloaoing
auoio or vioo, SoMuo lts you prviw
th il bor it's inisho oownloaoing.
You can conigur it to oownloao via
proxy i you'r worrio about anonymity.
Th opn-sourc program Fr
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(roownloaomanagr.org) also braks
up ils to spo up your oownloaos, ano
its latst vrsion lts you s all your
activ ano complto oownloaos
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torrnts oownloaoing at hom whil
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SOFTARE
VisuaI Basic 6 lDE on
Windows 7
l you'v bn using Microsot Visual
Pasic 6 lDE or basic programming on
Vinoows XP, you oon't hav to oitch it
along with th xpiring OS. Thr's no
lDE vrsion or Vinoows 7 (s /sk th
Exprts, lssu 34C, bit.ly/wbusr34C),
but thr is a way you can gt it to run
on Vinoows 7. You'll no a bit o
tchnical know-how, but it's all xplaino
in ull by cooing bloggr Drk Virch
(bit.ly/vb6-342).
To summaris, you insrt th VP6
installation CD as normal but xit th
/utorun st-up ano brows to th root
olor o th CD. Right-click th st-up
il, slct 'Run as aoministrator' ano run
th program. Slct Custom Stup,
chck th spciic options givn ano opt
out o aooitional sotwar. lt's a littl
mor complicato than that, so tak a
look at th blog pag or instructions.
Th lDE can apparntly b a bit
sluggish on Vinoows 7, so you may no
to chang th EXE il's compatibility
sttings. /lso, you shoulo crat a zro-
byt DLL il in your Rgistry bor
installation, othrwis VP6 will try to
install an olo vrsion o Java on your
computr. This is all xplaino on th
blog pag, too.
Thanks to this littl hack, l hav bn
running VP6 on Vinoows 7 or ovr a
yar now with no problms.
JC, via emaiI
SEAR
Use Bing's hidden
advanced search
Ping (www.bing.com) has an aovanco
sarch tool that many popl oon't
ralis xists. Carry out a normal sarch,
thn click th sarch box containing your
sarch trm. lt oisplays a list o sarch
suggstions, with '/ovanco sarch'
oown at th bottom. Click it to s
options to sarch or all th trms, any o
th trms, th xact phras or non o
th trms. lt rins th xisting sarch,
aooing xtra itms to th sarch box
ach tim you us it.
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NDOS
Sto a udates
Vinoows 8 automatically upoats th
apps on th Start scrn by oault, but
this can orain your laptop battry whn
you'r out ano about. To turn o auto
upoating, opn th Stor rom th Start
scrn, go to th charms bar
(Vinoows+C) ano click Sttings. Click
'/pp upoats' on th right ano turn o
'/utomatically upoat my apps'. Com
back to this pag ano click 'Chck or
upoats' whn it suits you. You can also
us this pag to sync ano stor licncs
or th apps you own, to avoio having to
pay again or apps atr thy upoat.
J O'Brien, via emaiI
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YouTub Downloaor
(youtuboownloao.altrvista.org) ano
ino it vry asy to us. lt lts you
oownloao ano convrt vioos rom
Facbook ano Googl Vioo, as wll as
YouTub. Th r vrsion oos try to
install othr programs on your PC, but
you can opt out o thm i you choos
th Custom option ouring installation.
Th wbsit ors lots o hlp with
installing ano using th program.
/ltrnativly, us a browsr aoo-on.
Thr ar lots o YouTub oownloaor
aoo-ons or Firox, but rao th usr
rviws bor choosing on. Som o
thm |ust sno you to wbsits that mak
you oownloao sotwar. l'o rcommno
YouTub Cntr, which aoos a simpl
Downloao button blow th YouTub
vioo playr. lt's availabl or Firox (bit
.ly/ytcox342) ano Opra (bit.ly/
ytcopra342). You can't us it oirctly in
Chrom, but thr's a workarouno: install
th brilliant Chrom usrscript oitor
Tamprmonky (bit.ly/monky342) ano
us it to install th YouTub Cntr script
(bit.ly/cntr342). Thr's a Vorkshop on
this in lssu 329 (bit.ly/
wbusr329). lt's straightorwaro, ano
th script is asy to us ano vry rliabl.
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James, via emaiI
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My Dll lnspiron laptop won't
charg. Th original Dll battry
lost capacity ano woulo only last or 2C
minuts, so l rplaco it with a gnric
non-Dll battry, which oion't work
ithr. l thn borrowo a gnuin Dll
battry rom anothr computr, ano
this smo to work bcaus th LED
battry inoicator shon blu whn l
pluggo it in. Put it still wasn't actually
charging.
Has th laptop hao it? Shoulo l
rmov th bas ano look insio to
chck that nothing is blown?
Mikepj, Web User Forums
A
This is probably a mattr o
gtting th right battry ano
chargr. My brothr's kios all hav Dll
lnspiron laptops with various battris,
so l'v bn abl to s th oirnc
that a gnuin battry maks. l suspct
that th last battry you'v trio is a
Dll P/-C or similar, which prooucs
nough powr to light th LED, but not
Why won't my
Iaptop charge7
HRWR
convrt your ODT oocumnts to HTML so
that your rcipints can viw thm in a
browsr.
OpnOic ano LibrOic wr
ovlopo by mmbrs o Th Documnt
Founoation, which campaigns or gratr
cross-platorm support to liminat th
oigital oivio. You can rao its manisto
at bit.ly/oocounoation342 - but only i
your browsr supports PDF!
Joe_London, Web User Forums, and
E GiIIespie, via emaiI
GNRI PC
What's the best way to
remove dupIicate fiIes7
O
My computr is cloggo with
multipl vrsions o ils. Can
anyon rcommno a gooo program or
inoing ano rmoving ouplicats?
Norman Moore, Web User Forums
A
lt's asy to builo up ouplicats
through rpato back-ups ano
opning ils in oirnt locations. Thy
can b a nightmar to organis, ano tak
up hug amounts o haro oriv spac.
Thr ar a lot o ouplicat-inoing
programs. Easy Duplicat Finor (www.
asyouplicatinor.com) is worth a look
- you |ust orag ano orop olors into th
program winoow to scan or ouplicats,
thn choos which ons to rmov.
Howvr, l think th r vrsion only lts
you rmov a crtain numbr o
ouplicats, ano it tris to install various
unwanto xtras ouring st-up, so mak
sur to run a custom install.
Thr's a list o altrnativ programs at
bit.ly/ouplicat342, which all look
promising. Put whichvr on you us,
run it carully ano oon't assum that it's
accurat. Many o ths programs |ust
look or iontical il nams, which can
lao to oisastr i you blinoly click Dlt,
bcaus thy coulo b compltly
oirnt ils. Only us a program that
inos gnuin ouplicats by comparing
xact siz ano contnt, as wll as nams,
(as Easy Duplicat Finor oos) ano
nvr us a tool that automatically
olts ouplicats. /lso, mak sur it
The YuTube Ceter add- laces a
Dwlad butt the YuTube layer
Use a dulicate fider t remve multile
cies f the same files frm yur PC
nough to run your laptop.
lt may also not b a Dll battry at
all. Thr ar lots o ak Dll battris
ano aoaptrs arouno. l Dll chargs
upwaros o CC or a Dll componnt
or accssory rom its onlin stor but
you ino th sam thing nw rom
Hong Kong on Pay or 2C, it's
unlikly that th Pay on is ral.
Lots o othr companis or
gnric rplacmnts, but again thy
tno to b unorpowro ano not
worth th bothr. Don't wast your
mony. You can chck which battry
ano chargr you no or your laptop
on Dll's wbsit at bit.ly/oll342.
Dannyboy99, Web User Forums
D't buy chea cmets because
they may t be geuie
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BK READERS
O
My Kinol is only showing hal a
scrn. lt happno atr l
switcho it o, thn latr switcho it
back on.
Joyce McGrah, via emaiI
A
This harowar ault occasionally
alicts som Kinol ovics but,
unortunatly, thr is no known ix. l
th Kinol is still unor warranty, you
can rturn it ano gt a rplacmnt
rom /mazon customr srvics. l th
ovic is out o warranty, w hav haro
o /mazon oring gooo oiscounts on
nw Kinols i you rturn th brokn
on. Your purchaso books ar all
storo onlin so you won't los any.
SOFTWARE
DownIoad a websie
O
l sm to rcall an issu o
last yar aturing sotwar
that can oownloao lmnts o oata
rom a wbsit, such as music, picturs
ano othr ils, without oownloaoing th
whol sit. l no to oownloao a mass o
oata rom a wbsit but l can only oo so
on pag at a tim, ano thr ar about
,CCC pags! /ny sotwar that spos
up th task woulo b vry wlcom.
AIan LesIey-Bayne, via emaiI
A
Thr ar svral tools that copy
ntir wbsits or slcto contnt
rom wbsits. Popular ons incluo
Cyotk VbCopy (cyotk.com),
PagNst (pagnst.com), NCollctor
Stuoio Lit (www.calluna-sotwar
.com), ano HTTrack Vbsit Copir
(www.httrack.com). You can also us
iltrs to spciy th typs o ils you
want to sav. For xampl, in HTTrack,
go to Options. On th Scan Ruls tab,
you can us to sav all GlF ils
or to ignor thm (using plus
ano minus in ront o il typs incluos
or xcluos thm).
You shoulo b carul with ths tools
bcaus it isn't always lgal to copy th
contnt o a sit. Put ths programs
can b usul whr you no to rbuilo
an olo wbsit or somon ano th
ownr has lost th login otails. Vbsit
copirs can ovrloao th wb srvr, so
st banowioth limits ano aoo pauss in
th sttings so that you oownloao
slowly. Us th Limits tab in HTTrack's
options, or xampl.
SECURITY
ConfIicing ani-virs
sofware
O
l am gtting sporaoic mssags
rom Norton 36C (uk.norton.com)
saying thr is a conlict with Microsot
Scurity Essntials (bit.ly/ms342) ano l
shoulo uninstall th lattr. ls thr any
way l can kp both?
Richard, via emaiI
A
No. Norton 36C ano Microsot
Scurity Essntials prorm
iontical tasks. Thy ar both anti-virus/
anti-spywar tools that prvnt malwar
rom incting your computr. Conlicts
lik this can occur with any two scurity
programs, so you shoulo only hav on.
Th xcption to this rul is clan-up
tools so, or xampl, you coulo run
Norton 36C ano Panoa Clouo Clanr
(panoaclouoclanr.panoascurity
.com) togthr.
SECURITY
Windows 8 secriy
O
Vhn l bought a nw Vinoows 8
computr six months ago, l was
tolo that Vinoows 8's built-in protction
woulo b nough to protct my
computr. l havn't hao any problms,
but woulo you aovis xtra protction?
Derek Skinner, via emaiI
A
Vinoows 8 ors mor scurity
than any prvious vrsion o
Vinoows, but that oosn't man it is
prct ano can't b improvo upon. lt
has only th most basic protction rom
malwar ano thrats on th intrnt,
ano it can b strngthno by installing
r anti-virus sotwar such as /vast
O
l hav a 25CGP oriv rom an olo
TV rcoror. ls thr a program l
can us to ormat it or us?
lan WiIIiamson, via emaiI
A
Haro orivs uso by TV rcorors
ano st-top boxs ar stanoaro
orivs, iontical to th ons uso in
PCs, so ys, you can ormat it.
/ooing an intrnal oriv to your PC
is usually straightorwaro. You no to
hav a spar oriv slot, a powr cabl
ano a oata cabl connctor. Moorn
PCs ano orivs us S/T/ connctions,
but olo PCs or TV rcorors may us
lDE, so thr coulo b a mismatch.
/ simpl solution is to buy a oriv
nclosur, which is an mpty USP
xtrnal oriv box. lnstall th oriv
into that ano connct it to th PC with
a USP cabl. l you want to us th
oriv with a laptop, this is th only
option bcaus you can't aoo an
xtra intrnal oriv into thir small
cass.
Onc th oriv is attacho to th
computr, go to th Control Panl ano
opn /oministrativ Tools. Opn
Computr Managmnt ano slct
Disk Managmnt unor Storag.
Right-click th oriv or th option to
ormat it.
Rese a hard drive
from a TV recorder
HARDWARE
Use the Disk Management tool to
format a drive before you use it
Cyotek WebCopy is one of several tools
that can download all or part of a site
SK THE EXPERTS
Ce| nre |: | |ran.we|a:er.c.a\
Downloao ano burn th oiscs yoursl,
thn boot your computrs rom thm
without installing anything. which
on works th bst, ano install it rom
within inux.
WE IDIN
ite buiIder
O
l'm starting a company ano woulo
lik to builo a basic wbsit to
promot it. y l skills ar avrag to
gooo. Can you or aovic about onlin
srvics l can us to builo ano publish
my sit to th wb, prrably or r or
at low cost?
Tim Sharratt, via emaiI
A
You ar spoilt or choic bcaus
thr ar lots o wb-hosting
companis ano prics ar vry
comptitiv. You can gt r wb
hosting but th orawback is you will
(www.avast.com), /VG (www.avg.com),
/vira (www.avira.com) ano othrs.
lnstalling an intrnt scurity suit
ors vn mor protction. Ths
incluo a irwall, privacy aturs,
parntal controls ano mor. Th thr
companis mntiono prviously hav
scurity suits, or you coulo try
Kasprsky (www.kasprsky.co.uk),
Norton (uk.norton.com), Pitonor
(www.bitonor.co.uk) ano othrs.
Thr ar numrous options or
incrasing scurity ano all or r
trials. Try thm to s which suits you
bst. You'll gt oiscount ors o
signiicant savings in your mail inbox
as th trial prioo nars th no.
/s outlino in th prvious tip, you
shoulo only run on anti-virus program
or scurity suit at a tim.
ENER PC
RepIace XP with Ubuntu
O
l want to rplac Vinoows XP with
Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com) on my
Dll lnspiron 55C laptop. Rathr than
oownloaoing ano burning th sotwar
mysl, l bought an installation oisc rom
Ubuntu. l'v trio th laptop's CD oriv
ano an xtrnal Lit-On oriv, but it
won't run. l also hav a Sony V/lO
VGN-ZVN, but l wanto to run Ubuntu
on th Dll irst.
Th oisc smo to ract oirntly in
th xtrnal oriv, apparing to install,
but th laptop crasho whil a rpato
clicking ano whirring souno cam rom
th haro oriv. l can't ino any
inormation on th Ubuntu Hlp blogs.
Martin BiIIings, via emaiI
A
Ubuntu ano many othr vrsions o
Linux can run oirctly rom th CD.
Put th oisc in th oriv, rstart th
computr ano ino th option to ithr
install th oprating systm or start th
systm rom th oisc. Starting rom th
CD oos not install Linux or mak any
changs, so it's a grat way to ino out
whthr Linux is compatibl with your
PC. You can thoroughly tst it bor
installing it.
Start th Dll laptop using th Ubuntu
oisc ano slct th option to start
Ubuntu rathr than installing it. l it
boots to th Dsktop ano runs, us th
install icon on th Dsktop to install it. l
Ubuntu oos not start, try a oirnt
vrsion o Linux. Thy ar all slightly
oirnt ano anothr on may hav
bttr support or your harowar. Mint
(linuxmint.com) is currntly on o th
most popular vrsions o Linux, but
Foora (oorapro|ct.org), OpnSUSE
(www.opnsus.org) ano PC LinuxOS
(www.pclinuxos.com) ar grat too.
A
Linux
ors
som
xcllnt
altrnativs to Vinoows,
but i its systm won't run th
sotwar or support th harowar you
us, it's not worth consioring. ln your
situation, a Vinoows laptop is th
bst option.
Th spciications you list, in
particular th 7in scrn ano solio
stat oriv (SSD), will limit your
options bcaus thr arn't many
laptops arouno that hav both. /
Toshiba Oosmio X7C-/ (www.toshiba
.co.uk) woulo appar to it th bill, but
at ,699, it isn't chap. Howvr, you
say that you ar looking to buy in six
to 2 months tim, by which tim a
laptop with ths spciications coulo
b signiicantly chapr.
Upgrade options
HRDWRE The Toshiba
Oosmio
X7D-A has a
op-end
specificaion
b a price
o mach
hav to hav a gnric oomain nam
ano mail aoorss, which might b
o-putting to potntial customrs. You
can buy a oomain nam, such as
mycompany.com, ano point it to a r
wbsit, but w woulo rcommno
paying or a wb-hosting ano oomain-
nam bunol. / Googl or Ping sarch
will proouc oozns o wb-hosting
companis oring oomain nams,
storag ano mail or as littl as 3 or
4 a month.
Most wb-hosting companis provio
som sort o wbsit builor that can b
asily mastro. Thy usually involv
slcting a tmplat ano rplacing th
txt ano imag placholors with your
own. Howvr, oon't only consior what
you no now, but whr you might
want to b in iv yars' tim. l your
nw company taks o, you might want
to xtno th wbsit, prhaps aooing a
shopping cart so you can sll prooucts,
builoing a mmbrship ano so on. For
this rason, it's bst to us a wbsit
builor that oosn't impos limits. /
VoroPrss (www.woroprss.org) sit is
ovrkill or what you no right now, but
it's airly asy or bginnrs to larn ano
it can grow with your company. You'll
ino a list o rcommnoo wb hosts at
www.woroprss.org, but any company
oring on-click installation shoulo b
in.
O
ln th nxt six to 2 months, l
want to upgrao my laptop,
which l us whil l am out ano about.
l'll no a high-rsolution
7in scrn, an lntl
Cor i7 procssor, a
graphics caro with at
last 2GP o mmory, a
75CGP haro oriv, a 28GP SSD ano
our USP sockts.
l hav uso many vrsions o
Vinoows, incluoing XP, Vista ano 7
Pro, ano am satisio that all th
sotwar ano harowar l hav ar
compatibl ano unction wll.
Howvr, l am concrno that
Vinoows 8 might b anothr
Vinoows Vista, which or a prioo
mao m lss icint ano grumpy.
/t th tim, l wnt to my local /ppl
stor, only to larn that my sotwar
ano storag ovics woulo not b
compatibl with a Mac.
Shoulo l consior moving to Linux
instao?
AIan D KidsIey, via emaiI
Always se he opion o ry Ubn
before sing he insall bon
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c tab.
Th los Tabs (bit.ly/clos342)
hrom xtnsion aoos usul aturs.
Right-click a pag or options to clos
tabs to th lt, to th right, othr tabs,
this tab, tabs rom this oomain or tabs
rom othr oomains.
h tabs
To uickly cycl through th tabs ano
switch rom on to anothr, holo oown
trl ano prss th Tab ky. irox has a
scrt stting that taks this a stp
urthr by oisplaying tabs as thumbnails.
Typ about:config into th aoorss
bar ano typ ctrltab in th sarch
box, thn ooubl-click 'browsr.ctrltab
.prviws' to chang it rom als to
Tru. los irox, rstart it ano opn
som tabs. Prss trl+Tab to oisplay th
tabs as thumbnails ano kp prssing
trl+Tab til you gt to th on you want.
Suspend unused tabs
Vhn you hav a lot o tabs opn, th
P can run short o mmory, which can
slow it oown. TooManyTabs solvs th
problm by suspnoing unuso tabs,
ano also acts as a tab managr. Th
aoo-ons or irox ano hrom look
oirnt but work in a similar way. Th
irox vrsion (bit.ly/toomany342)
aoos a toolbar to which you orag ano
orop tabs to stor thm. Th browsr
tabs can thn b closo, ring up
mmory. t th lt is a button that
provios accss to six toolbars or
storing tabs.
Th hrom aoo-on (bit.ly/
tmchrom342) placs a button to th
right o th aoorss box, which opns
a TooManyTabs panl ovrlaying th
pag. Tabs ar oisplayo as
thumbnails ano you click an arrow to
mov thm to th right ano suspno
thm, to r up mmory.
Modify tab behaviour
Tab u (bit.ly/ou342) is a
irox aoo-on that mooiis th way
tabs work. lt kps track o opn ano
rcntly uso tabs, nabling you to
switch btwn thm mor asily.
Vith Tab u installo, nw tabs
opn immoiatly to th right o th
currnt tab, rathr than at th ar right
at th no o all your opn tabs
Tab u also lts you activat th
last tab you wr on without having to
mov your cursor to it. Opn svral
tabs, thn slct tab , tab 3, thn tab
2. Now click tab 2 again (th on you
ar currntly viwing) ano Tab u
will switch to tab 3. Now click tab 3
ano it will switch back to tab ,
backtracking through all th tabs
you'v viwo. You can also switch
back ano orth btwn two tabs by
clicking th sam on rpatoly.
Holo oown trl ano click a link on a
pag to opn a nw tab nxt to th
currnt on. l you prr having nw
tabs aooo at th no on th right,
typ about:config into th aoorss
bar, typ tabdeque into th sarch
box ano ooubl-click 'xtnsions
.tabou.opnTabsNxtTourrnt' to
chang it rom Tru to als.
TOP TPS FOR BROSER TABS
l
you rgularly visit th sam
group o wbsits, you can st
thm to opn togthr in on
click. Opn th sits on sparat
tabs in hrom or irox, thn
right-click a tab ano slct
'ookmark all tabs' to sav thm to
a olor. Vhn you slct th olor
on th bookmarks mnu or toolbar,
you'll gt an option to ropn all
Bookmark tabs
Rearrange tabs
lt's asy to los an important tab
among a oozn othrs you hav opn.
To avoio this, click ano orag th tab to
th ar lt or right, whr it's asy to
ino. ln hrom ano irox, right-
click a tab ano slct 'Pin tab' to
shrink it ano plac it at th ar lt.
Pinno tabs ar loaoo automatically
whn th browsr is launcho. Tabs
can b torn o ano opno in a
sparat winoow by clicking ano
oragging thm out o th browsr.
Thr is a scrt tab stting in
hrom that lts you highlight a
group o tabs rom th sam sit.
Typ chrome://flags into th
aoorss bar ano ino 'oo grouping to
tab contxt mnu'. nabl it, clos
hrom ano rstart it. Opn som
tabs, right-click on ano click 'Slct
by oomain' to slct all th tabs on a
particular wbsit, such as all
wbusr.co.uk tabs. You can thn
click ano orag thm all, right-click ano
clos thm all, ano so on. hoosing
'Slct by opnr' slcts all tabs that
wr opno by clicking links rom a
Our tam o xprts shows you how to accss
scrt sttings via
th bookmarks as tabs.
Vhn you bookmark a avorit in
lntrnt xplorr (by clicking th star
icon), you gt th option to crat a
olor. You can sav svral sits in
th sam olor. lick th avorits
icon ano right-click th olor to s
an option to 'Opn in tab group'. This
opns all th avorits in th olor as
a group o tabs.
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kendproject
et toQrips withsomeserious Y
tooost your computer's performnce
loao on a slow mobil connction, nor
will thy want to pinch ano strtch it to
s th contnt oisplay proprly. no
onc somon has hao a bao xprinc
with a wbsit, thr's a gooo chanc
thy won't bothr coming back again.
ross-In vs rsponsv
Vhil som popl only brows th wb
on thir PCs ano a growing numbr
xclusivly sur on thir mobil phons,
most popl us whatvr ovic is
closst to hano whn th urg to go
H
o
w
to
... rt oI-rnI
wst
yne iIIims xplains why your wbsit nos to work prctly
on mobil ovics ano shars som tools that can hlp you aoapt it
go mobiIe7
l you havn't alraoy mbraco th
mobil rvolution, you'r probably
wonoring why you shoulo think about a
crating a spcial wbsit |ust or viwing
on smartphons or tablts. tr all, it is
possibl to zoom in ano out on a mobil
ovic's scrn, so provioo th sit
oisplays without tchnical oiicultis,
why go to a lot o xtra ort crating a
oirnt vrsion? lt's a logical ustion,
but th rality is that phon ano tablt
usrs oon't want to wait or a big sit to
A
ccording to research
commissioned b
GoogIe, 62 per cent of
the totaI UK popuIation owns a
smartphone, and this figure is
expected to rise to 75 per cent
in 2014. Of those owners, 74 per
cent sa the use their device to
browse the web on a daiI basis.
So out of an estimated UK
popuIation of 63 miIIion, 29
miIIion peopIe are using their
smartphones to access the web
ever da. And remember, those
figures are just for the UK - most
websites attract visitors from aII
over the worId.
These high figures make it
cIear that if ou own a
website, it's essentiaI
that ou make it
mobiIe-friendI, so it
dispIas properI on
smartphones and
tabIets as weII as on
PC screens. lf ou
don't, ou might be
turning awa
miIIions of
potentiaI visitors.
onlin striks. ln act, accoroing to a 2C4
Global numration stuoy by TNS/
Googl, th avrag numbr o ovics
uso pr prson is now 3..
l you want your sit to catr or
vryon ano vry vntuality, you no
to osign it to aoapt accoroing to th
ovic it's bing viwo on. Vhn
somon visits your sit, you want thm
to s it prsnto at its bst so thy
ully n|oy th xprinc.
You hav two choics whn trying to
appal to mobil usrs. You can ithr
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o two sparat (cross-linko) sits
(on osigno or viwing on computrs,
ano on or mobil ovics) or you can
crat a singl rsponsiv wbsit that
changs its layout oynamically,
rororing contnt to suit th oisplay it's
bing viwo on, rom th smallst
mobil to th largst TV.
Th bnit o a sit osigno
spciically or mobils is that you can
tailor th contnt to suit your auoinc. l
you oiscovr that mobil usrs tno to
ocus on a oirnt sction o th sit to
P usrs, you can roror th contnt to
bring thos sctions to th orront.
lnormation showing th oirnt trnos
o mobil ano P usrs can b ouno
using Googl nalytics (www.googl.
com/analytics).
rsponsiv sit, on th othr hano,
provios visitors with consistncy. Thy
know what thy'll s whn thy visit
your sit ano th contnt won't chang
much, vn i thy switch ovics.
growing numbr o big sits ano srvics
ar turning rsponsiv - th , or
xampl, is rolling out rsponsiv sits or
its Nws, Vathr ano iPlayr sits
lt's bn suggsto that bing
rsponsiv to scrn siz might hav a
positiv impact on sarch ngin
position, ano at th vry last it will
provio a bttr xprinc or your
visitors. Howvr, it's also a lot mor work
MOBI ST BUIRS
blanks. Th program has a gallry
o ,5CC tmplats to choos rom, ano a
Mobil Tmplats pack osigno
spciically or wbsits on mobil
ovics. Th pack is availabl in Evolution
(59.99) ano Prossional (69) vrsions.
Thr is a r oition o th wbsit
builor availabl, which you can try with
no limitations. nything you crat in th
r oition can b importo ano oito
in th paio-or vrsion o Evolution.
heineneomoiIe-
eie-iIe
Hart lntrnt's wb builor lts you
crat a mobil sit optimiso or
smartphons ano tablts, with ast-
loaoing pags ano automatic ovic
otction. Th srvic has a wizaro that
guios you through th cration procss,
you can aoo ano rmov pags as
ruiro, ano chang th layout in
sconos. Thr's also a choic o
attractiv tmplats to choos rom.
lt has a liv onlin omo you can play
arouno with, so you can chck that it
oos vrything you want bor you
sign up. uiloing your own sit costs
3.99 a month.
eeeno
Vith Vbon's r builor, you can
crat ano publish your sits in HTML5
ano migrat xisting sits to th nw
ormat. hoos rom ovr 4,CCC
tmplats, thn aoo, orag ano orop
contnt arouno th pag. lt ors an
automatic mobil sit crator ano you
Ii he oQm on
eIe ee ne Pro|ect', and
Qive it a name. You can edit an existinQ
pro|ect if you have one. FiII in the site
detaiIs, incIudinQ titIe,
website
address,
description
and
keywords.
You can aIso upIoad a
WebSite !con
(aIso known as a
favicon).
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From Jun 2C5, it will b
r to call C8CC numbrs
rom your mobil phon,
but Thr has alraoy
oroppo th charg or
nw customrs ano cut
th cost o C84 ano C87
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Existing customrs no
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gt th r calls.
Get 5 fee Necta
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l you hav a Nctar caro,
you can claim 5C r
points by linking th caro
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thn visiting th abov
link ano choosing 'Click to
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hav to spno 5C to arn
that many points, which
will b aooo to your
account within 28 oays.
Deamate SIeeping Aid
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This gaogt hlps you gt to slp by
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rouc th cts o |t lag.
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This oicially licnso Ttris proouct
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