- Backup Strategies to Prepare for Computer Catastrophes
- Digital Trends Guides - July 20, 2009
- Here’s an unpleasant fact of life: Your computer’s hard drive will eventually fail, taking all your precious digital photos, meticulously ripped music and movies, crucial banking records, email archive, and every other bit of your digital...
- Battle of the Browsers
- Digital Trends Features - July 10, 2009
- Serving as a window to your online world, the web browser has become one of -- if not -- the most important pieces of computer software used on a daily basis.Not only are browsers used to access websites for information and e-commerce, but for many, ...
- Best Office Furniture & Accessories
- Digital Trends Guides - July 7, 2009
- Your new home office has fresh drywall from floor to ceiling, a fragrant new patch of short-nap carpet, and a window that looks out on the backyard garden. Now you just a need a spot to put that computer. And the printer. And all those papers. And th...
- Upgrade Your Laptop
- Digital Trends Guides - June 19, 2009
- The old axiom that you can’t upgrade a laptop has never been less true. Sure, your nay-saying, desktop-bound friends who repeat it have a basic kernel of truth in their favor – the core guts of a mobile machine are pretty much set in ston...
- The iPhone and the Next Big Thing
- Digital Trends Talk Backs - June 11, 2009
- This decade has largely been defined largely by Apple products in the consumer space. The first part was all about the iPod, and the last part, the iPhone. This is where the lines and excitement were. In the 90s, it was about Windows and PCs, with Wi...
- Save Money While Controlling Multiple PCs
- PC World Articles - June 10, 2009
- Depending on your needs, you can use fewer displays, input devices, or even PC systems, and still get the benefit of multiple computers.
- Turning Your Junker into a Home Media Server
- Digital Trends Guides - June 10, 2009
- We’ve experimented with any number of home media servers that will stream YouTube, play movies across a home network, and stream music from a library of connected home storage appliance. And they’re nice if that’s all you ever want ...
- Free Adobe Online Tools Create Documents and Presentations
- PC World Articles - May 27, 2009
- Adobe's Acrobat.com online apps store and create text documents, presentations, and other files from any 'net-connected computer.
- How to Upgrade Your PC
- Digital Trends Guides - May 21, 2009
- After three years together, things just aren’t the same between you and your PC. While friends play new games on their shiny new all-in-one machines, videoconference on Skype with their built-in webcams, and run the swank Aero edition of Window...
- Scratch Day 2009 - Computer Programming for Kids
- PC World Articles - May 7, 2009
- On May 16, 2009, learn more about Scratch, the free programming tool for kids.
- My PC Keeps Freezing Up
- PC World Articles - April 30, 2009
- Denise Griffee's computer freezes up every two or three days. I offer advice.
- Master the Software Updating Process to Keep Your PC Safe and Stable
- PC World Articles - April 28, 2009
- Running the latest versions of software helps keep your computer secure from malicious software. Here's how to manage software updates for all your major apps.
- Best Internet Explorer Add-Ons
- Digital Trends Guides - April 14, 2009
- Though Firefox still holds the heart of computer enthusiasts everywhere, Microsoft has learned a thing or two from the competition lately, and borrowed many of its most popular features, including third-party plug-ins. But which are genuinely helpful...
- Can I Use These Extra Discs?
- PC World Articles - March 26, 2009
- A member of the Answer Line forum asked if she can take the CDs and DVDs that came with a new computer and use them on another PC.
- What Keeps Waking Up My Hibernating Computer?
- PC World Articles - March 19, 2009
- Bilbo09 likes to hibernate his computer at the end of a day's work. He asked the Answer Line forum what keeps waking it up after a few hours.