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Marshall: Technology is driven by fashion

| Columns | 20/05/2012 02:48pm

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be evil? You don’t need to be a moustache-twirling villain, cackling in a top hat as you tie a pretty damsel to some train tracks, and you don’t need any sharks with laser beams or a house inside a hollowed-out volcano. All you need to do [...]

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[Web Pack] 322: Device diagnostics and management

| Hardware | 18/05/2012 06:23am

Our pick of the best free programs for monitoring hardware components. Whether you’re looking for tools to stress test your system, check for errors, or simply want to audit your hardware. You’ll find it all here!

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[Web Pack] 322: Reboot Your Digital Life

| All software | 18/05/2012 06:22am

Twenty five hand picked completely free goodies that will change the the way you work, rest and play!

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Morrison: Governments must respect our data

| Columns | 14/05/2012 02:37pm

The UK government seems to want to actively debug its citizens, expanding its already copious powers to obtain communications data. Soon, as we go about our regular lives – a large proportion of which are now spent online – potential new legislation could be used to store the skeletons of our conversations, their causal interactions, [...]

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Cobbett: Freedom vs Security

| Columns | 13/05/2012 03:11pm

Make no mistake, Apple’s upcoming Gatekeeper technology is a game-changer. It’s part of Mountain Lion, the next iteration of OS X, and never mind whether you use that or Windows in your daily life. The success of the App Store on both that platform and iOS is already having a major impact on the wider [...]

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[Web Pack] 322 Essential Collection: Productivity

| Productivity | 11/05/2012 06:41am

Each issue we pick the best productivity applications the internet has to offer. This could be anything from task reminders to document organisation, from PDF editing to mind mapping and everything in between. You name it, we’re likely to cover it.

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[Web Pack] 322 Essential Collection: Utilities

| Utilities | 11/05/2012 06:41am

We hunt down the best free utilities available on the internet so you don’t have to. This could be anything from benchmarking to archive fixing, from backup to hardware tweaking and everything in between.

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[Web Pack] 322 Essential Collection: Linux

| Linux | 11/05/2012 06:41am

Each issue we discover the Linux applications available on the internet. This could be anything from image manipulation to web browsers, from hardware monitoring to encryption and everything in between.

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Cobbett: Subscribing to software

| Columns | 10/05/2012 02:33pm

Pardon me for talking about games for a moment, but there’s an interesting trend going on that’s worth knowing about, and which may surprise you. Specifically, companies are falling over themselves to give their work away for free – and not just the little guys. Microsoft just released Microsoft Flight, almost every MMO of the [...]

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[Web Pack] 322 Essential Collection: Hacks

| Hacks | 09/05/2012 10:40am

Each issue we hunt down the best Windows customisations. Anything from menu hacks to process tweaks. You name it, we’re likely to cover it.