Christmas shopping should be just starting to encroach onto your ‘to do’ list. Over the next few weeks I’ll continue to be showing you what you should be buying for various different loved ones. This week- what to buy your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife…

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You may have noticed a bit of a revamp if you’ve logged on to Twitter lately. The site has released its new Twitter Lists feature to more users, in an attempt to organise your chaotic micro-blogging world. Twitter Lists lets you group your plethora of followers into… well lists, so you can see what’s going [...]

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According to recent research more than half of all computer users customise the look and feel of their desktops and if you like cars the chances are that your background picture is of your favourite car! Now Infiniti, the Japanese performance car maker has teamed up with Microsoft to provide Infiniti-inspired backgrounds, slide shows, screen savers for Windows 7.

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October has been a busy month with the launch of Windows 7 but Windows 7 isn’t the only new version of a desktop operating system being launched this month. Ubuntu 9.10, the very popular Linux distribution, was released yesterday and should prove to be popular among Linux fans and hopefully gain some new users too. For those who don’t know, Ubuntu is a Linux based operating system which can easily replace Windows on your PC. It costs nothing to download and it is completely free to use without any charge.

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‘I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop, a you don’t stop the rock it to the bang bang boogie…’. Anyone remember those lyrics from the Sugarhill Gang back in 1979? Even if you weren’t born in that decade you will have still heard the lyrics at some point [...]

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For some years now illegal downloading has been not just a small problem for the government, it has been a catastrophic problem as the number of illegal downloaders continue to increase each week. This has continued to raise the question of when the government will clamp down and do something about it, and that time [...]

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The combination of GPS and mobile phone to create a satnav system is very useful and this year TomTom started selling their navigation software for the iPhone. Now Google is entering the market and it is doing an amazing thing, it is giving away turn-by-turn GPS navigation, with voice guidance, for free in its Google Maps for mobiles software.

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Samsung N510It is hard to tell the different netbooks models apart nowadays, they all seem to be the same as each other but in a different plastic case. They all mainly use the Intel Atom processor, have a 10 to 12 inch screen and poor integrated graphics. But not so with the Samsung N510, it is a netbook which stands out from the crowd. This netbook uses what is called nVidia ION technology which means it comes with great graphics for watching HD video and for playing many of todays 3D games.

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