Tech Trials

Soon after I upgraded to broadband, I bought a wireless access point and a PCMCIA card for the laptop from Office World. Compared with dial-up from the desktop upstairs, the freedom to work anywhere in the house on a permanent connection was a revelation...

In my job (college lecturer) you might want to show a video clip from the Internet but, for lots of reasons, you can't guarantee to have Internet access just when you need it.
My fallback is to save the clip to your hard drive or memory stick, but this option is often disabled in Windows Media Player and other players....

My wife clicked on a button marked "Click for a faster Internet". If you've waited ages for Royal Mail's complaints site to open, you might be tempted too. The browser (IE5.5) was immediately taken over by ClientMan, a browser helper object (BHO), that...

Bought a super new HP printer cum scanner cum copier this week. Copy performance is outstanding, very much better than separate scanner and printer. But when MS Word started having serious problems, I never dreamed the two events were connected.
Microsoft Word has been used across networks for over 10 years but the Office XP version still contains a bug which can cause it to crash a few seconds after loading....