Gaming · Guide
How to Create a 10 GB/s RAM Disk in Windows
Do you have extra RAM and a need for speed? Here's how to create a blazing fast 10GB/s RAM Disk in Windows with a free u...
Jan 24, 2014
Gaming · Guide
How to convert your handwriting into a font
Remember that feeling after the school summer holidays, when you’d sit down at your desk, pick up your pen and… nothing....
Jan 14, 2014
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How to Change the Default Fonts & Text Size in OS X’s Notes App
Learn how to change the default font and size in the Notes app on Mac OS X.
Feb 28, 2013
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A beginner’s guide to radio
Listen very carefully. Can you hear that noise? Can you hear the radio? No, I don’t mean the FM radio booming from the c...
Feb 21, 2013
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How to edit photos in Adobe Photoshop Express
Photoshop Express is a free smartphone download. That probably sounds too good to be true when you consider how much the...
Jan 18, 2013
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How to take a PC case apart
The first thing to do when building a PC is open up the case, ready to put everything inside. You can take the vast majo...
Jan 16, 2013
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How to install a power supply
Once you've opened up your new PC case, often the most sensible next step is to install the power supply. Pretty much ev...
Jan 16, 2013
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How to install a graphics card
The graphics card is the part of your PC that powers modern games, making environments look ever more lifelike and immer...
Jan 16, 2013
Gaming · Guide
How to install expansion cards
A few years ago we had our hands on all sorts of expansion cards for PCs, from TV tuners through to sound cards, but the...
Jan 16, 2013
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How to put a PC case back together
Get your checklist out: have you fitted the motherboard, processor, memory, hard disk or SSD, optical drive, graphics ca...
Jan 16, 2013
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How To “Convert” A Laptop Microphone Port To Line In
If you have a laptop that's not over 3 years old, you may have a "LINE IN" port for sound input and didn't even know it....
May 17, 2012
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How To Print An Envelope With LibreOffice
It took a while (a long while, in fact) before OpenOffice/LibreOffice got the whole printing-an-envelope thing down. In...
Mar 30, 2012
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How To Get Your Cell Phone’s Email Address
Whether you have a smartphone or a featurephone (a.k.a. "plain" or "dumbphone"), to the best of my knowledge every cell...
Jul 25, 2011
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How To Flash A BIOS With A USB Stick
Recently I had to upgrade the BIOS on my PC to the latest version to enable support for something specific to GIGABYTE m...
Jul 18, 2011
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How To Find Out How Old Your Online Accounts Are
We all have a plethora of online accounts, and sometimes we'd like to be able to figure out when those accounts were cre...
Jun 17, 2011
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BIOS guide: how to overclock your CPU
You can access your BIOS settings by switching on your PC, then pressing the appropriate key when the power-on screen ap...
Jun 14, 2011
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How to preserve an archive of PCX files
A reader calling themselves “Specious” commented recently: “Another lost function from both Word and the OS is the abili...
Mar 24, 2011
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How to secure a school network
Protecting a school’s network has never been more difficult. Not only is the number of security threats increasing – arr...
Dec 22, 2010