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  • Feature: The five most-commented stories of the week - 13 May 2011

    It's been a busy week in tech, from the Sony PSN outage to ACS:Law's Andrew Crossley getting fined just £1,000 for a data breach. Here's what got you talking.

  • Feature: PC Advisor's top five tweets of the week – 12 May 2011

    There's been plenty of news to keep Tweeters shackled to their PCs or smartphones this week, so they can share their thoughts on topics with web users across the globe. And PC Advisor is no exception. Here are our favourite musings and thoughts from Twitter from this week.

  • Feature: The five best apps for working on the go

    These days working on the go is a regular occurrence for many of us.

  • Feature: Five of the best free games on the web

    Sony's PlayStation Network may still be down, but fear not. You can get your gaming fix with these free downloads from the web.

  • Feature: The five most commented stories - 6 May 2011

    It's been a busy week in tech this week. While the outage of Sony's PlayStation Network has dominated IYT news this week (and our readers are pretty unhappy about it), there's been lots of other things going on, including the release of the Motorola Atrix smartphone and a new version of Linux.

  • Feature: How to erase your digital footprint

    In a world where we share more information online than ever before, it might seem impossible to disappear completely. But that's not the case.

  • Feature: PC Advisor's top five tweets of the week - 5 May 2011

    It's been a busy week in the Twitterverse, and like many fans of the micro-blogging site, we at PC Advisor have been avidly reading the thoughts of others, as well as posting some of our own musings. So here's our five favourites from this week.

  • Feature: Timeline: Sony PlayStation Network hack

    This is a timeline of major events associated with the attack on Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services.

  • Feature: Facebook facial recognition could get creepy

    Facial recognition may be just one more way for Facebook to make photos of us more public and far less private.

  • Feature: Alternatives to the PlayStation Network

    We've put together a list of alternatives to the currently offline PlayStation Network: ways to play games against your friends online, download media and network socially, all using your PC.

  • Feature: Top tips and tweaks to fix your Wi-Fi

    Is your trusty Wi-Fi network faltering? Are you encountering problems with streaming media, online games or network backups? Here's how to solve common wireless problems.

  • Feature: The five most commented stories of the week

    It's been a busy week in technology, from finding out that nearly two in five nine to 12 years use Facebook despite being below the social networks minimum age limit to the launch of the BlackBerry PlayBook in the US. Our readers have had plenty to stay on the week's stories, so here's a look at some of the article that's really got you fired up this week.

  • Feature: The 10 best free backup downloads

    We all know backing-up is one of the key rules to good computing. However, when you start listing everything you need to make a copy of to ensure you can return to normal pretty quickly if your PC should crash, there's much more than just digital photos and word documents. There's all your emails, program settings and even your games. Fear not, help is at hand in the form of these ten free downloads.

  • Feature: The five most commented stories of the week

    There's been plenty of tech stories to hold our interest this week. Whether it's the news that Fujitsu plans to roll-out a fibre network to rival the offering from BT with speeds of up to 1Gbps to the fact Spotify has slashed the amount of hours per month users of its free service can stream music for, our readers have certainly been getting fired up.

  • Feature: Do Not Track: The great ad-tracking debate

    Much ado has been made about the Do Not Track bill in the US, which would let people opt out of advertisers' efforts to track their online activities. We argue the pros and cons of ad tracking.

  • Feature: Tech tips to start a business for free

    Social networking and mobility are now critical themes in the startup business world. Here's how to start a business with practically nothing besides a good idea and a lot of free time.

  • Feature: The five best browser plug-ins

    Whether you plump for Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or any other browser, we guarantee you'll have a couple of gripes when it comes to the software you use to surf the web.

  • Feature: 20 events that shaped the internet, part 2

    We take the internet for granted now, but a lot of developments helped to make it the gargantuan shopping, socialising, commerce-helping, video-sharing behemoth it is today.

  • Feature: 20 events that shaped the internet, part 1

    Today we all use our smartphones and our broadband-equipped PCs to instantly access information on just about any topic via the internet. But have you ever taken a few moments to realise how far we've come since our first forays online?

  • Feature: 10 must-have downloads for Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter

    Your favourite social network is probably pretty capable, but with the right add-on, they can become even better. Here are several apps that will allow you to get more out of Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.