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  • 22 April 2013

  • How-Tos: Recycle your old tech gear

    In springtime, people's fancies may turn to love, but their to-do list turns to cleaning. Make this the year that you finally recycle all the ancient MP3 players, toner cartridges, ethernet cables, and bulky monitors out of the closets, garages, and spare rooms where they've been lurking. Your home will feel more modern, and you'll be doing your part to boost the 27 percent electronics recycling rate in the U.S.--just in time for another spring constant, Earth Day.

  • How-Tos: How to change App Store on iPhone to UK

    What do you do if the App Store on your iPhone thinks you are in a different country? We show you how to change the App Store on your iPhone to the UK. It's really easy when you know how.

  • How-Tos: Fact or fiction: Eight Mac energy-saving techniques tested

    We're all interested in saving energy. Maybe you conserve to be a better global citizen or to save money on your utility bills. Maybe you use your laptop on the go and want to squeeze every possible minute of battery life out of it. But what if the daily computing practices you follow to save energy end up wasting it instead? What if your assumptions about Mac power usage are wrong? To investigate this possibility, Macworld's lab compiled a list of eight widely held opinions about energy conservation, grabbed our trusty power meters, and started logging power usage.

  • How-Tos: How to set a song as your ringtone on Windows Phone 8

    Here's how to set your favourite song as your ringtone on Windows Phone 8.

  • How-Tos: How to use System Restore to fix a Windows 8 PC or laptop

    System Restore is one of the features that makes Windows worth having - the ability to roll back Windows to a point where you know it was working well can rescue your PC or laptop from all manner of ills. Here's how to use System Restore in Windows 8.

  • How-Tos: How to remove HomeGroup icon from the Windows 8 desktop

    If you like to keep your Windows desktop neat and tidy, you may not want the HomeGroup networking icon to be shown on your Windows 8 desktop. Here's how to remove it.

  • 21 April 2013

  • How-Tos: Shoot now, focus later: Change the focus after you take a photo

    The line separating reality and science fiction continues to blur. Whereas 40 years ago, cameras that focused themselves were unfathomable, auto-focus lenses have been a routine part of photography since the 1980s. Fast forward to today, and you can purchase the Lytro camera, which does away with the idea of focusing entirely: You can change the focus of Lytro photos after they're taken. The coolest part? I'm going to tell you how to simulate Lytro photos with the camera you already own.

  • 19 April 2013

  • How-Tos: How to manage and repair your Android apps

    Tablets, smartphones, and PCs look different on the outside, but on the inside they rely on the same components: a processor, a GPU, memory, and a storage volume that holds an operating system, device drivers, and applications. Your phone and tablet have smaller screens and fewer peripherals than a typical PC has, but you still end up tapping and clicking your way through your data before pulling out a keyboard--albeit a virtual one--to get real work done.

  • How-Tos: Renaming files, wireless syncing, and matching music ripped from vinyl

    In this week's installment, the iTunes Guy looks at renaming files, syncing iOS devices wirelessly, matching music ripped from vinyl, and a couple of questions about tags and file names.

  • How-Tos: How to refresh and reset Windows 8: give your PC a free speed boost

    If your Windows 8 PC isn't running well you can try the new Refresh feature which cleans up Windows without touching your documents, music, photos and videos. For a proper cleanout and format, you can use the Reset option. Here's how to use Windows 8 Refresh & Reset

  • How-Tos: How to track a lost computer with Find My Mac

    If your computer is stolen or otherwise liberated from your possession, don't despair: If you've remembered to enable Find My Mac, you can track it, remotely lock it, and even send messages to your Mac's screen.

  • How-Tos: How a CIO Can Save an Incompetent CEO

    When a bad CEO goes down, the CIO often goes down with him. The way to save yourself, and your company, is to invest in the analytics technology that gives the CEO the data necessary to make smart business decisions. It doesn't hurt that it also shows why the CIO is more valuable to the CEO than other C-level executives.

  • How-Tos: Type faster on your iPhone by using shortcuts

    The keyboard on the iPhone and iPod touch can be a bit fiddly to type on, and although the autocorrect system is remarkably good, you can still save time by setting up custom shortcuts. Here's how to do it.

  • 18 April 2013

  • How-Tos: Get social with OS X's Twitter integration

    Beginning in Mountain Lion, OS X features social media integration options with both Twitter and Facebook, letting you post to the services from the OS itself, as well as sync contacts.

  • How-Tos: Introduction to Calendar

    Mountain Lion can help you do more than organize your music library, compose and receive email, and work out the complex equations necessary to design a hamster capable of sustained flight. With the aid of a bundled application, it can ensure that you know about upcoming chiropractic appointments, a favorite grandchild's birthday, or the dreaded yearly visit from a particularly long-winded cousin. That application is Calendar.

  • How-Tos: Social Data Warehousing Is Worth the Trouble

    Everybody knows data warehousing is big data. But when you want to understand what's really going on with your customers' social interactions, terabytes may seem small. It's a laborious process, but the insight it provides can reap big rewards.

  • How-Tos: How to use Pocket to read web pages, videos and more offline

    You don't always have time to read a web page or watch an online video when you find it. Pocket lets you save it for later, and works on most smartphones and tablets as well as in a web browser. Here's how it all works.

  • 17 April 2013

  • How-Tos: Turn an RSS feed into a 'Star Wars' crawl

    After the events of the last few days, I thought everybody could use a smile. And this definitely brought one to my face.

  • How-Tos: How to access your old Tweets - and why you might want to

    Here's how you can read your old Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags or @usernames. We also tell you why you should know what you posted long ago on Twitter.

  • How-Tos: How to assign a static IP address to your computer

    Here we show you how to assign a static IP address to a computer or other network device so it always has the same address when it connects to the network. Whether you're configuring a NAS drive, an IP camera, a PC or even a set-top box, read on to learn the right way to give it a static IP address.

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