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  • 28 October 2011

  • How-Tos: How to watch Sky on a PC

    Digital TV means there's much more to watch on TV than when Brits just had access to the five (or in some cases four if you lived in an area where it was impossible to pick up channel five) terrestrial channel.

  • 27 October 2011

  • How-Tos: How to remove your general location from Facebook posts

    Following changes rolled-out on social network Facebook in September this year, you may have noticed that some of your posts, or those of friends, feature a location next to the timestamp.

  • 19 October 2011

  • How-Tos: How to set-up two-step authentication on Facebook

    Google launched a new campaign with the Citizens Advice Bureau this week in a bid to promote online safety to Brits.

  • 17 October 2011

  • How-Tos: Bulk delete email on an iPhone

    Reader Arnie Goldstein asks the question that every iOS user has had flit through their mind at one time or another:

  • How-Tos: How to view active sessions on Facebook

    Facebook's Active Sessions feature allows social networkers to see a list of locations and times their account was recently accessed from, as well as the type of device was used.

  • 07 October 2011

  • How-Tos: Bugs & Fixes: Solving Mac OS X Mail Crashes

    This week, an updated Apple support article offers a reminder on what to do if Mac OS X Mail keeps crashing ("unexpectedly quitting" in Apple-speak). The most likely cause is a "damaged" or otherwise problematic message. In such a case, Mail will initially crash as soon as you select the message and attempt to display it.

  • How-Tos: What to do if you think you have been hacked

    Whether you were conned into sharing your details on Facebook, had your bank card cloned or use an online gaming service that was hacked, you need to be proactive about clawing back your privacy and protecting your identity.

  • 05 October 2011

  • How-Tos: How to use Spotify on Facebook

    Social network Facebook recently revealed it has joined forces with music-streaming service Spotify to allow users to share any music they listen to with their friends on the site.

  • 03 October 2011

  • How-Tos: How to use Google+

    We're all in favour of a more refined way of keeping up with friends, but is Google+ a viable alternative to Facebook?

  • 30 September 2011

  • How-Tos: How To Support Cloud Applications

    Support organizations and Internal help desks have been supporting user applications for decades. But cloud apps make for some new twists, here are some best practices that are the cornerstones of cloud system support.

  • 26 September 2011

  • How-Tos: Work Around Error In Shared Google Calendar

    Google Calendar rocks--except when it doesn't. For example, the managers of my daughter's soccer team use the free service to share a practice, game, and event schedule with all the parents--a much more practical solution than sending out endless e-mails or making photocopies of a paper schedule.

  • How-Tos: Facebook Tip: Restore Your Email Notification Settings

    Facebook had a busy few weeks. It rolled out a new privacy suite and friends list feature, it redesigned the News Feed and announced new profiles. In the middle of those changes, Facebook also started testing a new feature that overrides all your original email notification settings.

  • 22 September 2011

  • Video: Video: how to take out an eBook from your local library

    ...in the US at least. Thousands of libraries across the US can now loan ebooks through Amazon. They can be delivered to your phone, iPad, Kindle or PC/Mac and are free with your library membership. Check your local library for more details.

  • 21 September 2011

  • How-Tos: How to automatically post Twitter updates to Facebook

    Facebook recently revealed it is to give social networkers the ability to automatically publish their status updates on Twitter

  • 20 September 2011

  • How-Tos: Manage Accounts: Cancel Google+, Multiple Sign-Ins

    Right from the get-go, I didn't care for Google+ (I'm not alone; read fellow PCWorld writer Tony Bradley's complaints about Google+). Maybe it was the relentless media fawning over what seemed a tepid Facebook clone, or maybe it was because the service just seemed kind of pointless. Whatever the case, I've barely looked at Google+ since signing up for it.

  • How-Tos: How to rip CD box sets in iTunes

    I've got a lot of music in my collection, and some of it in box sets of varying sizes. From a 37-disc set of Schubert's lieder, to an 80-disc set of all of Glenn Gould's recordings, to a 98-disc set of Shakespeare's plays, to a 172-disc set of Bach's complete works. With all these box sets, my shelves are full. Recently, another one arrived: a 73-CD set of the Grateful Dead's Europe '72 tour; all 22 concerts recorded during the tour.

  • How-Tos: How to Make a Facebook Page for Your Small Business

    If you own a small business, having a Facebook page lets you reach individuals among the 500 million or so users worldwide who are most likely to be interested in your company. Your interaction on the social network gives customers the sense that they know you and your business, which can increase loyalty and make them more likely to recommend your services.

  • 19 September 2011

  • How-Tos: Help! I can't view PDFs on web pages

    A reader wrote to tell us she was having trouble viewing PDFs from web pages. Our Helproom Expert explained how to solve this issue that affects Windows 7 64bit.

  • 16 September 2011

  • How-Tos: How to extend Wi-Fi coverage

    How to make a wireless internet connection stretch down to the garden shed.

  • 13 September 2011

  • How-Tos: How to watch BBC iPlayer on your TV

    Online catch-up TV services such as the BBC iPlayer and ITVPlayer are great if you've missed a programme when it was broadcast and also forgot to set your PVR or VCR (admit it, we known some of you still use video cassettes).

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