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PC productivity guide
Blu-ray writers group test
Business laptops round-up
Media PCs on test
Add HTML 5 video to your website
Get started with QR codes
Roll back hardware drivers
Get that lo-fi look
Android Market under threat
Processor predictions for 2012
3D TV: a fad technology?
Picture passwords for Windows 8
Helproom: reader Q&A
Unique Top 5 charts
- iolo System Mechanic 10.7
- G Data Internet Security 2012
- Ashampoo Office 2010
- TeamViewer 7.0
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PC Advisor magazine - Expert Advice you can trust
Want a faster, safer PC? Look no further: PC Advisor is at hand to help make your PC - and its owner - more productive and efficient. Our simple guide shows you how to boost any Windows PC in just 10 minutes, with 25 free and simple tips, tricks and downloads.
You've probably heard us bang on about backup before. It's important, you know. Finally, Blu-ray writers and recordable discs are falling in price, making them a more viable medium for exactly that task. They're useful for playing back HD movies on a PC, too. We've reviewed the latest internal and external drives from the market leaders.
Our Test Centre has also been busy reviewing six ultra-quiet media PCs, designed to sit unobtrusively in a living room, where they'll dish out all manner of audiovisual entertainment. And we've got six business laptops, too, with all the right credentials to get work done in the office or on the fly.
Our How to section explains how to roll back hardware drivers to fix a grouchy Windows PC, add HTML 5 video to your website and QR codes to your marketing materials, and even experiment with lomo photography to get that reto lo-fi look.
All this, plus our unique Top 5 charts, technology news, reviews and analysis, reader Q&A and more.
On this month's DVD: Use the full version of iolo System Mechanic 10.7 has more than 50 advanced tools and a range of options to satisfy both novice and expert users, System Mechanic is engineered to breathe new life into old PCs by releasing misused processor cycles.There's also G Data InternetSecurity 2012 G Data InternetSecurity 2012 offers comprehensive protection for your PC and data. Other lead programs include Ashampoo Office 2010, alongside TeamViewer 7.0 and Abelssoft Backup 2012
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Get a faster, safer PC
One of the simplest ways to get more from your home PC is to return it to the uncluttered state in which you found it. We suggest ways to make your PC - and its owner - more productive and efficient.
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Blu-ray writers
Blu-ray writers and recordable discs are falling in price, making them a more viable long-term storage medium for consumers. We review internal and external drives from Asus, Buffalo, LG, Lite-On, Plextor and TDK.
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Business laptops
Getting the right laptop for the task at hand is just as important in a business setting as it is in a home environment. We look at the best-possible options, with a selection of office and industrial-use laptops.
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- Media PCs on test
- Add HTML 5 video to your website
- Get started with QR codes
- Roll back hardware drivers
- Troubleshooter
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February 2012
No.199
- Beat 2012's web threats
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November 2011
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October 2011
No.195
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September 2011
No.194
- Windows 8 revealed
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- How to: HDR photography
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August 2011
No. 193
- Laptops vs tablets
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- Best consumer photo editors
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- Tablet PC group test
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July 2011
No. 192
- Speed up your PC
- Better backups made easy
- Best UK PCs revealed
- Latest 3D TV's & laptops
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- Network printers round-up
- PC group test
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June 2011
No.191
- Smartphones versus Android
- Business laptops round-up
- Intel Sandy Bridge: the latest
- PC life savers
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- Digitise your life
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May 2011
No. 190
- 150 best software apps
- Google Android tablets at IFA
- Revising the digital dark age
- Google: friendly giant, benevolent despot?
- Wireless routers group test
- Build your dream PC
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April 2011
No. 189
- Antivirus 2011 Web security round-up
- CES suffers from tablet overdose
- UltraViolet to end movie DRM blues
- PC Advisor Awards 2011
- Group tests: Laptops
- Troubleshooter
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March 2011
No. 188
- PC Advisor Home Broadband Survey 2011
- Tablet PCs buyers’ guide
- Communicating face to face
- PC Advisor Awards nominees
- Group tests: Photo printers
- Troubleshooter
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February 2011
No. 187
- Consumer Watch: How to shop safely online
- Windows 25 years on
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- 12 software tools to help you work faster
- Group tests: Laptops
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January 2011
No. 186
- Christmas buying guide
- Keeping children safe on Facebook
- Tackling technology’s biggest myths
- Adware fights back
- Group tests: Laptops
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December 2010
No. 185
- 150 best software apps
- Google Android tablets at IFA
- Revisiting the digital dark age
- Google: friendly giant, benevolent despot?
- Group tests: Wireless routers
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November 2010
No. 184
- How to get 100mb broadband
- How Vista saved Windows
- The great augmented-reality con
- Android smartphones
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- Group test: PC's
- Troubleshooter
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October 2010
No. 183
- Facebook exposed
- WWII Enigma messagees to be digitised
- Get future software now
- Your web browser in five years
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- Group test: Graphics cards group test
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September 2010
No. 182
- Windows extended
- Summer tech guide
- Web privacy: a thing of the past
- Is there a safe alternative to Facebook
- Here come the iPad killers
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- Group test: digital cameras
- Troubleshooter
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