More Desktop PCs Opinion

  • 26 December 2011

  • Opinion: Siri Can Now Control Your Mac, Will Control Your Vacuum Next

    Love it or hate it, Siri is quite a hit, and not just for it's general voice assistant capabilities. If you're not content with it helping you control your iPhone 4S (or jailbroken iPhone), it can also start your car, play the piano and set the thermostat. Sadly, your laptop was left out of all the voice control fun, until now. Enter Air Dictate.

  • 12 December 2011

  • Opinion: 10 Top Holiday Deals for Tablet, Laptop, and Desktop Bargain Hunters

    The holiday season is closing in and time is running out for shoppers looking to send or receive gifts across the country in time for Christmas. Time may not be on your side, but the deals are. Here's a look at this week's best sales for all the computer geeks on your list. Whether they're looking for a tablet, laptop, or desktop we've found something for everyone. Take a look.

  • 09 December 2011

  • Opinion: Which to choose: iMac or Mac Pro?

    A reader who wishes to remain anonymous has to make the kind of difficult choice that many of us would welcome. He writes:

  • 08 December 2011

  • Opinion: Microsoft's Answer Desk Offers Live Free and Fee Tech Support

    Microsoft upped its tech support offerings Wednesday with the debut of Answer Desk, a dedicated Website for live technical support for Windows OS and Microsoft Office software, PC tune-ups, virus removal, and software training. It will offer support 24/7 and 365 days a year.

  • Opinion: Channel your negative thoughts

    Being connected allows us to take advantage of all sorts of things: above all else, the web is an exceptional source of information. But it also lets us channel our negative thoughts.

  • 03 December 2011

  • Opinion: Want to Tweak GNOME 3? There's a Site for That

    There's never a dull moment in the world of desktop environments these days, and the past week has been no exception.

  • 30 November 2011

  • Opinion: Use a Mac? Camino 2.1 Is an Open Source Browser Alternative

    Apple's Safari may be the most commonly used browser among users of Mac OS X, but that's not for any lack of alternatives. As in the Windows and Linux worlds, there are numerous other contenders out there--it's just that many users often never hear about them.

  • Opinion: 1983 Serial Console Meets 2010 Mac Pro, Becomes Friends

    Are you ever struck with the urge to briefly get away from your nice color display, with its slim profile and large screen, to retreat to the warm glow of an old-school terminal screen circa 1983? One clever individual named Justin does just that, using an old VT220 serial console that he hacked to work as a terminal for his Mac Pro.

  • 29 November 2011

  • Opinion: Back to the desktop

    Times have changed since the mid-90s when PC Advisor launched, and no more so than in the field of the personal computer.

  • 28 October 2011

  • Opinion: HP is Ready to Get Back to Business

    After a crazy year for HP that included a failed tablet, a hasty decision to abandon the PC business (a decision now abandoned), and a CEO shakeup, the company seems eager to get back to business as usual.

  • 27 October 2011

  • Opinion: Why Is It Called "Windows?"

    Microsoft has inconsistently followed a marketing strategy of using basic, descriptive, one-word names. Word is an excellent example. So are Money and Office.

  • 26 October 2011

  • Opinion: Bacteria Could Soon Power Your Fancy New Computer

    Forget silicon; computers of the future could be based partially around bacteria. Scientists at the Imperial College London have engineered bacteria to function as logic gates, basic components used to build electronic circuits. This is an important step towards the creation of biological digital devices--think living computers.

  • 13 October 2011

  • Opinion: Microsoft Office: 32- or 64-bit?

    Björn Odent asked if he should install the 32- or 64-bit version of Microsoft Office 2010 on his 64-bit PC.

  • 03 October 2011

  • Opinion: Long live the PC

    When you feel the need for a new PC, and have less than £500 to spare, there are now some challenging choices to make.

  • Opinion: Microsoft reaches maturity with Windows 8

    Windows 8 is here, at least in its Developer Preview guise. It’s slick, smooth and primed for use on the tablets many of us would like to be able to use for ‘proper’ computing tasks

  • 28 September 2011

  • Opinion: Troubleshoot a BIOS Error, Create a First-Aid USB Drive

    Since I last ran a reader Q&A a few weeks ago, I've received another compelling question. Reader Robert has an older Emachines desktop that recently developed a problem: "I installed a driver updater tool, and when I deleted it, it did something that changed my BIOS. The black screen appears when I boot up and reads: 'System BIOS shadowed. Check time and date settings. System CMOS checksum bad--default configuration used.'"

  • 14 September 2011

  • Opinion: Quickly Strip Double-Spaces from Word Documents

    If you're over the age of 40, you probably took a typing class in school--and learned that it's proper to leave two spaces after a period.

  • 12 September 2011

  • Opinion: Tablets, Phones to Surpass PCs for 'Net Use in 4 Years

    The personal computer isn't dying, but its days of dominance are numbered. Research firm IDC predicts the number of U.S. mobile Internet users will surpass their wired counterparts by 2015.

  • Opinion: Easy Desktop Launcher Uses Real Words

    Let's face it. While icons are pretty, know no language barriers, and are easily recognizable once you're familiar with them-- they're limited in the amount of information they can convey. E.g., you have five Microsoft Word documents on your desktop and you used anything resembling a decent description in naming them --the icons are exactly the same and only part of the file name is visible. Until you click on them, you can't know which is which. If you'd like a more word-oriented, quicker-to-recognize view of your documents, folders, and programs you need Easy Desktop 9.0 ($30, 15-day free trial).

  • 08 September 2011

  • Opinion: Will HP Leave PC Users Out in the Cold?

    The future of Hewlett-Packard's PC business may be a bit cloudy, but that's not stopping the industry leader from forging ahead with new consumer products. The world's largest computer-maker has announced an upgrade and price drop to the very popular Pavilion DM1 laptop.

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