It seems it's now the law. Once, a keyboard was a simple tool acting as the interface between you and your computer. That was deemed simply not enough. Now, from the humble computer keyboard, you need ...

In the home it's common to install separate printer and scanner units, but that can be a real pain in the office. For one thing there's usually not much space and for another you want to ...

Although AGP isn't yet a dead technology for graphics cards, it's rapidly moving on to the endangered list as PCI Express grows in popularity. Motherboards that support PCI Express have a large chunk of data bandwidth ...

Want to join the Voice over IP (VoIP) revolution and make free phone calls via the Internet? Then you've a number of choices, including software to run on your PC and custom IP phones to plug ...

Hardened gamers who want to use a gamepad with their PC will happily tell you that the best route is to get an adapter that allows a PlayStation 2 pad to be used in a USB ...

A digital camera is one of those rare products that successfully bridges the two worlds of IT (Information Technology) and AV (Audio Visual). That's a bold claim to make, but we can justify it fully. Moving ...

Buying a new PC isn't the traumatic business it once was, if only because the typical price of a decent new desktop has dropped considerably in the last year. Where you used to have to look ...

MP3 players are absolutely everywhere, and that's despite the fact that it is illegal to rip a CD to MP3 in this country, even if you paid full retail price for the thing. Naturally, people tend ...

If one thing pushes you to upgrade your current PC, it is likely to be a new game. Absolutely nothing else stresses a PC quite as much as a modern game running with all the high ...

Unfortunately, the myth of the paperless office is just that - a myth. We all seem to print more pages now than we ever did. Make a purchase over the Internet and you'll want to print ...

Carrying out upgrades on your PC used to be a major job, and changing from one type of processor to another was the biggest job of all. These days your PC is more like a kiddy's ...

Converting printed material into digital form is one of the key functions most people ask of their PCs. One of the most common types of device for doing this is the flatbed scanner. Scanners, which can ...

Although still expensive, DVD writers are slowly coming down in price and are finding their way into high-end PCs. But the battle still rages over which format (DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW or DVD-RAM) is the best. And, for ...

In the last few months, the world of graphics cards has seen so many leaps forward that now a 64MB DDR board - which would have been top of the range some six months ago - ...

The digital camera market continues to grow apace, with more and more people being converted to the convenience and flexibility of electronic images. Although the initial cost of a digital camera still acts as a barrier ...

Not so long ago, a scanner was something that you plugged into your PC via the parallel port - or sometimes a dedicated interface card - before waiting an eternity for a poor representation of a ...

Once upon a time, you bought a new motherboard purely as a home for your shiny new processor, and although that may still be true for most people, today's motherboard designs have so many features that ...

With office space at a premium, the need for small, compact PCs becomes even more pressing. But the trick is to fulfil this aim without sacrificing anything in connectivity. With bulky monitors being replaced by flat ...

Laser printers always used to be big, clunky machines that sat in the corner of the office or on a separate desk, where they could chunter away producing manifests and contracts. As the technology grew cheaper ...

When Intel originally launched the Pentium 4 processor, the market was slow to embrace the new chip. Processor prices were relatively high and the new processor required an entirely new platform. Components all the way down ...