The most recent Software articles from Personal Computer World

Office leasing bundle not for UK

Clive Akass — 2008-07-04T11:26:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Friday 4 July 2008 at 11:26:00

£35-a-year US deal includes three licences, Live services, and security

Microsoft has no plans to extend to Britain a deal allowing you to use three copies of the Student and Home edition of Office, Live web services, and OneCare security...

Kewney@large: Microsoft must look to the future with its operating systems

Guy Kewney — 2008-07-03T10:00:00.000Z

Guy Kewney, Personal Computer World, Thursday 3 July 2008 at 10:00:00

The computing giant risks being left in the past

Steve Ballmer is a very successful man. You can watch him, if you like – the Net Events TV site has a bunch of recordings, including a very recent...

Multicores hampered by coding problems, Intel admits

Clive Akass — 2008-07-02T12:57:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 12:57:00

Parallel programming breakthrough needed to exploit full power, says Gelsinger

Big advances in parallel programming are needed for general-purpose computers to use the full power of multi-core processors, Intel star technologist Pat Gelsinger has admitted....

Television online

Nigel Whitfield — 2008-06-30T10:00:00.000Z

Nigel Whitfield, Personal Computer World, Monday 30 June 2008 at 10:00:00

The technologies that are changing the way we watch TV

If you believe many of the posters on internet discussion forums, “in a few years, things like Sky and Freeview won’t matter, because we’ll all be getting our TV over...

Hands on: Using SQL sub-queries

Mark Whitehorn — 2008-06-25T10:00:00.000Z

Mark Whitehorn, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 25 June 2008 at 10:00:00

Fine-tune your database queries, choose your Access version, and code maps

This part in our occasional SQL series introduces sub-queries. Understanding sub-queries gives you a useful and adaptable technique for writing queries....

Hands on: Share folders and libraries

Alan Stevens — 2008-06-23T10:00:00.000Z

Alan Stevens, Personal Computer World, Monday 23 June 2008 at 10:00:00

Explore the world of Windows Live Foldershare file-sharing service

Microsoft recently announced a major refresh of its Windows Live Foldershare service. Of course, some of you may use the service already, but for those who don’t, we’ll look at...

Hands on: Dig out facts in Excel with D functions

Stephen Wells — 2008-06-19T10:00:00.000Z

Stephen Wells, Personal Computer World, Thursday 19 June 2008 at 10:00:00

Explore how Excel’s D-lovely functions can make array formulas redundant

With the hundreds of functions already included, why does Excel also offer a D series like DSUM and DCOUNT? It’s because when you analyse a table they eliminate the need...

Review: Magix MP3 Maker 14

Tim Smith — 2008-06-16T10:41:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Personal Computer World, Monday 16 June 2008 at 10:41:00

Import, edit and play music, and rediscover long-lost tracks

With free music players available, Magix MP3 Maker is not only different, but has the audacity to charge money. Is it really worth the cost? Firstly, it will play and...

Hands on: DivX deconstructed

Ken McMahon — 2008-06-16T10:00:00.000Z

Ken McMahon, Personal Computer World, Monday 16 June 2008 at 10:00:00

Delve into the DivX video codec plus DivX Converter, Pro and Author

Someone once said you can never have too many fonts. I’m not sure I’d agree and, if you substitute video codecs for fonts, I think you’ll have a hard time...

Firefox 3 launches on Tuesday

Clive Akass — 2008-06-13T12:13:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Friday 13 June 2008 at 12:13:00

Mozilla browser is said to be fast, friendlier and safer

A new version of Firefox to be released on Tuesday packs a much-improved bookmarks feature and the ability to resume interrupted downloads from the break point....

Hands on: Secrets of Fedora 8

Barry Shilliday — 2008-06-12T10:00:00.000Z

Barry Shilliday, Personal Computer World, Thursday 12 June 2008 at 10:00:00

How to get the best out of this major Linux distribution

Last time, we looked at Fedora 8, one of the major Linux distributions currently available. We saw some of the features of this release and touched on a number of...

Hands on: Customise your Open With list

Tim Nott — 2008-06-11T10:00:00.000Z

Tim Nott, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 11 June 2008 at 10:00:00

Grappling with file extensions and singular adventures in the future of Windows

When you right-click on a file in XP’s Explorer do you find that your ‘Open With’ list is over-populated? I find, over time, entries appear that are either unwanted (I...

Hands on: Solve TV recording problems in XP Media Center Edition

Gordon Laing — 2008-06-10T10:00:00.000Z

Gordon Laing, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 10 June 2008 at 10:00:00

If XP Media Center Edition stops recording programmes, there is a simple solution

Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) may be one the best personal video recording systems around but it’s not without its problems....

Hands On: Set a default date in Word

Tim Nott — 2008-06-09T14:49:00.000Z

Tim Nott, Personal Computer World, Monday 9 June 2008 at 14:49:00

How to play the dating game

We've looked before at various ways of inserting dates into Word documents. To recap briefly, if you use Insert, Date with the Automatically Update box unticked the current date or...

Hands On: Shrink video files, plus how Eee is used

Gordon Laing — 2008-06-09T10:00:00.000Z

Gordon Laing, Personal Computer World, Monday 9 June 2008 at 10:00:00

A workflow for archiving Windows Media Center Edition TV clips, and find out how people use the Asus Eee

In this column, we'll address some comments received following our coverage of the Asus Eee PC ultraportable laptop, and look at a workflow for archiving Windows Media Center Edition TV...