Secrets of home network administration

Instead of using an app or program to take notes, try the drafts feature in your webmail service. That way, your reminders and notes are accessible whether you’re sitting at your computer, out and abo

Browser bookmarks have been around for more than 30 years. The world’s first browser was called WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus). It was built by Tim Berners-Lee, who also came up with the concept o

At the end of September, many forum users in the UK noticed blank spaces where images used to be. The missing pictures had been hosted on Imgur, a service that made it easy to share images without cre

www.snipca.com/55189 What you need: Windows 10 or 11 Wintoys is one of our favourite free tools for optimising Windows, and is particularly useful for removing junk files and unwanted software (see pa

Gaming doesn’t often crop up in Computeractive, but maybe it should. Ofcom research last year (www.snipca.com/56742) revealed that gaming is definitely not just for kids – around 52 per cent of adults

You have been thinking about researching your ancestry, your relatives are emptying out the cupboards to find old family documents to help, and the family stories are beginning to flow. But how should