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A beginner’s guide to Web Hosting (Computer Active feature)

Last month I wrote a piece for Computer Active about choosing web hosting. It’s a topic that can really confuse people so hopefully it will help un-muddy the waters for people considering what hosting company to go with and how to sort domains, forward domains to web space etc. It’s on news stands now, look [...]

Sharing photos between PC’s and Mac’s with a NAS drive – possible in iLife11?

As more and more households and agencies use NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices as a central storage repository, it’s becoming increasingly frustrating that there is currently no affordable cross platform, multiple user photo sharing software.

Beginners guide to CSS: article in Computer Active

I’ve recently contributed another article to Computer Active magazine. This one is a ‘Masterclass’ on CSS. In reality it’s very much a beginners guide to the subject, written in layman’s terms. If you’ve ever wondered just how on earth CSS works, head over and pick up issue 308 (10-23 December) now.

Location/GPS feature for Computer Active magazine

If you want to know how to save the routes you travel on your TomTom, or how to add GPS information to your photos, these subjects and many other things GPS related are covered in a lengthy article I’ve just written for Computer Active magazine. It’s the issue on sale today and the article is [...]

Review of 2009 iMac

I’ve written a short review of the new 2009 iMac which has been published in the current Computer Active magazine. Interested parties can read Ben Frain’s 2009 20″ iMac review on the Computer Active website. In summary, whilst I’m still a massive fan of the iMac this latest version with its associated price hike makes [...]

WRITING: Computer Active feature

I’ve not written for Computer Active before and as the UK’s best selling computer magazine I was pretty excited when I got the chance to do so. If you pick up the current issue my first feature for them begins on page 30 titled ‘Windows Pick Me Ups: Just the tonic’. The feature covers quick [...]