Latest Tech Industry How-To
- 28 April 2014
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How-Tos: 5 great ways to make money from free apps
We outline five great ways that you can make a free app make you money.
- 19 March 2014
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How-Tos: What can you watch on Google Chromecast in UK?
Google has finally made its Chromecast device available in the UK. Here we examine what UK viewers can watch using the Google Chromecast, and explain why Chromecast has the potential to change everything.
- 21 February 2014
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How-Tos: 8 Tips to Deal With Liability When Outsourcing to Multiple IT Vendors
Parceling out an IT services portfolio among a number of vendors is the new normal for IT outsourcing. However, these multi-sourcing arrangements are complicated -- if things go wrong there's no single provider to blame. Here are eight steps you can take to manage liability in a multi-sourced environment.
- 14 January 2014
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How-Tos: How to Prepare Your Small Business for Tech Success
Take some time in the early days of 2014 to improve the computer setup in your home office or small business. These security, networking, storage and productivity tips will help you work faster once you get back to business as usual.
- 04 December 2013
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How-Tos: Taking the iPhone abroad? Avoid data roaming charges
It's time to pack your suitcase and go on vacation, or away on business. Don't forget your iPhone or Android phone - but do read our Top 10 tips for saving money on smartphone data-roaming charges.
- 11 November 2013
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How-Tos: The physics of a healthy business
Monash Health's Dr Philip Nesci is not your typical CIO. He holds a doctorate in nuclear physics and authored a book on "Inelastic Proton Scattering as a Test of Nuclear Spectroscopy" in the late 1970s.
- 19 September 2013
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How-Tos: How to Overcome Small Business Data Recovery Challenges
Data recovery has mattered ever since businesses started relying on PCs in the workplace. Today's common storage options for small businesses all present some disaster recovery challenges. Here's what your organization should do to address them.
- 16 September 2013
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How-Tos: Six great TextEdit tricks
If you don't write all the time, then you probably don't need a full-featured word processor, such as Microsoft Word () or Apple Pages (). But you still may want a flexible tool for handling text that lets you compose résumés and recipes, letters and flyers. You know what? You already have one: Apple's TextEdit.
- 09 August 2013
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How-Tos: How to Tell Whether an IT Vendor Sells 'Solutions' or Just Products
There's a subtle but important difference between IT products and IT solutions. Both have their rightful place, but buying a product when you need a solution--and vice versa--can be costly. Unfortunately, product-pushers aren't always easy to spot.
- 26 July 2013
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How-Tos: 3 Tips for Handling the 'Between Jobs' Status
A career coach describes ways to deal with a transition between jobs. Hint: Don't call yourself 'unemployed.'
- 08 July 2013
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How-Tos: CIO Insights: How to approach innovation
CIOs face a multitude of challenges in their daily roles. In the first installment of our new CIO Insights series, we talk to three leading Australian technologists about their approaches to encouraging innovation in their organisations and engaging other c-level executives in the process.
- 26 June 2013
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How-Tos: How to Announce Your Job Departure on Social Media
Don't leave your network in the dark when you leave a job. Here are the dos and don'ts for announcing a career change on LinkedIn and other social networking sites.
- 23 April 2013
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How-Tos: Typography for all: Demystifying text for high-impact messages
Text is incredibly powerful--whether you're making a business card or a garage-sale sign, you're sending a message. The look of that message influences the way the receiver reacts: If the message is visually pleasing, the reaction is generally positive, but if the text is hard to read, that feeling of difficulty transfers back to you, the messenger. Here we'll cover the basics of everyday typography, font pairings that are pleasing to the eye, practical formatting tips that work with a variety of software, and common mistakes to avoid.
- 17 April 2013
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How-Tos: Make Mail and Gmail play nice
As of the Mountain Lion version, Apple's Mail is better than ever at helping you manage your email. And Google's Web-based Gmail is also pretty good--but how do you combine the two in just the right way so as to get the best of both?
- 15 April 2013
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How-Tos: Control Time Machine from the command line
Backing up your data is the most important thing you can do with your computer--even more important than tweeting or posting on Facebook. If you don't back up your Mac regularly, you may lose those photos that you want to share; you may find that your latest holiday videos are missing; and your music library may go poof!
- 19 March 2013
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How-Tos: How to get started with LinkedIn
We introduce the social network for professionals and explain how to create your profile on LinkedIn, how to connect with people and more.
- 11 March 2013
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How-Tos: How to watch Samsung Galaxy S4 launch live
Join us for live coverage of Samsung's highly anticipated Galaxy S4 smartphone launch on 14 March.
- 03 March 2013
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How-Tos: Create a storefront in 60 seconds with Planet Soho
If you run a one-man shop and you're looking to sell a product or service, you have a few options. You can build an e-commerce site from scratch, which requires time and expertise, or you can go with a turnkey marketplace like Etsy, which might not be a good fit for your product (unless it's a tea cozy).
- 22 February 2013
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How-Tos: Emergency backups you didn't know you had
Your hard drive churns. Every click sets off a spinning beachball. Disk Utility doles out the bad news. When your hard drive's end is near, your best hope is a good backup. Of course it is. But, what if you don't have a backup? Or what if you thought you had a backup and it failed? At this point, someone will say, knowingly: "You should have had redundant backups." Shoulda. Woulda. Coulda. You shoulda, you didn't. So, what now?
- 30 January 2013
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How-Tos: Set up Windows 8 as a home server
If you have multiple PCs in your home or small office, you can save time and look professional by storing your documents and media on one PC and using network sharing to access them across all your computers and devices. This prevents you from having to store duplicate copies of files and reduces confusion when trying to find which PC a file is stored on. Additionally, you only really need to worry about backing up one PC (though for safety's sake you should always back up everything on a regular basis.)
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS review: turning point for the popular Linux operating system
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Motorola Moto G review: The best ever budget smartphone
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iPhone 6 release date, price, specs and new features: When will Apple's new iPhone 6 be launched?
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LG G3 release date, price, specs and new features UK
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Tesco Hudl 2 release date, price and specs: New budget tablet launching this year
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iPhone 6 to get curved screen: Apple to follow Samsung and LG
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Microsoft Surface mini: Release date, price and specs
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LG G2 review: The best smartphone you can buy
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Samsung Galaxy S4 vs Galaxy S5 comparison review: Don't rush to upgrade just yet
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS review: turning point for the popular Linux operating system
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Motorola Moto G review: The best ever budget smartphone
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Apple TV vs Chromecast comparison review: Should i buy Apple TV or Chromecast?
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How to set any song as a ringtone on your iPhone. Plus: how to get a custom text tone
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How to transfer photos from computer to iPhone the easy way: use iCloud Control Panel and My Photo Stream
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How to fix a corrupt user profile in Windows 7 and Vista: The User Profile Service failed the logon
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Can you retrieve deleted texts from iPhone? Restore deleted SMS messages on iPhone
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How to rip a DVD to a computer - three easy methods
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Perfectly Clear Desktop 0.9.201 Beta
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