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Obama's NS reforms
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What happened7
US Prsiont Parack Obama announco
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Scurity /gncy (NS/) will collct oata
on its own citizns, but h oion't put an
no to bulk collction o inormation.
Th spch rom Obama was th US
gornmnt's ormal rspons to th
rlations about th NS/ rom
whistlblowr Eowaro Snowon.
ln his spch, which you can watch
on Th Vhit Hous Plog (bit.ly/
obama337) Obama saio th gornmnt
will no longr stor inormation about
phon calls mao by /mricans.
Howr, h oion't mak clar who will
holo onto this oata, suggsting that it
coulo b tlcoms irms thmsls.
Rgaroing th collction o oata rom
orign nationals - as in, th rst o th
worlo - Obama saio that th NS/ woulo
no longr spy on laors o allio
gornmnts ano woulo proio bttr
protction o th oata it
collcts about
inoiiouals.
/lthough Obama oion't
promis to stop th NS/
collcting any o th oata
bing obato, h saio that
th gornmnt will run a
riw looking at th issus.
His spch cam on th sam oay as
th latst rlation rom Snowon's
lako oocumnts, which showo th
NS/ collcts 2CC million txt mssags
a oay - incluoing som snt by Pritons.
Th Dishir surillanc programm
rportoly gathrs txt mssags at
ranoom ano shars th oata with othr
spis, incluoing thos working or th
UK. Howr, an NS/ spoksprson
onio this, saying th agncy only
collcts SMS oata on alio targts.
Othr rports suggsto that th NS/
incto CC,CCC PCs arouno th worlo
in oror to watch actiity on thm. Vhil
most computrs wr hacko ia
stanoaro ntworks such as th intrnt,
th NS/ also uso raoio was to accss
unconncto machins. Targts
allgoly incluo th Chins ano
Russian military, ano EU trao boois.
How wiII it affect you7
Gin th constant stram o spying
rlations, it's haro not to assum that
ryon's PC ano mobil phon is
bing snoopo on in som way. That's
th ling Obama was probably trying
to assuag with his spch, but h's
promiso littl ral chang, spcially
or thos o us who arn't US citizns.
Vhil Daio Camron has th US
prsiont's assurancs
that NS/ spis won't
targt his
communications, arag
Pritons oon't ha that
guarant. Frankly, thr's
littl w can oo about it.
Thr's no way o knowing i
your txt mssags ha bn
nabbo by th NS/ ouring its oaily
trawls, though it's unlikly arag
inoiiouals will ha hao thir PCs
hacko. Howr, gin th scal o th
NS/'s oigital orts, it's incrasingly
oiicult not to b a littl paranoio.
What do we think7
Obama may ha bn ooomo rom
th start on this on: i h promiso
signiicant changs, th NS/ ano its
supportrs woulo b angry, but i h
outlino minor impromnts, our
concrns about priacy woulo rmain.
Py acknowloging that changs no
to happn, ano promising an in-opth
riw, Obama lost on both accounts.
Som s his spch as an aomission
that th NS/ orstppo th mark, ano
say it suggsts h's not as concrno
about scurity as h nos to b. Othrs
s it as a PR mo, osigno to oo
nothing about th NS/'s actiitis, whil
apparing to tak action.
l nothing ls, Obama's spch ano
th NS/ riw gi cronc to th
claims o Eowaro Snowon, bcaus
this obat woulon't ha happno
without th oocumnts h lako -
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rssto calls to kp
rlasng upoats ano
scurty patchs or th
3-yar-olo opratng
systm, ospt th act
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popl stll us t. Howvr,
th company has mao
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own ant-vrus sotwar or
XP or an xtra yar.
Mcrosot Scurty
Essntals on XP PCs wll
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July 2, but th sotwar
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sayng th ctvnss o
ant-malwar solutons on
out-o-support opratng
systms s lmto. That
mans that anyon stll on
XP shoulo upgrao to
Vnoows 7 or 8, or vn
a r opn-sourc OS
such as Ubuntu, bor
/prl to avoo th loomng
scurty rsk.
Vth all ths concrns
about XP, Mcrosot wll
unooubtoly to b kn to
sht th ocus to ts currnt
ano utur opratng
systms, wth otals o th
nxt vrson o Vnoows
ou to b conrmo n
/prl. Rumours suggst t
wll b callo Vnoows 9 -
no surprs gvn t ollows
on rom Vnoows 7 ano 8
- ano wll arrv n 2.
Th sam rports say that
Vnoows 9 wll aoorss
complants wth th latst
OS, 8., makng th
opratng systm
asr to us on
osktop PCs
whl kpng th
nw touch-
ocuso Start
scrn or tablts.
Mirosoft extends
XP seurity
support
How wiII it affect
you7
l you'r stll usng
Vnoows XP, th xtnoo
support or Scurty
Essntals mght b
wlcom nws, but othr
scurty compans hav
also xtnoo support, so
t wasn't as though you'o
b lt ntrly wthout
ant-vrus protcton. /lso,
t rass th prospct that
Mcrosot mght chang ts
mno about nong support
or XP n /prl, but you
shoulon't opno on that.
l you'v bn holong
o swtchng to Vnoows 8
bcaus o complants
about how ocult t s to
us, th nws that
Vnoows 9 wll aoorss
ths problms may
prsuao you that t's
worth watng or.
What do we think7
/lthough Mcrosot has
takn a small stp to hlp
XP usrs, ths rmans a
ocult stuaton. Th
company has to prsuao
usrs to upgrao rom XP,
but t must no a way to oo
that wthout lavng
mllons at rsk.
Hopully, ths /prl wll
s a bttr soluton than
mrly allowng ant-vrus
sotwar to b upoato,
but th act s that XP
usrs ar runnng
on borrowo
tm. l you'r stll
usng XP, or know
somon who s,
t's tm to
upgrao.
What happened7
US rgulators hav orco
/ppl to runo any
customr whos chlo
mao an n-app purchas
wthout thr consnt, a
mov that wll cost th
company a mnmum o
$32. mllon (about 9.8
mllon). /ppl has runtly
bn crtcso bcaus ts
/pp Stor allows purchass
to b mao or mnuts
atr a passworo has bn
ntro, gvng chlorn
plnty o tm to rack up
hty blls.
How wiII it affect you7
l you'r on o th tns o
thousanos who has bn
acto, accorong to th US
Foral Trao Commsson,
you coulo b oro a
runo - ano that's n
aooton to a $ gt caro
/ppl gav parnts o
ppIe toId to refund
in-app purhases
spno-happy chlorn last
yar. /lso, /ppl must now
gt normo consnt o
any purchass rom th
account holor.
What do we think7
V'r plaso to s ths
topc n th spotlght:
chlorn lov tablts ano
smartphons, ano many
parnts lt thr kos us thr
ovcs wthout ralsng th
potntal or a bg bll. /n
ncrasng numbr o r
gams now or pao-or
xtra contnt, so t's vtal
kp an y on your app-
happy youngstrs.
What happened7
Googl raso ybrows by
ntgratng Gmal ano ts
socal ntwork Googl+, so
that anyon can mal you,
vn you oon't know
thm. Your Gmal aoorss
won't b mao publc, but
strangrs can ctvly
mal your nam. To
aoorss spammng ano
prvacy concrns, Googl
sao you'll only s th rst
mal rom a snor, ano
any ollow-up mssags
wll b blocko you oon't
acknowlog thr ntal
mssag. Famous usrs
wll hav such mals
blocko by oault.
How wiII it affect
you7
l you us Googl+, anyon
who aoos you to a crcl
GooQIe Iets stranQers
send you emaiIs
wll b
abl to
sno a
mssag
- but only
on
- orctly to your Gmal
nbox. You may not us
Googl+ rgularly, but
you'r a an o Googl's
srvcs, you may hav an
account wthout vn
ralsng t.
What do we think7
V can't s who bnts,
rom ths, othr than
potntal spammrs. l
somon wants to gt n
touch, thy can lav a
mssag va Googl+. V'o
aovs optng out o ths
Gmal atur by changng
th 'Emal va Googl+'
sttng to 'No-on'.
WHT'S NWONIIN
briIIiant thinQs to do on the eb this fortniQht

On
sason, th PPC has launcho
25 intractiv guios xploring
various issus that rmain hotly
obato tooay, such as th us o
propaganoa ano whthr potry has
oistorto our viw o th connict.
Th guios, which contain
vioo ano auoio contnt,
hav bn compilo by PPC
prsntrs ano xprts,
incluoing Dan Snow, Kat /oi
ano Michal Portillo. Rao th
PPC's Moia Pack or mor
inormation on how it plans to
covr th cntnary o Vorlo
Var On on TV, raoio ano
onlin: bit.ly/war337.
You can also rao oiaris
rom Pritish soloirs writtn
ouring Vorlo Var On on th
bit.I/pIa337
You can now watch ilms ano TV
programms you'v bought or rnto
rom Googl Play on an iPao, which will
suit thos popl who hav rcntly
movo rom an /noroio to an iOS
ovic. Thr is a catch, though -
you can't actually buy anything
through th app bcaus that woulo
giv /ppl a cut, which woulon't
plas Googl!
facebook.com
Facbook's nw
Trnoing tool,
which is launching
ovr th nxt w
wks, highlights
th most oiscusso currnt topics on th sit,
prsonaliso to your intrsts. So, or xampl,
i you'r a an o , ano lots o your rinos ar
talking about it, you'll s this inoicato by a blu
'trnoing' arrow ano a haolin xplaining why that topic
is popular. Clicking a topic taks you through to th most
popular posts about it.
bit.I/music337
This rainbo-coIoured chart is GooQIe's visuaIisation of
the past 64 ears of pop music. !t spans Qenres from
eas IisteninQ to metaI, trackinQ their popuIarit over the
ears. CIick an aIbum cover to Qo to its paQe on GooQIe
PIa Music, here ou can bu tracks.
instaQram.com/bbcnes
BBC Nes is triaIIinQ a
service on !nstaQram caIIed
!nstafa, hich shos
15-second videos that round
up the da's nes. !t iII run
untiI 15 Februar, hen the
BBC iII decide if it's
popuIar enouQh to continue.
National /rchivs wbsit (bit.ly/
oiaris337). /bout .5 million oiary
pags hav bn oigitiso, o
which arouno 3CC,CCC ar now
onlin. Th rmaining pags will
ollow latr this yar.
.bbc.co.uk/1
C' WoId Wa One gide
Uee GoogIe PIay
Moviee 8TVon iOS
See what'e 'trending' on
Facebook
oogIe' Pop Mic TimeIine
Wach C lnafa on
lnagam
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wwwtycom/uk
Spotify has Iifted the
streaminQ Iimit for its
free service, previousIy
restricted to six months'
unIimited IisteninQ, then
2.5 hours a week. You'II
have to Iisten to adverts
between sonQs, thouQh.
bit.Iy/box337
To ceIebrate the
Iaunch of its iOS
app, Box is QivinQ
new users 5DGB of free onIine
storaQe. To take advantaQe of the
offer, which runs untiI 15 February,
you'II need to instaII the iOS app
onto your AppIe device, which
needs to run iOS 6 or Iater. Make
sure you cIick the confirmation Iink
in the emaiI that arrives. !f you
aIready have a Box account, it wiII
be topped up to 5DGB.
turrtt
The Iatest Windows rumours and
Qossip from bIoQQer PauI Thurrott
sps
Photos of faces 'seen' in buiIdinQs,
fruit, cIouds and other ob|ects
utsrs
DeaIs, competitions, offers and
money-savinQ codes from Tesco
yrstrtws
The Qovernment's new campaiQn
encouraQinQ peopIe to stay safe
onIine
vst_tvrus
Tips and heIp on how to use Avast's
security software, pIus answers to
probIems
bit.Iy/vIcapp337
Th nw vrsion o th VLC app or iOS
syncs your ils with Dropbox ano
Googl Driv. lt also supports multi-
touch gsturs, which
lt you paus a vioo
by tapping with two
ingrs, ano mov
through it by swiping
horizontally.
bit.Iy/maps337
Googl has rlaso a map showing
satllit imags that wr upoato in
Dcmbr, inoicato by th ro
markings. Thr ar hunoros o
locations worlowio, incluoing aras
o th UK along th south coast, th
wst miolanos ano north ast. Can
you s your hous?
vimeo.com
Vimeo has improved its video
pIayer to make videos Ioad "twice
as fast" (so it cIaims), both on the
website and embedded eIsewhere.
You can read about other tweaks
on the Vimeo bIoQ: bit.Iy/vimeo337.
SteamunIimite mueic on Spotif
Gt 0G r
x
FOLLOW
ON TWlTTER
Snc VCith
Dopbo
See updated GoogIe
Mape imagee
Use faster Vimeo
video pIayer
T
O
5
S
ix months atr it wnt on sal in
th US, Motorola's high-no
/noroio 4.4 (KitKat) smartphon
has arrivo in th UK. Th succss o
th chapr Moto G hasn't put th
Googl-owno Motorola into pront,
so thr's a lot rioing on th Moto X.
Th phon's 72Cp oisplay, oual-cor
.7 GHz procssor, 2,2CC m/h battry
ano CMP camra all short o similarly-
prico rivals, but harowar is only as
gooo as th sotwar that runs on it,
ano th Moto X is packo with smart,
usabl aturs osigno or vryoay
usrs rathr than harowar gks.
Th most notabl atur is Googl
Now voic activation. Say OK Googl
Now, ask a ustion such as what
tim is it? or whr am l?, ano it will
answr out louo.
You can sarch,
call, txt, play
music ano oprat
apps this way, too.
lt's spcially
usul i th phon
is in your pockt,
bcaus thr's no
no to stop in th
strt, nno ano
unlock your phon,
opn an app ano
nool with th
kypao. Vhn you tak your phon
out o your pockt or bag, a 'pk'
notincation button appars on scrn.
Vhn you put your phon back, it
locks automatically.
Pattry li is suprb. lt's aovrtiso
as 'all oay' but it's mor lik 'all oays',
thanks to two lowr-powro co-
procssors that support always-on
unctions, incluoing voic, notincations
ano a camra app that opns whn
you shak th phon.
/t 38C, th Moto X is xpnsiv,
but its aturs ano prormanc mak
it asy to rcommno. Vhthr it
savs Motorola rmains to b sn,
spcially sinc Fbruary isn't a grat
tim to launch a ovic ano th 35
Moto G is much bttr valu or mony.
FIRST IOOK
MotoroIa Moto X
bit.Iy/motox337
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EAH EA

by Robert lrvine
BIc

it w wr initially alarmo to rao th NHS blooo-

oonation sit is now sl srvic. Put rathr than ooing your
own nolwork, this mans you can now mak ano chang
appointmnts, upoat your contact otails ano viw your
oonation history onlin. Th nw-look Plooo.co.uk tlls you
vrything you no to know about giving th ro stu, rom
th currnt stock lvls o oirnt blooo typs to otails o
who can ano can't oonat. Thr ar clar xplanations o
how to prpar or a sssion, what happns ano whr your
blooo gos atrwaros. l you no convincing, thr ar
moving storis rom oonors ano rcipints whos livs hav
bn savo, as wll as intrsting inormation about blooo,
such as a timlin showing th history o transusions. Most
importantly, you can uickly ino a oonation sssion in your
ara. Ovrall, it's a blooo-y brilliant rsourc!
Why
whyo.com
/tr mor than a yar in privat bta,
this music-straming srvic is now
opn to vryon. lt lts you aoo songs
rom various onlin sourcs, incluoing
YouTub, SounoClouo ano Dzr, to
play whnvr you want, simply by
clicking a button on your browsr's
toolbar. You can also subscrib to othr
usrs with similar tasts, so tracks thy
aoo appar in your main stram. That's
all thr is to it, rally, asio rom th
usual social options or sharing,
commnting ano liking. lt's slick, vry
asy to us ano an xcllnt way to
crat an nolss playlist.
I
FIHpp
www.ilhippo.com
FilHippo has long bn on o our avourit sourcs o r sotwar, ano w lov
it vn mor now its oato osign has bn givn a rsh, moorn look with a nw
hippo logo. Th clanr layout givs th contnt room to brath, spcially th
hompag which uso to b ovrcrowoo with programs. Clar catgoris ano an
improvo sarch acility mak inoing sotwar a brz, ano w lov th biggr
grn oownloao button that tlls you prcisly whr to click. Frunt usrs o
FilHippo will b plaso that all thir avourit aturs ar still hr, incluoing th
invaluabl Upoat Chckr, but in a smartr ano spoir intrac.
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IE OF HE
FOIGH
BEEWWEBIE
review this fortniQht's best new and reIaunched websites
Lacks som
unctionality. Hav a look i
th sub|ct intrsts you

looks at hunoros o
wbsits, but only thos w awaro
thr stars or highr appar in Pst
Nw Vbsits
Suprb. lmpossibl to ault in
trms o osign, contnt ano
aturs. Pookmark it now!
Vry gooo. Combins a smart
osign with appaling contnt.
Dinitly worth a visit
DE
NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW
BESTNEWWEBSITES

Internet Iive State
www.intrntlivstats.com
This spin-o rom Vorloomtrs (www
.worloomtrs.ino), which apparo in
our 'Vatch th worlo in ral tim'
atur in lssu 328 (bit.ly/wbusr328),
is ull o ascinating acts or gks. You
can viw constantly upoato statistics
about th numbr o global intrnt
usrs, wbsits, mails snt, Googl
sarchs, smartphons ano tablts solo
tooay, ano much mor. Click th Vatch
tab to s ths igurs oisplayo
visually or 'Trnos ano mor' or a
urthr brakoown o th oata, incluoing
wb usrs by yar, rgion ano country.
lt sounos ory, but it's oooly ascinating.
TECHNOIOGY IOCAI
StreetCheck
www.strtchck.co.uk
l you'r moving to a nw ara, or |ust
want to know mor about your currnt
nighbourhooo, StrtChck has
inormation about narly two million
postcoos across th UK. Sarch or a
postcoo or strt to viw otails o
housing typs, ag ano thnic groups,
mploymnt, halth ano mor. Th
statistics ar takn rom th 2C Cnsus
ano prsnto without analysis,
although this is apparntly coming soon.
ln th mantim, |ust n|oy having so
much usul, national oata at your
ingrtips, complt with pi charts ano
graphs that mak it asy to unorstano.
Compareandf.com
www.comparanoly.com
Pat th soaring cost o air travl by
inoing th bst oals through this
comparison srvic. You can sarch or
singl ano rturn lights, spciy your
prrro airlin upront (or viw all)
ano iltr th rsults by numbr o stops,
opartur tim ano |ourny ouration.
Comparanoly.com is rasonably ast
ano w lik that all prics incluo taxs,
but w ouno that it oion't sarch as
many travl oprators as rival srvics,
ano that light ourations wr
occasionally wrong. Still, th ostination
guios ar worth raoing ano you can
also book hotls through th sit.
FIIGHTS






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oIobi

|ob o promoting its
bautiul biks. V lov th way ach
mool introoucs itsl - Hi, l'm grn
ano singl - ano that you can osign
your oram rio by choosing oirnt-
colouro whls ano accssoris. Prouo
ownrs can shar photos ano vioos in
th gallry, ano thr's a hanoy sction
xplaining th hows, whys, oos ano
oon'ts o ixo cycling. Th biks cost
29C, with r olivry in th UK, ano
ar snt boxo or sl-assmbly.
WaIkere
www.walkrs.co.uk
Crisp munchrs o th worlo r|oic:
Valkrs has brought back its 'Do us a
Flavour' comptition, prviously won by
a varity callo Puilor's Prakast,
which tasto as oisgusting as it sounos.
This tim, to avoio suggstions that ar
too silly, th sit provios a choic o
ingroints to us as a bas. Crat ano
nam your varity onlin, uploao a
suitabl photo (which may b asking or
troubl) ano submit your ntry. Entr as
many lavours as you lik to win
million i yours is th most popular (six
inalists will go on sal). You can also
brows a gallry o ntris, which
currntly incluo 'Pacon sunoa'. Yum!
CYCIING
TECHNOIOGY
FOOD
Take Me to SuffoIk
www.takmtosuolk.com
This sit rom Visit Suolk (www.visitsuolk.com) promots th walth o things to
s ano oo in th county. lt's baso arouno a larg map that's covro with markrs
or oirnt activitis ano amnitis, such as cultur, travl ano amily un. Click a
markr or mor inormation, incluoing a link to a rlvant wbsit, ano to aoo it
your prsonal itinrary or Pintrst boaro, or |ust click 'Tak m somwhr lovly'
or a ranoom slction. Th sit's vibrant, intractiv osign oos a grat |ob o
convying all that Suolk has to or, rom Nwmarkt raccours to th Lost
Villag o Dunwich, as wll as hlping you ino placs to at, orink ano stay.
TOURISM
Trading Timee
www.traoingtims.org.uk
This sit aims to hlp th ovr-5Cs,
amily carrs ano singl parnts ino
part-tim work by matching thm with
local businsss. Crat a r proil
containing otails o your skills,
availability, location ano th typ o |obs
you'r intrsto in, ano Traoing Tims
will match you with suitabl mployrs.
Th lattr can't s nams ano contact
otails until thy pay a on-o o
35, atr which thy can intrviw ano
hir canoioats. lt's a grat ioa ano th
aovic orum ano succss storis mak
th sit mor than |ust a |obs boaro. l
you'v got tim to spar ano xprinc
to shar, it's oinitly worth a look.
EMPIOYMENT
ThingfuI
www.thingul.nt
l our 'Futur o th Vb' atur in
lssu 334 (bit.ly/wbusr334) inspiro
you to larn mor about th lntrnt o
Things, this sit shoulo prov
intrsting. lt lts you xplor
conncto ovics across th worlo by
browsing a global map, which aturs
colour-cooo circls to inoicat
oirnt catgoris o innovation. Ths
incluo nvironmnt, halth ano
transport, ano you can click a circl to
oiscuss th ovic on Twittr. Thingul is
airly basic, ano it annoyingly rsts
ach tim you lav th map, but you
can't hlp bing imprsso by th shr
numbr o 'things' araoy onlin.










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icfair
air.com
Sllin your potos onlin can involv a lot o patinc ano not muc proit, but
Picair's opn markt or imas ops to can tat, by lttin potoraprs
kp pr cnt o t mony paio or tir snaps. Uploao a poto, nam your
pric (you can can tis at any tim) ano ta it wit rlvant kyworos - a
watrmark is aooo automatically. / buyr or a ull-siz ima must pay your
plus 2-pr-cnt commission to Picair or a sinl us. V lov t sit's simpl
systm ano on-siz-its-all licnc, ano tat you rtain copyrit to your work.
Som prics sm a littl ovr-optimistic, but Picair itsl is antastic.
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AbeoIut
sItcom/uk
T vooka brano's supr-stylis sit
combins asion, music ano art
wit ino about its orinks.
IeIee of SciII TraeI
www.isIesofsciIIy-traveI.co.uk
Pook a trip to t Scilly lsls by
passnr rry or Skybus plan at
tis tastully rvampo sit.
HeaIth Bingo
www.heaIthbinQo.co.uk
Tis bino sit rom t Halt
Lottry ors 75- ano 9-ball
ams, ano onlin slot macins.
Sag
www.swaQuk.co.uk
T |wllr as rosino its
wbsit to mak it work mor
smootly on tablts ano pons.
IocaI Darkroom
www.IocaIdarkroom.com
Tis sit lps potoraprs ino a
public or privat oarkroom in wic
to ovlop tir prints.
SCANFOR VIRUSES USING
VIRUSTOTAI
www.virustotaI.com
On 3 January, it will b 32 yars
sinc t irst computr virus was
ouno in t wilo. T Elk Clonr
virus was crato by a 5-yar-olo
boy as a |ok ano oio notin mor
malicious tan oisplay a pom
instao o launcin
a am. Moorn
scurity sotwar
catcs most viruss
in circulation tooay,
but it's always usul
to av a scono opinion. T r
onlin srvic VirusTotal is a rat
way to cck suspicious links ano
ils bor opnin tm, ano it can
also iontiy 'als positivs', wic
occur wn an ovr-cautious scurity
tool aoviss you not to visit a wbsit
tat's prctly sa.
RAMP UP THE REDTO
FIGHT HEART DISEEASE
www.rampupthered.orQ.uk
You mit s ro on 7 Fbruary, but
oon't worry, it's probably |ust popl
orssin up in support o t Pritis
Hart Founoation's 'Ramp up t Ro'
oay. l you want to |oin in t un ano
lp rais mony or t carity, cck
out t sustions on tir wbsit.
Prtty muc anytin os, rom
oonnin ro lipstick to suzin into a
ro spanox morp suit (as lon as you
can t away wit it at work). Hart
ano circulatory oisass caus mor
tan a uartr o all oats in t UK,
so vry pouno
raiso maks a
oirnc, ano
coulo wll o
towaro lpin
somon you
know.
TUNE INTOWEB TIPS ON
SAFER INTERNET DAY
www.saferinternet.orQ.uk
Sar lntrnt Day is
r aain on
Fbruary ano tis
yar involvs mor
liv broaocast
activitis, wit an
it-our onlin TV
maraton stramo btwn miooay
ano 8pm. Tr will b sparat
ours ooicato to tacrs, parnts,
tooolrs, tns ano vryon
in-btwn, so cck out t
scoul on t SlDtv wbsit
(www.sarintrntoaytv.com).
T proramms will incluo a panl
oiscussion tat aturs policy ano
saty manars rom Facbook,
Twittr ano Xbox answrin onlin-
saty ustions poso by youn
popl ano tir parnts.
KATE'S WEB CAIENDAR
Kate RusseII's top websites and apps for the next 14 days
Kate presents Webscape for BBC CIick and bIoQs at workinQthecIoud.biz
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niially oscribo as biggr ano manr than CryptoLockr, Prison Lockr hit
th tch haolins atr a post in an unorgrouno orum sought hlp in
ovloping a il-ncrypto-ransomwar cration kit, which hackrs coulo gt or
|ust $CC (about 6). Howvr, scurity irm /linVault Labs oismisso th scar
storis as hyp, bcaus thr hav bn no rporto sightings o Prison
Lockr, although it concoo that th pro|ct may b in ovlopmnt. To
protct your PC against ransomwar, mak sur you rgularly back up your ils.
FoIIowing
CryptoLocker, are
we IikeIy to see more
ransomware in 20147
CaroIine GiIbert, via emaiI
V'v alraoy sn
som attmpts at nw
ransomwar amilis
in arly 2C4. So ar, thy hav
bn poor imitators whn
comparo to CryptoLockr,
but vn ths cruo attmpts
will b larno rom. l strongly
suspct that thr will b ransomwar
that spciically targts photos, ano
bass th ransom amount on th
uality o th imags. High-rsolution
picturs (which ar vionc o an
SLR-camra nthusiast) will commano
a highr ransom.
Th only thing that has limito
ransomwar schms until now is
paymnt. Th oiicultis in making a
customr transaction has limito
past ransomwar to using th sam
mthoos, so on ransom pric applis
to all victims. Put it is bcoming much
asir to procss paymnts, ano this
will opn th ooor or nw ano
incrasingly clvr schms.
How much privacy
can you epect when
using a free onIine-
storage service7
John PIaskett, via emaiI
Your ustions answro by scurity spcialists.
This issue's epert: Sean SuIIivan, Securit
dvisor, F-Secure Labs (.f-secure.com)

January
Warning over Java
security hoIes
Oracl rlaso a whopping bunol
o critical ixs or Java on 4
January, again prompting scurity
prossionals to warn that it's too
risky to hav on your computr.
Oracl's uartrly Patch Tusoay
upoat covrs 44 oirnt
vulnrabilitis, incluoing 36 in Java.
/ll but two o th Java laws ar
rmotly xploitabl without
authntication, so a hackr can us
thm to brak into your systm
without a usrnam or passworo.
S th ull list o upoats at bit.ly/
oracl337. l you hav Java installo,
switch it o or apply th upoat
immoiatly. Consior whthr you
no Java nablo in your browsr,
scurity xprt Graham Cluly saio.
bit.I/|avapatch337
Windows hoIes patched
Microsot has rlaso our patchs
or prooucts incluoing Voro,
Vinoows 7 ano XP. /ll th patchs
ar rato as important rathr than
critical. Vulnrabilitis covro by th
upoat incluo krnl-lvl bugs in
XP ano 7, ano rmot-coo xcution
laws in Voro. Th rlas ollows
Microsot's partial u-turn on XP,
which will still rciv anti-malwar
support atr /pril (s pag 9).
bit.I/mspatch337
Adobe fixes PIash and AlR
/oob has urgo installation o
critical upoats to Flash Playr ano
Raor sotwar ollowing th
oiscovry o rmot-coo xcution
laws, non o which has bn sn
to b xploito in th wilo. lt's also
rlaso schoulo upoats or
/oob /lR on Vinoows ano /noroio,
ano /crobat or Vinoows. Gt th
upoats via th sotwar upoatr or
rom bit.ly/aooboownloaos337.
bit.I/adobepatch337
SECURITY
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Vry w srvics ar truly
r - most ar 'rmium',
which mans you still hav to
to pay or crtain aturs. Th r
vrsion o a srvic shoulo b at last
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Th privacy aspcts o a
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wll ano gooo. Put i you'o rathr not
hav analytics proouco rom your
ils, consior a oirnt srvic.
P awar, howvr, that vn th
most privacy-conscious srvic will
prorm a basic analysis o il typs
in oror to provio bttr uality o
srvic or all its customrs.

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dware and software

ndy Shaw or your camra that links

to your phon ano lts you sno photos to th wb
!f you own an expensie
camera or your phone's
snapper isn't much Qood,
this reIatieIy cheap
repIacement for a memory
card couId soIe your
photo-sharinQ probIems.
!t's essentiaIIy a wireIess
way to Qet your photos to
your phone so you can
share them without
transferrinQ them to a PC
first. The connection can be
a bit fiddIy to set up and
maintain, but it cuts out a
Iot of unnecessary bother.
tak high-uality photos, thn
instantly sno th rsults to
th wb via an app on your
phon.
Lik a stanoaro SD mmory
caro, th Ey-Fi Mobi savs
your photos as normal. Put
bcaus it has a built-in Vi-Fi
ntwork, thumbnails o your
snaps instantly appar on
your phon's Ey-Fi app
(availabl or /noroio ano
iOS), so you can uploao ano
mail thm right away. You
simply brows thumbnails o
your picturs on your phon,
slct th ons you want ano
th app will oownloao thm
rom th camra ano post
thm to imag-sharing
srvics, incluoing Facbook,
Twittr ano mail.
Th main orawback with
th ovic is that you can't
st up th connction
btwn th phon ano th
uploaoing photos to a PC,
whn all you want to oo is
shar thm onlin.
lt isn't as slick as sharing
photos you'v takn ano
storo on your phon, but i
your priority is sharing
top-uality photos rom a
propr camra, it's a hanoy
way to briog th gap.
caro through th app.
lnstao, you hav to
switch to th ovic's
sttings to slct th
caro's Vi-Fi connction,
thn go back to th app
to viw th picturs on
th caro. lt's a bit iooly,
bcaus you hav to go
through th sam
procour vry tim
you us th app. lt can
bcom vn mor
annoying whn th
connction oisappars
bcaus you'v switcho
sttings, your camra's
shut oown whil it's not
in us or your phon has
lapo onto a strongr
Vi-Fi ntwork.
Onc th app is up ano
running, howvr, it's slick ano
asy to us. Thumbnails o
your picturs ar uick to
appar on th phon, ano
slcting th ons to shar is
as asy as tapping to tick a
box. V ouno this part o th
procss uick ano icint,
spcially bcaus it skips th
unncssary xtra stp o

www.eye.f
Price: 39.95 (8GB),
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32GP capacitis
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compatibility at www.y
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8C2.b/g/n
Scur, ncrypto
connction btwn
camra ano ovic

lnstantly shar picturs

rom your bst camra
Chapr than upgraoing
your phon to gt a bttr
camra

Can't conigur ntworks

rom within th app

hich ovic oo you

tak with you
whn you'r out
ano about snapping photos?
Your oigital camra, to gt
th bst possibl shots? Or
your smartphon, so you can
uploao ano shar photos
without having to transr
thm to a PC irst? Th
Ey-Fi Mobi combins th
bst o both ovics by
linking thm wirlssly, so you
can us your bst camra to
The photos you take on your
camera appear as thumbnails
on your phone's Eye-Fi app
lt's an $D card
with built-in Wi-Fi

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Up is a handy way
of squeezinQ more
performance out of your
aiIinQ PC. There's no maQic
here - it's |ust a convenient
Qateway to a variety of
Windows options and tooIs
that can be used to make
your PC perform more
efficientIy. But if you don't
have the time to hunt
around for the riQht tooIs
yourseIf, havinQ them
Qathered toQether in a
sinQIe, simpIe-to-use
packaQe is weII worth 25.
V C unUp 201

www.avQ.com
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Tp otwa ca p p a ti PC
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with t-p
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aact
clai ca o lik
ak-oil iacl
c. Thy tll
thi poct will
ica th p o
o PC bt o thy
ally ak a
ic? Ca w actally
a th chag a to
a PC poac a pov
th otwa i woth havig?
That th challg w t
/VG PC Tp C4.
V a ol Viow
XP tbook that wa v
at a ha got pogivly
low ov it ya o
vic a o o
tt PC. V col oat
th ha iv a itall
Viow bt it a alighty
hal a th altativ o
itallig o-click ixig
otwa i a at ai a
o attactiv optio.
Po itallig th
otwa w a PaMak
poac bchakig
tool PoacTt www
.paak.co. Thi a
i o tt that pt
it lt o a
copt thogh it pac
o yo ca how yo PC
copa agait oth that
hav th a
bchak. l thi itac
w wat to a
whth th PC ipov o
othwi at PC Tp
wa itall a . So w
a th bchak av all
th lt th itall
/VG otwa.
Vh yo it /VG PC
ha . l th
iivial tt
th wa
taably o
ipovt i 3D
poac
bca th p
at which thi i
liat o th
gaphic hawa i
yo PC. Howv
th D a Viow
poac ipov
aatically. Th poco
ha w tak to woy
abot o th bchak
a ipovt
th too.
T p alo ha a Tbo
o which ht ow
o-tial Viow
vic ch a ach
ixig. Vhil thi c
Viow icicy with
o tak it z ot
o poac by
withawig oc o
Viow wh yo ally
th p. Thi it
hav ch a aatic ipact
o o bchak bt w till
aw a ica - a co o
4. ovall.
Tp C4 th -Click
Maitac wiza po
a ca o yo PC lag p
ay pobl aa a ix
ay o all o th. Yo ca
chag which optio a
ca i yo ttig a
ca agai ay ti yo lik.
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thogh th poga
ay-to- itac ixig
ot o it oth ggtio.
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poga cai ot actio
pov to hav a poitiv
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otwa yo v a
claig th Rgity o
c to il that o
log xit.
Rig th bchakig
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how a aabl
ipovt to o PC. Th
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dy to have the tooIs for pritiQ,

scaiQ ad copyiQ i your home whe you
eed them, but haviQ separate machies for
each task wiII overcrowd your desk space, IeaviQ
IittIe room for aythiQ eIse.
MuItifuctio priters perform aII these tasks i
oe uit, usiQ your etwork to coect to ay
computer or mobiIe device. They take up more
room tha stadaIoe priters, but the QIass
surface used to sca documets is the same as
that used to copy them, so they are't ay buIkier
tha a priter with copyiQ fuctios.
II the devices we've reviewed here wiII aIso
sed ad receive faxes.
functionprinters
dy Shaw sts our multiunction ink|t ovics
that can print, scan, copy ano ax

V st up ach printr ano ran it through our stanoaro st o printing

tasks using a varity o oocumnts ano photos, masuring th tim it
took to print in pags pr minut (ppm) ano comparing th uality o
output rom ach printr. V tsto th scannrs or spo ano
comparo th uality o th scans. Sinc all th ovics hr can also
b uso without a PC, w also looko at how asy ach on is to
control.
V calculato how much ach ovic woulo cost to run ovr a
thr-yar prioo, taking into account th cost o th ovic ano th
printing lispan o th ink cartriogs.

We test ad compare the Iatest products

Th Canon Pixma MX925 is twic

th pric o th two chapst
printrs in this tst, but w think
it's worth vry pnny. lt has Vi-Fi
ano Ethrnt options, or you can
connct it to a singl PC via USP.
Our txt-baso tst prints wr incroibly
sharp, whil our illustrato oocumnts looko grat, with
smooth, accurat colours ano shaoing. Th machin oos a
suprb |ob o printing photos, with natural colours, gooo
contrast ano op blacks. /t top uality, a 6 x 4in photo took
|ust ovr a minut to mrg. This is th astst printr whn
prooucing colour but it ll bhino th Prothr MFC-J87CDV
whn printing in black ano whit.
Print costs baso on Canon's XXL ink cartriogs ar
surprisingly chap, at .9p or a mono pag ano 7.3p or
colour. So whil th initial outlay o 2C might sm stp,
it's conomical to run in th long trm.
Th MX525 is a nat, low-cost printr
that incluos ntwork printing
through Vi-Fi ano Ethrnt. Howvr,
you hav to manually o th papr
to print on both sios o a sht.
lt uss a combino thr-colour ink
cartriog, which can b wastul bcaus i on colour
runs out, you hav to rplac th whol lot. Howvr,
cartriog prics ar rasonabl, making it th scono
chapst printr to run i you avour colour (7.5p pr pag).
Somtims printrs with combino cartriogs oon't print as
wll as thir mor sophisticato rivals, but this on bucko
that trno. lmags ar slightly ovr-saturato, but hav rich
oark aras ano a warmth to vn vry pal skin tons.
Stanoaro uality black txt also prints vry wll ano is as
sharp as anything w'v sn rom a lasr printr. lt's th
slowst in th group, though, at 8ppm or mono ano colour
printing |ust ahao o th Prothr printr at 2.2ppm.

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such as a touchscrn, this Epson
mool cuts th lu to kp th pric
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oisplay but plnty o physical buttons,
so it can b asily controllo without turning
on your PC. You can vn mail oocumnts to it or printing.
Photos looko lat ano oull comparo to th vibrancy o
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picturs, but it's aouat or such a chap printr. Txt
printing was gooo, but on vry clos inspction showo tiny
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/t 2.6p pr pag it is th scono chapst printr whn
prooucing black txt, but th most xpnsiv or colour, at
9.p pr pag. lt works out to b th most xpnsiv printr to
run in our thr-yar light us calculation.
/t irst glanc, this printr appars
to hav it all, with wiro ano wirlss
printing ano a touchscrn intrac
that lts you control it without
having to turn on your PC. lt also has
som grat xtra aturs, incluoing printing straight rom
Googl Driv, SkyDriv ano Facbook, ano oirct printing
rom mobils with NFC (Nar Filo Communication).
Colour print spo is slow, managing only .9ppm in our
tsts, but it can churn out mono pags astr than its rivals,
raching 2.ppm. Howvr, th print uality was
oisappointing, with oull-looking imags ano aint lins
apparing through larg picturs. Clos xamination also
showo lins in th txt printing, though you won't notic
thm at rgular raoing oistanc. Still, w'o xpct bttr
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it's the second cheapest to run, despite the hiQh
initiaI price.
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Iow-cost Canon Pixma MX525 cuts back on
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between price and quaIity. !t's not the cheapest
to run, but it combines aII its coIoured inks in
a sinQIe cartridQe, which can be wastefuI.
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Iow, you couId opt for our Bronze ward-winner, the
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Web User nd its sister titIes test over 2,5DD products every yer. Here's the pick of the bunch
E-EADE
KindIe Paperwhite
rom www.mzon.co.uk
Date tested: Dcmbr 2C3
/mazon's upoato Kinol Paprwhit is still
th bst book raor availabl, with a suprb,
papr-lik scrn ano a long battry li. /mazon also has
th biggst slction o titls to oownloao.
KY SPCS
6in scrn 758 x ,C24 pixls rsolution Eight-wk
battry li 8C2.b/8C2.g/8C2.n Vi-Fi Puilt-in light
2GP intrnal mmory or ,CC books 69mm x 7mm
x 9.mm 2C6g Supports /ZV3, /ZV, TXT, PDF, MOPl
ano PRC book ormats.
zon also has
BDGEA
Toshiba SateIIite CS0-A-1S6
349.99 rom www.rQos.co.uk
Date tested: Dcmbr 2C3
This no-nonsns laptop has a
stanoaro kyboaro ano a matt scrn, but its lack o
xtrnal rills is mor than mao up or by its ast
procssor ano graphics, larg TP haro oriv, DVD rwritr
ano USP 3.C port.
KY SPCS
Vinoows 8 2.5GHz lntl Cor i3-32CM procssor 4GP
mmory 5.6in stanoaro (non-touch) scrn ,366 x
768 pixls rsolution TP haro oriv C/CC Ethrnt,
8C2.n Vi-Fi 38C x 24C x 32mm 2.3kg


LG 42LA690V
S49 rom
www.coopeIectricIshop.co.uk
Date tested: Novmbr 2C3
/lthough th LG 42L/69CV oosn't hav lTV catch-up, it
ors a gooo slction o subscription-baso altrnativs.
Th TV is asy to st up ano pictur uality is xcllnt.
KY SPCS
42in scrn ,92C x ,C8C pixls rsolution 3D support
2 x 2V spakrs 3 x HDMl ports x SC/RT (RGP)
sockt 3 x USP ports Ethrnt Frviw HD ano
DVP-S2 tunrs Eight-oay EPG
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Canon Pixma MX92S
10 rom www.ebuyer.com
Date tested: January 2C4
Oustanoing uality combino with
gooo print spos ano imprssiv spciications
mak this an xcllnt ink|t ovic. lt's not chap but its
iv-cartriog systm maks it conomical to run.
KY SPCS
9,6CC x 2,4CCopi print rsolution 2,4CC x 4,8CCopi scan
rsolution 7.5cm colour scrn 25C-sht tray capacity
USP, C/CC Ethrnt ano 8C2.n Vi-Fi .5 pags-pr-
minut mono print spo 3.5 pags-pr-minut colour
print spo 49 x 396 x 23mm .7kg
I-FI EEDE
TP-Link TL-WASS0RE
7 rom www.currys.co.uk
Date tested: Octobr 2C3
This Vi-Fi xtnor is asy to st up ano
us, with an inormativ oisplay ano a clan, slk osign. lt
manago to trbl th spo o our wirlss ntwork,
boosting a wak signal to vry cornr o our hous. Pst
o all, it's vry chap, making it a suprb choic all rouno.
KY SPCS
Vi-Fi Protcto Stup (VPS) Fast Ethrnt (C/CC)
Singl-bano 8C2.b/g/n Vi-Fi VEP, VP//VP/2
scurity C x 75 x 66mm
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AppIe iPad Air
From 399 rom www.ppIe.com/uk
Date tested: Dcmbr 2C3
Th iPao /ir is /ppl's bst tablt so ar.
lt's slim, light ano bautiul to look at ano
us, with a bttr battry li than prvious
mools. lt also has a supr-ast procssor
ano an amazing touchscrn.
KY SPCS
9.7in scrn 2,C48 x ,536 pixls rsolution 6-28GP
intrnal storag /7 oual-cor procssor 5-mgapixl
ano .2-mgapixl camras Dual-bano 8C2. a/b/g/n
Vi-Fi Plutooth 24C x 69.5 x 7.5mm 469g

ooge exus 7
1 rom Iay.QooQIe.com
Date tested: Sptmbr 2C3
Th latst Nxs has a sharp scrn
ano rns th latst noroio sotwar
smoothly. lt's a prct balanc o
pric ano prormanc, ano is th king
o noroio tablts.
KY SPCS
.5GHz ao-cor procssor
6GP/32GP intrnal storag 7in
scrn ,92C x ,2CC pixls rsoltion 5-mgapixl ano
.2-mgapixl camras Dal-bano 8C2.a/b/g/n Vi-Fi
2CC x 4 x 8.5mm 29Cg noroio 4.3 GPS NFC
Pltooth
Acer Aspire 3
30 rom
www.saveonIaptops.co.uk
Date tested: Sptmbr 2C3
Th spr-stylish cr spir
S3 looks ar mor xpnsiv than it is. lthogh its intrnal
spciication is slightly ot o oat, its prormanc ano
battry li ar imprssiv. lt also has a clar, bright scrn
ano a compact cas, which maks it mch lightr than
most othr laptops.
KY SPCS
Vinoows 8 64-bit .4GHz lntl Cor i3-2377M procssor
4GP DDR3 mmory 3.3in scrn ,366 x 768 pixls
rsoltion 5CCGP haro oriv .38kg Dal-bano
8C2.n Vi-Fi No tochscrn 323 x 29 x 8mm

-caoeonitor ndoor
1 rom www.amazon.co.uk
Date tested: May 2C3
Th Y-cam HomMonitor lnooor is
asy to st p, ano yo oon't hav
to install any sotwar on yor PC
or rn mobil apps to gt it
working. lts ability to kp
ootag or yo, rmotly ano
scrly, is worth paying xtra or.
KY SPCS
64C x 48C pixls rsoltion 3C rams pr scono
Vi-Fi ano Ethrnt Night vision Microphon
7-oay onlin rcoroing Vb-baso camra
managmnt Movmnt otction Email alrts
85 x 85 x 3Cmm

uawei S776 obie Wifi

From 12 e t rom ee.co.uk
Date tested: Jn 2C3
Th EE Mi-Fi ovic has a
bilt-in scrn that slly
oisplays th strngth o yor
connction; tlls yo whthr
yo'r sing 3G or 4G; ano
shows how many ovics ar
conncto via Vi-Fi. lt isn't as chap as rival ovics, bt
its imprssiv spo maks it wll worth paying or.
KY SPCS
4G, 3G ano 2G connctivity 8C2.b/g/n Vi-Fi VP
scrity .45in oisplay C hors battry li (5CC hors
stanoby) C6 x 66 x 6mm 49g

T ne
80 SlM-r rom www.htc.com/uk
Date tested: Jly 2C3
Th HTC On is a top-o-th-rang
smartphon with an xcllnt osign. lt
works smoothly, is capabl o taking
imprssiv photos ano atrs all th
latst tchnologis or conncting to Vi-Fi ano mobil
phon ntworks. lt's also chapr than th Samsng
Galaxy S4.
KY SPCS
4.7in scrn ,92C x ,C8C pixls rsoltion .7GHz
ao-cor procssor 2GP mmory 32/64GP storag
3G/4G/Vi-Fi 4-mgapixl camra 37 x 68 x 9mm
43g noroio 4..2

ki 401d
S7 rom www.amazon.co.uk
Date tested: Jn 2C3
Th P4Co is a antastic
all-rono prormr,
olivring top-ality prints
ickly, accratly ano at a
low cost pr pag. lt has
gooo-val rplacabl parts
that will sav yo mony in th long
trm. lt's a larg printr, so mak sr yo'v got
nogh spac to stor it.
KY SPCS
,2CC x 6CC opi rsoltion 29 pags-pr-mint print
spo 2.2p pr 4 mono pag 25C-sht tray capacity
USP ano paralll-port connctions 387 x 364 x 245mm

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FAEEICE
Daddy DeIuxe
From S.11 per month
rom uk.Qodaddy.com
Dte tested: May 2C3
Go Daooy's st-up ano
coniguration tools us a
straightorwaro stp-by-stp procss. Th srvic has a
gnrous rang o aturs across all thr o its hosting
packags, particularly whn you account or th pric.
KY FRS
Unlimito storag Unlimito wbsits Unlimito
banowioth 25 oatabass 5CC mail aoorsss CC
sub-oomains 33.95 Facbook ao croit 24/7 phon
support Customisabl mobil sit
SquirreISave
S1 a yar rom
www.squirreIsave.co.uk
Dte tested: /ugust 2C3
Vith its unlimito storag, ability to
hanol back-ups rom multipl PCs ano xtrnal ovics,
ano rtntion o olo vrsions o your ils, SuirrlSav is
an xcllnt choic or backing up loaos o oata. lt's vry
asy to us ano grat valu or mony.
KY FRS
/utomatic back-up Unlimito storag Rcovr olto
ils or up to 32 oays 256-bit /ES ncryption Pack up
any combination o ils ano olors UK-baso Copis
o ils kpt orvr Pack-up logging
Kaspersky lnternet
Security
24 (on yar, thr PCs) rom
www.amazon.co.uk
Dte tested: July 2C3
Kasprsky striks th right balanc btwn solio
protction ano a gooo unorstanoing o what is sa ano
what is not. Th sotwar blocko 99 out o CC thrats
ano only rporto on als positiv. lt's a powrul
scurity tool to hav watching ovr your PC.
KY FRS
Firwall Email scanning Parntal controls Gam
moo Prsonal oata protction Social-ntworking
protction Vulnrability scannr 3C-oay r trial
Serif WebPIus X6
81.S9 rom www.serif.com
Dte tested: /ugust 2C3
Sri VbPlus X6 is a winning
combination o unctionality, as
o us ano valu or mony. lts combination o tools,
tmplats ano lxibility, ano th as with which it lts you
aoo xtra aturs, mak it an xcllnt choic or hom
usrs who want to crat thir own sits.
KY FRS
3C tmplats PayPal, Romancart, Mal's E-commrc
paymnt systms Social-moia support /llows
hano-cooo HTML SEO tools Viogts incluoo
Graphics incluoo Ovrall sit-structur viw
IEBAC
AII
EBDEIG
EBHIG
Norton PamiIy
Free rom www.symantec.com
Dte tested: Octobr 2C3
This amily-rinoly sotwar
provios vrything you no
to kp th worst o th wb rom your PC. lt has all th
most important iltring aturs ano oos an xcllnt |ob
o blocking potntially harmul sits. Pst o all, it's r to
oownloao ano us.
KY FRS
C-PC licnc Compatibl with Vinoows XP/Vista/7/8,
Mac OS X C.7+ Catgory iltrs Customisabl proils
Vhitlist/blacklist Rmot managmnt lM ano
social ntwork monitoring Plocks chat, nwsgroups ano
P2P Email support
Adobe Premiere EIements 12
S2.34 rom
www.baIIicom.co.uk
Dte tested: Octobr 2C3
Prmir Elmnts 2's suprb
intrac mans its many
aturs ar accssibl, but natly tucko away. lt works
ually wll or bginnrs ano xprts, with instant accss
to two oiting moos ano lots o hlp ano guioanc. For th
pric, you won't ino bttr vioo-oiting sotwar than this.
KY FRS
/utomatic oiting lmag stabilisr Export to multipl
vioo ormats Uploao to Facbook, YouTub ano Vimo
Surrouno-souno support DVD ano Plu-ray oisc-burning
Unlimito timlins Stop-motion captur
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his fortniQht's top FREE software downIoads

hn you launch this systm clanr, it chcks your PC ano
shows you how much spac, in byts, it can r up. You can
viw th otails, ano oslct any itms you oon't want
rmovo, or click Dlt i you trust it not to gt rio o
anything important. Th Sttings scrn lts you conigur
th sotwar, toggl th scur-olt option on or o, ao|ust
systm prormanc ano st Vip to automatically clos
annoying programs.
www.crystaIshard.net/hq.htm
Vinoows XP/Vista/7/8+
396MP
Wipe 2014
privacyroot.com
Min requirements: Vinoows XP/Vista/7/8+
FiIe size: 477KP (installr only)
GAME
This gam is a homag to olo Sirra titls such as Hro's
Oust (latr rnamo Oust or Glory). lt's a point-ano-click
aovntur gam with RPG lmnts, in which th aim is to
ovrcom th orcs o rost that hav brought prptual
wintr to your lano. Thr ar thr charactr classs
availabl, ach oring sparat sio usts.
SYSTEM CIEANER
ASTRONOMY SOFTWARE
WorIdWide TeIescope 5
Microsot's virtual tlscop
lts you xplor th univrs
rom th comort o your PC.
You can pan ano zoom
arouno th night sky using a
mous, kyboaro or Xbox
controllr; sarch or ob|cts;
viw imags takn by
powrul grouno- ano
spac-baso tlscops; ano
go on rcoroo tours.
Narrato by astronomrs ano
xprts, th tours covr a
wio rang o topics
incluoing nbula, galaxis,
plants, cosmology, black
hols ano suprnovas. Thy
run ull scrn ano can b
pauso at any tim. You can
|ump rom on scn to
anothr by summoning th
timlin at th top.
plants in our solar
systm, as wll as
ma|or moons.
To clbrat th sotwar's
ith annivrsary, Microsot
Rsarch has upoato it ano
introouco svral nw
aturs. You can now viw
otailo mools o th
lntrnational Spac Station
ano Gmini Obsrvatory, ano
/s wll as gazing
out into th univrs,
th program lts you
visit Earth rom
spac. VorloVio
Tlscop's virtual
glob is a lot lik
Googl Earth. You
can zoom rom outr
spac to grouno lvl
ano chang th viw
rom Ping Maps /rial to
Hybrio, Strts or Earth
Night 2C2. Thr ar svral
ovrlays availabl, such as
clouo layr, sky ano
atmosphr, ano a cutaway
mool that lts you look
insio th Earth. Th
program also lts you viw
th Sun (without th no or
oark glasss!) ano visit all th
import your own 3D mools.
/ooitionally, Earth ano th
plants look mor ralistic
thanks to atmosphric ano
lighting 'shaors', ano you
can tilt ano rotat a plant to
gt a bttr viw o its
surac.
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FiIe size: 77.MP
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omputr ioo Dsign (CD) tools ar oiicult to mastr, ano LibrCD is
no xcption. Put i you prsvr, you'll ino it isn't as oiicult to unorstano
as it irst appars. Th opn-sourc program lts you crat 2D osigns, ano
ors a walth o orawing tools ano support or layrs. Th latst vrsion has
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was intrsto to rao our '
most important ustions or
24' in lssu 335 (bit.l/
wbusr335), som o which l ouno
mor important than othrs. l rall
coulon't car lss about
smartwatchs or maon's ling
machins, but hr ar m answrs
to th ustions l oio car about.
First, 'Vill UK ano US govrnmnts
stop sping on us?'. No, o cours
th won't ano th probabl nvr
will. ln act, now that th'v bn
xposo b Vhistl McVhistlr,
Eowaro Snowon, thir mthoos ar
likl to bcom vn mor ovious.
l oon't want to b orco to ncrpt
vrthing l oo onlin (as ou
suggst lswhr in th issu)
bcaus it's a ma|or hassl, but i
that's what it taks to stop th
govrnmnt raoing m mails thn
STAR EMAII
Why the web mst chnge in 214

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Otrged by eBy's new
postge fee
l was plaso to s Paul Prown's mail
in lssu 335 about Pa's nw . l hav
bn a sllr on Pa sinc Januar 999,
whn it was barl nv
ars olo, ano hav oon
vr wll rom it. Put th
sit has movo th
goalposts so man tims
ovr th ars, with nw rruls ano
incraso s, that this nw rul chang
[which chargs commission on postag]
is |ust anothr nail in Pa's conn.
Sinc l rtiro, l no longr us Pa
prossionall, |ust occasionall or
prsonal gooos. l onl sll itms l l will
hav intrnational intrst. l hav to
aomit l was unawar o th nw rul o
charging or postag. Frankl, l am
outrago.
Th nw ruls ar vrging on th
rioiculous. l was alrao annoo that
Pa mao it impossibl or a sllr to
lav ngativ oback or a bur who
lts thm oown.
Howvr, thr ar altrnativs. l now
us r aovrtising sits, ano thr ar
plnt to choos rom, incluoing
Fr-aos.co.uk (www.r-aos.co.uk),
Vivastrt (www.vivastrt.co.uk),
Prlovo (www.prlovo.co.uk) ano
Gumtr (www.gumtr.com), which,
ironicall, is owno b Pa.
l hav solo a bo, a car, a laptop, a
mobil phon ano man othr itms l
no longr noo - vn a
cross-channl rr tickt. lt's
ar asir to us ths sits
than Pa, ano th'r r.
Dale Butler, $hefheld
ven smrt Vs re
spying on s
Your Pst Pus sction in lssu 335,
which aturo th LG Smart TV,
rminoo m o a rcnt problm l hao
with m st. l bought an LG 32in HD TV
in arl 23 ano vrthing was prct
as ar as th 'smart' aturs wr
concrno. Conncting to th intrnt
was a br ano th rmot mous
mao it as to navigat ano us th
apps. Th pictur, o cours, was ano still
is incroibl.
Howvr, a w wks ago whn l trio
to accss th Usr Guio, 22 pags o an
grmnt Statmnt apparo on th
scrn pointing out that in oror to us
ths apps, which o cours incluo th
Usr Guio, it is a conoition that l accpt
th trms outlino. This mans that l
hav to accpt ano agr to LG using m
prsonal oata as it ls nt. l oio not
accpt th conoitions ano hav
subsuntl rst vrthing to actor
sttings, ctivl oisconncting rom
th intrnt.
Man companis ths oas claim to
tak thir customrs' privac ano oata
vr sriousl. Howvr, what th sm
to man b this is that th collct as
much o our privat oata as th can. l
tak m privac vr sriousl, ano urg
all our raors to tak not o our
rcnt articls rlating to this sub|ct.
Barry $mith, via email
Confsed by FC on the
exs 7
ln both our Group Tst in lssu 328 (bit
.l/wbusr328) ano in th Pst Pus
that's what l'll oamn wll oo! no Googl
ano Facbook can kp thir baks out
o m mssags, too.
Sconol, 'Vill companis tll us whn
th'v bn hacko?'. Now, this is a ral
bugbar o min. l a big nrm such as
Yahoo or oob is awar that th
scurit o millions o usr accounts has
bn compromiso, thn it's
thir out to lt us know
, not months atr th
vnt. l hackrs gt holo o m login
otails, l want to chang thm as soon
as possibl, spciall i l us th sam
passworos on othr sits. Not that l oo,
but l know man popl who arn't so
savv about onlin scurit.
Lastl, 'Vill Googl nnall gt in
troubl with th rgulators?'. Probabl
not, but l was happ to rao that it's
nnall going to start paing tax in th
UK, vn i th uoto ngur o
24million is a mr orop in th ocan
to th multi-billion-oollar compan.
Ovrall though, l'o lik to think that i
23 was th ar that ooog
companis ano agncis wr
xposo, thn 24 will b th ar
that ths problms ar aoorsso.
Brian Collins, via email

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aks or sns with a phon than a
tablt, bcaus th lattr isn't as
convnint to carry arouno
as yaair rspo to
criticis
l saw in lssu 334 that gav
th 'thubs up' to th nwly rvapo
sction in lssu 334 (bitly/wbusr334),
you stat that th Nxus 7 has GPS ano
NFC l' unsur what NFC is ano hav
not bn abl to nno th answr
anywhr l hav also visito svral sits
that sll th Nxus 7, incluoing that o th
anuacturr, sus (wwwasusco), ano
non o th ntion th GPS atur
Vhy is this, ano oos th Nxus 7
actually hav GPS?
l vn wnt to th Googl Play wbsit
(playgooglco), which you
rconoo, but ouno no ntion o
GPS in th spcincations Plas can you
hlp, bcaus l woulo lik to buy this
tablt
Mitcell mit, via email
y Saw cica viws itor
rpis Th latst Nxus 7 onnitly has
GPS l you go to its proouct pag (bitly/
nxus337) ano scroll oown to th
Tchnical Spcincations, you'll s thr
coluns ano an arrow to th right Click
th arrow ano you'll s connration o
th GPS
NFC (Nar Filo Counication) is
th tchnology that allows you to us
your ovic to pay or things on
copatibl lctronic touchpaos So
shops ano rstaurants, incluoing 5C,CCC
branchs o crtain rtailrs incluoing
Ryanair wbsit l hav to ask i th
anti-Ryanair wbsits hav playo a part
in th airlin's rcnt 'piphany'? l hav
rgularly visito l Hat Ryanair (www
ihatryanairorg) to rao about th
copany's latst (oubious) thoos l
wonor i that wbsit (with which l hav
no connction whatsovr) hao any
innunc on Ryanair's nw approach to
custor srvic? l thank that
shoulo consior ntioning 'anti' wb
sits, spcially whn thy ar o intrst
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APART FROM YOUTUBE7
l'v starto to watch mor liv
strams on Twitch TV (www.twitch
.tv). Many YouTubrs ar moving thir
liv strams thr.
$am Higgis
l'v bn watching mor things on
Vin (vin.co). l lik th act that ach
vioo is short ano swt. l'v mao
som o my own, starring my cat
rchi (bit.ly/vin337).
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Dailymotion (www.oailymotion.com),
bcaus thy olt stu way slowr
than YouTub, which is a copyright
oictator.
Heaher Hear
On my iPao, l only us Vioo Tub
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new devices
hy is i
ineresing7
lthough Chrombooks
hav bn availabl or
a whil (www.googl
.co.uk/chrombook),
LG's Chrombas is th
irst all-in-on PC to
us th Linux-baso
OS. t's not particularly
gnrous with aturs,
but th computr has
th tioy styl o an
ppl iMac ano a 2.5in, ,92C x
,C8C-pixl scrn, ntl Clron
procssor, 2GP o RM ano 6GP o
storag, which is mor than nough or
using Googl's wb-baso tools.
When is i ou7
LG hasn't conirmo th UK rlas oat
but it shoulo b soon.
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tim o writing, but w xpct it to b
arouno 4CC, which is much chapr
than many othr all-in-on PCs.
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t's a grat option i you'r atr a wb-
ocuso hom PC with a bit o styl.
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Why is i ineresing7
ntl has ctivly comprsso a
mini computr onto an SD caro (or
somthing o similar siz) to it into
a varity o oirnt ovics, rom
chairs to comakrs. Thr's
currntly lots o buzz about th
ntrnt o Things (in which
vrything is conncto), ano a
small ovic lik this coulo lao th
way. Eoison oosn't compromis on
tch spcs, ithr. t ors Vi-Fi
connctivity, a oual-cor procssor
ano 5CCMP o RM, ano runs Linux.
When's i ou7
ntl says Eoison will b availabl to
tch companis rom mio-2C4, so
xpct to s prooucts a w
months latr.
How much wiII i cos7
Costs hav not bn rvalo but
mass-markt proouction shoulo
mak it aoroabl.
Why wouId l wan one7
t's not a ustion o wanting th
Eoison itsl so much as th
prooucts into which it is insrto.
Your ntir kitchn coulo soon b
onlin.
Why is i
ineresing7
Pcaus it's no normal
printr. Not only is it
3D, it actually prints
ooo! t CES, th
manuacturr oisho
out som gomtric-
osigno, multi-
colouro swts,
ormo by spraying watr onto sugar in
layrs so that th crystals haron.
When is i ou7
n th scono hal o 2C4.
How much wiII i
cos7
Lots. Th stanoaro
vrsion is arouno
3,CCC but thr is a
Pro vrsion or twic
that amount. Mino you,
it's aimo at popl
who work in
prossional kitchns.
Why wouId l wan one7
For novlty valu, i you can aoro it.
Othrwis, you'r probably bst o
buying your swts rom a shop.

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ue.pIayetation.omJpIayetationnow
Wh i it inteeting7
hough Sony is rioing
high with th PS4 - th
astst-slling consol in
UK history - it is alraoy
prparing or a utur o
non-consol gaming
Having bought th
gam-straming srvic
Gaikai in 2C2, it is now
garing up to or consol-uality gams ovr th intrnt
oirct to TVs, phons ano tablts Th srvic will b
rstricto to Sony's own ovics at irst (incluoing th PS3
ano PS4), but that will vntually wion Gamrs will b
abl to play titls rom PlayStation's back catalogu via a
Sony Entrtainmnt Ntwork account
When i it out7
Playstation Now will b availabl this summr in th Unito
Stats but thr ar no irm launch oats or Europ
Slowr intrnt connctions on this sio o th pono ar
blivo to b holoing things up
Ho much iII it cot7
Sony hasn't rvalo th cost yt lt says th srvic will
oprat with subscriptions ano a rnt-by-titl systm
running sio by sio
Wh ouId l ant it7
PlayStation Now will b a brilliant way to play gams on a
wio-rang o ovics without th no or oiscs,
oownloaos or high-no tchnology Lt's hop it coms to
th UK soon
EEECE
www.aIienware.omJeteammahine
Wh i it
inteeting7
This altrnativ
to PS4 ano
Xbox On
combins
linwar's
xcllnt osign
(both insio ano out) with th nw Stam OS lt ssntially
brings PC gaming to th living room ano is th irst Stam
Machin to b unvilo
When i it out7
linwar says it will arriv in th scono hal o 2C4
Ho much iII it cot7
lt will b comptitiv, th company says Givn th high-no
spcs o th machin (incluoing an lntl CPU ano Nvioia GPU),
it's likly to cost mor than a Sony or Microsot consol
Wh ouId l ant one7
l you lov PC gams, this consol will lt you play thm rom
th comort o your soa
Wh i it inteeting7
Now that th 3D bubbl has burst, curvo tlvisions ar th
latst trno to watch This TV not only bnos, but can also b
ao|usto using a rmot control, allowing you to altr scrns
o up to 85in to suit
whatvr you ar watching
ano accommooat all
viwrs in th room
When i it out7
Vho knows? Samsung
woulon't say Thr's vry
chanc that th prototyps
on show will nvr b mao
Ho much iII it
cot7
gain, Samsung oion't
rval this but givn that it's nw tchnology, with som TVs
oisplaying Ultra HD at hug sizs, it won't b chap
Wh ouId l ant one7
Curvo scrns ar saio to b mor immrsiv, but unlss
you'v got mony to burn you'r probably bst o sticking with
your currnt st
GEDE
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www.ouIuevr.om
Wh i it inteeting7
Pcaus it's amazing!
Forgt all your
prconcptions
about virtual-
rality haosts
rom oays gon
by This nw haost
puts you at th hart o a
task or gam, ano gaming
xprts in particular ar going
crazy ovr this pic o kit Th latst
Rit prototyp is callo Crystal Cov ano it was namo th
Pst o CES at this yar's vnt lts snsors ano camra
track your hao ano booy position ano it oosn't sur
rom motion blurring
Ho much iII it cot7
Not sur yt, though ovlopr kits cost $3CC (arouno
8C) so mayb not as much as you might think
When i it out7
Oculus says that 2C4 will b a big yar or virtual rality so
w can prhaps xpct to s it ovr th coming months
Wh ouId l ant one7
l you lov playing gams, Crystal Cov will tak th
xprinc to a spctacular nw lvl Thousanos o
ovlopmnt kits ar out thr, so programmrs ar
bavring away to crat killr contnt lt'll b worth
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you shoulo b working, Skybt (www
.skybt.com) has a usul atur that
instantly hios your activitis rom
prying ys. Just click th 'Poss? Look
busy!' silhoutt button on th right-
hano sio o th pag (abov th
Facbook icon) to switch th currnt
viw to a spraosht. Th oata on this
is slightly silly ('Things Matloa Voulo
Do For Lov', ano 'Things to oo at th

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sing Bing
n littl-known aovantag
that Ping sarch has ovr
Googl is that you can us it
to xplor ano oiscovr
music vioos. Go to www
.bing.com/vioos ano
sarch or an artist ano/or
song, or hovr your mous
ovr th Vioos link at th
top o th Ping hompag
ano choos 'Vatch music
vioos'. Th oicial vioo or
th track you sarch or shoulo appar
in th top lt, with othr songs by that
artist listo on th right, ano mor
rsults blow. Hovr your mous ovr a
vioo thumbnail to play a prviw.
Watch ideos Iater on YoTbe
l you oon't hav tim to watch a vioo
on YouTub right now, you can aoo it to
a Vatch Latr playlist ano rturn to it at
your convninc. Just click th small
clock icon unor a vioo ano it will turn
into a grn tick. Click th Vatch Latr
button in th siobar to viw all your
savo vioos.
Get eaiI notifications for
YoTbe ideos
Vhn you subscrib to a channl in
YouTub, you'll b abl to viw nw
vioos as soon as thy arriv by going
to My Subscriptions. You can also
brows by channl using th
Subscriptions bar. Howvr, i you'o
rathr hav YouTub tll you whn nw
contnt is availabl so you oon't no to
kp chcking th sit, opn a channl,
thn click th gar icon nxt to th
Subscribo button. Slct th 'mail
with nw uploaos' option ano you'll
rciv an mail as soon as a nw vioo
is aooo to th channl.
dd backgrond sic to
YoTbe ideos
l you us commrcial songs in th
vioos you uploao to YouTub, thr's a
oangr that th copyright holor might
ask Googl to rmov your clip or that
your sounotrack might gt muto. You
can oownloao mor than 5C r, lgal
tracks to us in your vioos rom th
uoio Library (www.youtub.com/
auoiolibrary). Ths span gnrs
incluoing classical, pop ano ambint,
ano you can brows thm by ouration,
mooo ano vn instrumnt.
Watch 4 ideos on YoTbe
s w xplaino in our lnstant xprt
in lssu 333 (bit.ly/wbusr333),
ultra-high-oinition 4K is th utur o
tlvision - ano thr's alraoy 4K
contnt you can watch on YouTub. Go
to YouTub Spotlight's 4K playlist at bit
.ly/youtub4k337 or th Panasonic 4K
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un str s tuk wy. Here
are 10 of our favourite tricks for
different search terms
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Shws yu what the search site
Iked Iike when it irst Iaunched.
Do a arreI RoII
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be usinQ hrme r irex.
skew {or TiIt)
DispIays the resuIts n a sIant.
GoogIe Sphere
ype this then cIick the m eeIinQ
ucky buttn (aQain, yuII need t
turn QIe nstant redictins)
t dispIay QIe in a sphere.
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ype this then cIick the m eeIinQ
ucky buttn (aQain, yuII need
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ram"?
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rm Starrat) used t describe an
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deised by mathematician John
Horton Conway.
Search GoogIe in KIingon
Just Qo to www.QooQIe
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Share a specific point in a
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#C45 to th no o th UR You shoulo
no up with somthing lik this: spotiy:
track:CwJoRiX5K5PxlZTolP2LD#C:45
S our atur on pag 5C or mor
hanoy hacks
to s who that prson is Click a
thumbnail to go to thir Facbook pag
you connct th sit to your Facbook
account by clicking th map markr in
th top-right cornr ano choosing
Connct, you can locat yoursl ano
your rinos in th sa o acs
you'o prr not to appar, howvr,
FURTIVEFUN
ad on
GoogIe' panoamic mapping
evice, epeciaIIy wih he
ecenIy eoed Pegman
Go o egoIand CaIifonia

View,
the yeIIow
PeQman
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fiQure.
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Cene
SimiIarIy, when
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famous FIorida
space centre,
the PeQman
turns into an
astronaut.
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he Sece
Doo
Go to bit.Iy/
secretdoor337,
cIick the door
and you'II be
transported to
somewhere
- anywhere -
in the worId. CIick Take Me
Somewhere EIse to Qo to a new
Iocation. !t's very addictive.
See GoogIe aff Iaking
aond
When you take
the Street
View tour of
GooQIe's North
CaroIina Data
Center (bit.Iy/
staff337), you'II
spot staff
dressed up as the PeQman, the
ndroid IoQo and a Stormtrooper.
Go nde
he ea
!f you're
bored of
IookinQ at
streets, take
a dive under
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underwater expIoration.
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Start any vioo playing on YouTub ano
thn typ l980 on your kyboaro (you
oon't hav to click anywhr irst). Th
vioo will orop oown, ano a vrsion o
th classic arcao gam Missil
Commano will bgin. Can you sav th
vioo rom ostruction? Just us your
mous to point ano shoot.
Chn yur
nu t smthn unusu
Go to Sttings in Facbook, ano click
Eoit nxt to Languag. Chang th
oault English UK option to on o th
mor ntrtaining choics, such as
English (Pirat), English (Upsio Down)
or th vry gky Lt Spak, ano click
Sav Changs. Th nw languag
choic will only act th mnus ano
Facbook txt, not your rinos'
postings. V'r big ans o th Pirat
option, which invits you to 'Upoat
your Plunorin' (status), 'Sarch r yr
crw' (ino rinos) ano 'Scrawl'
(commnt) on othr popl's posts.
urn ny wst nt m
Astrs
Plast th wb to bits using Kick ss
(kickassapp.com), which lts you turn
any sit into an stroios-styl gam.
Just orag th Kick ss button to your
browsr's bookmarks bar, thn click it
whn viwing a wbsit to launch th
gam. Us your arrow kys to mov
your triangular spacship arouno th
pag ano prss th Spacbar to ostroy
inoivioual lmnts ano win points or
your wanton ostruction. Your scor,
which you can shar on Facbook,
appars in a box at th bottom o th
pag, rom whr you can also orop a
bomb on th sit or maximum oamag.
Clvrly, you can also us Kick ss to
strip away parts o a pag prior to
printing, so it has a practical purpos as
wll as a tim-wasting on.
n th srt Anr
m
lthough it's
not strictly a
wb scrt,
w hav to
mntion th
Eastr Egg
tucko away
insio ach
vrsion o
noroio. Go
to Sttings,
'bout phon'
(or 'bout
tablt') ano
tap 'noroio vrsion' svral tims.
you hav noroio KitKat installo on
your ovic, a big 'K' will appar. Prss
oown on this to s th woro noroio in
a KitKat chocolat-bar styl logo, thn
prss oown on this to launch a gam
that ills your scrn with colourul tils
rprsnting prvious vrsion o
noroio (Donut, Eclair, ano so on).
you'r using Jlly Pan, a big ro |lly
ban will appar; long-prss this to
launch th scrt |lly ban gam.
Olor vrsions o noroio also hav
Eastr ggs that you can accss by
ollowing th sam stps. For xampl,
on c Cram Sanowich ovics, you'll
gt an animation o lying noroio logos
waring ic cram sanowichs.
choos 'Rmov m rom this gallry'
instao.
y Atr Brut n G
ms
Prakout - in which you omolish a wall
by bouncing a ball o it - is a classic
arcao gam, which Googl has
rsurrcto as a hioon atur in
Googl mags (imags.googl.co.uk).
To accss th scrt gam, typ Atari
breakout into th sarch box ano th
thumbnail imags will transorm into a
wall. Control th paool at th bottom
o th scrn using your mous. You can
paus th gam at any tim ano oisabl
th souno, too.
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h ntrnt Arhv
Th ntrnt rchiv has a nw sction
callo Th Consol Living Room (bit.ly/
consols337) which showcass som o
th bst gams consols o th lat
97Cs ano arly 98Cs, incluoing th
tari 26CC, tari 78CC, ColcoVision,
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Make phone caIIs directIy
from GmaiI
You can now call popl oirctly
through Googl's mail srvic. Just
install th voic ano vioo chat aoo-on
(www.googl.com/chat/voic) ano us
your computr's microphon to mak
calls ovr th intrnt. You can also
mak vioo calls. Th rats chargo or
calling intrnationally ar rasonabl
ano can b viwo at bit.ly/callrats337.
Search GmaiI and GoogIe Drive
simuItaneousIy
you'r looking or somthing rao or
writtn by you, ano you can't rmmbr
i it's in an mail or a oocumnt, you can
now sarch Googl Driv ano Gmail at
th sam tim. n Gmail, click th gar
icn ano opn Sttings. Click th Labs
tab ano nabl th pps Sarch option.
Th nxt tim you run a sarch in Gmail,
any matching Googl Driv oocumnts
will b shown blow th Gmail rsults.
Store home and work
addresses in GoogIe Maps
Mak sur you'r using th nw Googl
Maps ano sign in with your Googl
ccount crontials. Typ into th
sarch box ano s what coms up.
it's not your hom aoorss, click Eoit
ano ntr th corrct aoorss. Nxt,
typ ano rpat th procss. Now,
i you no to gt oirctions to or rom
hom or work, you can |ust typ th
rlvant woro rathr than th ull
aoorss. You can viw ano oit th
inormation by clicking My Placs in th
siobar.
Use Twitters secret keyboard
shortcuts
Th social-ntworking sit supports a
wio rang o kyboaro
shortcuts that, onc
mastro, can hlp you gt
arouno th sit much astr.
Try th ollowing:
Nv
Q h - Prss this combination to go to th
hompag rom anywhr.
Q p - This will tak you to your proil.
Q - This combination will opn your
inbox.
Q c - Opns your list o intractions.
Q r - Displays twts you'r mntiono
in.
Q u - Lts you viw a usr's proil.
| - Movs you to th nxt twt.
k - Movs you to th prvious twt.
. - Loao mor twts.
Spce - Pag oown.
- Displays th ull list o kyboaro
shortcuts.
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- Compos a nw twt.
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f - Favourit a twt. t nos to b
opn in a ull pag.
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opn in a ull pag.
r - Rply to a twt. t nos to b opn
in a ull pag.
- Plock usr.
u - Unblock usr.
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used on PIickr
Flickr's Camra Finor (www.lickr.com/
camras) lists th most popular maks
ano mools o camras uso on th
photo-sharing sit. t shows thir
popularity ovr tim, ano oisplays
graphs or Most Popular Camras, Most
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tur to Driv tht lts you s t
glnc wht's chngo on your shro
ils. Click th 'i' button in th top-right
cornr no th ctivity strm will
ppr, showing you who hs mo
wht chngs to ils no olors in y
Driv. isto inormtion incluos oits
no commnts, il rnming no
shring, no th crtion o nw
oocumnts no sproshts.
th up o th ws through
kp
ikipoi isn't th obvious irst choic
or nws sit, but i you wnt to ino
out wht's bn hppning in th worlo
rcntly, it cn prov uit hnoy.
rch or month no yr ('Jnury
2C' or xmpl) no you'r prsnto
with summry o m|or vnts tht
occurro ch oy o tht month.
P GoogI gs you
us IgIIy
rcnt ooition to oogl mgs lts
you iltr picturs by licnc typ, so
you cn mk sur you'r lglly
llowo to us thm in your own
pro|cts or on your wbsit or blog.
Click th 'rch tools' option no
choos n option rom th orop-oown
sg ights mnu to spciy th typ
o licnc you ruir. hs options
r: 'bllo or rus', 'bllo or
commrcil rus', 'bllo or rus
with mooiiction' no 'bllo or
commrcil rus with mooiiction'.
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oogl ws ggrgts storis rom
ll th m|or nws sourcs cross th
wb. ou cn o|ust th contnt oogl
oisplys by clicking th gr icon no
using th sliors to chng th ocus.
or xmpl, you cn viw mor
ntrtinmnt no tchnology no lss
sport no businss storis. ou cn lso
o|ust how much contnt to pull rom
ch o th sourcs no oo nws
topics tht intrst you.
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wbsit no pp tht strms
lctronic music 2/7, with loos o
gnrs to choos rom.
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ioo.m (vioo.m). t's n sy wy
to shr vioos no nimto s
without th no or n ccount.
Andrew Clennell
t hs to b th Pogrs song on
bl's tu (wbls-stu.com/
songs/bogrs).
Paul Chapman
ht w'r ll bots unor th orors
o . o wit, tht's th worst-
kpt scrt
Chris Cole
ht th wb runs on unicorn trs
no oogl is th izro o z.
Mike Hudson
ou mn you oon't know won't
b th on to spoil th surpris.
Greg Tal
oiscovro it on your v ony
nlin pg in ssu 336. h
singing ggs vioo (www.wbusr
.co.uk/ggs) - unnist thing vr
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Switch between maiI
accont
oogl has inally introouco a
multipl-account sign-in atur or
Gmail, so you can simultanously us
oirnt accounts on th sam
computr. Th oicial way to oo it is to
sign into your irst account, click your
proil pictur, click 'oo account' ano
sign into an aooitional account. Full
instructions can b ouno at bit.ly/
multi337.
much uickr way is to chang th
numbr in th miool o th URL ano
prss Entr. Th oault numbr is
usually C, or your primary account, ano
changing it to will switch to your
scono account. This bypasss all thos
'oo account' clicks, although you'll still
no to sign in.
Set Dropbo fiIe to
downIoad in one cIick
Py oault, Dropbox il links opn in
your browsr whn you click thm. To
st a link to prompt a oownloao instao,
so you can sav th il to your haro
oriv, chang its 'www' to 'ol' ano typ
?dl=l at th no o th il's URL. Th
complt URL will look lik:
ol.oropboxusrcontnt.com/s/X/Y
HACKthe web ueing
You oon't always no a browsr aoo-on to chang th way a
wbsit bhavs. rounos up C simpl URL twaks that
put you in control
.|pg?ol=, whr X is th usr rrnc
ano Y is th ilnam. Now, whn you
shar this link, your rcipint will s a
winoow prompting thm to choos a
oownloao location.
iit gIobaI erion of
the hrome Web Store
Th apps ano xtnsions you s in th
Chrom Vb Stor ar oirnt in ach
country. To s ano oownloao aoo-ons
that arn't availabl in th UK stor,
typ ?hl= at th no o th URL,
ollowo by a languag ano country
coo. For xampl, to s th US stor
in English, typ ?hl=en~us so that th
aoorss raos chrom.googl.com/
wbstor/catgory/apps?hl=n-us. To
s th US stor in Spanish, typ
?hl=es~us, ano to s th Spanish
stor in Spanish, typ ?hl=es~es.
Grmany is ?hl=de~de, Franc is
?hl=fr~fr ano th English Canaoian
sit is ?hl=en~ca. ny gusss or
Frnch Canaoian?
e oogIe K when
yo're abroad
Googl's sarch pag oaults to th
local sit whrvr you ar in th worlo,
so i you'r in Spain ano you go to www
.googl.co.uk, you'll gt www.googl.s.
To orc th browsr to loao th UK sit,
or any intrnational sit you choos,
typ /ncr ('no country rturn') at th
no o th URL. Th whol thing will
rao www.googl.co.uk/ncr. Pookmark
th amnoo URL to sav you typing in
th xtra txt ach tim.
Bring back oogIe' bar
Th black navigation bar on th Googl
hompag was rplaco last yar by th
apps launchr icon, which contains
similar links but ruirs mor clicks to
rach your ostination. You can gt th
bar back by aooing ?no=l to th no
o a Googl sarch URL. Saoly, this trick
oosn't work on othr Googl sits such
as Gmail ano Googl Driv.
reate a hortened L
Shortno links, lik th Pitly aoorsss
w us in , ar usually crato
via wbsits or browsr xtnsions. To
sav a visit to bitly.com, typ bit.ly/
bor th 'http' in a wb aoorss ano
prss Entr. This automatically copis a
shortno vrsion o th link to your
clipboaro, raoy or pasting ano
sharing. Not that it oosn't work on
wb aoorsss that hio th 'http'.
To prviw th ull vrsion o any Pitly
URL bor you click it, typ + at th
no o th aoorss ano prss Entr. Fino
out mor on th Pitly support sit
(bit.ly/bitsup337).
To prviw Tinyurl aoorsss, typ
preview. bor th 'tinyurl' in th
aoorss, ano or Snipurl aoorsss, typ
wake
peek. r sr' s rvw your location ano ony you accss
r s sr wy to rstricto clips.
sr URL links to whr it
claims it oos, ano not to a ooogy sit. Skip to th bst bit o
a vido
To post your avourit part o a
YouTub vioo on Facbook or sno it
Nam any YouTub browsr aoo-on, to a rino, typ &t=XmYYs at th no o
ano thr's likly to b a URL hack that th URL, whr 'X' is th minut ano &hd=l atr th vioo numbr. To mak
oos th sam thing without ruiring 'YY' th scono whr you want th it play in stro auoio, aoo &fmt=l8
you to install anything. Vith som vioo to start playing. For xampl, (48C x 27C) or &fmt=22 (28C x 72C)
unctions, such as oownloaoing vioos, www.youtub.com/watch?v=4Obt_ instao.
you hav svral URL twaks to choos P87is&t=m28s skips you to Gorg ln anothr playback hack, typ
rom. Typ ss, pwn, kick or kiss ano Lorrain's kiss in th Eightis movi &loop=l atr th vioo numbr to
bor 'youtub' in th vioo's URL ano . mak it play ovr ano ovr until you
prss Entr to oownloao th vioo rom mak it stop. To opn th looping vioo
an xtrnal sit. For xampl, www in an xtrnal sit, aoo th woro
.ssyoutub.com/watch?v=2rO__Olnw 'rpatr' atr 'youtub' or rplac
'tub' with 'rpat'.
l you'r not sur whr th bst bit o
a clip bgins, try using th Vaosworth
Constant. YouTub usrs |oko that th
avrag vioo starts gtting intrsting
taks you to Savrom.nt, whr you 3C pr cnt o th way in, ano Googl
can oownloao th PPC clip o capuchin liko th ioa nough to us it as a URL
monkys in MP4, FLV ano othr ormats. Eastr gg. Typ &wadsworth=l atr
th vioo numbr to skip to th
intrsting stu.
Watch YouTub vidos in Saoly, YouTub sms to hav
HD oroppo on o our avourit playback
To mak YouTub vioos play in th hacks, a VHS-styl ovrlay o uzz ano
highst oinition availabl, typ crackl i you aooo &vhs=l to th URL.

AE EIGHAE?
K
You can gt arouno YouTub's This URL hack isn't aIways weII- '?username=admin&password=*' at
vioo is not availabl in your country intentioned. !f you see stranQe code the end of a URL, someone wants to
mssag by rmoving 'watch?' rom th at the end of a web address, it may IoQ into your computer without
URL ano rplacing '=' with a orwaro be a cIue that there's maIware on knowinQ your admin password.
slash. ln othr woros, th miool sction your computer. You can see more maIicious URL
will chang rom '/watch?v=' to '/v/'. For exampIe '?moduIe=pastebin hacks at bit.Iy/maIicious337. !f you
This stops YouTub sing your lP .com/', foIIowed by the name of a spot one on your computer, run your
aoorss, which is what it uss to track script, indicates that someone is anti-virus proQram and MaIwarebytes
attemptinQ a remote-code execution nti-MaIware (www.maIwarebytes
hack via a Tro|an on your computer. .orQ). We'II have more advice on
!f you see '?username=admin&pass spottinQ whether you've been hacked
word=adminadmin' or in our next issue.

t Wws styI
h sr
io rom th latst HTC hanosts,
such as th HTC On (bit.lyhtcon33),
noroio ovics can look a bit samy,
whras Vinoows-powro Nokia
Lumias ar among th most attractiv
phons you can buy. l you lik noroio,
but want to giv your phon or tablt a
Microsot makovr, install th amazing
app Launchr 8 Fr (bit.ly
launchr33). This lts you customis
your hom
scrn with
colourul,
Vinoows
8-styl tils
that provio
on-tap accss
to your
mssags,
contacts,
sttings ano
othr ssntial
tools. You can
aoo mor wiogts ano runtly uso
apps to th scrn, ano long-prss a til
to chang its siz ano colour, ano mov
or rmov it. Launchr 8 Fr looks
antastic ano it's asy to switch back to
th stanoaro noroio hom scrn
whn you want.
Vw t rsft
Office fiIes
l you'r prparo to pay, you can bring
Microsot Oic tools such as Voro ano
Excl to your phon by purchasing an
Oic 35 Hom Prmium subscription
(hoic.microsot.com). This costs
9.99 pr yar,
or .99 pr
month, ano lts
you opn, oit
ano shar Oic
ils on up to
iv ovics,
with a ooicato
r app or
noroio (bit.ly
oic33). Howvr, Oic Mobil or
Oic 35 won't work on noroio
tablts, so bar in mino that you can't
us it on a Nxus or Tsco Huol.
For a r ano mor lxibl
altrnativ, w rcommno Kingsot
Oic + PDF (bit.lykings33), which
works on
any ovic
running
noroio 2.
or latr. This
ull-aturo
suit lts
you crat,
viw ano
oit ils in
Microsot Oic ormats, incluoing
DOC, DOCX, XLS ano PPT, ano
intgrats with your mail app to mak
snoing ano opning attachmnts a
brz. You can also uploao ano
oownloao ils to ano rom Dropbox
ano Googl Driv; sav oocumnts as
PDFs; insrt picturs ano charts; ano
vn connct a Plutooth or USP
kyboaro to mak typing asir.
Ouickoic (bit.lyuickoic33),
which works samlssly with Googl
Driv ano ors 5GP o r onlin
storag, is also worth a look, but it can't
compt with Kingsot's rang o tools.
PIay audio and video fiIes
on the move
Thr's crtainly no shortag o moia
playrs or noroio ovics, although
avourit VLC is still in bta
(bit.lyvlc33) ano Vinoows Moia
Playr Mobil is only availabl on
Vinoows Phon. Still, thr ar svral
gooo options availabl i you want a r
app that can play both music ano vioo,
is asy to us ano oosn't kp crashing.
MX Playr (bit.lymxplayr33) is on o
th simplst ano astst, automatically
otcting vioo ils on your ovic so
you can watch thm instantly. You can
vn oisplay subtitls rom an xtrnal
il, i thy'r not mbooo in th
Turn your phon or tablt into a pockt-sizo
PC by aooing your avourit Vinoows aturs
to th mobil OS. xplains how
movi. To play music in th app, go into
MX Playr's Sttings, tap uoio ano
slct 'Us as an auoio playr'.
V also lik Ultimat Moia Playr
(bit.lyultimat33), which supports a
hug numbr o auoio ano vioo
ormats, hlpully organiss tracks by
artist ano lts you iool arouno with
playback spo ano souno uality
(using th ualizr).
Browse and manage fiIes
and foIders
noroio oosn't hav a Vinoows
Explorr-typ tool or asily navigating
ano organising ils ano olors on your
ovic (nor oos iOS). Fortunatly,
thr ar som xcllnt r apps that
bring this atur to your phon or
tablt. V particularly lik ES Fil
et the beet Windowe
tooIe on Android
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lorr Fil
Managr (bit.ly/
sil337), which
not only givs
you asy accss
to photos,
music, vioos,
oocumnts ano
othr ils on
your /noroio
ovic, but also
lts you mov
thm to Dropbox, SkyDriv, Googl
Driv ano othr onlin storag accounts.
lt can crat ano xtract ils rom ZlP
ano R/R archivs to sav you spac;
hanoily oisplays thumbnails o imags in
olors; ano lts you asily olt,
rnam ano mov ils. Onc you'v
installo ES Fil Explorr, you'll wonor
how you vr manago without it.

Piriorm announco CClanr or

/noroio arly last yar (bit.ly/
cclanr337), but at th tim o going to
prss w haon't haro any mor about
it. Until th app is rlaso (soon,
hopully),
thr ar othr
options you can
try. On o th
most popular
ano highly
rato (4.7 out
o 5 on Googl
Play) is KS
Mobil's Clan
Mastr (bit.ly/
clan337),
which rclaims
spac ano mmory on your phon or
tablt, as wll as protcting your
privacy. lt oos this by olting |unk
ils, closing backgrouno apps ano
claring prsonal oata such as your
browsing ano sarch history. /s with
CClanr, you can rviw what you'r
about to rmov bor prorming th
clan-up, ano s how much spac ano
mmory you'll rgain.
/ltrnativly, you coulo try /VG
Clanr (bit.ly/avgclanr337), which
works in a similar way but with th
bonus o an /uto Clan atur. This lts
you schoul clan-ups to run oaily or
wkly,
opnoing
on how
much you
us your
ovic ano
th amount
o spac
availabl.
Get Android tooIe
in Windowe
You can also aoo tools rom your phon
or tablt to your PC. Hr ar our ways to
go mobil on your Dsktop


/noroio lts you crat a olor by
long-prssing an app ano oragging it
on top o anothr on. You can oo this
in Vinoows using a r tool callo
Smart Folors (bit.ly/
smartolors337). Onc installo, it
lts you orag ano orop on il or
mor onto anothr to instantly crat
a olor ano mov all th itms into it.
Giv th olor a nam ano click OK.


l you want to play /noroio gams
such as Canoy Crush Saga, Tmpl
Run ano Th Simpsons: Tappo Out
on a largr scrn, install th antastic
/noroio mulator PluStacks /pp
Playr (www.blustacks.com/
app-playr.html). This r program
lts you run mobil gams ano othr
apps in /noroio's /PK ormat on your
Vinoows (or Mac OS X) computr.
Onc installo, you can sarch Googl
Play or gams to oownloao, brows
th charts o popular titls ano opn
thm on your Dsktop (you'll no to
sign into your Googl account).
Thr's also an option to sync apps
with your phon. PluStacks is vry
asy to us ano has a ull-scrn
moo or maximum gaming plasur.

Windows
PluStacks /pp Playr lts you run
/noroio apps on your PC, but it
oosn't rplicat th osign o th
mobil oprating systm. l you want
to bring all th wonors o /noroio to
Vinoows, without using a virtual
machin, your bst bt is Vinoroy
(www.sockt.com). This looks ano
works xactly lik th lc Cram
Sanowich vrsion o /noroio
(a Jllyban upoat is ou soon) with
Hom ano Pack buttons, a slio-to-
unlock option, a Sttings panl,
wiogts ano wallpaprs. Thr's vn
an /noroio-styl on-scrn kyboaro
ano a camra app. You no to
rgistr th program, but this is r.
Check your caIIs and
text messages
l you'v lt your /noroio phon
charging in anothr room, you can us
th marvllous Chrom xtnsion
Spots (bit.ly/spots337) to nsur you
oon't miss any calls or mssags. lt
lts you rao ano rply to txts via
your browsr's Nw Tab pag, gt call
ano SMS notiications on your Dsktop
ano sarch your contacts without
touching your ovic. You'll no to
install th r Spots - Magical
Launchr app (bit.ly/spotsapp337) on
your hanost to connct it to your PC,
but onc it's st up, Spots coulon't b
simplr to us. Th aoo-on also has a
gorgous, i not vry /noroio-lik
osign.

Ie
it.Iy/okQooQI337
Wht is it?
O oogl, or oogl Voic Srch
otoro to gi it th oicil nm, is
Chrom xtnsion tht oos
support or oic commnos.
Why do e nt it?
Pcus it ill lt ou ct out th
scn in tr rok /V hn Scotti is
tolo tht computrs r oprto
using mous, so th hilrious olo
ool picks it up no spks into it.
Unlik stnoro oogl oic srch,
O oogl unorstnos nturll
spokn lngug uris such s
ht is i oollrs in Pritish pounos?'
no rminors such s st n lrm
or minuts tim pls'. ll ou
h to oo is prc th commno
ith O oogl' no ou'r .
When miQht e Qet it?
lthough thr's no oicil oro on
U rsion o th Chrom oo-on t,
noroio usrs cn oonloo th O
oogl No pp (it.l/
okgooglpp337), thn chng thir
oic's lngug to nglish (US)',
tr hich it shoulo ork in.
HuIu
.huIu.com
Wht is it?
ulu is r populr, o-supporto
onlin TV sric tht strms shos
rom m|or US ntorks incluoing
NPC, ox no PC, or r. Thr's lso
suscription rsion tht rmos th
orts.
Why do e nt it?
V' coto ulu or gs, prtl
cus ' n mrcilssl
tntliso minut-long clips on
ouTu crring th sric's Vtch
our orits [sic]. nytim. r'
taglin. Put mainly w want it bcaus
it's got a rally gooo slction o shows
incluoing Community, Mooorn Family
ano Bonos as wll as lots o classic
Pritish sris, such as Blackaooor, Lifo
on Mars ano Yos Ministor, which popl
actually want to watch. V also lik th
way ulu olivrs contnt through your
browsr, mobil ovic ano gams
consol without uss.
When miQht e Qet it?
ivn th sticky stat o US licnsing
laws ano contnt proviors' vic-lik
grip on thir intllctual proprty, w
probably won't s ulu this sio o th
tlantic anytim soon. owvr, thr
ar tools that lt you bypass
Many big tch innovations still arn't availabl
ovr hr. Rob Bettie casts a |alous y ovr
ight tools ano srvics that th US gts but
w oon't, ano rvals whn to xpct thm
gographical rstrictions to accss th
srvic, such as ola Unblockr
(hola.org).
iTunes Radio
.ppIe.com/itunes/itunes-rdio
Wht is it?
ppl's r, ao-supporto straming
raoio srvic is lik a mor attractiv
vrsion o Spotiy. Subscribrs to
ppl's iTuns Match srvic (which
costs 2.99 a yar) gt ao-r raoio to
n|oy on thir computr, iPhon, iPao
ano iPoo Touch.
Why do e nt it?
lthough iTuns is still th moia
sotwar most likly to hav popl
taring thir hair out (mainly bcaus o
th way it's so asy to 'los' your music
library ouring upgraos or whn
transrring it to a nw computr), it
rmains th srvic o choic or
vryon with an iOS ovic.
straming option will sav you th
hassl o buying ano oownloaoing
music to listn to whn you'r out ano
about.
When miQht e Qet it?
Rports inoicat that w can xpct
iTuns Raoio somtim this spring. Vith
Spotiy currntly laoing th pack o
straming srvics in th UK, th launch
o iTuns Raoio shoulo shak things up
a bit.


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THINGS WE WANT INTHE UK
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y o i
Pcaus it's simpl to us; upoats itsl
automatically to tak aovantag o nw
vioo srvics as thy appar; ano lts
you stram prsonal contnt (such as
hom movis) to your TV. lso, it costs
|ust $35 (about 2).
mi i
ivn th noiss coming out o oogl
- spcially rom th company's
proouct managmnt VP, Mario Ouiroz
- w'o b amazo i you wrn't
n|oying Chromcast on your TV soonr
rathr than latr this yar.
Mint
miom
i i
Mint is a r onlin banking srvic that
lts you track ano control your savings,
currnt accounts, invstmnts,
mortgags ano othr loans.
y o i
Vhras UK-baso onlin banks sm
to avour orary corporat colours ano
convoluto logins, Mint's 28-bit SSL
ncryption provios a sit that's
attractiv, asy to us ano scur. t
works on PC, Mac, iOS, noroio ano
Vinoows 8 ovics, ano is lauoo by
both th tch ano mainstram moia,
ano mor than million usrs. t's also
run by ntuit, th company bhino
Ouickn, which is th much-misso
program that virtually invnto hom-
inanc sotwar.
mi i
Don't holo your brath or Mint to arriv
in th UK. Th company's
hao th sam blano notic
on its sit or yars now:
Currntly, Mint supports
banks in th Unito Stats
ano Canaoa. V hop to
support mor countris in
th utur. t's a ral sham,
bcaus w think it woulo
prov vry popular ovr hr.
Th narst uivalnt w
hav is Mony Dashboaro
(www.monyoashboaro.com).
KindIe MatchBook
biIyiI7
i i
Kinol MatchPook ors you th book
vrsions o paprbacks ano harobacks
you buy rom mazon or signiicantly
oiscounto prics - $2.99, $.99 or
$.99 - or vn or r. Commnoably,
it applis to past, prsnt ano utur
purchass.
y o i
you'v bought lots o physical books
rom
mazon ovr
th yars,
having to
buy book
oitions or
your Kinol
can b
xpnsiv, so
MatchPook is
a brilliant
ioa or
bookworms.
Only crtain
titls ualiy
or buogt-prico oigital vrsions
(arouno 7, whn MatchPook
launcho last Octobr), but ths
incluo plnty o bst sllrs, such as
o of Pi ano Tho Hobbit.
mi i
mazon's similar srvic utoRip, which
provios MP3s o your CD purchass,
launcho ovr hr six months atr th
US, so on that vionc w can xpct
MatchPook arouno pril.
Raze BIade
rroom
i i
Th Razr Plao is an ultra-thin
Vinoows laptop, that's spciically
osigno to play gams.
y o i
t's xtrmly thin. Thinnr than th
MacPook Pro or MacPook ir; in act,
at |ust .66in thick, it's almost
rioiculously slim. nsio, it packs a
Ouao Cor ntl i7, 8P o RM ano
an Nvioia oorc TX 765M
graphics procssor, ano aturs a
4in ,6 x 9-pixls D oisplay.
mi i
lthough thr was a bit o
'buzz' about th Razr Plao
last summr, Pritish gaming
nthusiasts ar still
importing thir machins
oirctly rom th US.
rustratingly, th company
rmains tight-lippo
about an oicial UK
launch.
LoveIy
IivIovIyom
i i
Lovly is a oogl Maps ovrlay that
provios an innovativ way or
lanoloros ano tnants to ino ach
othr.
y o i
Trawling sits or a plac to rnt can
b laborious, but Lovly maks th
procss uick, asy ano rathr un,
whthr you'r looking or
somwhr to liv or you'r a lanoloro
who wants to rnt thir proprty.
Thr's also an iPhon app that snos
you alrts whn a nw proprty that
its your sarch critria coms on th
markt.
mi i
Sinc it's a wb-baso srvic that
rlis on usrs uploaoing thir
inormation, thr's nothing to stop
th srvic coming to th UK. Lovly
says it hops to xpano outsio th US
but has no immoiat plans to oo so.
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eate your own Windowe 8 app

+ button
1
to opn th Visuals mnu. This lts
you aoo things to th pag. Most simply, you can choos
rom txt,
z
imags

ano shaps, along with a rang o
common ovics ouno on wb pags, such as buttons,

sliors,

switchs ano orop-oown mnus.

You start with a blank canvas ano a singl pag. To aoo a

pictur to th backgrouno, click Packgrouno lmag
1
thn
oo lmag. Slct a il ano it will strtch to it th scrn.
Chang this by clicking lmag Position
z
ano choosing a
oirnt option. Click Fill

to chang th backgrouno colour.

Right-click anywhr on th scrn to s th top mnu.

From hr, you can Opn ano Sav your work rom th
Fil mnu;
1
Unoo or Roo things i you'v mao a
mistak;
z
aoo anothr scrn (pag) to your app;

ano
switch btwn your xisting pags.

4
Click Labl
1
in th Visuals mnu to aoo a txt box. You
can typ as much as you want oirctly into th box. Click
th Dsign button to chang th way th txt looks
z
or
us th box's hanols to rsiz it.

lmags ano shaps can b
aooo, positiono ano rsizo in th sam way.

ntil rcntly, thr was no asy way to crat your own

Vinoows 8 apps, but now Microsot has launcho Pro|ct
Sina, a nw r tool that maks ovloping apps much
simplr.
This powrul oitor lts you crat apps in th sam way
that wb-builoing sotwar givs you th tools to crat a
wbsit, using a visual, orag-ano-orop intrac. You can orop
in picturs, writ txt ano crat links btwn pags. You can
thn run your app on your own PC, sno it to rinos to run on
thirs ano vn publish it on th Vinoows Stor.
ln this Vorkshop, w show you how to mak a wbsit-lik
ject Siena: bit.IyJiena337 30 min 8+
app containing txt, graphics ano links, but
w'r mrly scratching th surac o what
Pro|ct Sina is capabl o.
Mor aovanco usrs
who hav programming
skills ano a talnt or
oata manipulation will
b abl to us Sina to
urthr nhanc thir
apps. S our Exprt Tip
or mor inormation.
14 paQes of workshops, tips,
pro|ects and probIem soIvinQ
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rat txt links or buttons to lt popl navigat arouno

your app. hoos somthing rom th Visuals mnu,
slct it ano click th OnSlct button.
1
lick th
Navigat switch
z
to crat a link. ln th nxt winoow, slct a
scrn to link to ano a transition typ.

Right-click anywhr on th scrn ano choos th

Prviw button to tak a look at your cration. This will
opn th app ull scrn
1
so you can chck that
vrything works. Right-click ano choos sign
z
to go back
to Sina.

Opn an imag oitor such as Paint.nt (www.gtpaint

.nt), click il
1
thn Nw ano mak a 245 x 245 pixl
imag. rat your icon osign, slct th backgrouno
with th Magic Vano
z
ano us th rasr tool

to rub it out,
making it transparnt.

To crat th app, right-click, slct il ano choos

Publish rom th orop-oown mnu. iv th app a nam
1
ano click th pncil to choos a colour.
z
Slct your
logo,

tick th 'Publish rsourcs locally' box

ano click
Publish.

Th app will now install. o to your Start Scrn ano

start typing th app's nam until it appars in th
Sarch bar. Right-click it ano slct 'Pin to Start'.
1
You can mov th app arouno th Start scrn by clicking,
holoing ano oragging it to your osiro position.

o to th olor whr you publisho th app ano opn

th PublishoPackag olor. oubl-click lnstallpp,
1
slct 'lnstall on this P'
z
ano click Nxt.

Th irst
tim you oo this you'll no to agr to a vlopr Licns,
which you can appno to an xisting Microsot account.
EXPERTTIP

Much o Pro|ct Sina's hioon powr coms rom bing abl to pull oata rom xtrnal sourcs,
particularly tabls o inormation rom xcl spraoshts. V oon't hav spac to go into that hr,
but hristin Mathny, a Tchnical vanglist at Microsot, hosts a brilliant tutorial you can work
through at bit.ly/oata337. lt also xplains how to publish your inisho app to th Vinoows Stor.
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ncognito Filtr (lF) to hrom. Th lnstructions pag

1
opns automatically in a nw tab. To look at this pag
latr, click th lF button,
z
Show Options

ano
lnstructions.

You can also rach th pag via th hrom
mnu by clicking Sttings, Extnsions ano Options unor lF.

To opn an incognito winoow, click th lF button, thn

Nw lncognito Vinoow. Th nw winoow has a gry
incognito icon
1
ano no xtnsion button. ags you
viw hr won't appar in your history
z
or lav cookis on
your computr, ano all xtnsions ar oisablo.

To st a wbsit to opn in incognito moo vry tim,

launch it in a non-incognito winoow, click th lF button
ano click oo Vbsit.
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z
Manag Vbsits,

thn typ th URL into th
oo Vbsit txt box

ano click oo Vbsit.

Vbsits aooo to lF ar listo in th lncognito Vbsits

box.
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rmov on, hovr ovr it ano click th cross.
z
l you
rmov a wbsit rom lF, you can still us Nw lncognito
Vinoow (s Stp 2) to manually visit it in incognito moo.

Tick th Show ovanco Options box

1
to s rgular
xprssions (RgExp) associato with ach wbsit.
z
ln
this contxt, rgular xprssions ar strings o URL txt,
or xampl 'www' ano 'https'. You can also us thm as
wilocaro sarch iltrs or lF to look out or.

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click oo RgExp.
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to untick unwanto xtras in th Stup box. Click
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'Don't us Picasa Photo Viwr'

to avoio changing il
associations, thn click inish.
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You can now clos Picasa.

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to
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ano click OK.

Vhn your sttings ar oon, click 'Start backup'. n

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ano a progrss
bubbl appars brily.
z
uto Packup runs in th
backgrouno ano rsums automatically whn you start your
PC. Click th notiication icon

or options ano progrss.
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coms with an xtra tool that automatically backs up
your photos ano vioos. lthough it installs with
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Tamprmonky or Chrom (bit.ly/
monky337) or rasmonky or
irox (bit.ly/gras337). Thn go to bit
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INDO 8
dd Start screen tiIes
Vhn you install sotwar in Vinoows 7
ano olor vrsions, an itm is aooo to
th Start mnu so you can ino ano run
th sotwar. Vinoows 8 has a Start
scrn instao o a mnu, but it oosn't
always automatically aoo a Start scrn
til whn nw sotwar is installo.
owvr, it's asy to aoo on manually.
Click th arrow at th bottom-lt o
th Vinoows 8. Start scrn to oisplay
all your apps ano sotwar. ino th
sotwar you |ust installo ano right-click
it - you can oo this to svral itms i you
want to aoo mor than on til. n th
bottom-lt cornr, click 'Pin to Start'.
Tils or th slcto sotwar will now
b aooo to th Start scrn.
Dave ass, via emaiI
HADAE
Use a shortcut to switch
sound devices
you hav mor than on auoio ovic
installo, such as haophons ano
spakrs, it usually taks svral clicks to
switch rom on to th othr. You hav to
right-click your taskbar volum icon,
click 'Playback ovics' ano choos a
souno caro to switch to. no it oosn't
always work.
SounoSwitch (sounoswitch.cooplx
.com) is a r opn-sourc program that
maks it asir to switch playback
ovics by ltting you toggl btwn
thm with a kyboaro shortcut. Right-
click th SounoSwitch icon in your
notiication ara to conigur it th irst
tim you us it. Ouick Souno Switch
OP IP
Th Ultimat Vinoows Twakr tool
(UVT) has bn upoato or Vinoows
8 ano 8.. t's a tiny r oownloao that
lts you oo a lot o vry usul things.
o to bit.ly/twak337 ano scroll oown
or th oownloao button.
uso th prvious vrsion o UVT
to chang my usr-account sttings
ano rstrict accss to som Control
Panl applts in Vinoows 7, ano
ouno it vry ctiv ano asy to us.
Tweak Windows to suit you
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havn't trio th nw vrsion ( oon't
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o your Vinoows 8 computr. Som o
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carul. t's a gooo ioa to crat a
Systm Rstor point, in cas things go
wrong. Rao all th guiolins at bit
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Pight-lik to pin pps tht r missing
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Een, Web User Forums

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comments
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Forums
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Blog $earch finds articles that standard
Google searches miss
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User forums

You'll probably b in, bcaus

Vista was actually mor rsourc-
hungry than ithr Vinoows 7 or 8.
lt's asy to ino out what kino o caro
you hav. Spccy (www.piriorm.com/
spccy) is a r oownloao that rvals
ull spciications o all componnts in
your PC or laptop. lt's mao by
WiII m graphics
card support an
upgrade7

Piriorm, th company bhino th

xcllnt CClanr. Thn us th
Vinoows Compatibility Cntr (bit.ly/
compat337) to ino out i your graphics
caro is aovanco nough. Entr th
nam o your graphics caro in th
sarch box or click 'Scan your
computr'.
Papi11on and Joe_ondon,
Web User Forums
tils of ll your omputer's
omponents with free progrm $pey
To void onflits, remove n old nti-virus
produt efore instlling new one
You my need to uthorise folders in WMP
to ply the songs ontined in them
ano owClanr (bit.ly/aow337) to mak
sur that your PC is clan. Thy'r both
r programs that ar asy to us ano
ar gooo at claring out uslss itms
ano malwar rom your computr. tr
running owClanr, chck th rport to
ino out what has bn ouno ano
rmovo.
l you'r still in any ooubt about th
saty o your computr, bgin a thrao
on th Hi|ack This orum (bit.ly/
hi|ack337). Th posting guiolins ar in
th sticky thraos at th top.
Sneakbeak and Difarn,
Web User Forums

Which anti-virus is right

for me7
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My Norton lntrnt Scurity
subscription runs out soon, so l'v
bn looking or an altrnativ. l oon't
mino paying, i it's gooo nough.
Microsot Scurity Essntials, VG, vast
ano Kasprsky all gt mntiono a lot,
but usr rviws nvr sm to agr.
On prson says that his anti-virus roz
his PC, anothr hao to oo a Systm
Rstor, anothr saio his anti-virus brok
his browsr.
Vhich rviws can l trust? l want to try
somthing othr than Norton.
Petrosk, Web User Forums

Evryon has thir avourit

anti-virus sotwar, ano prrncs
otn com oown to inoivioual tasts, but
th on that's right or you opnos on
your usag ano nos. vast Fr
ntivirus (www.avast.com) or VG Fr
(r.avg.com) will b nough or most
popl. vast was th highst-scoring
r program in 's most rcnt
anti-virus rouno-up (lssu 323, bit.ly/
wbusr323), ano Kasprsky (www
.kasprsky.co.uk) was th bst paio-or
program. Gizmo's Frwar also rats
vast highst in its r anti-virus tabl
(bit.ly/rav337).
Problms lik th ons thos rviwrs
mntion ar otn causo by conlicts
btwn oirnt anti-virus programs
installo on th sam computr, rathr
than by th programs thmslvs. So
whichvr anti-virus you choos, uninstall
Norton irst by using th Norton Rmoval
Tool (bit.ly/rmov337), thn rboot your
computr bor installing your nw
sotwar.
FratPark, Teddbo and MadeIine,
Web User Forums
sas: Non o th top thr
prooucts in our otailo rouno-up wr
r, but w ouno thm all to b wll
worth th mony. Kasprsky, Pitonor
(www.bitonor.co.uk) ano Norton
(uk.norton.com) all charg |ust unor 5C
to protct thr PCs or a yar. Thir 2C4
vrsions ar out now. V also rato vast
Fr ntivirus xtrmly highly. Howvr,
Microsot Scurity Essntials cam
bottom o our laorboaro.

Wh won't Windows Media

PIaer accept m fiIes7
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l'v bn transrring all my music
ils rom my olo PC to my nw
Vinoows 8. laptop. Th ils hav
transrro but whn l try opning thm
in Vinoows Moia Playr, l gt an rror
mssag. Th Vb Hlp link tlls m that
l hav th wrong cooc on my PC. Put l
also hav VLC on my laptop, ano that has
no problm raoing th ils.
oIaIoIa, Web User Forums

VLC (www.vioolan.org) coms with

mor coocs pr-installo than
Vinoows Moia Playr (VMP), which
may xplain why VLC can rao your ils
but VMP can't. You coulo mak VLC your
oault moia playr, but it oosn't hav
th ripping, burning ano syncing tools
that VMP has.
l you hav vrsions N or KN o
Vinoows 8., you may no to oownloao
th Moia Fatur Pack rom Microsot's
wbsit (bit.ly/win8n337). This will aoo
unorlying tchnologis that ar missing
rom VMP in ths vrsions o Vinoows,
so it may solv your problm.
Hav you authoriso VMP to aoo
songs in your Music olor to its library?
Opn VMP, slct 'Manag libraris' rom
th Organiz mnu ano click Music to
opn th 'Library locations' oialogu box.
Click oo, navigat to th olor
containing your transrro ils ano click
'lncluo olor'. Vinoows will thn
monitor that olor or ils to aoo to
VMP.
l non o ths suggstions work, my
aovic woulo b to uninstall VMP ano
rinstall it. ll th vrsions ar listo on
Microsot's wbsit at bit.ly/moia337.
Difarn, Web User Forums

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