By Lincoln Spector Published in the July 2008 print edition of PC World Philippines July 17, 2008 Why Is My E-Mail Landing in Friends’ Spam Boxes? Maybe because you misspelled Viagra. Seriously, some spelling checkers get suspicious when they see “cute” spellings or unusual characters inserted into words, so it’s best to avoid these. When [...]

By Lincoln Spector Published in the May 2008 print edition of PC World Philippines July 17, 2008 What’s the Easiest Way to Back Up Data? Over the Internet—since that approach gives you both a constant, background backup and physical separation. The easiest Internet backup service I know of is MozyHome (mozy.com/home). Once you set it [...]

By Lincoln Spector Published in the July 2008 print edition of PC World Philippines July 17, 2008 Over the past 25 years, readers have asked PC World thousands of questions about technology. Some —like “Why won’t DOS recognize my dot-matrix printer?”—have lost a bit of their urgency. But even as the standards and specs change, the [...]

Published in the March-April 2008 print edition of PC World Philippines May 16, 2008 Hybrid Hard Drives Innovation: First hard drives with a built-in NAND flash memory cache. Benefit: Power savings and performance boost for laptops. Samsung and Seagate each have shipped new hard drives that combine traditional hard-disk media with a flash cache to [...]

AMD’s Spider platform is designed to work optimally by working the Phenom processors and chipsets with ATI’s new HD graphics cards. Here’s a basic run-down of what you’ll need to build a high-end rig based on AMD’s quad-core Phenom X4 processor.

March 16, 2008 Web apps that transcend the Web. PCs that redefine what a PC can do. And oh yeah, a certain cell phone you may have heard of. We pick 25 breakthroughs that you can get your hands on right now. By the PC World Staff Published in the March-April 2008 print edition of [...]

Web apps that transcend the Web. PCs that redefine what a PC can do. And oh yeah, a certain cell phone you may have heard of. We pick 25 breakthroughs that you can get your hands on right now.