iPhone 4S launch pics and unboxing

The iPhone 4S launched at midnight through both Vodafone and Telecom. We've got pictures from both events - some better than others - and an unboxing of Apple's newest phone....

Linux Mint: From scratch - Part III

Now you've tried Mint, you'll want to install it properly. If you're currently running Windows, there are two ways ... The really easy way Pop in the bootable download disk you created last time and wait for AutoPlay to...

Pumping ultrafast packets

Why thirteen is lucky for broadband speed tweaking Net nostalgia: One of my early columns for PC World explained how you could speed up your internet connection by tweaking some low-level network settings within the operating system. This was thirteen...

Logging, not login

At an event in Singapore yesterday, Seamus Byrne, the editor of CNet Australia, tweeted that 50% of Facebook's 900 million users login in every day. He followed that up with a tweet saying that 500M use Facebook mobile. I did...

Braver than a barrel of codemonkeys

If you've ever wondered, "can a grown man really do that?", Harley O'Gyver is here to show that it can be done. Crazy computer projects, strange coding challenges, repurposing every day objects... all this is Harley's stock-in-trade. Got an idea...

Are HD remakes really necessary?

Remember all those games you loved in the 90s and early 00s? Well, now you're getting the chance to love them all over again. Many of the old titles that were originally conceived in standard definition are being remade for...

New Zealand memes: We think we're real funny

We New Zealanders love the internet, and we have a pretty good sense of humour, too. We've created loads of memes (or been the subject of them) over the past couple of years, and PC World has gathered a few...