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Targus Armoured Notebook Case

The TANC is a tad bulky, but it's a reasonable price to pay for the protection it could afford your child's school laptop.

The first step to laptop security is making sure it's not easy to get logged on.

Genji: Days of the Blade

While this action adventure game flexes a bit of the PlayStation 3's graphical muscle with its mythical Japanese scenery, its rather shallow, derivative gameplay makes it difficult to recommend.
CA Antivirus 2007

CA Antivirus 2007 provides a good antivirus engine, adequately protecting your desktop from basic malicious viruses and worms, despite a few interface glitches.
AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 Professional Single Edition

AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 Professional Single Edition is a pretty good, no-frills virus scanner. But you'll need to purchase antispyware software for complete malware protection.
McAfee Total Protection 2007

McAfee Total Protection 2007 does what it says on the label -- it protects your PC from all sorts of nasty attacks, albeit at a fairly high cost to your system performance, especially on older PCs.
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6

Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6 is light and fast and consistently wins detection awards against the competition; it's worthy of our Editors' Choice designation.
McAfee Wireless Protection

McAfee Wireless Protection makes more sense as part of the McAfee Total Protection suite than as a stand-alone application.
Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3

Trend Micro Anti-Spyware 3 is a solid and easy-to-use choice for your antispyware protection.
Macromedia Flash 8.0

Macromedia beefs up Flash to tackle videos and mobile content.

Do you need a home network for school?

With the government slowly rolling out laptops to school kids, many families will discover they have more than one computer in the home.
Sweet security: three Internet security suites compared

Without a corporate IT staff or gateway antivirus and firewall solutions, small businesses and home desktop users need some kind of protection from hackers and other Internet security threats.
Spyware roundup

Hidden bits of code known as spyware may be broadcasting your innermost secrets to the world. Here's how to put a stop to it.

Wiimote hack improves real-life tennis game

Mans Shapshak, an avid tennis player as well as a gear hacker, has come up with a novel way to combine fake tennis with real tennis to improve his real-world game using a hacked Wiimote.
ACCC whips HP cashback into shape

HP Australia has changed its claims processing and complaints handling procedures, following numerous complaints received by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission about the manufacturer's cashback and gift promotions.
Hackers release iPhone 2.0 jailbreak

A little more than a week after the release of Apple's iPhone 3G, an unofficial development team has announced the release of software that "jailbreaks" the new device, allowing unauthorised third-party applications to be loaded.
Greedy Apple users will trust anyone

A "jailbreak" Web site created earlier this week is already attracting hordes of iPhone and iPod Touch users who want to free their devices from the digital shackles attached by Jobs and co. But is it safe?

DIY: Start your VoIP DJ career

Want to create your own streaming radio station? We show you how with this simple hack.
iTunes hacks

We'll show you how to stream your iTunes library wirelessly throughout the house and create playlists without having to manually select each song.

Get (laptop) smart before you buy

Win the numbers game and get the laptop that's perfect your needs as well as your budget!
Microsoft Windows® 7. Your PC, simplified.

Windows® 7 has been designed to be more reliable, more responsive, and to make the things you do every day easier.
Whereis® maps

If you’d like to get to know more of Australia, and do it safely, then check out Whereis® maps.