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DSW R019 8 29 ol ene 7 A @ Tweak your app settings iB ANrag easy et @ Long-press tips WHEREVER YOU ARE Stop buffering forever Download films to watch offline Make weak signals strong Top speeds on any device a ..and lots, lots more! a KEEP EVERYTHING PRIVATE! Disguise what’s on i f ee | your Desktop - p70 ‘ GET 50GB FREE! (that’s 7 times SkyDrive) Store and share ANY file - p6 HTC M UM esi Anyone can build a great looking website with WebEden.co.uk CLP Add your own words, images & videos SARE] Add 3rd party content - Google Maps & YouTube EY Drag and drop your content anywhere Unlimited number of pages $F Integrate with Facebook & Twitter © _ Includes a free domain & free email Call 0845 026 1045 or Web go to www.webeden.co.uk Widespread Wi-Fi couple of weeks ago | was forced to work from home because my usual rush- hour train couldn't cope with an hour's snow. Ten years ago, that would've meant being shackled to my chunky PC. Instead, thanks to Wi-Fi, my sofa replaced my office chair, my coffee table replaced my desk, and | kept in touch with the Web User team on my new Chromebook. Fast Wi-Fi stayed with me during a lunchtime pint , HOME PAGE THINGS YOU'LL pas y SRS How to send 50MB files for free from your phone or tablet p36 How to find, download and manage your BitTorrent files using a Chrome add-on p38 How to turn off annoying notifications and balloon tips in Windows pss How to stop your laptop's trackpad making the cursor jump around randomly p62 How to remove Facebook [contacts from your Windows Live Mail account pes. ks eau | GET THE FREE WEB Tena) 7 February 2013 3 Get 5068 of free online storage with Mega p6 Don't like a site's changes? ) 3 B lost.fm a Frc dassic ac Han Pye vets anew twist p32 4 7 February 2013 ‘Switch to analtemative p54 6 Essential Masterclass Mega 14 Best New Websites The fortnight’s best new and relaunched sites 36 Best Free Apps Our top new smartphone and tablet apps 44 COVER FEATURE: Get faster Wi-Fi wherever you are Get maximum wireless speeds on your laptop, phone and tablet, at home or on the move 54 Switch to a new site to beat annoying changes Alternative services to sites that let you down Seolre eas 22 Product Test Serif PhotoPlus x6 32 Best Free Software This fortnight’s top free software downloads 38 Best New Add-ons The 10 most useful tools for your browser ‘52 Turn off annoying Windows features Nine smart and simple ways to take control of your PC ww forum.webuser.co.uk PIs 22 Product Test ! TP Link TLWAASORE wireless range extender 24 Group Test | 14 internal hard drives - from TTB to 4T8 - put to the test fees a 8 Need to Know 12. What’s New Online 17 Kate Russell's Web Calendar 42 Instant Expert Sky Go Extra 69 Broadband Deals | 74 Save Money Online Practical p 14 pages of workshops, tips, Pelee) eee Bee) eae} 58 Workshop 1 Secret tools, tips and tricks for the Nexus 7 60 Workshop 2 Download photos with one click 61 Workshop 3 ‘Customise Chrome's New Tab page 62 Readers’ Tips The best tips from our readers 64 Readers' Helpdesk — Answers from our reader forums | fnoeims Disquse what's 66 Ask the Experts | Chrome tas ‘on your Desktop Solutions from our technical team 68 Expert Tips ‘Customising the Start menu 70 Weekend Project Keep everything private on your PC | Karate ‘a et Mears ‘nonin oer sce Stnmiwe Ferma isan ‘Setaatw Paina Penn sy 80) Pett alata Sopeetinge Sto Heine Gee mc Sonne re raapagdn atts Fewer Des ee Weta err (cones ee nts tober (Govfeaar er et ere Ea Woe pou rn i rs tra ach smaserik lupe tPr on pees he saris ine fat eatontandaioeok ‘crete ar, ‘Blin iae ay ene vgcntn ice pete Pe Domania an Frc eae then sates oer wr ee uieaoeaniee or. Aronson iterates douse Utd rin dearth ir sete Get more tips im our newsletter at wwrw.webuserco.uk/newsletter x, 7 February 2013 5 ESSENTIAL MASTERCLASS Your top priority this fortnight Mega | www.mega.co.nz Mega is a new online storage service offering a massive 50GB of free space. Here’s how to use it egaupload was accused by the US Department of Justice of being used for sharing copyright files, and was forced to close. Its successor, Mega, Is an online storage service that claims it won't suffer any legal problems. It promises its users 50GB for free. That's seven times more ‘space than the free version of SkyDrive and 25 times more than Dropbox. Mega promises complete privacy, ‘encrypting everything you upload before it's sent. Your encryption key is tied into your password and isn’t held by Mega, so your files can only be read by you and the people you invite to share them. Bear in mind that if you lose your password, there's no way to access your account, Remove Your storage space will start off lookina very empty. To create some Folders, click the ‘New folder’ button, EB They'll appear in the main window El and in the tree. EDI you make a mistake, you can right-click a folder to Move BY or Remove lit Navigate to the faldar you want to work in, Depending on what you're sending, click File Upload fl or Folder Upload. El then select the item from the Explorer window that opens. Files are ‘queued and you can monitor their progress, Bd VY oon ‘To share a file with anyone, even non-Mega users, right-click it and select ‘Get link’: II You can choose to also include the key, E¥ namelEl and size of the fle Bl Click ‘Copy to clipboard’. If you send the link without the key, you'll have to send the key separately because the fle can’t be accessed without it ‘At the other end, the recipient can either download the file or import itinto their own Mega account. If you sent the key separately from the link, the recipient needs to copy and paste it into the box. 6 7 February 2013 You can only share an entire folder if the recipient has a Mega account and is listed in your contacts. Click Contacts, Bi then ‘add contact’. Bl Type their email address in the box Ef they’re already & ‘membor, they'l turn up under the Contacts header. Otherwise, they'll get fan email inviting them to join Get more practical advice at forum.webuser.co.uk & Right-click the folder you want to In chrome, you can drag and drop Click the My account’ button EB to share and click Sharing, BI Type files, Files and folders can be View information about your account email address or select it from the dragged from Windows into Mega, and type and the amount of storage space drop-down menu. EI Set theirlevel of | maved around the interface. f you drag a used. EI Scrall dawn ar ue the links El to participation as ‘Read only’, Read & Write file onto one of your contacts, that file access more settings. You can set the or Full access’. Click "Grant access’. will appear in their Inbox. BL number of upload and download Shared folders from your contacts connections, and limit the speed, EB so appear below thelr email address. Mega doesn't hoa your bandwidth Get more tins in our newsletter at wwrw.webuser.co.uk/newsletter >, 7 February 2013 7 NEED Kop -ex(oni anc Microsoft launches £80-a-year subscription to Office 2013 a What happened? Microsoft released the latest version of Office 2013, unveiling new versions of programs including Word, Excel and Outlook, and a new subscription option For £109.99, you can buy a single copy of Office Home and Student ‘outright, and use it for as long as you want, Alternatively, for £79.99 a year, you can buy a subscription to Office 365, and use the software on five different PCs. If you are a university student, the subscription price is £60 {or two devices over four years. You can also buy one copy of a sinale proaram in the suite, such as Word or Excel, for £69. Office 5365's annual subscription marks a significant change to how Microsoft sells its software, Normally, you would buy a PC or laptop with Word, Excel and the other software preloaded, or upgrade your computer to get it, Now, Microsoft is asking customers to consider paying a monthly subscription for the lifetime of their machine, The stanciard boxed copy" ot Office Home and Student includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Office 56S includes the entire suite, as well as Outlook, Publisher and Access (see box, right). Microsoft has cut the number of PCs Office Home ana Student can be used on to just one, which means you'll need to pay £110 for every machine in your home, Office 585 has licences for 8 7 February 2013 five PCs. Microsoft has also changed how many updates it makes. Office Home and ‘Student will receive the standard security updates, but no more than that. In contrast, Office 365 will be continually updated with new features. How will it affect you? If you're looking to upgrade to a new version of Ward, oF Buy a new PC featuring Office, youll need to decide how to pay for it. if you have a large family using several PCs, you should consider subscribing ta Office 365, ut If your household has just one main PC, you may be better off with one of the free alternatives available, such as LibreOffice and Google Brive (see our next issue for expert tips on how to use these). IFyau're doing little more than typing the odd document and tracking personal finances on a spreadsheet, free software will do the job, If you do subscribe to Office, bear in mind that it you dan't renew at the end (of 12 months, you wor't be able to edit documents using the software (though you can with Microsoft's Web Apps) What do we think? This is a bold move from Microsoft, but it seems doomed to fail, Thanks to tablets and smartphones, apps have become small, single-purpose programs, with a tiny price to match, Wil customers be wiling to pay more than £6.60 a month to use Word, ang yet never actually own the software? For our part, we'll continue to recommend free Office alternatives, which have never looked more attractive. + See our First Look on Office 2013 on page 13 OFFICE 2013 DETAILS Office 365 Home Premium £79.99 per year; 5-PC licence for Word, Excol, PowerPoint, One Not Outlook, Publisher and Access. Comes with 20GB of SkyDrive and 60 free minutes of intornational calls on Skype every month Office Home and Student £109.99; single-PC licence for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and One Note Office Home and Business £219.99; single-PC licence for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, One Note and Outlook Office Professional £389.99; single-PC licence for Word, Excol, PowerPoint, One Note, Outlook, Publisher and Access PA Ticketmaster kills CAPTCHA tests CLLR What happened? Ticketmaster said it will stop using the CAPTCHA system, which asks people to type hard-to-read words and numbers to contirm that they're a ‘eal person. The company uses CAPTCHA tests to stop automated attempts at buying hundreds of tickets as scon as they go ‘on sale. Many other sites also use it to prevent bots bypassing security. Since its introduction in 2000, the system has infuriated web users because of how difficult itis to make ‘out the distorted letters To replace CAPTCHA, Ticketmaster «will use software from Solve Media (solvemedia.com) that will ask you to type well-known phrases or answer ‘multiple-choice questions such as “which one is a country? “Ticketmaster has run trials that show ‘people take an average of seven seconds to use the new system, half the time required to solve a CAPTCHA test. How will it affect you? Youll spend far less time screaming in frustration as you browse, We know how much you hate using CAPTCHAS, so i'l come as a relief that a major website such as Ticketmaster will start using @ friendlier system. fit works, proving you're human willbe far less hassle. What do we think? At last! CAPTCHAS are ane of the internet's biggest pains, and we've often complained about how widespread they are, £0 it's wonderful that they might be on the way out Recently, deciphering the spidery scrawl has become almost impossible, Being able to hear the CAPTCHA has helped a bit, but we've often had to hit the refresh button four or five times to bring up letters we could ‘read. In fact, the only good thing about CAPTCHA is the imaginative ‘acronym, which stands for Completely ‘Automated Public Turing test to tell Computars and Humans apart. We lke the sound of the Solve Media tests, They ask clever questions that only humans can answer, without compromising security: Hopefully the ays of asking yourself “is that a B or ‘an 82° will soon be over. Twitter ‘recommends’ Vine porn WhatsApp accused of stealing data What happened? Twitter's new six-second video-sharing app Vine (Gee page 36) accidentally recommended a porn clip just a few days after it launched. The service blamed *human error” for a sexually explicit video appearing as one of its "editor's picks Lots of porn clips wore uploaded Var aY-) automatically, and display 4 warning, s0it's unlikely you'll find porn by What happened? Dutch and Canadian privacy regulators have criticised WhatsApp cwwwiwhatsapp com) for keeping data it shouldn't have. The app lets users send messages to each other using their phones for ‘manually add your contacts instead of letting WhatsApp automatically add them. ‘Android users can't do this, though. To complain, contact, WhatsApp by email Gupportiawhatsapp.com) and on Twitter (@WhatsApp), free. When installed, it troma phone to check if any of the downloads contacts What do we think? WhatsApp hadn't to Vine, but mast could ——_aceidart. people are already commented on only be Found by registered. the reports at the searching. What do we think? However, the time of writing, so Itcame as no surprise that privacy we cont know if How will it affect anew, high-profile video investigators say the data collection you? service became deluged that i fails to was intentional, or with adult content - itis the internet, afterall. The real shock was that Vine and Twitter made it so easy to find, Was Twitter really Twitter and Vine (uine.co) acted quickly to remove the video, and have made it harder to seareh for porn Most Vine videos play automatically, which is fine ifs a kitten playing with wool. However, potentially offensive clips don't play so naive a8 to think that Vine would only be used for family-friendly videos of giggling babies? Discuss web news at forum.webuser.co.uk |e, delete the numbers that don't match, thereby collecting data on people who have never used it merely a mistake, Either way) there's simply no excuse. Yes, the data was encrypted. But the best way to protect user info is not to collect it unless Ws truly necessary, and to delete it when you're done. WhatsApp needs to explain what went wrong, and then apolosise, How will it affect you? Unfortunately, the damage is done, and there's not a fot you can do, However, f you Use iOS 6, you can choose to 7 February 2013 9 eons: Ts OS ia) =] MAS ei cares lai ait Use the new Google Images cogle has revamped its image search, so when you click an image, you'l stil see related pictures in a panel above. You'll also see pleture data next to the image, including its size, 2 be able to browse through the images using the arrow keys on your keyboard To speed things up, Goagle no longer loads the page the image appears on in the background. Allround, we agree with Google that the bot it's “faster, more beautiful, and more 1931). But it look bac reliable” (bity/aoogle Watch House of Cards on Netflix wnw.netflix.com ‘You can wateh the US remake of House of Cards exclusively on Netflix, which made all 13 episodes available to stream at the beginning of February, it stars Kevin Spacey in the role lan Richardson made Famous in the Nineties, although Francis Urquhart has been renamed Frank Underwood, Subscribing to Netflix costs, £5.99 a month, but you can use it far free ona monthly tral Before you decide, watch the House of Cards trailer: bit.iy/traifer30 wousems/ anos See Israel in Street View F | bitlv/israeisn Google has added hundreds of Israeli locations to Street View, Including the coral reef in Eilat, the lowest point ‘on earth at the Dead Sea, and the Sea of Galilee (see photo). But none of these can beat the marvellous Egged Bus Museum (bit \y/egged3t, 12. 7 February 2013 you don't like the new layou 1m of the results and click ‘Switch to basic version’ to get the old images.google.co.uk scroll to Compare your fuel price worldwide bitty/fuelaT ‘The BBC's naw fuel-price calculator lets you compare the price you pay for petrol with other | "= countries, based on fuel type, and | the size of your car and tank. You'll also see how much it would cost without tax. See most popular photos on Flickr Commons bitly/flickest iP Flickr Commons (www al flickz-com/commans), a collection of over 250,000 photos from archives, museums and libraries, has celebrated its fifth birthday by creating galleries of the wed, favaurited and commented-unon phatos You'll see sorne wonderful, ea-defining images from the past 150 years, ranging from mini-skirted flight attendants to the famous picture of Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt at the 1945 Yalta conference in the Crimea, The link above takes you ta Flickr's blag, but finding the galleries from there isn't easy. You need to scroll down {and click the links on the words ‘four very special galleries’ Each one will take you to a gallery most Watch Jamie Oliver’s new YouTube channel wwwgyoutube,com/Jemiedliver Jamie Oliver haz launched Food ‘Tube, a cooking channel featuring vvideo recipes and footage of the chet ‘cooking live. To get a taste of what's | Watch video on _ BBC Sport iOS app | bit.y/bbesportsnt | BC Sport has added live and on-demand video to its 108 app, which launched in early January, Android users without Flash can watch BBC Sport video by installing the BBC Media Player app (oitly/playersiD. Use Readers Hub 2.0 ebook service The new tools in the second version of ‘Samsung's e-reading service let you change and annotate passages fram ‘ebooks, You can now also change text size, background colour and screen brightness. Readers Hub 2.0 is pre~ loaded on the Galaxy Note Il, the Galaxy S llland the Galaxy Note 101. Take new tours in Google Earth rn ag earth google.co.uk Google Earth has added 100,000 ‘new tours In 200 countries, giving ‘you dazzling 3D guides of famous locations. To use it, search fora location, then click the Tour Guide tabat the bottom of the screen. Click a thumbnail photo and you'll {ly ever that location, with information appearing on the ‘screen. Google's video will explain ‘more: bit !y/tourguidesN. It's a brilliant way to prepare fora holiday. WHAT’S NEW ONLINE In store, watch the hour-long opening show (bit.ly/jamie3i, which was broadcast live on 21 January. Orange Wednesday film tickets go online bit.iy/orangesn You can now buy 2or-I cinema tickets on Orange Wednesday by entering the ‘code online instead of having to show it ‘on your phone at the cinema. You'l sti need to text FILM" to 241 (which costs '35p) In order to get the code. There's also a 75p fee for booking online, but i does mean you're guaranteed tickets. Before now, you had to hopea film wasn't sold out. ierosort has M unveiled Office 2013, redesigning each program to match Windows 8, and ‘optimising them for touchscreen dovices. For a £78.99 annual subscription, you get all the main programs, plus 20GB of SkyDrive storage and 60 minutes of free international Skype calls a month

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