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The List
Fans of small-form-factor PCs are a dedicated bunch, and a Mini-ITX motherboard is the absolute superstar of such builds. Yes, you may want to try to fit a PC into a case not much larger than a shoebox, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you want to c
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GnuCash
DEVELOPER The GnuCash Project WEB www.gnucash.org LICENCE GPL v3 GnuCash is a completely free open source accounting package that is impressive to say the least. Although it has more of an accounts-style edge, the program lets you tackle all manner
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Coagulation Station
PRICE Free PLATFORM PC WEB bit.ly/CoagulationGame THE BLOOD MUST FLOW. Saddled with an enormous debt, you can hardly pass up the opportunity to become a Clot Management Specialist on a living meat planet known as Carrion Prime. It’s exactly as fleshy
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Lenovo Yoga Book 9i
PRICE $4,699 WEB lenovo.com The dual screen Yoga Book 9i is now in its second incarnation, with a new CPU and other minor spec changes, but the same gorgeous 13.3in displays and premium build quality. The Yoga Book 9i takes an interesting approach t
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MSI Roamii BE Lite Wi-Fi Mesh System
PRICE $449 (two-pack) WEB https://au.msi.com We’ve been impressed by MSI’s budget Wi-Fi routers in the past, so we were happy to see this Roamii Wi-Fi 7 mesh land on these shores. The (two-node) Roamii BE Lite Wi-Fi Mesh System costs just $449 which
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Super Dassalo Land
PRICE Free PLATFORM PC, browser WEB bit.ly/SuperDassalo LIVE, LAUGH, LEAP IN THIS PLATFORMER. I can’t be alone in missing licensed platformers (right?), even if their quality was variable, to put it kindly. So I was happy to fire up Super Dassalo Lan
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System News
From the front lines of the Australian PC market Intel is doing it tough these days, seemingly attacked on all fronts, its share price has slipped over 60% from US$60 a share just three years ago, to around US$22 a share now, reflecting the markets
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Console Yourself, Or Not
The PS5 Pro has arrived. It’s far, far more powerful than the plain old PS5, but it’s also a lot more expensive at $1,199. Does the PS5 Pro make gaming PCs look like good value again? Or are GPU prices still so high, you’d have to be very serious abo
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Microsoft Copilot Just Got A Radical Redesign In Major Update
Microsoft is updating both Windows 11 and Copilot with a slew of new features for both the operating system and the virtual assistant. The Windows features are rolling out broadly, starting with PCs that are eligible devices running Windows 11 22H2 a
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Record Sounds On Mac
IT WILL TAKE 15 mins YOU WILL LEARN How to capture any audio on your Mac YOU’LL NEED Audio Hijack, macOS 14.4 or later Your Mac can play all kinds of sounds from all kinds of sources, but how do you record and store them for personal use? For things
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Asus ZenWiFi BT10
PRICE $2,799 WEB www.asus.com/au Back in the olden days of Wi-Fi 5, it was Asus’ ZenWiFi ‘mega mesh’ wireless routers that led the world. While regular mesh systems dribbled performance across numerous network nodes (like many still do), the ZenWiFi
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Rise Of The Robots
While the shuttering of Apple’s self-driving car project earlier this year was disappointing, the lessons learnt during its development may well prove useful on a smaller scale – in robotic devices for the home. The first Apple robot is expected to b
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Editorial Editor: Ben Mansill ben.mansill@futurenet.comSenior Journalist: Shaun PrescottSenior Journalist: Lindsay HandmerGroup Art Director: Troy Coleman Contributors Fraser Brown, George Cairns, Hope Corrigan, David Crookes, Ian Evenden, Robert I
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Arm Is Pulling The Plug On Qualcomm’s Chip Design License
Everything you need to know from the month in tech Qualcomm is the company behind the chips found in smartphones, laptops and many other devices we use daily. But it may soon lose its license to use technology developed by its partner Arm, a move th
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Nothing Phone (2a) Plus
PRICE $639 WEB au.nothing.tech Nothing can be confusing. This innovative British phone maker not only loves to throw brackets into its phone names, which we will ignore henceforth for the sake of clarity, but extra letters too: the $639 Nothing Phon
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Going Dark
The number of Aussies using a VPN is on the up, and that’s a trend that we’ve watched, generally unsurprised, over the last few years. According to a recent study by IT Wire (tinyurl.com/APC539VPN), in the period between 2020 and 2024 the percentage
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FreeTube 0.21.3
NEEDS Windows 10 or 11, macOS or Linux WEB https://freetubeapp.i Although FreeTube is officially still in beta, this private front-end for YouTube has made lots of major changes since we last took a look at it. It has overhauled its interface to mak
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Draytek Vigor2927Lax-5G Router
PRICE $1,399 WEB /www.draytek.com.au Draytek routers are different to the rest of the router market in that they offer all manner of highly secure networking features and functions for SMBs. They can rival Cisco’s Meraki technologies for business fe
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Exclusive Downloads
Download these APC exclusives free from: www.apcmag.com/exclusives With Secure-PDF, you can secure your PDF documents with up to 256-bit AES encryption. This method ensures that your sensitive information is protected from unauthorised access. By add
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In Praise Of The Early Adopters
Inspirational stories from computing’s long-distant past We’ve all encountered laggards. “One of those fancy new smartphones, is it?,” they will have said a decade ago, nodding towards the black slab you just pulled out of your pocket. “My old Nokia
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Gigabyte FO27Q2
PRICE $1,369 WEB gigabyte.com Once upon a time, 60Hz was the standard. This weird hangover from NTSC TVs that needed to sync to the frequency of AC power (which in turn goes back to Nikola Tesla, Edison, and Westinghouse making arc lights) still pro
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Reviews
APC is Australia’s oldest consumer technology magazine – having been consistently in print for over forty years, since our first issue way back in May 1980 – and we take that heritage and responsibility very seriously. While our focus is obviously on
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Slider
PRICE Free PLATFORM PC WEB bit.ly/SliderGame REDEEMING A HATED PUZZLE MECHANIC. Somehow, Slider has turned the worst parts of adventure games into one very fine puzzle game – and a generous one, given the lack of a price tag. I’m talking about slidin
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Hack Wi-Fi On To Your New Pi Pico 2
• Pico 2 or Pico 1• Adafruit Airlift FeatherWing co-processor• 8x M2M jumper wires• Breadboard Just like the original Raspberry Pi Pico, the new Raspberry Pi Pico 2 has no Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity. There will be a Pico 2 W, which has been con
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The Problem Solvers
I was advised to use DuckDuckGo Email Protection (https://duckduckgo.com/email/) to improve my email privacy, so set up free Duck.com email addresses for myself and my family. Sadly, they stopped working. DuckDuckGo told me my email provider has star
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Phone & Tablet Tips
The Google Photos app for Android (tinyurl.com/APC539gpa) and iOS (tinyurl.com/APC539gpio) has been redesigned to make it easier to find your pictures and videos. The Library tab on the bottom toolbar has been replaced by a new Collections tab ( 1 in
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Browser Tips
Three months after it launched the feature in the US, Google has added an AI Overview section to its search results in Australia (1 in our screenshot below). This provides AI-generated answers to your search queries, by summarising content from sever
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Thermaltake The Tower 600
PRICE $279 WEB thermaltake.com The Thermaltake Tower 600 comes with a fairly high price of $279. There are many cases more expensive than this, but most PC builders will likely stay far below this price point. For those that are interested in ventur
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Age of Mythology: Retold
PRICE $39.95 PLATFORM PC, XBS/X WEB tinyurl.com/APC539mytho RTS was the beating heart of PC gaming once, now surviving on the platform’s periphery as indies, remakes and remasters. Enter Age of Mythology Retold, not a 100% faithful translation of the
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Market Watch
$2,349 | tinyurl.com/APC539umart Sporting the latest generation components available the cheapest rig this month does well for itself on the performance front. The 14600K is no slouch when it comes to multithreaded tasks, having twenty threads on tap
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