Your Family Tree, issue 77

In a “blink and you’ll miss it” moment, my quick tip on incorporating 1911 census records in your Family Tree Maker file using the web-clipping tool can be read on page 49. Find out what else is in the magazine this month by clicking here.

Microsoft Windows XP

I’ve been commissioned to write a feature on netbooks for the official Microsoft Windows XP Magazine’s 100th issue. I will also be contributing the lead feature: 100 free tools for your PC.

BBC Countryfile

My latest “Five days to the weekend” piece has been published online, featuring Bredwardine and Brobury. Click here to view it.

PC Answers, 198

The latest issue of PC Answers has been published, and features my “Move to a new PC” feature on transferring data, programs and settings from your old PC to your new one. Also featured is my guide to safely optimising the Registry by avoiding Registry cleaning tools, plus my regular Helpdesk contribution.

Tech Radar

The last of my latest batch of tips pieces for Tech Radar has now been published – click here to read about 10 tweaks to make after reinstalling Windows.

Microsoft Windows Vista

I’ve just submitted my Q&A column for issue 32. Deadlines and holidays notwithstanding, I may also have a two-page tutorial on batch processing photos to write for the same issue on my return – deadline sometime in May.

BBC Countryfile Magazine

My latest "Five days to the weekend" featurette, on Bramley in Surrey, is now online - click here to read it.

Tech Radar

I have submitted the fourth of my pieces for Tech Radar this month, a roundup of 10 of the best free clipboard replacement tools. This has just been posted online – click here to read it.

Publication date of my previously submitted 10 essential post-reinstall tweaks piece is currently unknown.

Support PCs

I’ve just published an updated version of my 100 keyboard shortcuts feature to the Tips section of the web site. This has previously appeared in both PC Answers 179 and in amended form in Windows XP Magazine 91. Click here.

Support PCs

I’ve uploaded a revised and updated tutorial on sharing media and TV (both live and recorded programmes) over the internet. This was originally published in issue 18 of Microsoft Windows Vista Magazine. Click here to view the tutorial.

Computeractive

My recent workshop on adding a Vista-style Favourites bar to Windows XP has now been published online – click here. This article originally appeared in issue 282.

Microsoft Windows Vista, issue 30

My latest Q&A column for Microsoft’s official magazine for Windows Vista users has just been published in the latest issue of the magazine. Click here for more details.

BBC Who Do You Think You Are?

My forthcoming review of Family Historian 4 has been pushed back an issue due to a delayed release date (deadline now early May). In its place I’ve been commissioned to write a review of Roots Magic 4, which has also just been released. Deadline middle of next week.

Microsoft Windows XP Magazine

I’ve just extensively reworked a piece on using your PC during the summer months that was originally published in PC Answers issue 161 for issue 99 of Microsoft’s official title for Windows XP users.

BBC Countryfile magazine

My latest “Five days to the weekend” piece, featuring Morpeth in Northumbria, is now online – click here.

Tech Radar

The second of my latest trilogy of tips features has now been uploaded to the Tech Radar web site: click here for 10 easy ways to boost your online security.

Tech Radar

My “10 brilliant free back-up tools” piece is now online at Tech Radar – click here to read it (and download some of those tools if you’re running without a backup!).

Birmingham City Official Match Day Magazine

My latest column was published in last night’s programme, while my next column – published next Monday – has just been submitted.

BBC Countryfile Magazine

My latest Five Days to the Weekend piece, featuring Polperro in Cornwall, is now online here.

BBC Countryfile Magazine

It’s a little delayed owing to the website redesign, but my latest “Five days to the weekend” piece on Saundersfoot in Pembrokeshire is now online at the BBC Countryfile Magazine web site – click here to view. All previous features are also online and available from here.

PC Answers, 199

I’ve just submitted two projects for issue 199 of PCA: a four-page project on setting up an old PC as a server, and a two-page project on keeping your files, email and internet settings in sync across multiple computers.

Support PCs

I’ve just uploaded two reinstalling pieces to the Support PCs web site. For a complete feature on reinstalling Windows XP from scratch, please click here – this article originally appeared in the official UK Microsoft Windows XP Magazine (issue 74).

For a tutorial on performing a repair reinstall of XP, please click here – this appeared in issue 81 of the Microsoft Windows XP Magazine.