Date Details of recent updates 18May 09 New page on the digital image series explaining colour palettes, colour look-up tables, and particularly how to make bitmaps with the RGB colour system 14May 09 New Article - Digital Computer Image and Video Data This new … [Read more...]

Date Details of site updates in 2006 28Nov  '06 A & E content updated:  New article on Number Systems added, covering decimal, binary, and hexadecimal. Includes an online Javascript number base coversion … [Read more...]

Date Details of site updates in 2006 28Nov '06 A & E content updated: New article on Number Systems added, covering decimal, binary, and hexadecimal. Includes an online Javascript number base coversion tool. 24Oct '06 GUIDES' content … [Read more...]

Date Details of Updates 14Oct '05 Communications: New sections added on ADSL and ADSL2+, outlining the latest revisions of the ADSL family of standards, which increase downstream data rates to up to 12 Mbit/s and 25 Mbit/s respectively. 4Sep '05 Graphics: Sections on DirectX, … [Read more...]

Date Details of Updates 21Nov '04 Tutorials: New tutorials added: - How to maintain your hard disk drive - How to schedule a program using Task Scheduler - How to create and configure user accounts. 30Oct '04 Tutorials: New tutorials added: - How to perform a clean boot … [Read more...]

Date Details of updates 1Dec '03 DVD: New DVD+R section added, with the information on both this and the rival DVD-R format updated in light of recent announcements of the development of dual-layer versions which increase capacity from the current 4.7GB … [Read more...]

Date Details of updates 1Dec '02 Processors: Section added on Intel's Hyper-Threading technology, designed to improve processor performance by exploiting the multi-threaded nature of contemporary operating systems and applications, and introduced at the same time as the Pentium 4 CPU … [Read more...]

Date Details of site updates in 2001 1Dec '01 Download/Site Licence: After an absence of a couple of months a Download version of the site is again available, together with new Site Licence options aimed at educational establishments, as distinct from … [Read more...]

Date Details of updates 19Dec '00 Chipsets: Section added on Intel's 850 Chipset, designed for use in conjunction with its Pentium 4 processor; Processors: Update to the section on Pentium 4 following the first shipments of the Intel's new chip in late 2000; Mobile Computing: … [Read more...]

Date Details of updates 22Dec '99 New millennium changes: The site is honoured to become an affiliate of the Maximum PC Network, operated by Future Publishing Ltd; New Download option introduced and price of CD version reduced; 14Dec '99 Motherboards: Addition sections on PCI-X - a 133MHz … [Read more...]