Improving Your Home Network

• Extending Your Wireless Network Coverage – Gaining More Area Out Of The Wireless Network
• Multi-Building Home Networks – Extending Your Home Network To The Outbuildings
• Understanding And Managing Your HomePlug Network – Knowing how to get the best out of your HomePlug powerline network
• Understanding 802.11n High-Bandwidth Wireless Networks - Knowing about the 802.11n high-bandwidth wireless network standard and what is needed to deploy these wireless networks
• Wiring Your House For Ethernet - How to go about having your new or renovated house wired with Ethernet cabling
• Being Ready For IPv6 – Understanding the new IPv6 Internet technology and how it will affect your home or small-business network.

Your Small-Business Computing Experience

• Moving your closed-circuit TV system to IP technology – Understanding IP-based video surveillance and how to go about upgrading your video-surveillance system to this technology.
• DLNA and UPnP AV in the business - An article outlining the relevance of UPnP AV / DLNA multimedia network setups in the business
• Basic Information About Provisioning Public Wi-Fi Hotspot Service – What you need to know about providing a public-access Wi-Fi hotspot for your customers or guests.
• Buying A Printer For Your Small Business – A buying-guide article about printers specifically targeted at the small-business owner
• Using QR Codes to promote your organisation - How you can get going with QR codes as a tool to promote your business or organisation to the connected mobile generation.
• Making sure your small business is ready for IPv6 – How to make sure your small business’s technology path is ready for the up-and-coming IPv6 Internet standard.

Printing in the Small Business

• Colour laser printers – Are they a luxury or not? – an article on considering and choosing colour laser printers for your business
• Considering printing on A3 in the office – Using the A3 or Ledger paper size in the small-business office and how to choose equipment that will print on this paper size

Cost-Effective Computing Setups

• Using an ex-business laptop computer as a kitchen PC
• Repurposing that ex-business laptop for home use – how to go about setting up a laptop that was used as a business computer as a home computer

Safe Home Computing And Networking

• Making Sure Your Home Wireless Network Is Secure

Home And Small Business Computing Trends

• What is the “New Computing Environment” – Explaining the laptop-based wireless-network-driven computing environment that is becoming the norm and advising how to get the most out of this trend.

The DLNA Media Network

• Getting Started With DLNA Media Sharing – Setting up the DLNA-compliant network media client device for the home network
• Setting Up PC-Less Network AV – Using a dedicated device as a DLNA media server
• Integrating Classical Music Into Your Digital-Music Collection – Integrating serious classical music, especially complete works like symphonies, in to your digital music collecton and making particular works and movements easier to find.
• The 3-box DLNA Home Media Network – understanding the ability for a network media control point (as a piece of network hardware or a program running on a computer) to control a network media player rather than the network media player’s control surface.

Network and Internet Activities

Facebook, Twitter and other social network sites

At the moment, these articles pertain to Facebook because of its preference as a social-network site by mature-aged and older people, many of whom are likely to be computer or Internet novices.

• Facebook – Fighting the battle against money scams – How you should handle “419-style” money scams that manifest on Facebook and other social networks as “calls for help” from distressed travellers.
• Someone saying things “off the wall” on the (Facebook) Wall about you - assessing the impact of a comment left on a Facebook Friend’s Wall about you
• Facebook – Where should I write and where do I write that post – A table about where you should write a message or comment whenever you use Facebook
• Twitter – Who sees what and when - A guide to understanding Twitter and being able to write those Tweets smartly..

Videoconferencing

• Video Conferencing and your Home Network - Setting up your computers and home network for long-distance video conferencing

Buyer’s Guides

Industry Interviews

Interviews with people who represent companies who provide the technology for the home ans small-business IT market.

• Brother International (Heidi Webster – Brother, Stephen Bennett – Brother)
• Network Audio And Video (Kate Winney – Hausmann Communications (Sony); Jacqueline Hickmann – Bush Australia)
• Gigaclear UK (Matthew Hare) – Lyddington and Hambleton next-generation broadband rollouts
• Security Issues Associated With Cloud-based Computing (Alastair MacGibbon – Centre For Internet Safety (University of Canberra), Brahman Thiyagalingham – SAI Global) – Clound-based computing and computing-as-a-service and the security risks associated with it, including the new deliniation of responsibility.

Special Reports

• 10 Years Of the UPnP Forum - An article about the UPnP Forum’s 10 years in existence with a focus on how that has helped made the home network easy to use with equipment from differing manufacturers.
• Windows 95 Now 15 Years Old And A Major Change To the PC Computing Platform - A special report about Windows 95 and how it changed the PC-based computing platform forever
• A Celebration of the 50th Internationaler Funkaustellung – Celebrating the 50th time the European “pillar” trade show for consumer electronics has been run and its role in consumer electronics