Family Computing
How to Enjoy Your Computer as a Family...

Your computer can bring your family closer together with endless opportunities for learning, creativity and shared adventures! From setting up your perfect family system and exploring fun activities together, to keeping everyone safe online and making the most of technology at every age, our expert guides help you create positive digital experiences that work brilliantly for your entire household. Family Computing is here to help.

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Creating Music With Your Computer
The computer, and software you can put on it, has meant that literally anyone can make music. It’s something the whole family, kids included, can do for fu...
Do you Need to be on a Social Network?
Social networking has become the buzz phrase of the computer industry over the last couple of years. You can hardly go anywhere on the Internet without readi...
Do you Need a PDA?
You see a lot of people with PDAs – personal digital assistants – these days. It could be a smartphone, like a BlackBerry, a Sidekick or an iPhone, or so...
Do you Want a Mac Or PC?
There are really two schools of thought when it comes to computers – those who like a PC (which generally means using Windows) and those who like Apple Mac...
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Getting the Right Home Computing Equipment
Even though computers have come down a lot in price, buying one is still an investment, so you want to make sure you purchase a machine that’s right for yo...
Internet Fraud: 10 Things You Should Know
As the Internet grows and grows, so does Internet fraud of all kinds. It’s become so prevalent that almost everyone gets hit – although many might not ev...
Time Management and a Family Computer: A Case Study
The Morgans are a fairly normal busy modern family. Ben is a graphic designer working from home, Claire works four days a week as an office manager, Lucy (ag...
Online Shopping: Frequently Asked Questions
It’s estimated that as home-internet users we spend around £18billion per year online in the UK. But many people are still, understandably, wary about onl...
Things You Didn't Know About: Social Networking
Social networking is one of the big Internet stories of the last few years. There is a lot of confusion (amongst older people particulary) about what these s...
Managing your Music Library
These days it’s commonplace to have music, sometimes a lot of music, on your computer. If you own a PC there’s even a special section for it – My Music...
Creating Art On Your Computer
There’s so much you can do on the computer that draws in the whole family, well beyond finding information, shopping or consuming entertainment. Creating a...
Do you Need a PDA?
You see a lot of people with PDAs – personal digital assistants – these days. It could be a smartphone, like a BlackBerry, a Sidekick or an iPhone, or so...
What Is Voice Over IP?
One of the best advances in audio communication in recent years has been the technology of Voice over IP, otherwise known as VoIP or Voice over Internet Prot...
Contributing to Forums and News Groups
The Internet is a giant community. To many it will seem like a huge repository of information on websites or the largest shopping centre in the universe, but...
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