Wednesday, 19 August 2015

EE Harrier

EE Harrier

A great mid-range Android phone

We’re not sure we like the trend of networks offering their own devices. It’s easier to get the best deal if you can pick from a range of models that aren’t locked to any one provider. Here, though, EE at least demonstrates that a phone doesn’t need a hardware brand logo to be good.

Canon Pixma Pro-100S

Canon Pixma Pro-100S

A bigger printer for better photos

If you have a good-quality digital camera, you probably have thousands of great pictures stored at high resolutions. But when you view them, you probably do so on a relatively coarse computer screen. A high-end colour printer might encourage you to commit more of them to paper in their full-size glory.

50 most useful Command Prompt commands. Part 3

50 most useful Command Prompt commands. Part 3

This issue, Jane Hoskyn reveals 10 command-line tricks for finding files and hidden information on your PC

21 Instantly open the Control Panel


Some of Windows’ best built-in tools are buried deep in your PC. You could create shortcuts that clutter up your Desktop and have a habit of not working – or you could use the Command Prompt to find and open them instantly instead.

For example, type control panel at the prompt then press Enter, and the Control Panel will open instantly on your Desktop. Bit easier than rummaging around in the Start menu, isn’t it?

Lenovo Yoga 3 (14 inch)

Lenovo Yoga 3 (14 inch)

Can a convertible avoid compromise? Not on this evidence

Lenovo’s Yoga laptop-tablet range has almost as many models as the eponymous spiritual discipline has followers. This full-size hybrid (not to be confused with the Yoga Pro 3) takes the opposite approach to Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3. The Surface is a tablet that tries to be a laptop (by adding a keyboard). The Yoga is a laptop that you can also use as a tablet. Either way, you’re still carrying a keyboard around with you.

Toshiba Satellite Click Mini

Toshiba Satellite Click Mini

A cheap hybrid laptop that might just convert you

Everyone knows netbooks are dead. Truth be told, they were never really alive, making them even less enticing than your average zombie (and just as likely to start falling apart halfway through a video). But somehow the idea of a £200 portable PC keeps getting resurrected.