SonoroSTEREO

One box, several ticks

Never heard of Sonoro? Neither had we, but then a cursory browse on its website enlightened us. This is a German audio company that produces a snazzy ‘lifestyle’ range: four products, all radios but varying in features and, curiously, each designed for a specific room in the house.

Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258

A reminder of when clockspeed was king

Remember the good old days when Intel, and AMD for that matter, really only made one CPU? Sure, you could still choose from a whole hill of processor models, from bargain basement to punitively overpriced, but underneath it all, it was just one chip from each outfit.

Back then, CPUs were all about clockspeeds. Higher frequencies meant more performance and more money. Okay, you might have found the odd feature was fused off. But clockspeed was king. The fun bit involved buying a cheapskate model and then clocking the twangers off it. The result was often a high performance CPU for pennies. But not these days.

Intel Core i7-5820K

Hexa-core honey you can almost afford

Is bifurcation necessarily bad? That sounds like a soporific keynote speech for a dreary business conference. But it's actually been a critical question for performance PC lovers ever since Intel split its desktop processors into two distinct platforms way back in 2008.

Stay Secure with Heimdal

There are stacks of antivirus, anti-malware and other security products on the market, and it’s important to have one you trust installed and working at all times. Heimdal is a little different, though. It's a small, lightweight program that’s designed to work together with your existing antivirus program, and continually monitors any third-party software installed on your PC that might be vulnerable to hacks.

Upgrade to the paid-for Pro version and Heimdal can do even more. It analyses and blocks malicious links to keep you safe from phishing attempts, scans for and deletes malware, and checks all internet traffic to ensure that sensitive data, such as passwords and credit card details, aren't being sent to known hacking servers. Let’s see how both the free and Pro versions of Heimdal work.