Archos Weather Station

David Hayward has a go at predicting when it's going to rain

As Mrs Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility once said, "If you cannot think of anything appropriate to say, you will please restrict your remarks to the weather", which demonstrates the British fascination of the weather past, present and future.

Is your router being hacked?

Hackers don’t just want to break into your PC – they’re after your router, too. Jane Hoskyn explains how to keep your internet connection safe

You know your PC can be hacked, you know your phone can be hacked and there seem to be new stories every day about websites being hacked. But your router?

Routers are actually very easy for hackers to break into. This is partly because your antivirus isn’t designed to protect your router, but mainly because we tend to be blasé about our router settings. When’s the last time you changed your router’s password or scanned it for malware? Exactly.

Here we’ll show you how to check your router for invaders, then kick them out and keep them out.

50 most useful Command Prompt commands. Part 1

In the first of a new series, Jane Hoskyn introduces your PC’s oldest – and most powerful – hidden tool

The Windows Command Prompt (‘command line’) is your PC’s last living link to MS-DOS. It’s barely aged a day and remains one of Windows’ most powerful tools, but it’s sorely under-used. No surprise, really: it’s stuffed with jargon and looks like something a nostalgic hacker would dream about.

Canon PIXMA MX495

A do-it all printer/scanner for the home

Manufacturers don’t make money from basic inkjet printers these days. Plenty in ink, but not the actual printers. Piling on more features is one way manufacturers try to stop the price falling so low that they’re actually paying you. So here’s the PIXMA MX495, another multifunction printer (MFP) that can print, scan, copy, and send/receive faxes.

XYZprinting da Vinci Jr

The cheapest 3D printer so far

An affordable 3D printer that anyone can use? Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. We keep being promised machines that can output solid objects as easily as a Word file. But we get Heath Robinson contraptions that cost £1,000 and, after we spend three weeks asking people on the internet why nothing’s working, the printer takes all night to produce a cracked plastic blob.