Your Complete Guide to Staying Anonymous

You’re never alone on the web – there’s always someone or something watching you. Jane Hoskyn, Edward Munn and Robert Irvine explain how to beat the snoopers and be completely invisible online

Spammers, scammers and other snoopers have devious ways of tracking your every online move. Google knows more about what you’ve been up to than you do, and eavesdroppers have become adept at piecing together your so-called digital ‘fingerprint’ or ‘footprint’ from even your most mundane web activity – then using it to work out who you are, what you do and even where you live.

Fortunately, there are ways to dodge these spies, without sacrificing the pleasure and convenience of life online. We’re not about to tell you to delete your Facebook account, stop using Google tools altogether or turn to the Dark Web – well, you can if you want, but these extreme measures aren’t the only ways to guard your identity.

WLAN Beats LAN

The 802.11ad wireless standard makes wireless networks faster than Gigabit LAN cables and fibreglass. We tried out the high-speed technology

The importance of WiFi speeds has never been more important than it is now. With the emergence of 4K videos, the quantities of data that we need to transfer between devices or download via high-speed fibre internet are on the rise. Furthermore, there are more and more tablets, smartphones and compact laptops with fast – but small – SSD storage. The real-time streaming that becomes necessary overwhelms the current ‘n’ and ‘ac’ WLAN (wireless LAN) standards, which are already struggling to output the required bandwidth using the available 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands. Compatible routers can only attain peak values of up to ‘5300 Mb/s’ under theoretical conditions, which only happens if you could simultaneously use multiple WLANs on a router.

Full Speed For Every SSD

Whether it’s SATA or NVMe SSD, getting the best performance out of your drives comes down to having the optimal settings. In RAID-Combine, two SSDs can achieve unprecedented speed

The ascendancy of the SSD is in full swing. Much has been spoken about the flash memory storage drive technology in the past, specifically about its limited capacities. But now, capacities of up to 1 TB have become available and becoming affordable. Also, midrange and top class SSDs have proven their durability, further reinforced by the manufacturers via their long warranty periods. Does this mean it’s time for you to setup, install the OS of your choice and start using it? Well, it’s not as simple as that. To achieve optimal performance and lifespan for an SSD, the correct settings are required. Therefore, in the first part of this article we will be showing you the settings for the common SSD types.

Tips & Tricks - March 2017

01 [Windows 10] Deactivate the Touch function and related components

If the Touchscreen function of Windows 10 is not important to you, then you can disable it in a few steps. For this, use the shortcut [Windows] + [R] to open the "Run" window, type "services.msc" and confirm with OK. In the window "Services", search for the "Tablet PC Input", then select it and open the "Properties" by right-clicking on it. You can set the Touchscreen function to "Off" or set the Start type to "Deactivate", either one works. Save the change by clicking on OK.

Born To Be Wild

Breath Of The Wild director Hidemaro Fujibayashi tells us how Link embraced the open world

Under ordinary circumstances, Hidemaro Fujibayashi could be considered something of an industry veteran. He has, after all, been making games since 1995, when he joined Capcom – and he’s been a level designer, after a fashion, for even longer, having previously been responsible for planning the layouts of haunted houses for theme parks in Japan. Indeed, his ties to The Legend Of Zelda alone stretch back 16 years, to the two Oracle games for Game Boy Color.