Edit Photos Anywhere

Roland Waddllove reveals 15 of the best photo editing tools for the web, smartphones and tablets, and the PC

How do you edit your photos? Using a specific piece of software, online tools in a web browser, or with your mobile phone? All three platforms have advantages and disadvantages and here we take a look at each one, picking the best that each has to offer.

Smart DIY Wearables

David Briddock reveals how building smart wearable tech can be cheap and fun

Smartwatches, fitness bands and other wearable products are all the rage at the moment. Yet there's a lot of fun to be had fabricating your own smart wearable, so it's not surprising to discover there's already a large community of makers, hackers, crafters, artists, designers and engineers doing just that -what sort of hardware platform is suitable for a wearable project?

Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition

Graham Morrison gets his hands on Canonical's third Ubuntu phone.

Building a mobile operating system to carve a chunk out of Android and iOS dominance is going to take courage and time. But one of the ways we've theorised that Canonical's Ubuntu Phone platform could become successful is if Canonical is able to find some partnership with a Chinese manufacturer and somehow tap into the ginormous Chinese market. This new phone isn't that. But it could be the beginning of the beginning of that. Meizu is one of China's biggest smartphone manufacturers, and the Ubuntu Edition of its MX4 handset is the first time the company has ventured outside its geographical comfort zone (the Ubuntu MX4 is only available in the EU) and its own Android-based ecosystem.

Secret Tips For Glary Utilities

Customise your right-click menus, split massive files and get daily PC tips for free

Split big files

Glary’s File Splitter tool lets you get around size limits on attachments imposed by internet service providers, freeing you up to email files of any size.

In File Splitter’s ‘Split file’ tab, use the first Browse button to select the original file, then the second Browse button to choose a destination for the split files. Now select the ‘User defined file size’ button, then type your (or your recipient’s) attachment limit in the box below – 10MB is a typical limit. Tick ‘Add Self-Joining Functionality to the split files set’, then click Split Now.

You can now send each of the resulting files as an attachment on individual emails. When all pieces have been received, your recipient needs to doubleclick the EXE file to have the original large file automatically reconstructed.

Fast Fixes Skype

Fix jerky video, stop your calls breaking up and make Skype sign you out properly

Skype won’t launch

If you can’t get Skype to launch, first make sure you’ve got the latest version (from www.snipca.com/16969). If it still fails to launch, temporarily disable some security tools, such as your firewall (but be wary of disabling your main antivirus program).