Your Family Tree, 87

I’m prominently featured in the free Computing for Family Historians supplement that’s given away with the latest issue of Future’s genealogical magazine. I wrote the lead feature, Windows 7: Explained, specifically for this issue, while other articles from previous issues as well as a collection of questions from old PC Answers Helpdesk columns have also made an appearance in the supplement. The whole package costs £4.99 and is on-sale today. Click here for more information.

BBC Countryfile Magazine

My latest contributions to “Five Days to the Weekend” are online at the following links:

11/1: Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire (click here)
18/1: Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway (click here)
25/1: Coggeshall, Essex (click here)

PC Answers, 207

The latest issue of PC Answers is on-sale now, and features my usual Helpdesk contribution, plus a guide to troubleshooting network printer problems. Click here for more information.

PC Plus, 291

My project on encrypting your hard drive for greater security using either BitLocker or TrueCrypt, appears in the current issue, on-sale from today. Click here to visit the magazine’s web site.

BBC Countryfile Magazine

I continue to provide weekly “Five Days to the Weekend” columns for the BBC Countryfile Magazine web site. At present, this is due to continue to the end of February. Here is a list of columns published since the end of November:

30/11: Freshwater, Isle of Wight – click here

7/12: Hawes, North Yorkshire – click here
14/12: Petworth, West Sussex - click here
21/12: Cookstown, County Antrim - click here
28/12: Broadway, Worcestershire – click here

4/1: Looe, Cornwall – click here

MSN Tech & Gadgets UK

My feature on the year 2000’s gadget failures has been submitted, and is already published online: click here to view it.

PC Answers

I’ve been commissioned for two pieces of work for issue 209: a 16-page Explained! guide to ebooks, and a three-page project explaining how to access Windows XP in Windows 7 for older incompatible programs and hardware devices. Deadlines are early January and mid-December respectively.