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CONTENWTS oWhrat’slindsidMe? ags.netCONTENTS Issue 218 December THE UK’S BIGGEST-SELLING COMPUTING MONTHLY COVER GUIDE p110 p44 p36 SCTOOVREYR SCTOOVREYRFEATURES 30 TECH MYTHS DEBUNKED 26 RISE OF THE CODE SCHOOLS 36 We take the most common fallacies in The programming classroom is moving online. technology and show why you shouldn’t David Bayon looks at the new wave of start-ups believe everything you read. making coding trendy again. SCTOOVREYR MICROSOFT KINECT FOR WINDOWS 44 THE ZERO-DAY BOUNTY HUNTERS 50 As Kinect moves out of the living room, just Davey Winder explores the hidden world of p26 p142 p66 how many aspects of our daily lives can it the bounty-hunting security researcher, finding revolutionise? Stuart Andrews finds out. vulnerabilities for fun and profit. REGULARS REAL WORLD COMPUTING IN DEPTH Prolog 7 BUSINESS CLINIC 70 Advanced 78 Windows & Mac Technolog 9 Steve Cassidy helps a design Mobile 81 firm to decide where it & Wireless 86 Feedback 10 should go after Microsoft’s Online Business Small Business Server. Security & Social 89 Idealog 69 Networking 92 HOW TO… DIGITISE Office Apps 95 How we test 130 Web Apps & Design 98 YOUR ANALOGUE MEDIA 54 Net works Market Pro 161 If you want to share old photos online, or enjoy your LPs on your iPod, digitisation is CAREERS 74 the way forward. Dave Stevenson shows A-List 162 Mark Newton reveals you how it’s done. Subscriptions 168 how to embark on a career building websites Contact us & next month 169 using Drupal. WINDOWS 8: ADVANCED FEATURES 58 Epilog 170 The new Windows isn’t only about tablet apps. Darien Graham-Smith looks at some PC PRO PODCAST SUBSCRIBE of the more technical enhancements in Microsoft’s latest OS. Don’t forget to download the THREE ISSUES FOR £1 latest PC Pro podcast. There’s a GEOLOCATION TECHNOLOGY 62 new show available Subscribe to PC Pro today, and every Thursday you can benefit from our three We look at how GPS and other geolocation from www.pcpro. issues for £1 offer – visit http:// techniques can pinpoint where you are – and co.uk/podcast. subscribe.pcpro.co.uk now. share the information.004 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

WorldMWahatg’s inssid.en? eCOtNTENTS REVIEWS PC Pro Enhanced Check out our interactive app on Apple’s Newsstand NEW REVIEWS COVER DISC 66 Improve system performance with O&O Defrag 14.5 Professional; record and edit music; and process images efficiently with this month’s cover disc. p106 IN THE LABS... PCs, LAPTOPS & TABLETS 110 SOFTWARE Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7in 112 Adobe PhotoshopCSOTOVERRY HP Envy 6 113 Elements 11 124 Toshiba Satellite 114 Corel PaintShop Pro 125 U840W-107 115 X5 Ultimate 126 Chillblast Fusion Vacuum Mini 118 Adobe Premiere Elements 11 127 Scan 3XS Z77 FT03 Nanu Pinnacle Studio 16 Ultimate 128 Archos 101 XS Sony Acid Music Studio 9 COMPONENTS & PERIPHERALS ENTERPRISE Apple iPhone 5 106 HP ProLiant Canon Pixma MG4250 116 ML350p Gen8 132 Blue Tiki USB microphone 116 Dell PowerEdge R420 134 Pong Research iPad case 116 Broadberry CyberServe 136 Mophie Juice XE5-2400GP 138 Pack Powerstation Duo 117 D-Link 138LINUX SHOOTOUT 142 DWS-3160-24PC 139 ZyXEL NWA1121-NI 140Is Ubuntu still the best alternative to Windows? In this Eizo ColorEdge CX240 117 Zigor Tiber 1500 140Labs, we test drive eight of the most popular variants, Sony Internet Player Kodak ScanMate i940with the input of our readers. with Google TV 118 Plustek MobileOffice D412 Sonos Sub 119 Netgear R6300 120 NEWS Motorola Razr i 122 LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS p110 Linux Mint Ubuntu 146 Debian 148 Fedora 150 Gentoo Linux 151 openSUSE 153 PCLinuxOS 154 Puppy Linux 155 156 p142THIS MONTH 12We bring you all the key announcements from the IntelDeveloper Forum; an interview with the man behindNokia’s controversial Lumia handsets; and a truecomparison of the cost of Windows versus OS X. Plus,we introduce our new Talking Point section with a debateover paying annual fees for Microsoft Office.www.pcpro.co.uk WorldMags.net PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 005

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WorldMagsP.rnologetOPINION BARRY COLLINS ejects some uninvited guestsfrom his long-suffering PCO ur main family PC is a 2008 after asking me if I was sure I wanted to remove vintage Dell Inspiron 1525 the software – a courtesy I’m almost certain it laptop, still running Windows didn’t pay me before installing itself on my Vista – which says more about system in the first place – the uninstall wizard the indolence of your columnist then proceeded to flash up a “special offer”than it does about that much unloved operating price for a year’s subscription to the softwaresystem. Normally, I can make a brew in the I was trying to get rid of. Then it had thetime it takes the wheezy old pensioner to boot, barefaced cheek to ask me to fill out a survey tobut on this occasion, I could have polished off explain why I was uninstalling it; a survey thatA Brief History of Time before it was ready to conspicuously failed to include “because I didn’tdo anything other than display the wallpaper. chuffing want it in the first place” among itsSomething, I shrewdly deduced, was up. myriad options. It also demanded a reboot after uninstalling, thus eroding another five minutes Being the family PC, the old Dell is subject of my already futile life.to the kind of abuse you see all too forlornlyin the eyes of a Labrador that’s routinely used That palaver over, I finally got round toas a makeshift horse by the kids. It’s had wine starting what I set out to do in the first place:spilt over its keyboard, juice-sodden fingers upload some photos to PhotoBox. Except,wiped over its once-glossy display, and its PhotoBox’s website uses a Java applet totrackpad buttons annihilated by an eight-year- upload photos, and my Java installation was inold Moshi Monsters addict. And that’s only need of a patch after the recent security fiasco.the physical abuse. It also has to suffer the So, I clicked to download the patch – and guesspsychological torment of installing everything what? There, pre-ticked in the installationthat grabs the other half’s attention on wizard was the Ask browser toolbar and aFacebook – critical apps such as The setting that was going to make Ask my defaultCoronation Street Anniversary Edition Toolbar search engine.for Internet Explorer and suchlike. Would you trust a gate-crasher who, when I was just about to open the control panel you attempt to throw them out, offers tofor another all-too-regular session of guff become your bouncer for £20 cash?clearing when I noticed a peculiar icon in thesystem tray. I clicked on it and was cheerfully I can’t repeat the words I uttered upon BARRY COLLINS is the editor of PC Pro, andinformed that Symantec’s Norton Internet seeing this latest attempt to burden my prima facie evidence that not all IT journalistsSecurity was scanning my PC for malicious PC with crapware, but it’s absolutely kit their homes out from the reviews cupboard.software. This was ironic, considering that I unconscionable for software companies tohadn’t installed it and thus the only piece of attempt to install this rubbish on our PCs Blog: www.pcpro.co.uk/links/barrycmalicious software on my system at the time without our express permission. Especially Email: [email protected] Norton Internet Security itself. when the two companies involved – Adobe and Oracle – are frequently urging us to install the At this point, I conducted one of my furious latest updates to their software to correct theirinterrogations of the household. The two-year- own security blunders. Profiting from patches isold shrugged and went back to watching Peppa only a rung or two higher up the moral ladderPig, the aforementioned eight-year-old was too than fake security software.busy with her experiment to see whetherMonster Munch could permeate my iPad screen It also reflects badly on the likes of Symantecto pay me any attention, and the only Norton and Ask that they agree to be slipped ontomy girlfriend had heard of was the camp fella people’s PCs in this manner – especiallyoff the telly. Symantec, which is supposed to be stopping unwanted software from appearing on our Fury unabated, I returned upstairs to find machines, not participating in a conspiracy toNorton had finished its search, and was sneak on itself. After all, would you trust athanking me “for following Adobe’s advice to gate-crasher who – when you attempt to throwinstall Norton Internet Security”. And then the them out of your party – offers to become yourpenny dropped. Norton hadn’t arrived on our bouncer for £20 cash? No, neither would I.PC because someone had deliberately set outfor antivirus software; Norton had beendumped on our PC because someone had failedto untick a box during an Adobe installation. Like all good malware, Norton InternetSecurity proved a bugger to remove. Shortlywww.pcpro.co.uk WorldMags.net PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 007

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WorldMagTesch.nnologetOPINIONHow many PCs is too many?DARIEN GRAHAM-SMITH has a house full of hardwareIn October 2009, my partner Lise and I p114). But if you’re prepared to build your were guests on the BBC house-hunting own, a media centre doesn’t have to be a huge show To Buy or Not to Buy – and expense. Mine is based on a cheap AMD last month, the episode was repeated Brazos board in a tiny mini-ITX case, and on BBC Two. Watching it again, I serves as a combined PVR, DVD player, was particularly amused by the presenters’ internet streamer and local video box. pantomimic declarations of disbelief when I explained in the opening scene that our ideal Does it make me happy to have so many property would need space for ten computers. PCs? Not exactly. Even with Dropbox installed across the board, my files and applications The thing is, I wasn’t joking. I didn’t mean always seem to be scattered unhelpfully across that we’d need a house with a dedicated data systems. As Lise will affirm, our front room is centre. But it was a matter of fact that we had perpetually plagued by techno-clutter, and I ten computers in our household at the time, and swear our charging cables fight overnight a quick finger-tally confirms that we still have while we sleep. It isn’t a living situation I’d that same number today. necessarily recommend. If that sounds like a lot of computers, I have Yet when I think of consolidating down to a to say these things add up quickly. For example, more sensible number of systems, I simply can’t Lise mostly uses a chunky Samsung laptop for bring myself to wield the axe. Getting rid of the work and games, but she also has a smaller spares would be pointless – they’re doing no HP system, which is a far more convenient size harm tucked away in their drawer. And each of for throwing in a travel bag. She has a netbook, the others is so perfectly suited to its particular too – not her everyday machine of choice, for role that the idea of dumping any one of them obvious reasons, but a great option to have seems somehow dafter than keeping them all. when battery life is paramount. In an ideal world, the PC I’d most like to For my part, I divide my time mostly decommission is the media centre. Keeping a between my desktop and my MacBook Air. The desktop has a lovely 24in monitor and Our front room is perpetually plagued by is permanently plumbed into all my musical techno-clutter, and I swear our charging equipment – so if I want to edit photos or cables fight overnight while we sleep work on backing tracks for my band, I can sit down and dive right in. The MacBook Air, complete Windows system running 24/7 just DARIEN GRAHAM-SMITH is PC Pro’s technical meanwhile, is an 11in model, so it’s small to serve up trashy sitcoms on demand feels editor. Don’t imagine that he’s simply an and light enough to travel with me, even if wasteful and wrong. The trouble is, I can’t incorrigible hoarder of computers: he threw I’m only going as far as the sofa. find anything to replace it with. The modern out his Dragon 32 and his ZX Spectrum way wave of so-called “smart” TV devices simply back in 2006. So we’re up to five. Then there’s my don’t tick all the boxes, not even the just-landed netbook: this used to be my everyday Google TV (see p118). If I wanted to replace Blog: www.pcpro.co.uk/links/dariengs browsing and travelling machine, before it was my media centre with one of these whizzy supplanted by the MacBook Air. Now I keep it creations I’d also need to add a separate Email: [email protected] around as a handy Ubuntu system: people ask PVR and a standalone Blu-ray or DVD me questions about Linux surprisingly often, player. More plugs, more remote controls and I’d like to give informed answers. and more inputs to juggle on the TV: not a step forward, in my book. Computers seven through nine, admittedly, don’t get regular use. These are older laptops So there you have it: ten PCs, not one of from previous generations. I keep them around them dispensable. And of course it doesn’t because on occasion it’s helpful to have spare stop there. Shortly after moving into our new hardware for experimenting with OS installers property we started acquiring tablets, too – so or networking setups – or simply for lending to now we have an iPad, a TouchPad and a Nexus guests. When not in use they sit neatly in a 7 rubbing shoulders with our various laptops drawer in the back room. and netbooks. Chances are we’ll end up with a Windows 8 tablet before long as well. The tenth and final PC is even less obtrusive: it’s hidden behind the TV table in the front I think we may need to go back on the show. room, where it serves as a full-time dedicated Windows media centre. Such systems are pretty niche these days, and tend to come with specialist price tags (see, for example, our review of the Chillblast Fusion Vacuum Mini,www.pcpro.co.uk WorldMags.net PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 009

FEEDBACWK YoourrsayldMags.netFEEDBACKTHE PICK OF YOUR COMMENTS FROM EMAILS, BLOGS OR PCPRO.CO.UK Microsoft’s sloppy use of language in its software isn’t a good example for children Office in the classroom Apple or retorting with the fact that virtually flaws in the current system. I’m a software every major tech firm outsources work to China. developer with more than 30 years of I read Simon Jones’ piece about The extent to which companies make use of experience, and I’m against software Microsoft Office 2013 (see issue outsourcing makes a huge difference. patents in their current form.217, p86), and he’s hit the nail on the headwhen he refers to the practical difficulties most People often cite Samsung in arguments, Copyright, on the other hand, is goodusers will encounter using the software – issues and it may be the only company that produces enough in most cases – and, unlike patents,that seem to highlight a lack of testing when it enough components for its flagship phones to easy enough to defend.comes to how people will use these applications. be labelled as “made by Samsung”. No other It smacks of another Vista-style headache, company I’m aware of has the technology and The patent process at this point is justand Simon even points out the incorrect the means necessary to produce the processor, money for lawyers, and it makes softwaregrammar in the message that reads “We’re display, memory and many other components. more expensive to buy and produce: developersfinished checking your selection. Want to check spend more time writing up patent applicationsthe rest of the document?” That’s irritating, but Apple is also brought up constantly in these rather than coding, lawyers collect their fees,there’s something far more sinister going on. debates, and it’s the perfect contrast to Samsung. and the patent office has to be paid too. These Microsoft goes to great lengths to sell its By not owning factories, it avoids investment costs are often passed on to consumers.software to schools, colleges and universities at costs and most of the responsibilities that comelow prices, and I think those buying for these with owning its own facilities – a decision that On the other side, if you’re writing code,establishments should be aware of the results in huge cost savings for the company. you’re nervous about infringing other people’sunprofessional manner Microsoft’s software patents – so you spend hours trawling patentadopts in its communication with users. We I believe Apple would make an even bigger filings, hoping you’ll find nothing dubious, soshouldn’t let a generation grow up thinking fortune if it was to manufacture in America and you can finish the project.Microsoft’s way of communicating is right. stamp “made in USA” on its products. This We’re wrestling with enough problems when would allow it to bump up prices and shift more The software that’s covered by manyit comes to delivering acceptable standards of units – that famous American patriotism would modern patents in the consumer electronicsEnglish language to our children without this see to that. THEHONESTTRUTH industry has a shelf life of a year or two at best,kind of sloppy approach. PETER ALLEN so patenting it for between 17 and 25 years is Patent or copyright? silly and, crucially, strangles innovation. BIG_D Making the difference Software patents NFC a long way off There’s been plenty of debate have been in about the nature of electronics the news recently, and the Apple and eBay have recentlymanufacturing, but it isn’t as easy as lambasting dealings between Apple dismissed the idea of NFC and Samsung have becoming a popular payment system, and I highlighted numerous agree – the idea of having a payment method built into my phone doesn’t appeal at all. I think this is one of the rare circumstances where these technologies should be kept entirely separate. Phones are stolen or lost all the time, and it’s an even riskier prospect if such a simple payment method is built in to the device. I was an early adopter of Barclaycard’s OnePulse, which combined a credit card, Oyster card and Visa’s payWave onto one card. I thought it was a fantastic idea, but I realised that every time I touched in and out of the Tube I was effectively waving a credit card around. I never get my wallet out unless I’m paying for something – compare that to the number of times the average person gets their phone out of a pocket. I’m with Apple on this one: having a secure and encrypted place to store information is a good idea, but in terms of payment, I’ll stick to my cards. MRMMM010 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

WorldMagYsou.r nsayeFtEEDBACKSend your letters to:[email protected] CORRECTION: Memset has won our Web Host award for the past seven years, not six, as stated in last month’s magazine. STAR LETTER BLOG BITEST here’s plenty of discussion in IT circles about BYOD, Follow the musings of the PC Pro team at or Bring Your Own Device, in the workplace. It’s easy www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs to see why people want to use personal devices in and out of the office: it’s simpler to keep in touch, it enables David Bayon braved the scrum of Apple’s UK launch of the iPhone 5employees to work more effectively, and it theoretically saves the and, after getting his hands on Cupertino’s latest hardware, typedworkplace money, as it hasn’t had to buy the device. up his initial thoughts. Predictably, the unveiling of the latest Apple handset provoked plenty of chatter on the PC Pro blog – with a Conversely, BYOD has its own complications, with IT broad range of opinions aired, too.departments struggling to provide support and management for awider variety of devices. It’s worth asking how much money is “Love it or hate it, it’s going to be a success. I’m in a position where Itruly saved if anything goes wrong: data confidentiality breaches don’t want an iPhone, but three critical apps mean I’ve no choice. I’veand viruses are all too common, and aren’t cheap to rectify. tried to get to grips with Android alternatives, but none work as well as their iOS equivalents. I’m holding off in hope of a 4G, 7in Often, an institution won’t permit BYOD, instead supplying, iPad, but I’m not convinced it’s going to happen.” DAVEmaintaining and contracting devices itself. This can be expensiveand inefficient: a company is likely to be contracted to one mobile “It took two years to release the iPhone 5, which fails to impress –provider, which goes against the methods used by most consumers, there’s nothing innovative, only things made larger or faster. On thewho largely choose on the basis of signal strength and device other hand, competitors such as Samsung and Nokia are innovatingpreference. There’s also the issue of “personal utilisation” – often, with phones far better in terms of specifications and design. I’dusers carry two devices, which is costly and inconvenient. rather wait and get a Lumia 920.” HEEMU I think there’s room for another option. Let’s call it Bring Your “I’m surprised Apple hasn’t looked more closely at the main featuresOwn Contract, or BYOC. The institution gives the user a SIM-free of Windows Phone and Android; they leave iOS feeling dated. Withdevice configured in a structured manner, greatly reducing security those devices, I look at the homescreen and see weather, appointments,issues, and the user selects – and pays for – their ideal contract, tweets, emails and financial information – I use the phone less,which comes at a lower rate to offset the lack of hardware costs. but I get the same information.” DAVID WRIGHT Another advantage to this scenario is support: since the “What did everyone expect? This is a fine piece of kit that will fitcompany provides the device, the scope, capabilities and foibles comfortably into Apple’s infrastructure. A new interface wasof phones are a known quantity which, in turn, allows for better inevitable, and Lightning and Thunderbolt are future-proofed. Apple’sservice and connectivity in the workplace. biggest challenge is price: a 20% premium on the competition is harder to justify when it’s a level playing field.” MILLIGANP As the institution owns the device it should also cater for its “I suspect most smartphone owners don’t use half the features on theirsthafaetI’tdssisesuTapermoehCslsayiolli,mskrweismshtsahiicnoiehrgnidef1trneo2hasmul8’rssGeomssluBaattnnaioyPrenhnelotvreoiufrtsmooteneherm,omrwledwniastt.hanilnalcydsevreasnptoangesisboleverergime phones at the moment so, since we’re firmly on the road of incrementalboth thPe trroadSitiSonDalwanodrBtYhO£D1m3e6thods. IAN PITCHER improvements, there’s less need than ever to upgrade every year. I have an iPhone 4 and the iPhone 5 looks like a worthy upgrade, but Visit www.corsair.com if I’d got an iPhone 4S I’d hang on.” GEOFF HARROPContributing editor Paul Ockenden replies: Bring Your Own “The biggest issue I have with Apple’s devices is their reliance onContract is an interesting idea, and I could see it working in some iTunes and proprietary formats – it’s the main reason I strayed afterenvironments. However, in my experience, end users are far more having owned an iPod and MacBook Pro. It also really bugs me thatfussy about the actual hardware – the phones themselves – than there’s no price competition, with every outlet selling Appleabout the network providing the service. In a way, forcing them to products at exactly the same price.” PARIMAL KUMARuse a company-provided phone without providing the contract willbe seen by the end user as the worst of both worlds, although as youmention it does have merit from the employer’s point of view. It’s clearly early days for BYOD, but from the end users that Ispeak to I get the strong impression that the “your own device”aspect is an important one. This month’s star letter wins a Corsair 128GB Performance Pro SSD worth £136 Visit www.corsair.comwww.pcpro.co.uk WorldMags.net PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 011

NEWS IDWF 201o2 rldMags.netNEWS IN-DEPTH REPORTS, ANALYSIS AND OPINIONIntel launches anassault on battery lifeIntel promises improvements for both laptops and mobiles, reportsDarien Graham-Smith from the Intel Developer Forum in San FranciscoA doubling of laptop that aims to minimise power The maximum thermal design said Perlmutter, showing a battery life, 14nm consumption and extend battery power (TDP) of the new chips prototype Haswell system mobile processors and life on mobile devices. remains similar to that of current performing a taxing graphical a truly optical connect Intel processors, with low-power benchmark. “We’re running atfor Thunderbolt were just three of “We’ve been able to cut 20 Ultrabook models dropping only about half the power, and it givesthe announcements unveiled at the times the item power at the slightly from 17W to 15W. roughly the same performance.”recent Intel Developer Forum. platform level,” announced Intel’s executive vice president, Dadi Nevertheless, for everyday These improvements are partly The star of the show was Perlmutter, at the opening keynote. computing, Haswell’s increased thanks to Haswell’s beefed-upHaswell – Intel’s forthcoming “We’ve done a lot of work, from energy efficiency could double GPU, and partly due to a new“fourth-generation Core architecture to design, using the battery life for laptops, especially design incorporating the Platformprocessor”, which you can expect power management framework, in graphics-heavy operations. Controller Hub (PCH) – theto see in next year’s desktops, some of it related to Windows 8.” “We’ve been very proud about controller that handles buses suchlaptops and Windows 8 tablets. Ivy Bridge, which delivers as USB and SATA – into the sameThe successor to Ivy Bridge, Perlmutter clarified that the almost double the [graphical] package as the CPU. This reducesHaswell is a 22nm architecture “20 times” figure refers to performance of Sandy Bridge,” the power wasted in sending standby, not active computing. www.pcpro.co.uk012 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net

WorldMags.InDF e201t2 NEWSFollow @PCPro on Twitterand be the first to get all the latest news www.pcpro.co.uk/news Wireless charging Intel demonstrated the power savings achievable with the new Smartphones could be wirelessly charged from your PCHaswell architecture using a prototype “bare board” systemsignals back and forth between 14nm process by 2014 and The familiar tangle of charging out on your wireless keyboardtwo chips, and makes it easy to cut become the market leader. cables could soon be a thing or mouse once we get this tothe power to unused controllers of the past, thanks to a wireless market,” said Intel’s corporatevia the same gating techniques Already the platform is looking charging system being vice president, Kirk Skaugen.found in current Intel CPUs. increasingly credible, with Intel developed by Intel. claiming that as many as 20 A demonstration also The idea itself isn’t new – a showed how custom backs“We found the combination of wireless charging technology could be fitted to existingWindows 8 and the latest Atom called Qi is already used by smartphones to enable themto be usable and responsive” devices such as Nokia’s Lumia to charge automatically when 820 and 920 smartphones, placed next to a compatible Perlmutter revealed that the Windows 8 tablets based on the which charge automatically PC system. “Just set your phonenew chips would be rolled out latest Atom system-on-a-chip when placed on a compatible beside an all-in-one or an“throughout 2013”. He wouldn’t (dubbed Clover Trail) will arrive charging pad or stand. Intel’s Ultrabook and it will charge atbe drawn on a launch date, but alongside the new operating system, however, is designed roughly the same rate as a USBdidn’t rule out an announcement system. We had a chance to try to fit directly into laptops and cable,” Skaugen claimed.at CES in January. a Clover Trail device at IDF desktops, to charge nearby Reference hardware is expected – an HP Envy x2 tablet with a peripherals with no need for to be ready early in 2013,Smartphone detachable keyboard – and found an extra charging cable. “The suggesting a possible consumerand tablet processors the combination of Windows 8 batteries will never again run release by next Christmas. and the latest Atom surprisinglyAt previous IDF events, Intel has usable and responsive. the tiny Atom and the full-fat Core Optical cables can run forbeen bullish about the potential i3. Intel has yet to decide how to longer distances than copper, withof its Atom processor to power Unlike ARM-powered brand this latest processor range. lengths of up to 30m supported,smartphones and tablets; but so Windows RT tablets, Atom tablets compared to a 3m maximum forfar it’s struggled to make a mark promise long battery life plus Thunderbolt lights up copper. They’re fully compatiblein these growing markets. This support for the full range of with existing Thunderbolt hostsyear’s keynotes downplayed Windows desktop software. Intel also revealed that new cables, and devices: the necessaryAtom’s importance, but there’s a due before Christmas, will turn signal modulation for opticallot happening behind the scenes. For those seeking a little more the high-speed Thunderbolt bus transmission is handled inside theWe’re now in the first year of an oomph, Intel also announced a into a true optical interconnect. cable connectors, so copper andaggressive three-year ramp-up, completely new line of 10W Thunderbolt was conceived as a optical connections can be mixed.which will see annual die shrinks processors, aimed specifically at fibre-optic connection, under theand architecture upgrades, mid-range tablets. The new chips name Light Peak, but the first However, unlike copper cables,intended to make Atom hit a derive from the same basic design wave of peripherals has so far optical Thunderbolt cables won’t as Haswell, but are intended to relied on copper cables. carry power, so they can be used occupy the middle ground between only with self-powered devices.www.pcpro.co.uk WorldMags.net PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 013

NEWS HWeadlinoesrldMags.netTOP STORIES READERS REACT TO THE MONTH’S TECH NEWS1 New broadband 2 Ballmer rules out minister cuts red tape tablet price warBroadband gained a new minister What we said: “It’s good to Microsoft and Sony have declared well for Amazon and Google toin the Cabinet reshuffle, and they won’t be engaging Amazon aggressively subsidise them, sincealthough the new policies see the government overriding the and Google in a tablet price war. their tablets are primarily intendedannounced by culture secretary objections of NIMBY councils, for consumption and sellingMaria Miller probably originated which have stalled the fibre Following the release of cheap content. Ballmer knows his Surfacewith predecessor Jeremy Hunt, broadband rollout in some areas tablets such as Google’s £159 tablets are meant for much morethey appear to be positive steps. due to petty concerns,” said editor Nexus 7 and the £129 Kindle Fire, than that – the keyboard is a clear Barry Collins. “Residents will have speculation was mounting that indication of the work focus – so Miller announced she was more to complain about than an Microsoft’s Surface devices and he’s hoping consumers will seecutting planning permission ugly green box on their pavements Android rivals might be sold at them more as all-round Windowsrequirements for street-side fibre if their area falls far behind the bargain prices in order to gain 8 productivity devices and shellcabinets and poles for carrying national broadband speed average. market share. out accordingly. It’s a gamble, butfibre in a bid to accelerate the It’s also good to see Miller talking not an unreasonable one.”superfast broadband rollout. The sense on parental responsibility. However, a sub-$200 Surfacemove could benefit residents in Let’s hope she can stave off her looks unlikely after Microsoft What you said: Readersareas such as Kensington, where party’s more nannyish elements.” CEO Steve Ballmer said theplanners have refused BT’s devices would be priced in line weren’t sure that end users wouldrequests to install larger cabinets. What you said: Overriding with Apple’s iPad and “sweet- like Sony’s policy, with price an spot” PCs. “When people offer important factor, according to The proposals mean companies council wishes sparked debate, cheaper products, they do less. kheads. “Sony: Our tablets are(predominantly BT) could locate with wittenfrog arguing that They look less good, they’re great, we want as much as Applecabinets in the most convenient “given the government’s ‘localism’ chintzier, they’re cheaper,” he for them. Punters: Take a hikeplaces without having to obtain agenda, surely acknowledges that said. “Would somebody ever use Walkmanboy, we’re going roundplanning permission; this would local councils might be a better a Kindle to do their homework? the corner to Google. Andsave at least half a day’s salary for judge of such things than BT’s The answer is ‘no’.” Amazon. And B&N,” he wrote.planning each cabinet. OpenReach London office.” Sony also ruled out entering There was also scepticism over Miller, whose previous The idea of streamlining a race to the bottom when it Ballmer’s claims that “sweet-spot”ministerial duties included child the process was generally well launched a $399 Android-based pricing for tablets was the same asprotection, also suggested she may accepted. “The problem isn’t that tablet, with one executive stating that of PCs.not be in favour of forcing ISPs to projects are turned down – it’s the simply: “We aren’t consideringfilter adult content, a proposal cost in time and money, and the competing on price in tablets.” “A price of £525 for what willthat’s currently under consultation. unpredictability of how long it be a netbook with a 10in screen?“I think the responsibility is very will take,” said JohnAHind. “One What we said: “You have It’s laughable to call that price astrongly with parents to make objector can override the wishes of ‘sweet spot’,” said cheysuli. “It’ssure they understand how their hundreds of supporters by making to look at the expected usage of the cost of a Core i5 desktop PCchildren are using the internet,” it difficult for the developer.” the different tablets,” said features or laptop with a 15in screen.”she told The Sunday Times. editor David Bayon. “It’s all very014 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

WorldMagsH.enadelinets NEWSFor the latest news, visit our websitewww.pcpro.co.uk/newsemail: [email protected] Fujitsu falling out The Sun needs to take a refresher of fibre race? course in maths if it thinks children spend 15 hours a dayFujitsu – one of only two What we said: “Fujitsu online, finds Stewart Mitchellcompanies eligible to bid forbroadband contracts under made a lot of noise about being Have you seen your kids today? Check in front of thethe government’s £530 million ready to invest £2 billion in PC, or try tweeting them. According to The Sun, that’sBroadband Delivery UK broadband projects it had planned where they’ll be. Not at school or with their friends,framework – has reportedly for the UK, but there’s been little but tied to a screen as a result of silicon addiction.been blacklisted as a “high-risk” apparent progress since,” said Technophobic old-school editors, often brought up in the simplersupplier following delivery contributing editor Stewart era of the 1970s, have long supported the idea that technology isproblems on a Department of Mitchell. “When we asked for bad for children. Completely ignoring the social and educationalWorks and Pensions project. updates, we had straight ‘nothing benefits, The Sun ran a typical piece in September: “Why phones to report’ responses, and it feels stop kids being mobile – Brit children are biggest couch potatoes in The company, which has failed increasingly as though the Europe.” The paper backed up its claims with unspecified in-houseto win any of the broadband company has thrown in the towel research and unattributed estimates showing how much timecontracts awarded at the time in a tacit admission that it can’t children spent on digital activities. But the numbers don’t add up.of going to press, could now be compete for regional contracts,under even more pressure during because BT already has the The paper claims children spend ten hours a week texting, 35negotiations after BDUK admitted infrastructure in place. It’s enough hours watching TV, eight hours gaming and 51 hours online. If the“frameworks are in the scope of to make a cynic feel that Fujitsu children still had any time left for attending maths lessons, they’dHMG’s supplier performance was only involved to add a veneer quickly realise this adds up to 104 hours a week. Going by thesepolicy, and any supplier identified of competition to the process.” figures, we’re talking almost 15 hours a day of screen time, leavingas high-risk will be scrutinised no time for school, socialising or any other pastime.particularly carefully before the What you said: Fujitsuaward of further work.” Last year, the Scouting Association reported a sixth successive elicited some sympathy. “Fujitsu year of membership growth, and local authorities said summer It was a mixed message from is only blacklisted because it took sports activities were fully booked – so those figures don’t ring true.officials; a day earlier, BDUK boss over the DWP hardware contracttold a Westminster eForum he had and didn’t provide a service within “[In the past] children were doing things that were active, socialto practically beg Fujitsu to take the timeframe set,” said Jase. and creative,” Sue Palmer, the author of Toxic Childhood, toldpart. “We’re encouraged that we The Sun. “Nowadays, they spend most of their time in a solitary,even have Fujitsu and BT,” said Alfresco points out that sedentary, screen-based environment.” There’s an element of truthDr Robert Sullivan. anything that gives more power to in Palmer’s words – a sensible mix of activities, including learning one telco is a worrying throwback how to use online media, is key to development. The blacklisting will also make to a competition-starved past. “Iit harder for the UK to convince remember when phones were run It’s easy to see why she’s a go-to expert source for stories aboutEurope, which is yet to clear the by the (government-owned) GPO. over-exposure to technology, however. Palmer is also the authorBDUK projects under state aid Your choice of phones was limited who repeated claims of a link between tech use and autism andregulations, that public money to one or two,” he said. ADHD, as we explained in our “How much tech can childrenisn’t going directly to BT. take?” feature (web ID: 371287). Other sources say there’s no direct evidence of such a link. Of course, there are children – and grown-ups, too – who spend more time online than is healthy, but let’s not do our young the disservice of twisting numbers to portray them as inactive addicts.www.pcpro.co.uk WorldMags.net PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 015

NEWS TWalkingoporintldMags.netTALKINGPOINT Members of the PC Pro team tackle the month’s big issueT his month, Microsoft revealed that it would charge consumers $99 a year for its new Office 2013 subscription package, called Office 365 Home Premium. The deal will give customers access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Access and Publisher on up to five PCs, as well as an additional 20GB of SkyDrive storage and an hour of Skype calls per month. They’ll also be upgraded to the latest version of Office whenever the next iteration arrives. Would you pay $99 a year for Microsoft Office? Technical editor, Darien Graham-Smith: Office 365 However, if you use your computer for business, surely the ability to use sounds expensive compared to the Office Home and Student industry-standard applications, formats and resources is worth paying 2010 package, which costs around £75 for a three-PC licence. for. And in Office 365, you don’t just get Word and Excel – there are alsoHowever, those three licences don’t stretch far when there’s more than more advanced applications including Access and Publisher, which aren’tone person in the household, especially if they regularly move between included in the Home and Student edition.desktops and laptops. Office 365 can be used on up to five computersof any type, so it’s a better fit for my home, and – unlike the Home and David: Yes, I think looking at this from a personal point ofStudent edition – I can use it on my MacBook Air too. It’s also worth view is perhaps missing the point of the subscription service,remembering that if you buy a boxed copy of Office 2010 today, you’ll which is to make it easier for the type of user who does workhave to shell out an upgrade fee to move to Office 2013 when it arrives. across multiple locations and systems. And surely the reasoning is thatAn ongoing subscription means you receive updates as they appear, and if you’re upgrading one system to Office 2013, then it makes sense toat no extra cost. upgrade all of them. Features editor, David Bayon: I agree with much of that, Barry: That’s assuming your workplace is running the latest except for the last point. Upgrading regularly is something version of Office, which is rarely the case in my experience. many businesses may feel the need to do; however, from an Many companies are at least a generation or two behind withindividual perspective, there isn’t much in Office 2013 that makes me their Office software, often because they run it on old hardware. Thewant to shell out. I use Word and Excel, and the 2010 versions of both company I left in 2006 was still running Lotus Notes and Office 2000.are perfectly adequate for my needs. I have a decreasing need for a Darien: It doesn’t matter if your colleagues and clients arethree-PC licence as laptops become faster, and I’m moving towards a using older versions of Office. Ever since Microsoft wassingle device that I can use at home and on the road. I certainly don’t bitten with Office 97, it’s been obsessively careful aboutenvisage a time in the near future when I’ll need five systems running backwards compatibility. The real question is what you want forOffice, but perhaps that’s just me. yourself. I also worked in a business that was several years behind Editor, Barry Collins: For me, the jury’s still out on whether with its applications, and users were constantly nagging us for upgrades. $99 a year represents good value for money. Our home PC Given the choice, I think people will always prefer the latest and greatest runs Office 2007, and I’ve found no compelling reason to versions of software – and six quid a month doesn’t seem an unreasonableupgrade. My bigger concern is the increasing number of tech subscriptions price for that.into which I’m hooked: broadband, mobile phone, Spotify, Xbox Live, Barry: You raise a decent point. You’ve tapped into theiPad newspapers and magazines, and now my Office software? I’m not driving force behind the BYOD trend; people always wantsure how much more of my disposable income I’m prepared to hand over more up-to-date tech than their company is ever likely toto tech companies. provide. If Microsoft could find a licensing scheme that allows employees Darien: If you don’t need all the features of Microsoft Office to use the Office suite on just one machine at home – with all the benefits then it may not make sense to pay for a subscription. I’m sure of securely shuffling work documents between home and office via plenty of people will be happy with a free service such as SkyDrive – then it might encourage employers to pick up the bill byLibreOffice or Google Drive – or, as you say, an older version of Office. upgrading their volume licences.016 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

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NEWS HWeadlinoesrldMags.net Nokia Lumia launch backfires Nokia’s bungled launch of its first Windows video shown at the New York though the Lumia was unveiled Phone 8 handset has press launch was shot using a a week before Apple’s new put pressure on the conventional DSLR, not the smartphone, analysts believe company’s CEO, Stephen Elop. Lumia. The company made Nokia may have missed a window a public apology on its blog, of opportunity. Investors and analysts say Elop admitting “we should have posted has only a few months to show a disclaimer”, and launched an “The Christmas season is a lost he can reverse Nokia’s fortunes, internal inquiry into the incident. cause. For Nokia, if there is any after the launch of the Lumia 920 chance, it will be spring,” said was overshadowed by a forced Nokia’s shares lost a quarter of Juha Varis, of the Danske Invest admission that the company had their value following the launch, Finnish Equity Fund, which holds falsified videos of the smartphone’s before partially rebounding. With shares in Nokia. “I think that camera stabilisation. The demo handsets failing to arrive on the maybe the end of the first quarter market before the iPhone 5, even of next year is the marking point.”Q&A How the Lumia was made Nokia’s executive vice president, Kevin Shields, reveals the principles behind the design of the company’s new flagship handset Nokia’s first Windows 8 phones The point is to develop a beautiful are less common on smartphones. Why could prove to be pivotal to the phone – don’t screw with it. The did you do that? company’s fortunes. [positioning of the] micro-USB port is an RF The flagship Lumia 920 is nightmare. Wireless charging is effectively a The innovation we’ve focused on is crammed full of features: a “PureView” radio; so is NFC. Then you have LTE, Wi-Fi, the stuff that we’re confident will make camera with floating-lens technology, Bluetooth, and that’s a lot of antennas. The smartphones more useful. HDMI out? Very wireless charging, NFC, and free music day is coming when the power port doesn’t few people use that. The FM radio? Same streaming and mapping services. Yet need to be included any more. thing. This industry is deeply guilty of the handset is the epitome of minimalism, innovation for the sake of innovation. with no room for even a memory card slot. Is that the reason why Nokia used to have dozens of you didn’t include a handsets in its range. Now you memory card slot? appear to have only a handful on the “This industry is deeply market. Was there a conscious decision guilty of innovation for We started with the to narrow the range? premise that we wanted [Shields explains that Nokia used to an uncompromised physical produce many handsets, each with the sake of innovation” form – if you placed an SD individual strengths]. The trend now is that card in it, it would have phones are capable of doing many things The lesser Lumia 820, on the other hand, defiled it. Most people aren’t using the storage well; that implies a narrower portfolio. not only has space for a memory card slot, but in their phone anyway. Do you find it a relief to release also revives the concept of removable batteries your first Windows Phone 8 and covers. Yet you did include a memory card handset to the market? Nokia’s executive vice president Kevin slot on the Lumia 820? I find it frankly offensive that Nokia Shields talks us through the tough decisions has been doing such spectacular work made during the design process. Once you’ve made the decision to have and has been unable to tell the freaking a replaceable cover [as there is on the world about it. There’s innovation that really There are only two ports on the Lumia 820], you make it much easier to have matters to me here. Lumia 920 – the headphone socket a memory card slot. on the top and the micro-USB socket on the base. Was the design philosophy You’ve abandoned features such deliberately minimalist? as HDMI out and FM radio that018 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

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NEWS HWeadlinoesrldMags.netEE wins big on“massive 4G gamble”EE will finally turn on its 4G service later this year – the first UK networkto do so – and is buoyed by the support of Apple and the iPhone 5Newly renamed mobile and put money into network EE has been the network. rewarded for taking a “EE took a massive “massive gamble”, gamble because itaccording to analysts, after it wasn’t confident thatlaunched a 4G service with the Ofcom would allow itadded bonus of an Apple iPhone 5 to use the spectrum forable to run across the LTE network. 4G, and it didn’t know the handset ecosystem EE – formerly known as would be there,”Everything Everywhere – Howett added.announced it will be turning on According to EE,4G later this year, serving 16 cities coverage will reachand 40% of the population by 70% of the populationChristmas. The launch relied on by the end of 2013,Ofcom clearance to use the existing and 90% by the end of2G spectrum in the 1,800MHz 2014, but the earlyrange for 4G, and it could have EE’s next-generation mobile network will cover 16 cities by the end of 2012been undermined by legalchallenges from rivals that will launch could speed up the How much faster remains ahave to wait for next year’s full 4G main auction. “It’s now essentially have been celebrating when it sawauction before they can catch up. the only way for the others to the launch,” said Kester Mann, moot point. According to Ovum’s deploy 4G, and [the auction] could operator analyst with CCS Insight. Howett, while EE is promising five Analysts told PC Pro that the be even sooner if negotiations play “It means the only way people can times faster download speeds,approval was a reward for EE’s out,” said Howett. get a 4G iPhone at the moment is that’s measured against standardavoidance of the industry’s to sign with EE.” 3G services, and the carriers havedelaying tactics. “We’ve seen The other consideration for been investing in neweroperators slow down the 4G iPhone boost buyers will be contract prices. “EE technologies. “The 3G technologyauction with infighting,” said The 1,800MHz spectrum is rarely has told us that 4G will be an upgrades to HSPDA+ can achieveMatthew Howett, a telecoms used, meaning that at launch, EE add-on costing less than £10,” fairly similar speeds,” he said.regulation analyst with Ovum. had only five handsets available on Mann said, remarking that the hard “When we get the full rollout, it“They dragged it out until the LTE service, but it scored a work will be marketing a plan might be ten times faster and theneventually there was an incentive coup when Apple announced with few new services – just faster we’ll see a big difference – butfor one player to break away support in the iPhone 5. “EE must access to what’s already available. possibly not to begin with.”Ebook investigation falls shortA nti-competition acted anti-competitively in using a similar case in the US, they claiming that publishers investigators probing an agency model where publishers backed off in Europe, which is “coincidentally” offer identical the prices of ebooks rather than retailers set prices, the likely to result in cheaper ebooks royalty contracts across Europe. should look at how industry agreed to let retailers for consumers at rival outlets suchpublishers make deals with discount books if they so wished. as Amazon. “Virtually every publisher inauthors as well as retailers, a Europe offers the same deal,” saidliterary agent claimed in the wake The alliance had been under According to literary agent Gottlieb. “As a group, publishersof Apple’s settlement with the scrutiny over tactics that included Trident Media Group, the EC will not move off 25% of net. It’sEuropean Commission (EC). a “most favoured nation” status for should also be focusing on deals a big coincidence. I find it odd that Apple, ensuring it was always the struck between publishers and the EC didn’t even look at that in After an investigation into cheapest retailer. Although Apple authors, with the company this investigation since it removeswhether Apple and four publishers and some publishers are contesting chairman, Robert Gottlieb, competition from the marketplace.”020 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

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NEWS InWfograophric ldMags.netTen years of OSesHow much has it cost?The OS is often an ignored cost of computing. Nicole Kobie revealshow much we’ve shelled out for ten years of Windows and OS X 800 OS X Cumulative costs 600 Windows Home Our graph tracks£ 400 Windows cumulative upgrade Professional prices to date from various versions of 200 Windows, and compares OS X prices too. If you 0 bought Windows XP 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Home at release, then upgraded to Home editions of Windows Vista, 7 and 8 as they were released, you’d have spent £385 in total. Professional editions would total £655.Falling OS prices OS X Falling prices Windows600 Home There’s good news for Windows those who aren’t looking 450 Professional forward to Windows 8 with much enthusiasm:£ 300 2012 there’s a downwards trend for operating system 150 prices. Indeed, the £25 upgrade price is a quarter 0 2007 2009 of what it was for XP 2001 Home edition, and less than a sixth of what it was for the Professional version more than a decade ago.Release timeline CheetaPhuma Jaguar Panther Tiger Leopard Snow Leopard Lion MLoiounntainWindows OS X 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 XP XP SP1 XP SP2 Vista VXisPtaSSPP31 WinVdisotwa sSP7 2 WSiPn1dows 7Windows 8022 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

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NEWS OWpinioon rldMags.net Twitter could benefit from an inverted Butlins clap-o-meter, says STEWART MITCHELL R emember the clap-o-meter? However despicable Liam Stacey’s tweet That staple judging process of was – “LOL, F**k Muamba. He’s dead” – it’s holiday-camp talent shows should hard to imagine his brief wouldn’t have tried really be updated for the digital the “it was offensive, but not grossly” defence age to provide some sort of had the CPS’s comments come sooner. A barometer of acceptability online. After all, semantics expert would happily debate there’s little else that appears to work. which of the Twitter comments carried more offence; both were appalling, but were they Ridiculous, maybe, but in the absence of criminally offensive? any gauge of what can and can’t be said online it would be as much use as official guidelines, And there’s the nub of the argument. What which appear random and applied illogically deeply offends Morrissey would barely raise from case to case. This is because there’s no true Jim Davidson’s eyebrow, so trying to draw a measure of what is criminally “offensive”. line in the sand between merely offensive and grossly offensive is as futile as telling people not Take the recent case of wannabe footballer to read vitriol that upsets them online. Daniel Thomas. He was arrested after posting homophobic messages about Tom Daley on With different sections of society offended Twitter, when the young Olympian failed to by different things, the conflict between free win a medal in the 10m synchronised diving. speech and common decency is likely to continue. And while the debate over online “If there is any consolation for finishing censorship of offensive material in the UK is fourth at least Daley and Waterfield can go and confusing, the problems are amplified to bum each other #teamHIV,” Thomas tweeted, extreme levels on the global stage. although he later deleted the remark, claimed it was a joke and apologised to Daley. If it was Innocence of Muslims, the film trailer that a joke, it was a poor one that plenty of people depicts Mohammed as a child abuser sparked would find offensive, but after considering its riots across the Middle East. It led to the deaths of four US diplomats, and put Google’s YouTubeOfficial guidelines on what can and can’t centre stage. While the underlying causes of the be said online appear random, and are violence have little to do with a low-rent movie, applied illogically from case to case its publication is a web phenomenon. It left YouTube in the bizarre position of fighting forSTEWART MITCHELL is a PC Pro contributing options for almost two months the Crown the right to keep the trailer online in the US,editor. Most of his jokes are met with silence, Prosecution Service opted against taking where some people (including its actors) hadbut he doesn’t get offended. the case to court. This tweet wasn’t quite asked for it to be removed, while at the same offensive enough. time blocking it in other countries. Blog: www.pcpro.co.uk/links/stewartm Email: [email protected] “There is no doubt that the message posted Google says it blocked the film in Egypt and by Mr Thomas was offensive and would be Libya, not because it was ordered to but because regarded as such by reasonable members of of the “very sensitive situations in these two society,” the CPS stated. “But the question for countries”. Despite the arguably responsible the CPS is not whether it was offensive, but action, the move drew criticism for censoring whether it was so grossly offensive that criminal the web. Either there’s free speech or there isn’t, charges should be brought.” goes the argument, highlighting the UK’s confused position. The CPS – still smarting from being overruled in the Twitter joke trial, when Paul One thing the CPS did get right is that the Chambers was cleared of threatening to bomb UK desperately needs a debate on free speech in Robin Hood Airport – is now seemingly the digital age, where some tweets are punished qualified to decide what is grossly offensive, as and others aren’t – and countless examples that opposed to merely offensive. are much worse probably go unnoticed. The case will leave another recent Twitter In the meantime, perhaps the best way to pariah – this one sent racist tweets while deal with imbeciles online is to starve them of footballer Fabrice Muamba was fighting for his network oxygen. Not responding to offensive life – scratching his head, after he spent almost comments, not adding to the problem by two months behind bars over his comments. publicising it, is as proactive as we can get. It’s the equivalent of dead silence at the end of an act in Butlins, an inverted online clap-o-meter to filter out offensiveness. It would be about as practical as current UK law.024 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

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WorldMaTgecsh m.nythsetFEATURE x2 We take the most common fallacies in technology and show why you shouldn’t believe everything you hear Contributors: David Bayon, Barry Collins, Darien Graham-Smith, Mike Jennings, Nicole Kobie Macs don’t get viruses. We’ve all heard that “fact” a lot over the years, but as several recent outbreaks have painfully demonstrated, it isn’t true at all. Neither is the one about expensive cables. Nor the one about megapixel counts, or even the one where you can crash a plane with your mobile phone if you forget to push a button before take-off. Whether they’re peddled by national newspapers, sold as truth by greedy retailers, or simply parroted down the pub on a Friday night, these tech myths are everywhere, and for all our sakes it’s time they were debunked. In this feature, we’ll round up the most common untruths in our industry, and for each one we’ll patiently explain the real facts. So the next time you hear one of these myths uttered as fact, you know what to do: get debunking.www.pcpro.co.uk WorldMags.net PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 027

FEATUREWTecoh mrytlhsdMags.netPEOPLE Software“Bill Gates said 640K was enough” “Microsoft stole the Windows UI from Apple”Introducing an IBM PC back in 1981, theMicrosoft boss infamously said its “640K In 1998, Apple filed a lawsuit againstought to be enough for anybody”. It’s a quote Microsoft claiming Windows usedthat’s laughably short-sighted, and one Gates interface elements too close to those onstrenuously denies making. In a Bloomberg the Mac. Even today, many still argueBusiness News Q&A in 1996, he Microsoft stole its style from Apple, but it didn’t quite happen that way. Apple64wrote: “I keep bumping into that actually licensed many UI elements to0Ksilly quotation attributed to me that Microsoft for use in Windows 1, and only objected when more arrived in the slickersays 640K of memory is enough. Windows 2. Apple argued the licence wasThere’s never a citation; the only for one version of Windows; Microsoftquotation just floats like a rumour, argued otherwise. As Bill Gates explainedrepeated again and again.” When at the time, “we’re saying that theseasked about it again in 2001, graphic interface techniques, the ideas,he said: “Do you realise the are not copyrightable.” After fivepain the industry went through years the judge sided with Microsoft,while the IBM PC was limited and the rest is history.to 640K? The machine wasgoing to be 512K at one point, “Andorpoeidraistianng ospyesntesmo”urceand we kept pushing it up. Inever said that statement – Isaid the opposite of that.” It’shis word against the internet’s. “Linus Torvalds invented Linux” Built on Linux and released under the Apache 2 software licence, Android isThis is a mistake you’ll make only once, if strictly speaking an open source project, inyou’ve ever had the misfortune to lunch with that anyone can download, modify andGNU Project founder Richard Stallman. Most redistribute the code. However, althoughpeople think of “Linux” as the entire operating the current stable version is available forsystem, whereas in fact it’s merely the kernel download, work on the next version– the part of the OS that bridges the gap takes place behind closed doors, and it’s onlybetween hardware and software. The main released when Google is ready. That goessystem space tools and libraries emerged against one of the principal tenets of openfrom Stallman’s GNU Project, which is source software: community.OPENwhy he irritably insists that the OS is A study in late 2011 named Android the most “closed” of eight open sourcereferred to as GNU/Linux. So, while projects, stating that it “would not haveTorvalds was indisputably the driving risen to its current ubiquity were it notforce behind the kernel that was for Google’s financial muscle and famednamed after him, he can’t really engineering team”. Firefox co-creator Joetake credit for the entire Hewitt agrees. “It kills me to hear the term ‘open’ watered down so much,” he wrote inlinuxoperatingsystem. 2010. “It bothers me that so many people’s first exposure to the idea of open source is an occasional code drop, and not a vibrant community of collaborators like I discovered ten years ago with Mozilla.” So, Android: a bit more open than iOS, but not nearly as open as it could be.028 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

WorldMaTgecsh m.nythsetFEATURE “Docwhenalpoeardetdhasnofatbwoaxreedschoopuyl”d be “fSirnoosfmetcwatasrreineal‘abiucngossmt’apdnuectreeirvo”ef£££The snap judgement that digital downloads In 1947, operators of the Harvard Mark II, an should be much cheaper isn’t always correct. early electromechanical computer funded by the Although hardware costs such as US Navy, traced an error to a moth trapped in manufacturing, shipping and storage a relay. This, so the story goes, is what coined space are eliminated, additional costs are the use of the terms “bug” and “debugging”. introduced. There’s the cost of running the A nice tale, but in fact the use of the word has servers; there’s the fact that you pay the tax rate of the country in which the online store been recorded among engineers as far back as is based; and there’s the simple fact that developing software is expensive, and Thomas Edison in 1878, and there’s no doubt only a fraction of the purchase price the Harvard operators were already familiar goes on the box and manual. with its meaning, even if it perhaps wasn’t widely used in the computing world. As the log from that day – complete with poor moth still taped to it – notes, “first actual case of bug being found”. Law “Incyoogunaintoonmyomdoeumsa” kes ti“nhTheWegiyrnooedvu’oserwraensbmmtaaehcinalkttsd”rloeeotarsd“Micfrroosmofptirbaecnye”fits Whatever the name – Incognito on Chrome, Private Browsing on Firefox, InPrivate Browsing on IE – these modes are all about erasing your tracks online. The usual histories and cookies will be erased after each session, but don’t be fooled into thinking that makes you anonymous online. All three browsers make clear these modes will only erase tracks on your own PC: you can still be logged by “America’s National Security Agency (NSA)At a conference in 2007, Microsoft’s Jeff your ISP, your work network, and any site may have been given a back door into everyRaikes admitted of illegal downloaders: “If you visit – and by someone standing behind copy of Windows 95, 98, NT 4 and 2000they’re going to pirate somebody, we want it you, as Chrome helpfully points out. worldwide,” said the BBC in 1999. A variableto be us rather than somebody else.” For years called _NSAKEY had been found in a securitythe idea has circulated that Microsoft doesn’t and encryption driver for Windows NT, andreally mind piracy, as it gets its software out the immediate conclusion was that Microsoftthere. As Raikes explained: “In the long-run, was giving users’ data to the government.the fundamental asset is the installed base of Microsoft has issued denials time and againpeople who are using our products. What as the story resurfaced in 2002, 2006 and evenyou hope to do over time is convert them to in 2009 with Windows 7, stating it “has notlicensing the software.” But admitting you and will not put ‘backdoors’ into Windows”can’t eradicate piracy isn’t the same as saying “BitTorrent is illegal” and that it worked with the NSA “purely inyou like it. Google’s records show that in the conjunction with our Security Compliancepast year companies representing Microsoft Management Toolkit”. Given the secrecyissued takedown surrounding security tools, it’s a myth thatrequests for more There’s nothing intrinsically illegal about probably won’t ever die.than 4.5 million BitTorrent. If you want to use it to download aURLs – twice Linux ISO, or a copy of the free Big Buckas many as the Bunny animation, go ahead. The vast majorityRecording Industry of BitTorrent users, however, use it for ratherAssociation less innocent purposes, such as sharing piratedof America. games and movies – hence the system’s shady reputation. Some ISPs and many company networks block or throttle BitTorrent traffic, and this is probably partly motivated by a desire not to be an accessory to piracy, but it isn’t a legal obligation.www.pcpro.co.uk WorldMags.net PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 029

FEATUREWTecoh mrytlhsdMags.netENVIRONMENT “Awirippeoyrotusrchaanrnderdsiswki”ll This is a hangover from the days of camera film, when putting your bag through an airport X-ray machine often meant no more pretty photos. Flash storage ended that issue, and you can rest assured your laptop is safe too. X-ray machines primarily use electromagnetic energy, unlike the magnetic energy of the walk- through metal detectors, so your tech kit is“Mobile phones give you cancer” fine on the conveyor belt with your keys and wallet. Even the handful of early scare stories about the Kindle’s E Ink display being damaged have proved toIn April, the Health Protection Agency be unfounded as time has gone on.published a full review of all of theevidence to date. It found that althoughmobile phones haven’t been around “Pnliguhgtgiwngilylokuilrlpthhoenbeaitnteevreyr”ylong enough to assess long-termeffects, the results of studies sofar haven’t demonstrated thatthe use of mobile phones causesbrain tumours or any othertype of cancer. This may have been good advice back in theStudies also provide days of nickel-cadmium batteries, but modernno substantial evidence of lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries don’tadverse health effects such suffer any harm from being left charging foras cardiovascular morbidity long periods. In fact, it’s better to keepand reproductive function. them plugged in than to leave them to run down: repeatedly allowing a lithium battery to discharge to a low level before topping it up will shorten its life.“Mwoitbhilpelpahnoeneeqsuiinptmeernfte”re “dAaGmoaoggilnegsaesaarcchupispaa”s It can’t practically be proven that mobile In 2009, a Harvard scientist claimed that every phones don’t interfere with aircraft equipment, Google search uses half the energy it takes to in much the same way it can’t be proven that breopiol artekdetitnlet–hearmoeudnida,7bguot fitCisOn2’t. It was widely God doesn’t exist. We can, however, be true, confident that if the aviation industry thought according to Urs Hölzle, senior vice president phones actively endangered aircraft, they’d rely for technical infrastructure at Google. “For on more than eagle-eyed cabin crew to prohibit the average query, the servers it touches use. Aviation authorities ban the use of mobiles each work on it for just a few thousandths on planes because the levels of electromagnetic of a second. Together with other work performed before your search even starts interference from such devices can exceed (such as building the search index) this the susceptibility levels of onboard amounts to 0.0003kWh of energy per equipment, especially in older search, or 1kJ.” What’s that ainboCuOt 02 .t2egrmosf? aircraft. While most modern phones “A single search accounts for and modern planes operate together carbon,” says Hölzle. “That means a typical without conflict, certifying each and individual’s Google use for an entire year every handset would be an would produce about the same amount of administrative nightmare, hence the CO2 as just a single load of washing.” much simpler blanket ban. That said, airlines such as Emirates and Virgin Atlantic are now fitting picocells in their modern fleets to allow passengers to make calls and send text messages.030 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

WorldMaTgecsh m.nythsetFEATURE“Your laptop can make you infertile”Much like the link between mobile phones “Rtehceybcelisntgwtaeychtoeqbueipgmreeennt”isand cancer, a few medical studies in recentyears have suggested that the electromagnetic Manufacturers are required by EU law to takeradiation from your wireless network could back unwanted electronic gadgets, includinghave a negative impact on male fertility. PCs, but recycling isn’t necessarily the greenestAs yet, there hasn’t been a wide- way. Computer Aid International, a charityranging investigation into this idea, that gathers end-of-life PCs in the UK andbut it is known that sperm quality ships them to developing nations, argues thatis reduced by prolonged exposure 80% of the energy used by a PC in its lifetimeto high temperatures – such as is in the manufacturing phase. That meansthose produced by a high-powered the longer a PC can be used, the better it islaptop. If you’re trying to conceive, for the planet; when you’re done with yourtherefore, it might be a desktop or laptop, consider passing it ongood idea to keep a cushion before resorting to recycling.on your lap duringsofa-surfing sessions. spe“eMdasnuupaylloyurkislmlianrgtapphposne”PERFORMANCE“A £100 cable is better We’re conditioned from the desktop to than a £10 cable” believe running out of system RAM is bad, but on a smartphone the When buying audiovisual or computer cables opposite is generally true: a memory it’s worth investing in something that’s well full of your favourite apps means no made and properly shielded, to minimise the waiting around. When you close an risk of breakage and interference. But app, it stays in your taskbar in a there’s no need to spend hundreds of suspended state – it’s still in the pounds. If premium audio cables yield memory but not using any other any benefit, it’s so slight that even resources, so it can resume self-professed audiophiles can’t instantly. If you start a new app reliably detect it in blind tests. And that needs more memory than is when it comes to digital cables such as HDMI, don’t be fooled by available, the OS will stop some of the marketing buzzwords: suspended apps to make room – you’ll still see independent tests prove that them in your taskbar, but next time they’ll there’s no difference whatsoever load from scratch. All of this happens in signal quality or function between automatically in the background, so having a £10 cable and a “premium” equivalent lots of suspended apps shouldn’t have any costing ten times as much. impact on performance. There are one or www.pcpro.co.uk two exceptions, such as apps that play music, track your location or download data in the background, and occasionally you’ll get a poorly coded app that hogs the CPU or one that doesn’t terminate properly, and killing it is the right thing to do. But the majority of the time you’re making your phone do more work, not less, by manually killing apps. WorldMags.net PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 031

FEATUREWTecoh mrytlhsdMags.net “Adding RAM makes your PC faster”“A 64-bit OS is faster”A 64-bit OS isn’t inherently faster than a 32-bit This is true to an extent: additional RAM is one of the best ways to give an ageing PC aOS – if you upgrade an older PC you won’t see boost. An upgrade from 1GB to 2GB is aany performance boost from the OS alone – but surefire way to make Windows feel snappy and ensure applications load faster. With newer6644it does enable certain advances that weren’t systems, however, 4GB tends to be the standard, and here the benefits are less obvious.possible before. The main advantage is that We benchmarked a PC with a Core i7-3770Kit allows the OS to recognise more than 4GB processor: with 4GB of RAM, it scored 1.11of RAM, which can be a huge benefit when in our tests; with 16GB, it scored onlyrunning intensive editing applications. It 1.13. There are some areas that benefitdepends on the software too: some applications – in our video-rendering test the result improved from32are programmed to make the most of a 64-bit 1.19 to 1.35 with that additional memory – butCPU, while others will see no benefit. for most people this theory applies best to older PCs. “More cores means more speed”Most of today’s high-end processors have four “USB disks must be dismountedcores, but some offer six or eight – and for the before removal”majority of users that will make no perceptibledifference. We tested a six-core Core i7-3930K When you dismount a USB disk, the operatingand a four-core Core i7-2600K: in our general system ensures all pending data writes areWindows test they performed identically, and complete before taking the drive offline.when audio encoding, the four-core CPU was On OS X, which uses write caching tofaster. Much like the RAM situation (see speed up file operations, it’s a good ideaabove-right), modern PCs are plenty fast always to do this before unplugging theenough for most uses. Where the extra cores domake a difference is in proper multithreaded drive, even if it appears to be idle. Onapplications. In our video-rendering test, forexample, the six-core i7-3930K was 33% faster. x2Windows, however, write caching is disabledIn our 3D-rendering test, the two extra cores by default for USB devices, so you can safelymean a score of 1.44 rather than 1.07. More yank out your drive without having tocores can mean more speed, but only if you dismount it first – so long as you’re nothave the right software to take full advantage. actually saving a file at that precise moment. cou“Dnotugbivliensgttwhiecme tehgaepdiextealil” If you’re using a typical consumer DSLR, a 16-megapixel picture should capture more detail than an 8-megapixel one – but it’s unlikely the sensor will be capable of resolving fully twice the detail. Zoom in on the high- resolution image and you’ll likely see softer edges and murkier detail. If you had a camera with a larger sensor, you could take a 16-megapixel image that did contain twice the detail, but doubling the resolution alone doesn’t guarantee double the definition.032 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

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FEATUREWTecoh mrytlhsdMags.netSECURITY “Viruses can spread by email”“aCsomanmtoinvisreunssseoifstawsagroeo”d A decade ago, it was possible to catch a virus simply by opening an email. Security holes in major email clients – including Microsoft Outlook – allowed coders to create malware that would execute as soon as an infected message was opened. The ILOVEYOU worm infected more than 50 million PCs in this way in the year 2000. But today such holes have been firmly closed, and – touch wood – email-borne viruses appear to be a thing of the past. You can still get infected if you choose to execute untrusted attachments or follow unfamiliar links, but simply reading your messages ought to be perfectly safe.Most online dangers can be avoided by “Internet Explorer is insecure”There’s no denying IE has had its problems.following a few simple rules. Don’t trust Whether it’s drive-by installs or rogue ActiveXunknown downloads, don’t follow links in add-ons, users have experienced the lot – notspam emails, don’t enter your password unless helped by IE6 clinging to life far longer than ityou’re certain you’re on the right site and – should have. Many major holes were fixed inmost importantly of all – ensure you’ve applied IE7, and by IE8 it had malware protection andall available security updates for your operating phishing filters. Updates are now included insystem and applications. But common sense Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update, and thealone won’t keep you completely safe. IEbrowser has more limited privileges than it everCybercriminals regularly unearth used to. It’s still under threat – a high-profile“exploits” that allow them to sneak theirmalware onto your system silently. Byhacking into respectable servers,they can even turn innocent-looking sites into malwaredistribution channels. If flaw was discovered and patched only lastyou’re not running month – but if you stay updated it’s no longerantivirus software that can as insecure as its reputation suggests.intercept the maliciouscode as it arrives on yoursystem, you’re a sitting duck. “Securely wiping a hard disk “Macs don’t get viruses” requires multiple overwrites” Disk-erasing tools let you specify the number OS X certainly suffers from far fewer virus of times the data will be overwritten with attacks than Windows. This is partly down to random 0s and 1s, and the common belief is its smaller userbase, making it less attractive that multiple passes are needed to ensure data to attackers. But it’s also thanks to a much can’t be recovered. Nonsense, according to stricter system of permissions, built into the “The Great Wiping Controversy”, a 2008 OS at the core level since day one, which makes it more or less impossible for 011010101000paper co-authored by researchers from malware to tamper with system Computer Forensics and Symantec. settings without your explicit It found that after one pass, the probability of recovering a single permission. That doesn’t mean 1010101110010011 bit was only slightly better than the platform is invulnerable: as a coin toss, and that decreases recent attacks such as Mac exponentially with more Defender show, criminals can still bits until it’s close to zero. trick Mac users into installing Multiple passes may add malicious programs by disguising peace of mind, but for them as useful tools. a home PC one is enough.034 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

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FEATUREWOnolinercolddingMags.netRise of thecode schoolsWhen it comes to programming,the classroom is moving online.David Bayon looks at the newwave of start-ups that are makingcoding trendy again036 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

WorldMaOnglinesc.odningetFEATUREL earning to code used to involve a A great place for school computer room, a bearded novices to learn the teacher in a cardigan, and a book the basics. We may be size of an encyclopaedia. Not any nearing the end ofmore. To the delight of shoulders everywhere, the 2012 Code Yearthere’s a new breed of code school on the scene: track, but you canone that expects no physical attendance, that still go back andwon’t put you on the spot in front of the class, follow its weeklyand doesn’t even require a textbook. Welcome lessons, which moveto the online code school. from JavaScript,Then again, “school” is perhaps not the best through HTML andterm. You can work at your own pace and in CSS, and into Pythonyour own home, and the courses provide and jQuery. The best thinginstant feedback, both in the form of subtle Codecademy about following Code Yearpointers towards what you’re doing wrong, www.codecademy.com in order is that it ties manyand rewards when you do things right. Progress Price: Free of these topics together,is encouraged not through the threat of Level: Beginner rather than treating them asdetention, but via a social profile that fills Users: “Millions” separate courses.with badges as you learn new skills. It’s the Sample courses: JavaScript, key, so these online schools place interaction atgamification of school, and it’s working. HTML and CSS, Python the heart of their lesson plans, their site design and even their growth strategies.Each week a new course on JavaScript, CSSor Python arrives on Codecademy; at Code Khan Academy course creator John ResigSchool thousands pay monthly for interactive says its open code, easy feedback andRuby and GitHub instruction; over at Udacity encouragement of experimentation are allhigh-resolution videos range from the basics beginning of JavaScript, with its first task influenced by his open-source experiences.right up to university-level topics. In this being simply to type your name. Services such Instead of explicitly teaching the fundamentalsfeature, we explore why online learning is so as Treehouse and Code School aim a little of programming, it’s more productive to “put higher – at the the student into code of graduated complexity developer who wants and encourage them to manipulate, explore,“Interaction is at the heart of to refine their skills or and write their own programs.” learn something new,lesson plans, site design and and Udacity has Lessons are typically broken down into courses as intense as digestible chunks, with the instruction and theeven their growth strategy” Applied Cryptography. user input closely tied together. At Codecademy, The idea of learning a chatty text instruction sits beside a live codehot right now, we talk to these digital teachers online isn’t new and it won’t suit all subjects, window, often with a fragment of codeabout their methods, and we ask whether the but here it makes sense: ask an expert pre-entered as a starter or as something totraditional classroom is under threat. programmer how they learned their craft and fix. Make a mistake and the interface lets you most will say they progressed with hands-on know; solve the problem correctly and you experience. A sense of active involvement is unlock the next lesson. Code School, UdacityA new way of learning and Treehouse go a step further withThe current boom in online coding has its professionally produced video tutorials.roots in two desires. First, there’s the desireof the teacher to reach as many people as A major driving force of every coding site ispossible – to educate beyond the walls of the gamification. Rather than just finishing a lessonclassroom. Online, every student can benefit and moving on, users unlock badges to go onfrom the best teaching, and a lesson needscreating and testing only once. That lesson is no social network-style profiles, alongsidelonger confined to a class of 30, but can be progress charts and activity logs.used by hundreds of thousands, even millions It’s education given a layer ofof students in some cases. 21st-century instant gratification.That’s combined with the basic desire to Codecademy even borrows fromlearn a skill that’s increasingly important in the latest online games, with usersthe digital age. As Codecademy building up point streaks if theyco-founder Zach Sims put it in log in and learn every day.an interview: “I think coding is Then, when a course is21st-century literacy. Traditionally, completed, the sharing begins.there are the three Rs of literacy: it When a “Tell your friends youwas just reading, writing and survived” button on an early Railsarithmetic. We think the fourth for Zombies course provedshould be algorithms.”The different schools take different popular, the Code School teamapproaches. The Khan Academy wondered how far they could push it. Theybegan with some novice tasks geared added more buttons, and as founder Greggtowards programming and graphics.Codecademy goes right to thewww.pcpro.co.uk WorldMags.net PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 037

FEATUREWOnolinercolddingMags.netCode School The place for “web want that to be okay. [The cost] is why we onlywww.codeschool.com professionals” to really do one course a month.”Price: Some free, then $25/mth brush up on theirLevel: Intermediate coding skills or learn Funding such advancements is a big issue asUsers: 150,000 new ones. There are these sites grow. Code School has 150,000Sample courses: Ruby, Git, some free courses users, more than 5,000 of whom pay $25 aBackbone, jQuery for beginners to get month to access courses – but even that won’t started, but the cover a move into some new areas. “An iOS monthly fee means course is going to cost a lot more than a typical Code School lends course because of the hardware,” says Pollack, itself more to those and “because of all the software we have to who already have a write, and it definitely has a higher risk factor.” grounding in programming. So Code School crowdfunded its “Try iOS” With cartoonish graphics and course instead. “Kickstarter seemed like a great badges and a geeky retro feel, way to make sure there was enough interest.” It one of its main strengths is the raised more than three times its $50,000 target. chatty, game-like approach it takes to complex topics. Investment has also been rolling in for Codecademy, but the long-term plan remainsPollack explains, “people not only tweeted the content and figuring out what we want a mystery, with Zach Sims merely confirmingabout it at the end of a course, but they tweeted to teach. Sometimes we work backwards; we that everything on the site will remain free forbetween each level they completed. People love start with the challenges: what are we going the time being. One potential revenue streamsharing their accomplishments.” to want people to be able to solve? Then could come from the personal developmentThe Codecademy team knows this better how do we teach that? It’s putting together the of the users themselves. Employers couldthan anyone. On 1 January Codecademy slides, getting all the slide animations in there, evaluate potential recruits by their course filming in front of the progress, with candidates suggested depending green screen, getting it on the requirements of the job. “People are“Self-guided learning can take all edited. already putting Codecademy on their résumés, “On top of that so this is a natural next step,” Sims toldyou only so far; you need to be there’s a huge Bloomberg. Udacity already provides technology cost. Every certification on some courses, with majorworking with somebody” time we jump into a technology companies “actively recruiting from new technology we the Udacity student body.”launched Code Year, in which users resolved to have to figure out a good way to evaluate code.learn to code in 2012 via weekly online lessons. If somebody is solving a challenge, we want to Goodbye, Sir?By day three, 100,000 had signed up; within test that they’re able to solve it, and there mightnine weeks the figure had topped 400,000. be multiple ways to solve a challenge so we As good as these coding sites may be, how far“We tried hard to make the sign-up process as can any online course completed at your ownfrictionless as possible,” said co-founder Zach pace take you before you run out of steam, orSims at the time. “It also turns out this was a hit a brick wall? Pollack believes the internetcommitment that people wanted to share.” has its limits. “Self-guided learning can onlyThat sharing was all the advertising the site take you so far. At some point you need to behad, and it worked. Codecademy now has put in an environment where you’re working“millions of students in more than one with somebody on projects and beinghundred countries” learning the basics ofcoding for free, and recent investors include With its welcomingSir Richard Branson. modern site design and quirky name,Student fees Treehouse Treehouse takes a www.teamtreehouse.com slightly differentApproaches to creating content vary hugely Price: From $25/mth approach to manyfrom site to site. The Khan Academy funds its Level: Beginner/Intermediate code schools,new courses through donations, with significant Users: Unknown concentrating onbackers including the Bill & Melinda Gates Sample courses: HTML, CSS, more traditionalFoundation and Google, and courses are Ruby, iOS teaching first,created by academics. followed by some kind of questioning At Code School, teaching properly takes after. Learning comes via atime and money. “Each course is about a series of very professionaltwo-month process,” explains Pollack. lesson videos, followed by a“There’s a lot involved from just putting quiz or an onscreen codingtogether the course outline, to writing out all challenge. It offers a real mix of topics and difficulties.038 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

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FEATUREWOnolinercolddingMags.netKhan Academy The most basic of Collaborative teachingwww.khanacademy.org the courses here – atPrice: Free least at this early The blend of traditional and online learningLevel: Beginner stage – Khan is an intriguing one, and it’s also worthUsers: “Millions” Academy offers noting that these sites allow teachers ofSample courses: Programming beginner other related subjects, such as maths orbasics, animation, drawing programming physics, to easily incorporate coding lessons tutorials, along with with which they might otherwise have introductions to struggled. We’re way past the days of only graphics and programmers learning to code; today, a bit animation. The of HTML or JavaScript knowledge can push format is a bit of a you to the top of the recruitment pile in any mix, with some video tutorials number of careers. and some live coding lessons. Right now the range of topics Some of these code schools are breaking is limited, but given the into the mainstream. New York Mayor Academy’s size, the roster is Michael Bloomberg signed up to Code Year, sure to grow quickly. and the White House recruited Codecademy to provide a coding course as part of itsmentored. There’s certainly a piece of the Codecademy courses for their students all over Summer Jobs+ programme. They have apuzzle there that we’re not dealing with yet, the world. “We think it’s important for the best global audience too: in February, more thanthat a lot of these online self-guided tools teachers to create content on different subjects, 50% of Codecademy’s users were basedaren’t dealing with yet.” so we let anyone create lessons,” co-founder outside the US.Online learning should be viewed not as Ryan Bubinski told .net magazine.a complete solution, but as the beginning. If that sounds too time-consuming, the How big they can grow, and whether quality of the curated they’ll remain the plucky outsiders or be courses means they welcomed into the world of education, is“Coding is becoming cool can often be integrated anybody’s guess, and part of the fun for all into a lesson plan as is, involved is finding out. Between the successagain – and at a price that with Gregg Pollack of sites such as Codecademy and the huge telling us Code School interest in the Raspberry Pi, both fromanyone can afford to pay” has been in touch with individuals and schools, coding is becoming professors using its cool again – and at a price that almost anyone“I consider us the jumping-off point,” classes. “It’s a really good fit for labs,” he can afford to pay.says Pollack. “We are the first five or six explains, suggesting a teacher might setchapters in a book.” The aim for a site such an online course for the class as an added It’s the right blend of technologies at theas Code School is to remove “a lot of the assignment, for example. right time. Video learning is nothing new,obstacles people hit when they learn a new we’ve had interactive websites for years, andtechnology”, and to quickly give beginners we all know how popular social media is, but“a feeling of proficiency”. The videos, the Pollack believes the current craze is down to theinteraction and the rewards keep you returning combination of disciplines. “Until now, not toowhere you might otherwise have walked away many people have done all of them at once,” hein frustration. says. “People are just starting to figure out howOnce the basics are learned, it’s up to the to do that, and this is just one of the manyuser to drive his or her own development. The industries that’s ripe for disruption with theKhan Academy encourages you to “dig into all evolution of the internet.”the explanatory tutorials and documentationthat’s provided to clarify how things work.” Udacity looksReference sites such as www.w3schools.com are rather dauntingfull of more traditional information on coding, at first glance,and some of these online schools end their with its coursescourses with advice on where to go next – even on Appliedif that takes the user away from the site. Udacity Cryptography www.udacity.com and Artificial The longer-term solution may be in Price: Free Intelligence, but itsteachers integrating these online courses into Level: Beginner to Advanced 14 topics reach righttheir traditional lessons. Codecademy quickly Users: 110,000 down to beginneropened up its software after the success of Code Sample courses: Programming introductions toYear, so in theory a teacher can write a quick languages, debugging, AI computer science,online task to be carried out alongside a physics and statistics. Its whiteboard-style video lesson and problem sets are all followed up with questions, with a lively community on discussion boards.classroom lesson. In June, Zach Sims claimed“tens of thousands of teachers” have created040 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

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FEATUREWKinoectrforlWdindMowsags.net Photography: main intro, Danny BirdMICROSOFT KINECT FOR WINDOWSAs Kinect moves out of the living room, just how many aspects of ourdaily lives can the technology revolutionise? Stuart Andrews finds out044 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

WorldKMinecat fogr Wsin.dnowsetFEATUREM icrosoft Kinect is the most features and head position in real time – while software, for example, can transform any flat exciting home-entertainment speech recognition now copes with a wider surface into a touchscreen, while Manctl has technology in years. Nintendo’s range of languages and regional accents. Work created Skanect, which produces 3D models of Wii made motion control on hand tracking continues, both inside and rooms from multiple passes of a Kinect sensor.mainstream, but Kinect took it to the next level, outside Microsoft. NConnex similarly uses the Kinect’s trackingtransforming simple body movements into The company says it’s the combination of ability in its 3D-modelling software, whichgame controls using a combination of 2D and hardware and software that makes Kinect so enables users to scan a room and rearrange3D cameras, and some very smart software. powerful. As Zatloukal puts it, the strength is the virtual furniture. Toronto-based GestSureWith speech recognition as well, it’s the first in how it enables our computers to see and hear Technologies, meanwhile, is using Kinect tonatural user interface to control media playback what we do or say. “Even though the hardware give surgeons in operating theatres hands-freeand core console functions in the home. platform is interesting,” he says, “the magic is access to medical applications. But perhaps the really in the software. The more places we can star app comes courtesy of Jintronix, which This is just the beginning. What Kinect did bring this ability for our computers to see and won the $50,000 top prize at the Internationalfor the Xbox 360, it’s now threatening to do for hear us, the morethe PC. In January, encouraged by a wave of interesting and relevantDIY Kinect coders, Microsoft announced the to our lives I think the “Kinect can transform how weKinect for Windows program. software will become.” Wouter Bos agrees. use the PC, both with Windows With a modified sensor aimed at developers, “Normally, Windowsthe goal is to take Kinect out of the living room is for an environment 8 and whatever follows”and into shops, workshops, offices and just where you have yourabout anywhere else. In Microsoft’s vision, desk, your computer or your laptop and the Startup Festival in Montreal, for an applicationKinect is one of several key technologies that chair you’re sitting on, and that’s that. With that makes physical rehabilitation for strokecan transform how we use the PC, both with Kinect you’re free. You can use it in a shop, or patients more engaging.Windows 8 and whatever follows. when you’re performing surgery… you can be These are disruptive applications for a anywhere and interact with Windows.” disruptive technology. NConnex’s co-founder,Kinect, meet Windows Shichao Ou, sums Kinect up as “a complete game changer for human-computerMicrosoft may have been taken aback at the The innovation engine interaction”, with the company using thespeed with which the hacking community Right now, the focus is on innovation. In April, sensor as a 3D-scanning device that’s “aembraced Kinect, but it claims that bringing Microsoft took 11 start-up developers through hundred times cheaper than establishedKinect to the PC was always part of the plan. a three-month Kinect Accelerator programme, methods”. Zatloukal describes how the culminating in a Demo Day where they could work involved in Manctl’s Skanect “used to “Microsoft made a very significant show off their work to investors and the media. require tens of thousands of dollars’ worthinvestment both in terms of time and money They represent a fraction of the hundreds of of equipment, but now just requires a Kinect,in bringing this hardware and software device companies, from corporations such as Boeing to a computer and the software”.into existence,” says Peter Zatloukal, product boutique interior designers, that are harnessing Meanwhile, Ubi Interactive’s softwaremanager of Kinect for Windows. “Of course, Kinect to power their applications. Some run could make waves in education and corporateour initial focus was on the gaming sector – we on standard Windows 7 or 8, and others on presentation, outperforming conventionalthought that’s where we could really prove the the device-focused Windows Embedded. interactive whiteboards and projectors at atechnology and get a sense of how people As a result, we’re seeing a range of fraction of the cost. “When we started workingwould like it. But our plan all along was to eye-opening applications. Ubi Interactive’s on our current idea, Kinect wasn’t on thebring this particular technology platform intoall the places that Microsoft operating systems The Kinect’s tracking ability in NConnex’s 3D-modelling software enables users to scan a roomand software technologies exist.” Hence Kinect for Windows and the KinectSDK. The Windows sensor looks just like theXbox 360 version, even requiring the sameweird USB and PSU arrangement. The cameras,the lenses and the four-element arraymicrophone are, we’re told, identical. However, the Kinect for Windows sensorhas a different firmware that enables it tooperate in what Microsoft calls “Near Mode”.Kinect was originally designed to work in theliving room, at a range of roughly three to fourmetres. Near Mode enables it to see objects asclose as 50cm – or 40cm with someperformance degradation. Wouter Bos, projectmanager at Dutch developer Qurius, claims thismakes Kinect for Windows “more precise thanthe game Kinect”. This becomes even more interesting whenyou realise what the latest versions of the SDKenable. Kinect now supports a seated mode,tracking the upper body while overlooking thelower half. Skeletal tracking works at 40cm,and is faster and more accurate than before.It supports facial tracking – watching facialwww.pcpro.co.uk WorldMags.net PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 045

FEATUREWKinoectrforlWdindMowsags.net Any surface can become a touchscreen screen, and that both of us are sitting and I was pointing at a particular photo. That can allow for some exciting new interactions to light up.” With Kinect, the PC uses vision to support speech recognition, and speech to support what it “sees”. The result should be more intelligent, intuitive user experiences. It isn’t difficult to see a synergy between the approach Microsoft has taken with Windows 8 and Windows Phone, and the approach it’s adopting with Kinect. Metro’s tiles and gestures seem to be built with Kinect in mind, and there’s clearly the potential to take either Kinect or a Kinect-like device and use it to control Windows 8 on large-scale desktop systems. In fact, you can preview how such a thing might work by looking at the revised 10ft Metro-styleKinect can give surgeons in operating theatres hands-free access to medical applications interface of the Xbox 360 dashboard.market yet, so we were using expensive camera a very natural way to interact with computing Microsoft won’t go into details now,modules and ended up creating our own devices and smart glass – and what I think and the Metro UI and Start screen aren’thardware,” says co-founder Anup Chathoth. Kinect does is move that realm of interaction yet controllable by Kinect for Windows in“This created two issues for us. It was into the natural spoken word and gestural Windows 8. All Zatloukal will say is thatextremely distracting for us to dabble with the interfaces, so that we can start to interact “Kinect for Windows already works onnitty-gritty of the hardware, when our R&D with our computers theefforts could have been spent doing what we do way we interact withbest: developing awesome software. Also, as a human beings. That’s the “Microsoft has created somestart-up, it’s extremely difficult to manage the real promise. I think thatdesign, production and distribution of the really takes us to an specific acoustic models forhardware. Kinect solved both these problems augmentation experiencefor us in one go.” for the existing Kinect for Windows”For Microsoft, Kinect provides a means computing environment.”with which to expand the scope of Windows. Speech plays a major part in this respect. the Windows 8 Developer Preview desktop“I think it expands where we interact with our Microsoft has created specific acoustic applications and that, as you might expect, iscomputers, from the kitchen – we already have models for Kinect for Windows. These work clearly something Microsoft plans to supportthe living room – to retail environments and so in conjunction with the array microphone and on our new operating system platforms”.on,” says Zatloukal. “Everywhere we interact Microsoft’s ongoing speech technology to makewith technology, and we can do it in a more spoken-word interaction more accurate andnatural way – we can build it with Kinect.” adaptable. “This sort of stuff was pretty hard in Taking Kinect to work the past,” says Zatloukal, “but we’ve invested a There are several things Microsoft must do lot in both the Kinect side and the speech SDK to make Kinect work on Windows desktopKinect on the desktop we’ve included, to make it easy to create both platforms. First, it needs developer supportThis, it turns out, means the desktop too. command- and control-style interfaces, as well to ensure that Kinect gets killer apps. Second,Zatloukal talks of how “the ability for our as truly natural, contextual-based stuff.” it needs to find the right hardware to makecomputers to see and hear us” extends to our By this, he means Kinect software can be Kinect as ubiquitous on PCs and laptops asexisting PCs. “You and I probably use our built to work with both speech and gestures, a microphone or webcam. Finally, it needs tomouse and keyboard, and certainly no-one is and to put together the whole picture. He ensure Kinect is accurate enough to use.taking away my mouse and keyboard – I love explains: “Imagine I were pointing at the screen The first of these is being addressed, thanksinteracting with my computer that way. and I said ‘what’s that?’ The computer already to the Kinect for Windows SDK, generous“Everybody has their eyes on what has the context that you and I are human samples and libraries, and the way thatdirect-touch technology can do for people – it’s beings, and that we’re interacting with the Kinect hooks into existing Windows 7 and 8046 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net www.pcpro.co.uk

WorldKMinecat fogr Wsin.dnowsetFEATUREKINECT PIONEERSQurius Microsoft Dynamics Ubi Interactive NConnex 3D modellingNAV 2013 application Combine Ubi Interactive’s software with a While the Kinect hardware was built toAsked by Microsoft to create a demo projector and a Windows PC, and any surface support motion controls, at heart it’s reallyapplication for Kinect and the Dynamics can become an interactive touchscreen. The just an RGB webcam with a 3D-depthNAV enterprise-resource planning solution, software compensates for the properties of camera. NConnex’s software makes theQurius spent four weeks developing a different surfaces and light conditions, and also most of this, allowing users to make 3DMetro-style app that allows an engineer works in 3D, using information captured by the scans of a living space, and then populateassembling bicycles in a workshop to check depth sensor to know when your fingertip is on those scans with accurately modelled 3Dinventory and schematics from a distance the surface, and when it’s hovering above it. furniture to see how it fits. Stores andby using gestures. A hand-controlled cursor More encouragingly, it seems to work manufacturers benefit from this too, ascan be used to select parts and drill through accurately, responsively and in great detail, they can build those models easily andthe options, while sweeping gestures are supporting common Windows gestures, and inexpensively using NConnex applicationsdeployed to navigate through pages. There’s – as the software works with any Windows and Kinect. It’s a great example of howeven a step-forwards, step-back gesture to application – enabling large-scale games of Kinect enables applications that would oncesee further details. This is pioneering Angry Birds if you want. It’s one of the most have been prohibitively expensive to behands-free interaction at work. exciting early Kinect for Windows apps. developed and sold at a fraction of the cost.technologies. “Microsoft has made it extremely As far as Peter Zatloukal is concerned, Future visionseasy for people to develop for Kinect,” says Kinect is a boon for developers, and as theNConnex’s Shichao Ou, “at least for the more technology grows more ubiquitous, more Microsoft doesn’t view Kinect as a short-termconventional Natural User Interface scenario.” developers will incorporate Kinect functions gimmick, but as a key to making interactions into mainstream applications. between people and Windows devices more Wouter Bos agrees. “It’s quite easy to intuitive. Zatloukal hopes to see eventually thatprogram around the Kinect, and what we had “It’s exciting to know computers that can “this very cutting-edge technology, as forward-in the demo used very standard functionality.” see and hear us,” he says. “We hope that giving looking as it is, really starts to look invisible toHe explains that functions present in Windows them this opportunity, this developer platform, end users”. In fact, he believes that Kinect-likePresentation Foundation and other standard will entice the development community to bring technology may one day be taken for granted.libraries already hook through to Kinect, and their passion and vision to open up this naturalthat making Kinect work with a Metro-style space and take advantage of it.” “I think that kids growing up will expectinterface isn’t a major challenge. Kinect-enabled experiences throughout theirwww.pcpro.co.uk However, what about the hardware? There regular lives. For me – and I know this is a have long been rumours and reports of Kinect strange way of saying it – the most awesome functions appearing in prototype laptops, while thing would be if this technology was so Kinect-enabled displays would be another ubiquitous that it became boring, because obvious route to take. Again, Microsoft won’t we expected it. That would be a real victory be drawn on the topic, beyond Zatloukal saying for this technology and what it can do.” that “we’re keeping our eye on where else we can bring to sensor technology”. He adds: “We Developers agree about the potential. “I don’t have any specific plans that we can talk don’t know if it will change the PC from what about right now, but in my opinion, the kind it is right now, but this is a new development of future where all of our computing devices that will continue,” says Bos. “We’re already can see and hear us is something that excites getting requests to create software to use a Microsoft, and it’s a place we think we can, television, or in business. The only limits right over time, bring the software experience that now are our imaginations.” we’ve created.” Ubi Interactive’s Anup Chathoth concurs. As for the limitations of the hardware, it’s “In the future, we’re looking at a world where sensitive to varying light levels, and has issues information will be embedded in all surfaces with lag and field of view. Some of these may and objects with which you interact. And you’ll be resolved in firmware updates, while others be able to interact naturally by touching them, may be fixed in future software and hardware. waving at them or just by approaching them.” “With our current generation of hardware, Microsoft’s vision of “Kinect Everywhere” there are some limitations to the levels of is compelling, and the idea that Kinect devices resolution we can see,” admits Zatloukal. might take many forms, diverging to fit the “This is something that, as a company, we next-generation Xbox in the living room and have a deep investment in and, over time, the laptop in the office, is welcome. you should expect us to innovate on both the software and the hardware platforms, bringing “I think that’s really cool,” says Zatloukal. more capability. In this particular case, you “I believe that we’re seeing something exciting, should expect to see enhanced resolution and and this is early days for this technology. 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FEATUREWBouontry hlundterMs ags.net THE ZERO- DAY BOUNTY HUNTERS Davey Winder explores the hidden world of the bounty-hunting security researcher, finding vulnerabilities for fun and profitIllustration: Donough O’Malley (www.pencilrobot.net) F ewer than 1% of the This is the grey marketplace the user, then why is there all the suggest that you’re more likely to exploits detected of security technology, where fuss about the other 1%? be hit by a zero day if you work by Microsoft in software giants pay huge sums at an organisation that could be the first half of last to individuals to find holes in their The likelihood of encountering targeted by this sort of high-level year were against so-called products before the bad guys can a zero day as an individual attacker – for example, if you zero-day vulnerabilities – those exploit them. Not everyone in the business user is pretty low, not work in the defence industry or are that were previously unknown. IT security industry is happy with least because the shelf life of such dealing with industrial secrets.” That figure raises a question: if this “bounty hunter” approach to an attack is limited to the short the vast majority of real-world bug squashing, and the subject of period between launch, detection It also provides the answer to exploits are “known threats”, zero days is becoming increasingly and patching. The usefulness of the value question: zero days are what makes zero days so controversial thanks to their use a zero day exists only until that valuable because they’re in such valuable that they have in state-sponsored cyberweapons patch is available, which means limited supply and, generally spawned a hidden industry of such as Stuxnet. In this feature, we that they tend to be reserved for speaking, can be used only once bounty-hunting researchers? explore this booming market and attacks against high-profile and before they become compromised. hear both sides of the argument. high-value targets. Stuxnet, for If you want to pull the trigger on Most people are comfortable example, employed four zero-day that initial launch, you have to pay with the idea of hiring penetration The 1% equation exploits, and was used as a the going rate on the dark market. testers to poke holes in the corporate network, highlight the If, as Microsoft’s state-sponsored attack against The zero-day failings, and ultimately make those research suggests, 99% another nation state. dark market defences stronger. However, apply of exploits are against As Sean Sutton, the same principle to software known vulnerabilities director of Deloitte This dark market for zero days security and throw it into the free that remain unpatched doesn’t just exist, it’s booming. An market, and that comfort zone is by either the vendor or Cyber Threat & investigation by Forbes magazine well and truly breached. Vulnerability earlier this year put together a Management Services, says: “This would www.pcpro.co.uk050 PC PRO•DECEMBER 2012 WorldMags.net