The clock is ticking for those iPhone users that want to take advantage of Apple's "apology" offer of a cheap replacement battery. We explore the reasons this offer has been made and why you should absolutely take them up on it if you can.

We all love a bargain, and what better bargain can you get than free! While the big name applications continue to charge a lot to keep up with the latest versions, there is usually a free alternative that you could be using to do the same thing. In this article, we'll look at a few of the most popular applications and suggest a free programme you could be using instead.

As we move out of summer, Windows 10 users will be bracing themselves for the second feature update of the year. If all goes to plan, this should be along in the next month or two. We take our now traditional early peek at what new features we can expect to see on our desktops in a few weeks time.

We thought it might be useful to provide a brief overview of the mobile world in our how to section this month. With the lines between the various devices we use becoming increasingly blurred, many people spend at least as much time looking at their mobile as they do their "main" device. We take a look at whether you actually even need a new phone at all, and make some recommendations to those that do.

Windows 10 defaults to collecting vast amounts of your data (anonymously). Unless you've deliberately told it otherwise, your machine will be doing this now. This month's HowTo blog explains how to locate Windows 10's privacy settings and change this if you prefer that it didn't.

Over the past few months, we have seen an increase in reports from users about a certain type of spam that we haven't covered in our blogs before. Rather than trying to get you to click something so they can install something nasty on your machine, this variant tries to embarrass you into handing over your details. We provide an example of this and also explain what's going on here and what you should do about it.

It has been the case for a while that users of Google's Chrome browser will have seen a warning when browsing a website without a valid SSL certificate that requires any sort of user input. The latest version of the browser takes this approach a step further.

Openreach have announced the next batch of locations that they will be bringing their new G.fast technology to. In this article, we briefly cover what G.fast is, where the new locations are and whether you should upgrade.