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Welcome

PC Utilities • Issue 90 • www.magnesiummedia.com

MEET THE TEAM

Iain Warde

Our dedicated coverdisc

editor Iain is a self-confessed

gagdet freak and has more

devices hooked up to his

home network than most

Internet caféés.

David Nield Editor of PC Explorerand

regular contributor to PC

Utilities, Dave streams digital

radio across his home Wi-Fi

network to enjoy anywhere in

the house.

Ian Barker Editor of PC Toolsand our

resident hardware expert, Ian

has spent this month trying

out the wireless TV streaming

functions of Pinnacle’s PCTV

To Go (see page 94).

Nick G Hodder Having just moved to join the

Magnesium team, staff writer

Nick is currently more

concerned about social

networking than setting up

a Wi-Fi LAN.

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Wireless networking has been a hot

topic for years, but the issue has

reached boiling point over the past

few months following studies which have

raised questions about whether Wi-Fi poses

a health risk. According to some reports, the

level of radio frequency radiation in some

Wi-Fi-enabled schools is up to three times

the level found in the strongest part of a mobile phone mast’s

signal. So should we be worried? Are wireless networks slowing

destroying our long-term memory? Well, no. There’s no evidence to

suggest the emissions from wireless networks are any more

dangerous than carrying around a mobile phone. In fact, you’re

probably more at risk from non-wireless networks – all those

trailing cables are an accident waiting to happen.

Setting up a wireless network has

never been easier, thanks to

smarter hardware and the

introduction of Windows Vista. We

look at the subject of setting up a

home network in detail in our

cover feature this month (page 14)

and explore Vista’s handy Network

And Sharing Center in this issue’s

Vista Workshop (page 68).

Another storm in a teacup

hitting the technology

headlines recently has been

the release of a Windows

version of Apple’s Web

browser, Safari. We take a

critical look at the new

software in our coverdisc

reviews pages this month

(page 43), and you can read

Mozilla’s response to Apple’s

browser plans in our News section (page 9).

Gavin Burrell

Editor – PC Utilities

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