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 PC Pro is a one of several computer magazines published monthly in the United Kingdom by Dennis Publishing. PC Pro also licenses individual articles (or even the whole magazine) for republication in various countries around the world - and some articles are translated into local languages. The magazine is, as of 2006, the biggest selling PC monthly in the UK.
PC Pro is promoted as a magazine for 'IT professionals, IT managers and power users'.It is a fairly 'rounded' magazine as it contains information on many different aspects of IT (such as cheap hardware, extreme hardware, software, business, home, retailers) rather than just one of these areas like many UK PC magazines. While it is primarily Windows-focused, it does contain some Open Source and Apple content.
The magazine was launched in November 1994. The website, was launched in December 1996.
Each issue comes with a coverdisc - either a CD in the £3.99 version or a DVD in the £4.99 edition. The CD contains complete commercial software products (usually older versions) and commercial software trials. The DVD contains these and also a selection of applications which feature in every issue. These regular apps are usually freeware or Open Source.
Contributors
Davey Winder - Davey Winder, previously known as "Wavey Davey" or "dwindera" but now settled as "happygeek", is a United Kingdom IT pundit who has worked as a consultant, writer and journalist. He is the 'IT Security Journalist of the Year (UK) 2006', and ten years ago he won the Technology Journalist of the Year award. One of the original contributing editors of .net magazine, he is now contributing editor of PC Pro as well as a contributor to IT Pro, Information World Review, Microscope, Microsoft Business, PC Plus, Pocket Lint, Tom's Hardware and DaniWeb.
After viral encephalitis left him severely disabled, he first got a computer to use video games to improve the coordination in the remaining arm in which he had the power of movement. He then used a word processor to learn how to read and write again, with the help of his late father and numerous 'Janet and John' kids books. The disease had also changed his personality, devastating his marriage and social life. After experiments with Prestel, he found an early British online community, CIX in the late 1980s, before direct connections to the internet were cheaply available outside academia, and this provided him with a new social and business life. Winder was contacted through CIX email over the internet by technological culture writer Howard Rheingold, a habitue of The Well, another early online community based in the United States, and eventually the two met in person at Winder's home; the meeting is described in Rheingold's book, The Virtual Community. He is now fully recovered, has re-married and no longer needs a wheelchair.
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- All You Need to Know About the World Wide Web (".net" Guide)
- All You Need to Know About On-line Gaming (".net" Guide)
- Virgin Internet Travel Guide 1.0
- Virgin Internet Travel Guide 2.0
- All You Need to Know About Communicating On-line (".net" Guide)
- Virgin Internet Guide for Kids 1.0
- All You Need to Know About Mailing Lists (".net" Guide)
- All You Need to Know About Internet Jargon (".net" Guide)
- Sex and the Internet
- All You Need to Know About the Internet
- Internet, Modems, and the Whole Comms Thing
- All You Need to Know About Business On-line (".net" Guide)
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