Maximum PC April 2004

The Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Guide! 28 Ingenious projects you can start and finish today.

• Step-By-Step, We should you how to: Silence and cool your PC. Lower your boot time to shockingly low levels. Use pro tools to encode perfect MP3s – for free! Increase your wireless range by leaps and bounds.
• Including: Use your PDA as a universal remote. Recover data from dead media. Get rid of your old PC. Optimize surround-sound speakers. Install WinXP the right way. Organize your cables. Optimize your RAID.
• 5-Page Explainer: Google – How it searches and catalogs the entire internet in 0.5 seconds
• Notebook Shootout: Dell’s XPS takes on the world’s fastest laptops!
• Dominate Microsoft Word: We explain the powerful, time-saving features you never learned
• Six Hot New Digital Cameras: Digicam Technology is leaping forward – now’s the time to buy!