Boost your system speed to new levels with the best bolt-on kit in Issue 258; available now at all good newsagents. We demonstrate the best ways to improve your system performance without forking out for a whole new system, from simple overclocking, to adding new cores. Graphics cards, cooling, and upgraded drives all play this part in the ultimate guide for getting your PC ready for the high-powered software heading your way over the course of the year.

Next, we take a trip to the dark side with The Online Con Artist's Handbook. Go behind the scenes on some of the scams you know, and several you don't. We turn the crooked tables, showing you exactly how the classic routines work, and how they've developed over hundreds of years with the sole aim of emptying your wallet.

Also with an eye on money, but without the corruption, we find out how neural decision making is letting computers play the stock-trading game better than their human predescessors. The computers continue their ascension in a different form with intelligent cameras; affordable snappers ready to produce professional results with every click of the shutter. And if that's not futuristic enough, you won't want to miss our look at future nanotech - from cloaking devices to wireless power.

In your special Make It magazine, discover how to silence your PC for free, extend your Wi-Fi signal strength, recover files from Flash media, automate your PowerPoint presentations, give a 3D edge to your photos in Bryce 3D, and play your DVDs and music in Linux - legally! We also cover making Vista widgets, managing your photos, building web server clients in Delphi, and more.