NZ PC World has made its decision: we're backing Barack Obama. Or at least his choice of font, Gotham Condensed, which is being used in all the presidential candidate's print and online material - and which we've adopted for NZ PC World's redesign, due to be unveiled with our May issue. You could say Obama's our type of guy. Read A Font We Can Believe In for more on Gotham, originally designed for GQ.

PC World Readers Choice Awards 2008
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Achtung, Babies: Jerry is here
Keen followers of our Press F1 forum will have noted an invasion - if I can use so impolitic a phrase - of members from PC Welt (aka PC World Germany) who claim to be bored with their own forum. Hundreds of posts and thousands of page views have ensued, proving New Zilinders have no monopoly on free-ranging threads that more or less ignore IT altogether. But it's all good.