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High temperatures can damage components.
With this in mind, it’s a good idea to check how hot your PC is running to see if any components are at risk. The simplest way to do this is by entering the BIOS.
However, checking the BIOS can only give you a quick overview of temperature at any [...]
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Good things come in small packages, well, the Eee PC certainly proved that to be true. And judging by the number of Eee PC clones out there today it’s obvious that small computers are big business now.
But the very nature of ultraportables means that they need to be small and light enough to carry around. [...]
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You’d be forgiven for thinking that if you don’t bag yourself a Blu-ray player immediately, you don’t deserve a place in civilised society. But before you succumb to the marketing pressure, we reckon there are a few alternatives you might want to consider.
1. DVD upscaling is great
After a fairly uninspiring start, at least at the [...]
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Intel’s Eric Kim laid out a new vision for the future of the TV today at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. It was compelling, exciting and at the same time ominous.
Intel’s vision is essentially two-pronged. Unsurprisingly, Intel will be providing the hardware in the shape of its new Media Processsor CE 3100. [...]
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A free satellite service has long been recognised as a way of filling the gaps in Freeview’s coverage that didn’t force viewers to sign up to Sky, but it’s taken a long time to go from dream to reality.
The road to Freesat started five years ago, when the BBC abandoned encryption on its satellite broadcasts, [...]
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The hardy iMac, which was first announced to the world a decade ago this summer, is responsible for a significant chunk of Apple’s success.
Back in 1998, you’ll remember that it was the brightly coloured, translucent iMac that reaffirmed Apple’s reputation as a hot design house and groundbreaking computer-maker in one.
It cut out swathes of market [...]
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According to Microsoft, understanding how Windows works is no easy task. If you’re a regular home user, they imply, there’s no need to worry your pretty little head about such technicalities. Get back to playing games and browsing the web: leave the clever stuff to us.
Of course, this isn’t entirely true. Sure, most people [...]
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We all know that Linux is about choice.
Everyone has the choice of what they use and how they use it, provided they have access to a tame hacker with suitable programming skills.
A consequence of this is that there’s a huge range of software out there. If there’s a popular favourite for a given [...]
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When MobileMe was launched, it sounded so good.
For a tenner less than .Mac used to cost, you got a richer service that pushed email to all your devices as soon as it arrived, a full suite of Web 2.0-style apps that gave you access to all your mail, contacts, calendars, galleries and iDisk-stored files, [...]
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Among the multitude of things I’m currently mulling over is whether Microsoft’s post-Vista OS really will be called Windows 7. Microsoft itself seems determined to punt this name around now. So if it isn’t a final name, why is it being used?
After all, the OS has had not just one but two other codenames [...]