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The ultimate guide to testing your website

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After so many shoddy sites, pop-up windows and forced registrations, the truth is that if people don’t find your website easy to use, they won’t come back. Worse, they’ll tell their friends just how clueless you are.
The answer is, of course, to design everything around the needs of your users. We’ve known this for [...]

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14 brilliant Christmas gifts for movie buffs

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God rest ye merry gentlemen, ’tis the season for giving and we’ve delved deep into Santa’s sack to come up with some choice gift ideas for the movie buff in your life.
Starting from an affordable £20, and going up to more expensive gifts, there’s something here for every budget.
So whether you’re after a stocking filler [...]

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Netbooks vs notebooks: which should you buy?

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The idea of a netbook isn’t exactly new. Microsoft first touted the concept of a small laptop-style device with a long battery life as far back as the late 1990s. Back then it was pushing its Windows CE Professional operating system.
This was a lightweight OS that belonged to the same family of products that [...]

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Cheap Blu-ray players will be scarce for Xmas

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Analysts are predicting that there will be no Christmas Blu-ray bonanza this year, and the reason is because of the lack of affordable players hitting the high-street.
Analysts at Screen Digest have noted that because of hardware supply constraints earlier in the year, the European BD promotional campaigns had to be reined in.
This is backed up [...]

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12 essential tips for eBay Christmas shoppers

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Looking to bag a bargain on eBay, but unsure where to start?
Or are you a seasoned eBay buyer, but still tend to lose out on the items you really want?
Buying on eBay can be a fun, enjoyable experience, but it’s worth knowing a few of the top tips to help ensure your transaction goes [...]

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12 reasons console gaming beats PCs

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Techradar recently posted a convincing validation for PC gaming over and above its console brethren.
Despite the erudite opinions contained within the piece, some people felt that the argument was, shall we say, a little biased.
So in order to redress the balance (and just for fun you understand) here are 12 reasons why, in fact, console [...]

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Sharpcast SugarSync review from TechRadar’s expert reviews of Back-upUpdated 11 hours agoUsernamePasswordRemember me

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Ten years ago, even owning one computer was still a bit of a novelty.
These days, however, many of us juggle multiple desktops and laptops, and have computers at work, in the living room, in studies and in schools.
The problem is that, at the crucial moment, you’re always going to find that the file [...]

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Why adding 3D graphics to games was a bad idea

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I’m getting a bit sick of 3D graphics. When 3D was first invented, back in the early cretaceous period, the first-person shooter, the flight sim and the RPG all got better.
But platform games got worse. I used to quite like Sonic the Hedgehog but all the 3D versions did was make me get lost and [...]

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Essential free apps for your web design toolkit

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Some of the very best web design and development tools are free. Free as in speech and as in zero pence. We take a look at the best free software you can use to build a successful, contemporary website, starting with the obvious: tools to design it with.
First you’ll need a web editor. Nvu [...]

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LG KG920 review from TechRadar’s expert reviews of Mobile phonesUpdated 9 hours agoUsernamePasswordRemember me

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LG’s KG920 has become the first phone to hit UK shores sporting a built-in 5-megapixel camera array. At a time when most mobile phones offer around a million pixels ОФИС-МЕНЕДЖЕР megapixel), and some notable bestsellers still have VGA cameras, the release of such a record-breaker is a real technology headline-grabber.
Basically, the more pixels, the more [...]

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