admin @ November 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
For most of the world, it’s the festive season. For the games industry, it’s silly season; all the big releases that have been hyped throughout the year released in one huge, bewildering rush. Only millionaires and madmen can afford all of this Winter’s most notable titles, especially as they’re splintered across competing platforms.
On the [...]
admin @ November 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Had your fill of zombies and pirates? Despair when you’re given another egg to hatch or offered a fish for your virtual tank?
You’re not alone. Thoroughly fed up of crap Facebook apps, we searched long and hard to find useful tools and productive programs - and we found twenty.
These are all applications worth adding [...]
admin @ November 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Freeway Pro is a web design program that doesn’t edit HTML code. Much like a desktop publishing program, your website is displayed and edited as a single document.
Once you’re done, Freeway Pro converts your document into HTML and uploads everything to the appropriate server.
The great advantage to this approach is that you can fully [...]
admin @ November 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
An email from an Australian man has quickly become an internet hit after he attempted to negate his $233.95 bill by sending a picture of a spider.
Whether tongue in cheek or the ramblings of an absolute madman, this has quickly spread over the internet as a viral hit.
Check out the email in its entirety, just [...]
admin @ November 19, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Forget the tabloid horror stories, satnavs are a genuinely useful addition to any traveller’s armoury - whether you’re setting out by car, by bike or on foot.
They can shave precious minutes off your journey time, help you avoid traffic snarl-ups and even point you in the direction of your nearest petrol station (or bar). And [...]
admin @ November 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Everyone’s got their favourite console, and usually that choice goes arm-in-arm with the games they grew up with.
Some machines were better than others, but what’s really important is what gave rise to today’s enormous gaming landscape.
Raise a glass, then, to 10 landmark home gaming machines. Some were smash hits, others were dismal failures - but [...]
admin @ November 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It’s Get Safe Online week and, if you’re like us, you will tend to skip over lists of security tips because you consider yourself web savvy and have probably heard them all before.
But, as a heavy web user, you are quite possibly more at risk than the majority of people who can plead ignorance to [...]
admin @ November 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Our hands-on Windows 7 pre-beta review shows that things are looking promising for Windows 7.
Windows 7 will run faster than Vista, and it’s breaking new ground with support for multi-touch displays, but we can think of seven more simple things that Windows 7 needs to address.
One way to make Windows 7 a hit is to [...]
admin @ November 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Most Mac users tend to use the browser that came installed on their computer (Apple’s Safari) just because it’s there and it’s made by Apple. But as a discerning Mac user, Safari isn’t your only choice.
With this Group Test we’re going to check out the alternatives, to see whether it’s worth switching to something [...]
admin @ November 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
One thing about Apple’s software and hardware offerings, including iTunes and the various flavours of iPod, is that everything is so well designed that it’s really easy just to switch them on and go.
In general on a Mac, for most of us, most of the time, the standard tools and settings simply work. But [...]