admin @ December 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Aren’t Christmas presents brilliant? Well, some are…
You may dream of console games and compact, yet state-of-the-art GPS systems, but novelty socks and Homer Simpson tankards are the dire reality that most of us wake up to on Christmas morning.
Thankfully, we’re here with a timely round-up of tips on taking things back to the shop.
So, [...]
admin @ December 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Apple likes to think it’s the oracle of technology; rays of light shining forth from its Cupertino offices, Steve Jobs with a halo around his head.
But oddly, while its products are angelic, its press office is more secretive than the USA’s Homeland Security.
Apple has a strict policy, which it repeats ad infinitum: it won’t discuss [...]
admin @ November 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
More than just a browser developer, Netscape was once synonymous with the web. Go to netscape.com now, though, and you’re quietly redirected to AOL’s front page.
There’s not a single crumb of the old brand left, just a double portion of bland portal pie.
What a terrible waste. Netscape – more than any brand or browser – [...]
admin @ November 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Don’t be fooled by the simple exterior: a Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive is more than just a hard drive connected to your network for ease of access.
Depending on your budget, you can share media files directly from the drive, set up BitTorrent connections independent of your PC and expand your NAS drive further [...]
admin @ October 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Forget the fact for a minute that the new MacBook and MacBook Pros are the best-looking, most darn powerful laptops Apple has ever made. Wonder instead about how – and why – they made them look that way.
To address power, performance, environmental concerns and good looks, Apple decided to come up with an entirely new [...]
admin @ October 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Apple promised big things for the launch of iTunes 8 last September, and what did we get? A music recommendation engine and another layer of UI glossiness in the Grid view. Genius? Not really.
What we really hoped for and expected was a complete ground-up revamp that prepped iTunes for the future. Why?
Because iTunes, as we’ve [...]
admin @ October 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Windows 7, the next version of Windows, is closer than you might think, with early copies already in the hands of OEMs and trusted partners. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer demonstrated an early version of its user interface at the D6: All Things Digital conference in May but Steven Sinofsky – who took over Windows [...]
admin @ September 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Love them or hate them, social networking sites are here to stay. Facebook and MySpace are among the most popular destinations on the web. And even though they can be extremely annoying, there is one inescapable fact: the most irritating thing about Facebook is the 100m-strong army of people who use it.
When was the last [...]
admin @ September 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It’s been nearly a year since Google announced plans for a new open-source mobile phone OS. But will Android hit the jackpot for the search engine giant once again, or is it more developer’s dream than consumer cool? We’ve got the complete lowdown on Android…
What exactly is Android?
Without getting too geeky, Android is the name [...]
admin @ September 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Technology has made the world a better place – but it’s also made it much more annoying. Come with us as we unveil the 48 most irritating things in IT.
48. Chargers. A different charger for every single gadget, and a new type of charger whenever there’s a minor model upgrade. Brilliant.
47. Steve Jobs. Yes, the [...]