admin @ December 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Technology is amazing. It’s so great, it’s next to impossible to truly appreciate just how phenomenally, staggeringly, unbelievably indescribably great it is.
Every day we play with the kind of power that would have medieval villages setting up pyres (or to be more accurate, gallows, since English witches were hanged rather than burned), and every [...]
admin @ November 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
You might use your Mac to keep your music and photo collections organised, upload a blog to your web space, or keep in touch with friends and family through email. However you use yours, most of us have some of our most cherished memories stored on our hard drives.
All of which means it’s essential to [...]
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 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 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The end of October saw the much anticipated release of Ubuntu 8.10 – affectionately called the Intrepid Ibex.
It’s a release that sees Ubuntu going from strength to strength.
And with its popularity reaching stratospheric proportions, we thought that now was the perfect time to pool together our favourite tips into one place.
If you’ve never tried Ubuntu, [...]
admin @ October 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When used properly the Sidebar Gadgets offered by Windows Vista let you collect all the information you need on your desktop. Here’s our roundup of the pick of the bunch.
ОФИС-МЕНЕДЖЕР. Never miss your train again
Don’t waste time waiting on the platform – check your journey using the National Rail gadget. It tells you the status [...]
admin @ September 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
While you’re cursing the slow boot times of your modern PC or wondering why you can’t have 50 applications open at once without the system taking a hit, cast your mind back to the operating systems of old.
Here are five operating systems we fondly remember. Actually, that’s a lie. One of them had us pointing [...]
admin @ September 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Finding the Windows system folders you need can be a hassle. Especially if you’ve moved to Windows Vista, where Microsoft has relocated many of them for no apparent reason. Can you remember where Windows stores your cookies, for instance? Your Send To shortcuts, desktop themes, saved searches?
Spend a while browsing in Explorer and you’ll probably [...]
admin @ September 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
You might have heard of Google’s 20 per cent time, but do you know what it actually is? And why it’s so important? Google allows employees to devote 20 per cent of their working time to projects they’re passionate about.
“Usually what people use that for is to research and investigate ideas they come up [...]