admin @ December 16, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It’s a hard life when you’re the family PC expert. Visit any relative at Christmas and you’ve barely time to get through the door before they’re telling you about the PC crashes, the unreadable CD, the forgotten password, and all the other computer problems they’ve saved up since your last visit.
There’s no way to stop [...]
admin @ December 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
One of the questions we get asked most is: “which TV should I buy?”
And no wonder, as well as two main types (plasma or LCD) the TV market is vastly complex and can be very confusing.
To help you here are the answers to the most common questions you need to consider – and [...]
admin @ November 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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 [...]
admin @ November 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Netbooks have exploded onto the market. And apparently it was a surprise to everyone in the computing industry that Joe Public fell in love with them. Oddly, it seemed we weren’t interested in investing the monetary equivalent of a luxury Mauritius holiday in buying a steel box of components that connects to the internet and [...]
admin @ November 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Christmas is coming and you need some gift ideas. And you have an iPod (and so do your friends). So what better thing to get them than something to go with their slice of Apple goodness? Courtesy of our friends at MacFormat, here’s the ultimate guide to iPod-related gifts.
As ever with such guides, there’s [...]
admin @ November 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Intel’s new Core i7 processor is preposterous. There’s no other way of putting it. It is simply the world’s fastest PC processor and it pumps out performance numbers so spectacular it’s enough to make you laugh out loud at the sheer, giddy ludicrousness of its existence.
In a way, that’s not giving away a great deal. [...]
admin @ October 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Hooray for cheap PCs. The price of systems and components alike continues to drop faster than Gordon Brown’s approval ratings – but there’s a sacrifice.
A budget system might have surprisingly decent components, but mass production is the watchword. The most obvious reflection of this is with cooling – there’s no finesse to it: instead, [...]
admin @ October 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
You know, there’s been far too much talk about too many phones these days. The iPhone? Pah. The HTC Touch Diamond? Pfft.
And now we’re all going gooey over the T-Mobile G1 Android phone. Well, can it take on the might of the Nokia 2110? The phone that Nokia unleashed on the world in 1995 [...]
admin @ October 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
There are two schools of thought as to why you can, or would even want to, overclock most CPUs and GPUs.
One of them takes the peace, love and understanding route, namely that the manufacturing process is never 100 per cent reliable, so not every chip that rolls off the same production line is born [...]
admin @ October 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Let’s set the groundwork with some basics on networking hardware. The simplest way to connect your machines is to use an Ethernet hub. This simply broadcasts data across all its ports so that all machines receive all packets. You can also chain hubs together by plugging the link port from one into one of the [...]