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Ask any DJ about the industry-standard tools of the trade, and it’s still a pair of the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company’s high-end hi-fi turntables from the early 70s, repurposed as club decks in the disco era and known to all as the Technics SL-1200s or 1210s.
Vinyl offers hands-on control, and because the traditional setup [...]
admin @ December 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Just got a new Mac for Christmas and feeling a little bewildered?
Fear not – Switch to Mac, brought to you by our colleagues over on MacFormat magazine, shows new Mac users how to move comfortably from the familiarity of Windows.
Below are 20 common tasks that PC owners perform without thinking about, and their equivalents on [...]
admin @ December 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Most people think of Google as ‘just’ a search company, but in recent years it’s started to provide free versions of applications that were previously only available as standalone desktop programs.
The number of people using Google for email, scheduling, word processing and creating spreadsheets is ever-increasing, but websites are just one way of accessing [...]
admin @ December 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Running may well be a fantastic way to get fit, shape up and de-stress, but it can be intimidating for the novice; those shuffling, sweating hardcore runners you pass on the road in the early morning hours or on a miserable winter night have a level of commitment that’s likely to terrify the potential round-the-block [...]
admin @ December 1, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Cloud computing sounds like a good idea on the surface. You store your data and run both your email and web applications on someone else’s servers over the Internet, accessing everything from wherever you happen to be.
Companies using cloud computing services save money on servers and running costs, and if they need more space, [...]
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 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
A new device from Novus, called the Mini-Coyote, will help other drivers to find out where the police are hiding with a speed gun as it lets you press a button to update a database of mobile cameras.
The dashboard device works by ‘linking’ drivers together through the centralised GPS-based database, so if you’re around 300 [...]
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 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
At Macworld in January, Apple CEO Steve Jobs trumpeted the arrival of Digital Copy: legit iPod-friendly versions of the movies you buy on DVD, that save you the hassle of being hounded by Hollywood’s copyright cops. But then not very much happened, in the UK anyway.
20th Century Fox was the first Hollywood studio to support [...]
admin @ September 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet
MacFormat magazine has reached its 200th issue and to celebrate, they’ve published 200 unmissable Mac tips. Here are 20 that caught our eye. For the full 200, pick up a copy of MacFormat in your local newsagent’s – on sale now.
СЕКРЕТУТКА. Disk Utility
Disk Utility, located in the Applications > Utilities folder, is more versatile [...]