Signs You Might Only See in Australia!
These Aussie signs have absolutely nothing to do with computers, technology and the like but hey, a little light relief never hurt anybody, right?
Superman + GoPro = Awesome Video
What do you get when you combine a remote controlled drone and a GoPro camera with a team of mega-talented video editors? A first person view of a day in the life of Superman, that’s what: Apparently, the video was only put up
Microsoft Releases FREE OneNote for Windows & Mac
OneNote, Microsoft’s popular note-taking service that syncs across multiple platforms, is now available for free. OneNote has previously been included as a component of the rather expensive Microsoft Office suites but is now available free for everyone as a separate entity: OneNote now on Mac,
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Rant: Why Can’t Cables & Adapters be Standardized?
Warning, rant follows!! If your household is anything like mine, you have numerous devices which either require connecting to the PC occasionally or charging regularly, and each device’s cable comes with a different connection on one end or different power adapter. For example; in our
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The Ups & Downs of Popcorn Time
Popcorn Time, the free and open source streaming movie project, has gone through so much turmoil in such a short space of time. Popcorn Time was launched just over a week ago to critical acclaim. A few short days later the developers decided to pull
DVDFab Domains Taken Down By US Court Order
A New York federal court has granted permission for the seizure of several domain names, bank funds and social media accounts belonging to the Chinese based company responsible for the DVDFab software. As of now, DVDFab and associated domains are inaccessible. The order was issued
QwikMark: Simple Portable PC Benchmarking Tool
‘QwikMark‘ is a basic, portable, PC benchmarking tool available free from the vTask Studio developers. QwikMark will measure CPU speed in gigahertz and gigaflops, as well as data transfer rates for hard drive and RAM. Download consists of a tiny 84KB single executable, no installation
Popcorn Time: Netflix on Steroids?
A new streaming movie app, appropriately named ‘Popcorn Time’, has been receiving a lot of publicity recently, and with very good reason. Unlike Netflix, Popcorn Time is totally free, available anywhere in the world, and lists new releases in its movie library. Popcorn Time is
New Avira Free Antivirus – Now Includes Cloud Technology
For many years now, the big three – Avast, Avira, and AVG – have dominated the free antivirus market. During that time, AVG has gone from ‘leader of the pack’ to ‘also ran’ and is now on the comeback trail, Avast has led the way
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Windows XP – Only 31 More Sleeps To Go!
XP ‘End Of Support’ Popup End of support for Windows XP is now just around the corner, on 8th April. In fact, XP users should start receiving official End Of Support popup notifications as of now. Security concerns have been well documented but one well
How To: Display Windows Defender Icon in the System Tray
I’ve mentioned previously how I’ve installed Windows 8/8.1 on numerous clients’ machines and how they have all loved their new operating system. Well, this morning I received my first complaint… albeit a minor one. A female client was concerned that she could see no evidence
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Digiarty Giveaway: WinX DVD Copy Pro
Digiarty is currently running a ‘Spring’ promotion which includes a giveaway of its very good WinX DVD Copy Pro software. WinX DVD Copy Pro would normally sell for $49.95us but is available free for everyone right now… offer expires after 50,000 copies or 10th April,
Security Advice for Our Children + Free Downloadable ‘Threatsaurus’
Among the many bulletins, RSS feeds, and newsletters I regularly peruse to help keep up with all things internet, is a newsletter called ‘Naked Security’ which is produced by the Sophos Security Company. The Naked Security newsletter recently featured an article which includes “10 top
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Digiarty Giveaway: MacX Mobile Video Converter (Mac)
Digiarty is currently running a Spring Break promotion which includes a giveaway of its MacX Mobile Video Converter (for Mac). This software would normally sell for $49.95us but is available free for everyone right now. **NOTE: This giveaway is limited to 40,000 copies or until
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