We all know that Internet ads are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they help pay for the free websites we all enjoy visiting, and DCT is no exception. In many cases, websites cannot survive without ads. The same applies to mobile phone apps […]
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(Ed note: This article was written a while ago but we feel it is still relevant.) In October 2024, I wrote Tomb Raider Remastered IV- VI Announced and true to form, these new remasters will be released on the 14th February. Yesterday I pre-ordered on
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I’m a dyed-in-the-wool desktop man, mainly because I built my gaming machine for just that – gaming. I do however use it for writing and all the other day-to-day stuff that we do. However, recently I have had to become flexible because we are having
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As many of you know, I ride a motorcycle for both work and pleasure, but I never hankered for motorcycling and hadn’t even sat on a bike before. It was more of a fait accompli because we had sold a car, I needed wheels and
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This is an update on a previous article comparing both services now that I’ve had a chance to compare them for a couple of years. I’ve been using both OneDrive and Google Drive for many years now and it appears to me that the former
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Five years ago I built a gaming PC for a client with the following specs: CPU AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Motherboard Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite AM4 GPU Sapphire Pulse RX 590 8GB Memory 2x8GB DDR4 2400Mhz PSU Thermaltake 700W Mid-tower Thermaltake V200 case Seagate Barracuda
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I’m not a music addict, I don’t walk around all day with earbuds stuck in my ears, and the only reason I signed up with Spotify a couple of years ago, was the price. Furthermore, Spotify Premium meant no annoying ads, so the few times
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I don’t need YouTube or any other media service nannying me with annoying messages pointing out facts of which I am already aware. That’s nearly as rant-inducing as having ads rammed down your throat which is why I subscribe to YouTube Premium. Also, it’s bad
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Although I was trained as a salesman back in the ’80s when the mantra was and still is, the customer is always right, it’s a device used in rigorous sales training in order to allow the customer to think they are right. This is much
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AMD and Nvidia are about to launch new GPUs – Radeon 9000 series and RTX 5000 series respectively – but with new US import tariffs proposed by the president-elect, it’s feared that prices will need to be increased by as much as 40%. And it’s
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I spent most of my life living in the United Kingdom where you can experience four different seasons in just one day. Christmas can either be wet and windy, crisp, clear and frosty, or buried in snow drifts. Clearly, one gets accustomed to the climates
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In April 2004, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman set off on motorcycles from London and travelled east in search of adventure. Their destination was New York, some 20,000 miles away, and into a world that was very different from what it is today. No Google
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Here’s another look at a humorous article from Marc, first published in 2018. A timeless piece that shows no-one is infallible and it always pays to fess up after messing up. Earlier in the year a new expat customer phoned and asked me to look
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I remember when Windows 98 was released, being the first Windows version with full support for USB, and how it simplified hot swapping of peripherals without the need to restart the system. Since then, USB has evolved with so many different physical connection types that
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