It’s a known fact that when you buy software and games, you’re paying for a license to access them. But most people don’t expect said software and games to be pulled from the market indefinitely, even though you, as the customer, paid good money for […]
Similar to rolling back Windows device drivers, it’s entirely possible to roll back or downgrade a game on Steam – a handy feature that I used yesterday. Last week I bought Uncharted, a recent Sony release, very similar to the Tomb Raider series. Anyway, after
If you’ve been following the on-off saga of Elon Musk and Twitter, you’ll know that it’s been a torturous few months for social media watchers who today are either crying in their beers or popping corks. The richest man in the world is said to
Steam has just made some dramatic adjustments to its pricing recommendations to developers which have seen some games in Argentina and Turkey increase by nearly 500%. Regional pricing is a significant factor in Steam games pricing with many countries enjoying rock-bottom prices when earning power
In August, Netflix introduced a new fee of $3 in parts of Latin America which they called, “Add Home”, presumably to crack down on password sharing, not to mention a drop in subscribers globally. However, there was a backlash from users in Argentina and other
Windows Screen Recording Screen recording can be used for areas of your desktop or fullscreen game recording and over the years, screen recording programs have not only multiplied but also improved enormously. I have several recorders installed, so here’s a brief summary of what each
Yesterday I needed to clear the cache partition on my Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra because of a Bluetooth issue. The normal procedure is to switch off the phone, then hold the power button and volume up button until you get to the system recovery
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Every cloud has a silver lining and that is very true of the pandemic that we all endured for two years from the beginning of 2020. That event produced social knock-on effects that will likely remain with us forever. I’m referring to the dreaded bureaucracy
ItchyBoots, whose real name is Noraly Schoenmaker, is a Dutch motorcycle adventurer who has ridden more miles around the world than most of us will ever do, not to mention the years she has spent backpacking and working as a geologist. I first came across
How Smart Is Your TV? Not very smart at all, as it happens. But that depends on your definition of smart as in, not dumb. When we bought our first so-called Smart TV for the football (soccer) World Cup four years ago, I was both
CONTAINS SPOILERS! ALIEN films by date released: Alien (1979) Aliens (1986) Alien 3 (1992) Alien Resurrection (1997) Alien vs. Predator (2004) Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) Prometheus (2012) Alien: Covenant (2017) ALIEN (1979) Some films stay with you forever and ALIEN, released in 1979, is
Why Improve My Game Recordings? Because when you upload videos to YouTube, there’s a noticeable difference in the quality you see on your PC and what YouTube shows you. This is due to the AVC1 compression that YouTube uses when your video is published. One
What Is HEVC? H.265 or HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding) is a video compression technique or algorithm and is particularly important for 4K videos which can be huge in size. So what you see on Netflix and others is probably coded in HEVC/H.265. Why am I
Where Do You Keep Your Start Button? Of all the changes in various Windows iterations, the Start button has always been a bone of contention. Since it was first introduced in Windows 95 all those years ago, it has remained bottom left ever since, with
