On Wednesday I was interviewed at a local radio station to talk about the Spanish version of my new book. At the end, I asked the charming host if she could send me a recording of the interview so that I could upload it to […]
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It’s been about a year since I last played Microsoft Flight Simulator and after I had downloaded the massive 45GB update, I came across the Top Gun Maverick FREE expansion and just had to dive into it. Now, I don’t profess to be a
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Having upgraded my main gaming PC as outlined in I Finally Upgraded To Windows 11, I then set about upgrading the remaining PC which I built about six months ago and use purely for watching content on the TV. I had no reason to believe
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In-place Upgrade To Windows 11 Having written the article Five Reasons Why Windows 11 Sucks back in February you would be forgiven for asking why I bothered to install Windows 11 at all. But then, one needs to experiment and since I have five or
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I have written about cloning WordPress sites before and because I moved to a new hosting company some months ago, the process was a little different. Having built a new website for the Spanish version of my book, I needed to create a mirror image
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Following Jim Hillier’s excellent article, How To Easily Decrapify A Windows PC, I just came across another handy program, Bloatbox, that will rid you of apps/programs that Windows thinks you need. In fact, I have recently been playing with an old Sony Vaio which one
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Following my recent articles on how to build a Family Memories Website, one may be left with the impression that I’m some sort of WordPress guru, but that’s a long way from the truth. However, I have learned to take the path of least resistance,
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My family memories website is up and running and like all things tech, it’s been a learning curve, an enjoyable one. For a start, I use features of WordPress that I don’t use here on DCT, such as inserting galleries of pictures which can be
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I first started playing around with building a family website back in 2000 using Microsoft Front Page and the result, although not stellar, was a small site with photos and stories of my family. Today, building a website of any description is light years ahead
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I would hate for this to be a shameless plug for my book, The Last British President, and that is not the intention, I promise. But getting a book translated and published correctly and using the technology currently available is a major undertaking and isn’t
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Ludonarrative Dissonance This morning I was reading a gaming article and these two words literally jumped off the page and into my mind. I love different ways of forming words and terms, so I needed to discover what this meant. But before hitting Google I
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Tomb Raider Is Back! After nearly four years of silence from Crystal Dynamics, the company has finally confirmed that a new Tomb Raider game is being developed. And that’s not all, because Lara’s new adventure will run on the brand new Unreal Engine 5 (UE5)
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It’s been a while since I played around with voice recognition, as it used to be called and so, when I recently came across a couple of articles by fellow author Carol Bratt* where she explains to us how to use dictation in Office 365,
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Warning – contains spoilers! Bad Vegan Last night we finished watching the documentary, Bad Vegan, on Netflix and boy was I glad when it reached the end. I became so annoyed with the protagonist, Sarma Melngailis, for having fallen into the swindler’s trap that I
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