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
With the recent news that Netflix is losing customers faster than it is acquiring them, the company has decided to tighten up its profile-sharing options. Up until now, with a premium account you could have up to five profiles on a single account: …who live
It All Started With Netflix It’s hard to believe that we’ve been subscribing to Netflix since 2012 and I distinctly remember my wife’s son suggesting that we give it a try, at which I was a tad sceptical. Up until then, we had been watching
Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 9 Those of us who write for DCT use a lot of images and usually, those images need to be resized or even touched up for the best presentation. However, optimising images even further is more for the enthusiast, which is where
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
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
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
