I’ve been using OneDrive for several years now, because you get 5GB of free storage, added to which I got an extra 30GB free when I acquired a Samsung Galaxy S8 mobile phone. But that extra storage only lasted for three years, so I was […]
Days Gone On PC I’m a PC gamer and take little notice of console games because I don’t own a PS4 or an XBox and probably never will. However, many games made exclusively for consoles do eventually find their way to the PC, with
Lady Dimitrescu This much-anticipated horror survival game was only released last Friday (7th May) and already the community has given it the modding treatment. This is not entirely unexpected since the game’s two predecessors, Resident Evil 2 & 3 now have more mods than you
I was first approached by Dave, the man responsible for Dave’s Computer Tips’ existence, back in December 2013 following a post I had made in the blog forum. I’m not sure what the post was about, but I’m pretty sure I must have ranted about
There really is no limit to what people will take offence to in the ‘woke’ culture we live in today. However, before I proceed, I must point out that this article is only vaguely related to computer tips, but it will have some reference
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There’s no doubt that the games market is now more competitive than ever with new online stores arriving on the scene seemingly every few months. But it’s still dominated by Steam, with Epic Games Store making huge strides, especially with its free games offers,
It’s no secret that the Radeon RX 5700 XT was plagued with driver issues when it was launched in July 2019, but these have been largely resolved with driver updates. The issues ranged from blue screens and black screens to constant game crashes with many
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Nothing is certain except death and taxes – Benjamin Franklin, 1789. This morning I received an email from the YouTube team informing me that Google will be required to deduct US taxes from payments to creators outside the US and that I will need to supply
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2020 saw some remarkable events, one of which saw it become the year of the scalper. Or to be more precise, the scalper bot. Scalper Someone who purchases large quantities of goods (usually tickets) early with the sole intention of re-selling them at a higher price at a
So you think you’re the administrator of your own computer? Windows tells you that you are, but that’s where it gets confusing and ambiguous. There are numerous reasons why you may be denied access to your files in Windows, not to mention the blocking of
Gadget: A small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one. Perhaps shiny thing would be a more appropriate description for those tech objects we find so useful in our lives. Or maybe not even necessarily useful, but instantly required on
For the last two or three years, I’ve been paying GoDaddy $80 a year to secure my forum website, Argentina Expats, with SSL, when I could have been installing a certificate completely free of charge. In fact, I’ve been using free certificates on my other
Shiny Thing Syndrome Strikes Again! I’m not entirely sure why I began looking at new monitors, but once the window shopping started, it was difficult to stop. Up until now, I’ve been using a Samsung 27″ curved monitor at 1080p and 60- 72Hz refresh rate
When mention of floods is made, one usually imagines waves of water crashing through doors and windows, or gently seeping past the sandbags you so carefully piled up outside the front door. Not in my case, because it came from above like the hand of
