In the world of politics, if you want a story to go away, you invent a bombshell story to overwhelm the front page and your problems are solved. On the other hand, if a story is important enough, you want it to stay on the […]
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Major Corporations Pulling Out Of Russia Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the list of corporations, both tech and otherwise, pulling out of Russia is growing by the day. Microsoft announced on Saturday, 5th March that it would stop selling products in Russia and that it
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I enjoy tinkering with old computers and recently rebuilt a Pentium 4 machine on a quality Intel motherboard, D865GBF, with 2GB of memory. However, the 30GB IDE drive was beginning to fail, so I swapped it for a larger SATA drive which meant a new
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Following up on my recent articles, Five Reasons Why Windows 11 Sucks and Windows 11 – How To Bypass TPM, I’ve successfully installed Windows 11 on several machines, some of which were definitely not compatible with the shiny new OS and one that definitely was,
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Just when I thought Microsoft’s purchase of ZeniMax/ Bethesda for $7.5 billion back in September 2020 was a colossal amount of money, it was recently announced that the company is about to buy Activision/Blizzard for a staggering $69 billion. This is the biggest acquisition in
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Thousands, if not millions of articles have been written about Windows 11, not least because its arrival came out of the blue and surprised practically everybody who owns a PC or writes about them. Don’t get me wrong; I’m a big Windows fan, having also
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Having revamped my YouTube channel several times since being demonetised in August last year, I had to face the fact that one video, The Making Of The Exorcist, was probably the culprit. I had uploaded it several years ago, having found it on a special
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Crytek has just released a very short video announcement entitled Crysis 4 (Working Title) Announcement which gives a hint that the next game in the legendary series may be forthcoming. The age-old question, can it run Crysis? has become a tagline for PC and gaming
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I first highlighted this outrageous situation on 24th November 2021 in Facebook Bans Links To Dave’s Computer Tips and nearly two months later the censor hammer is still in place. Collectively we writers at DCT have submitted tickets to Facebook’s so-called help desk on numerous
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There’s more to weather than meets the eye and if you dig a little deeper, it helps to understand how the weather is forecast. But some weather is more difficult to forecast than others — thunderstorms, for example. That said, there are thousands of weather
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Continuing the saga of YouTube demonetisation, which has affected my channel since August last year, it’s become reminiscent of DCTs ban at Facebook — no specific answers are forthcoming. This is very frustrating because even though I’ve given my channel a complete overhaul and deleted
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For some years now I’ve been using a Logitech C170 webcam with 1024 x 768 resolution, 30fps, 5 megapixels, and a built-in microphone. I always found this combination to be very handy because I didn’t need to plug in a microphone or use headphones. Anyway,
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People often ask me why I bother to refurbish old computers and often garnish their comments with all types of snide remarks and put-downs. Do I care? Certainly not. I derive a lot of pleasure from breathing new life into old PCs, especially if they’ve
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Until 6th January you can claim all three of the above Tomb Raider series free on Epic Games which is one heck of a great giveaway. I already have the games which I bought on release at Steam because I’m a Tomb Raider junkie, but
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