I’ve written about PC-saved games several times on DCT, more recently in How To Move Save Games From Game Pass To Steam and 10 years ago in Let’s migrate: Moving from one PC to another. Not surprisingly, the unfathomable logic of saved game locations continues […]
Back in June, I wrote Pocket-Sized Powerhouse: The Mini PC Revolution, knowing that I would be travelling to the UK in August and having compared the prices, it was a no-brainer – prices in Argentina are still through the roof and what I was after
Marc posed this question back in January 2018 and I guess the circulation of print media wouldn’t have improved since then. I haven’t bought a newspaper for decades. What about you, when was the last time you bought a newspaper? Watching The Crown last night
Remember the controversy when Windows 10 was first released, all the claims of spyware? Take a look back at Marc’s tongue-in-cheek response to the conspiracy theorists, which elicited quite a few interesting comments. What do you think? Who’s spying on you? Spying is usually defined
I subscribe to Xbox Game Pass with Microsoft and up until now I’ve been very happy with the ‘games as a service’ subscription model, for which I pay $10 per month. However, over the years one’s tastes change, not to mention the amount of time
In the end, we were only disconnected for about a week, but even that’s quite enough nowadays, especially since so many daily interactions are processed online. For example, my wife, being an accountant, is currently bogged down with clients’ tax returns, all of which are
As readers will know, I’m a big fan of the Tomb Raider franchise and, like many followers of the intrepid Lara Croft, we find that news of her next adventures is either thin on the ground or veering off in predictable and woke directions. The
Warning – this post contains much ranting! Last Wednesday at 11.15 am, our Internet service unexpectedly went down and my immediate thought was that it was a glitch and it would probably come back in a few minutes. Five days later and we still have
It’s been years since I bought a new laptop and the only reason I’m considering buying one now is that I’ll be travelling for several weeks in the near future. Added to this, there are dozens of tasks that need to be done on a
Prime Gaming This is just a reminder that Prime Gaming gives away free games nearly every week for Prime members. In August last year, I posted Claim Free Games On Amazon Prime and since then, I’ve claimed 10 games, including Rise Of The Tomb Raider,
Forza Horizon 4 (FH4) was launched in October 2018 and is one of my favourite arcade racing games, mainly because it’s set in the UK which, for a small island, has loads to offer in terms of natural beauty and twisty roads. It’s also one
Last week I upgraded a customer PC with a 240GB SSD and installed Windows 10 Pro. I also gave it a good clean up which involved removing the Intel heatsink, blowing away all the dust that had built up, and reapplying thermal paste. The motherboard
Originally published in 2014, this is the first in a series recounting Marc’s interesting and often humorous encounters as a PC Technician, including colorful characters and unusual situations Catch up with all previous articles in Marc’s series: All A Day in the Life Of A
I finally finished copying 37 VHS tapes on Friday and bearing in mind that each tape contained an average of 90 minutes of video, that’s about 55 hours of tape. Fortunately, I was able to get on with other work while the tapes were being
