I’ve had a YouTube channel since January 2007 and I admit that I’ve neglected the all-important finer points for far too long in recent years. I always considered it as just a bit of a laugh, until I realised that it can be an income […]
Having read Terry Hollet’s article How To Use EasyCAP TV Capture – Windows 10 the other day, I was prompted to resurrect my own VHS to digital setup to see if I could improve my rather lacklustre attempt. I had previously been running with Windows
New AMD X570 Chipset Motherboards Begin To Roll Out Several manufacturers have unveiled new motherboards based on the AMD X570 chipset including Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and Asrock. Pictured below is the new Gigabyte X570 Master, one of the new boards based on the X570
It’s over a year since I abandoned the shop and moved lock, stock and barrel into my alternative workshop and I’m pleased to report that the move has had very little negative impact on my work. If anything, my customers have been very supportive, even
Steam Discounts Up To 80% The Steam Summer sale has kicked off with some incredible discounts on your favourite games and software until July 9th. Here are some great examples that I’ve hand-picked. Software Action! is one of the best screen capture programs currently available
What Is IPTV? Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. The strict definitions are: IPTV: Television from providers like Prism TV, delivered over the Internet via a privately-managed network OTT Streaming: Television from third-party services like Netflix and
Google Stadia To Launch In November What is Stadia? That’s a good question. From what I can gather, Google Stadia is a revolutionary new subscription gaming platform, which allows you to play games through the cloud. In simple terms, Google Stadia lets you play modern
Book Promotion And Marketing There are hundreds of thousands of web pages on how to market your book with many claiming promises of sales beyond your wildest dreams with titles such as How To Become The Next New York Times Bestseller and How To Write
Will Star Citizen Ever Be Finished? Star Citizen is the brainchild of Chris Roberts, the British head of Cloud Imperium Games, who began development on the game in 2011. Since then, the game has been crowdfunded to the tune of more than $250 million, the
How To Convert Videos There are many reasons why you may want to convert videos, the primary being the platform the video is destined for and the format the video was recorded as in the first place. In my case, I record a lot of
How To Create A Subdomain Sometimes it’s useful to create a subdomain on your website for testing purposes and this is exactly what I needed to do recently for testing a new theme for my Compufix site. I was under the mistaken impression that this
HTTPS Is Secure Browsing The green padlock you see at the top left of most browsers indicates that the website you’re visiting is using TLS encryption, meaning that any data passing between you and the server is encrypted– hence the HTTPS prefix. In other words,
Welcome to the new Dave’s Computer Tips Tech News where we’ll try to bring you the latest news on all technology-related matters. Nothing moves quite as swiftly as computer-related technology and keeping up with developments is what we do here at DCT, so let’s get
That upgrade itch never really goes away, no matter how many times I tell myself, that’s it for now. In another trip to the UK this March (the second in twelve months!) I’d decided that my five-year-old Corsair H100i All-In-One (AIO) water cooling system needed replacing
