125 million people now play Fortnite What Is Fortnite? Fortnite, from Epic Games, is an online, third-person video game in the Battle Royale genre, where a team of 100 players is dropped into an ever-shrinking map and the key is survival (ie, not to be […]
GoDaddy JavaScript Injection Slows Down Your Website I have three websites hosted at GoDaddy and recently I noticed a marked slowdown when loading all three of them, so I ran some speed tests through GTmetrix and Google Page Speed Insights. Both came back with slower
Polishing Your Manuscript Probably the most time-consuming and repetitive aspect of writing a book is the editing. It’s almost endless and the image above needs to have the caption multiplied by at least ten, if not more. However, it’s not a fruitless exercise by a
It’s said that we all have a book inside us waiting to come out and whilst this may be true, the path to publishing that book can be long and torturous– until now. The Internet has changed everything and publishing a book today is a
This article contains spoilers In January 2016 I wrote Is Netflix’s “Making a Murderer” Balanced? giving a brief summary of the Steven Avery/Brendan Dassey trials where both were convicted of the rape and murder of Teresa Halbach in October 2005. For directors, Laura Ricciardi and Moira
I’ve covered the subject of forums before in, How To Set Up A Community Forum, When Does Forum Moderation Become Censorship?, and How to Start Your Own Internet Forum. But do you like posting in forums? With social media practically taking over our lives nowadays, the question of
Having read fellow author Richard Pedersen‘s excellent article, laying bare the details of his system, my interest was piqued and I couldn’t resist the chance to show off my systems. What I Use I run two main computers which are predominantly gaming machines and I also
It’s all too common nowadays for game developers to release games which are either half completed or not representative of what they originally promised us. In Square Enix’s teaser and launch trailers for Just Cause 4, we were promised revolutionary graphics and a host
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You’re only as cool as your latest post. Is Social Media Torturing You? There’s no doubt that when we post online, be it a pussy cat picture, a gif, an emoji or an account of where we had dinner last night (or indeed what we
Forza Horizon 4 – Live The Horizon Life Following my previous Forza Horizon 4 overview, I’ve now had about three weeks to explore the game in more detail, run plenty of races, acquire loads of new cars, dress up my beautiful avatar in garish outfits
Transferring your VHS tapes to digital media today can be a head-scratcher for a number of reasons. The first and most important is whether you have access to a VCR that actually works, and the second is your choice of capturing those beloved memories, be
STS (Shiny Thing Syndrome) ~ desire, be consumed with desire for, crave, have one’s heart set on Readers here at DCT may be aware of this condition, which I’ve referred to on one or two occasions in my written offerings and it can strike at any time. For
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Dumbing down — the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, and cinema, news, video games and culture This is precisely what Playground Games, creators of newly released Forza Horizon 4, in cahoots with their masters at Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios, have embedded
My major gaming rig upgrade cycle comes around every four or five years, but would probably be more frequent if I had pots of money, which I don’t. And by major upgrade, I mean the motherboard and CPU which, without exception always means a new Windows
