YouTube has just announced that their YouTube Partner Program (YPP) will change its eligibility for signing up as a result of too many bad actors spoiling the fun for the rest of us and boy are there a few bad actors out there, whose definition […]
AnyTrans® Android Phone Manager One thing the mobile phone market isn’t short on is phone managers and iMobie is in a very crowded room, so it’s with a certain amount of trepidation that I began an albeit limited evaluation of their AnyTrans® Android phone
First off, the names given to graphics cards nowadays can be a tad confusing, if not extremely long, which may require some explanation. ROG (the Choice of Champions, no less) is a brand used by Asus since 2006, meaning Republic of Gamers and Strix, although being ancient Roman
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If you run a website that handles sensitive information such as email addresses, passwords and more importantly, personal financial information, you should consider converting your site to SSL (Secure Sockets layer, aka TLS) for the peace of mind of both you and your users. What
Ten years ago I was banned from an expats forum for belligerence in the face of Soviet style moderation and mercilessly left to wander the empty corridors of the internet without a community I could call my home. Fast forward five or six years and
Forum Fun Generally speaking, running your own forum is a lot of fun, particularly in the beginning when you’re setting it all up, but there are times when it goes AWOL for no apparent reason. I’ve been running an expat forum for a number of
WhatsApp Some Apps have become indispensable and WhatsApp is one of them, far exceeding the capabilities of SMS and used by more than 1 billion people every day apparently, but it’s only recently that I discovered that you can send someone your location. It’s very
If it looks the same, how will people know I upgraded? I read somewhere that the so called smartphone war was over long ago because we all get stuck on a particular brand, so it’s game over. I don’t think so and neither does Samsung
Come Fly With Me For many years I chose not to fly anywhere at all and travelled by road or sea instead due to an irrational fear of flying. But there comes a time when you really have no choice unless you want to swim across
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Samsung Galaxy S8 Samsung is not known for their short update cycles and many owners of flagship smartphones such as the Galaxy S8 have long been asking why they are still stuck on Android 7.0 Nougat, when Android 8.0 Oreo was released in August of
Unboxing Videos Unboxing videos have become a phenomenon in recent years. On YouTube the growth of unboxing clips grew by over 50% alone in 2014 and by over 870% since 2010, indicating that it’s also a very lucrative business for YouTubers. Considered by many as
The Used Laptop A few months ago, a customer arrived at my shop asking me to fix a Windows installation on his Lenovo laptop and also to fit a new keyboard which he’d bought himself. Oh, and could I please find a buyer once I’d
My first foray into the world of racing simulators was way back in 1998 when I bought Motorhead, a futuristic car racing game made by Digital Illusions (now known as DICE) which has now become a classic and although I never finished the game and
Firefox Years ago I used Firefox as my everyday browser until Chrome came along, then a few months ago I switched to Opera having also courted Vivaldi for a few months. Last week I stumbled upon the new Firefox Quantum (Firefox 57) which is due to
