Itchy Boots Crashes In Tanzania In October 2022 I wrote about how globe-trotting motorcyclist, Itchy Boots – Noraly Schoenmaker – became a YouTube sensation. Since then, she has completed her tours of The Americas and South Africa and in February 2023, began her latest tour […]
A Mini PC To Replace The Desktop Mini PCs have come a long way in recent years, with many models now replacing traditional desktops. This is due mainly to the APUs which are CPUs with integrated graphics, some of which can even play PC games.
Social Media Subscriptions Subscription models are all the rage nowadays, from software programs to social media and it’s easy to see why so many tech companies are following this path. A monthly income is an attractive model but for social media? X, the app formerly
Titanic II Ten years ago, Clive Palmer, the Australian mining billionaire from Queensland, announced plans at The Ritz Hotel, London, to build an exact, to-scale replica of the doomed liner, RMS Titanic. Many observers, myself included, were aghast at this idea, saying that the
Alien: Isolation Generally speaking, gamers are a finicky bunch and difficult to please, even when a darn good game stares them in the face. Both Days Gone and Mad Max have been described as boring by some players, which begs the question, were they playing
Books, films, video games, and art – all these have a subjective slant that can’t be ignored. Abstract art, for example, may convey a multitude of emotions to one person, but absolutely nothing to someone else. The same can be said for video games and
The video game industry is going through a very rough time at the moment. Many blame the problems on the pandemic boom when we were all unlawfully trapped in our houses, buying video games like crazy cave-dwelling orcs, but many others look to industry greed.
To label an underrated video game as an underdog would be stretching it, but I often support a sports team that is considered in such terms, perhaps because I have a David and Goliath tendency. Anyway, there are a few games I play that are
Like many visitors to Dave’s Computer Tips, I came across the website in December 2013, looking for a solution to a PC problem. Well, I found what I was looking for and then posted in the DCT forum where I was noticed by Dave Hartsock,
The other day a customer gave me a laptop for repair, saying that her daughter had dropped it and it would no longer boot. The laptop in question is an HP Stream model 14-AX022LA of meagre specifications that includes a Celeron dual-core CPU, 4GB of
Local Send is a free, open-source, cross-platform program for sending files across your local Wi-Fi network. How many times have you sent files to yourself over WhatsApp, email, and other applications? Heck, even Phone Link/Link To Windows is limited to only saving files from your
As I mentioned in Part 1 of these articles, it seems that we were changing phones more often in 2015, perhaps because phones were cheaper. For example, an HTC One M9 would have cost around $650, an iPhone 6s between $400 and $500, and a
Way back in the annals of time – April 2015 to be exact – Jim Hillier asked the DCT team which mobile phones we were using in SmartPhones: What the DCT Team Uses and Why. That’s a humongous nine years ago and as we all
When WhatsApp was launched it was initially an alternative messaging app, much like the traditional SMS service of old. But as the years passed, it became so much more and millions of people now use it as their number one form of communication and exchange
