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 […]
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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
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Three years ago I wrote about resetting a WordPress site in How To Reset Your WordPress Website and four years ago, How To Become A Webmaster, with both articles referring to skill fade which is very real in all walks of life. Since writing the
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Less Is More There’s no doubt that less is often better than more and this can be exemplified by so many of our temptations today. I still remember the days of my childhood in the UK when we could only watch two channels of TV
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Resisting The Upgrade Itch My last major PC upgrade was back in 2018 when I went from AMD socket AM3+ to AM4 as detailed in this article, AMD Ryzen 2600X – An Essential Gaming Upgrade. During the intervening years, I’ve upgraded to the following: CPU
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Most Printers Are A Total Rip-Off Most of us have a printer and it’s no secret that the industry has no qualms about protecting proprietary ink cartridges to the detriment of consumers worldwide. The term rip-off doesn’t even come close to the truth when you
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The answer largely depends on your definition of safe. Safe for users, or safe for the state? Or both? I don’t use TikTok, have not signed up with the app, and have no intention of doing so. Why? With so many distractions today, yet another
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As previously reported, Tomb Raider I- III Remastered was announced back in September 2023 for release on February 14th, 2024. At the time it seemed a heck of a long way off and in the intervening months, Aspyr posted numerous screenshots and details about the
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As a motorcyclist I usually have a birds-eye view of motorists in their cars and, in spite of local authority warnings, I can honestly say that about 75% of the drivers I pass are fiddling around with a mobile phone in one hand and steering
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Tomb Raider I- III Remastered was released on 14th February 2024. Developed and published by Aspyr Media Inc., with cooperation from Crystal Dynamics, the three games, originally developed by Core Design back in the ’90s, have been remastered with improved graphics, game controls, and UI
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I’ve written about the dire economic situation in Argentina on numerous occasions, to the point where readers are probably sick and tired of reading about it. As many know, I use Steam for gaming and have done so for almost twenty years. Initially, before Argentina’s
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If I see a shiny thing, I want it and I’ve been like, since I was a kid. However, it’s one thing to spend your own money on a glittery gadget but quite another to shell out your hard-earned cash on a risky venture such
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The Crew Servers To Shut Down Ubisoft recently announced that The Crew, a racing game that takes place across the entire USA, will be shut down on March 31, 2024, because the servers will be switched off. This is quite frankly a scandalous move and
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I Want Your Money! If a complete stranger asks you for money, what do you do? If they compound their sob story with tales of incurable disease, dying grandmothers, starving children living rough, and all manner of heart-wrenching scenarios, are you still tempted to part
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