Making money on YouTube is a serious business and requires full time dedication, a lot of content and hundreds of thousands of views. Production values and content appear to be moot points though, as both these aspects may be be interchangeable. For example, a cutesy […]
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Your Novel – Millionaire, Not! This is not a magic recipe describing how to become the next New York Times bestseller or indeed how to write your first book. Heck, there are thousands of guides out there purporting to show you how to achieve those
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It looks to me that the battle has already been won anyway, with Google Chrome having snagged nearly 60% of market share, leaving most of the other browsers literally in the dust. But is that the whole picture and does it really matter? Your choice
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Looking back at 2016 In the lab we have a now ageing Phenom II X4 965, paired with 16GB of RAM and a Radeon 7950 3GB GPU, which has provided sterling service since its original build year of 2010. During that time, I’ve managed to
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In this article from November 2015, How is Social Media Affecting Elections? I referred to Donald Trump as The King of Social Media, for no other reason than he seized on the power of an inflammatory Tweets, as a wide-eyed child might grasp a shiny new toy. As
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Voyage to Spain Fifteen years ago I was lucky enough to experience the adventure of a lifetime when I sailed my 35′ sailing boat from Wales to Spain via Portugal and Gibraltar. The entire voyage took six weeks and included a storm on the first
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Original 1996 Tomb Raider Reimagined – GLIDOS Free Until the End of February GLIDOS is a Glide emulation for DOS that allows games like Tomb Raider (1996) to show their full detail on modern computers. Essentially, Glidos is a program that emulates the Glide API of
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By some kind of divine cruelty I’ve ended up with the iPhone referred to in my article Apple iPhone 6s vs Samsung Galaxy S3 because my wife’s Motorola finally bit the dust and I felt obliged to rescue her by handing over my much revered
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Mirillis Action! In two previous articles How to Record Your Video Game Action Part 1 and Part 2, I reviewed numerous game recording programs, including Mirillis Action! which I was using as a trial at the time. I was so impressed with the program that
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A Weird Site Redesign A few weeks ago I tuned into Netflix to catch up on Henry VIII and his bodice-busting antics in The Tudors only to find that the good people at Netflix had seen fit to ruin the interface and for me to
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Warning: this article contains no computer tips whatsoever. Pistols at dawn Besides the comings and goings of my troubled customers, the ebb and flow of ordinary life goes on and in the case of the first known residents’ committee meeting was far from ordinary. You
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Forza Motorsport 6 Apex (PC) FREE What could be more exciting than tearing around the streets of Rio de Janeiro in an Aston Martin whilst enjoying panoramic views of The Sugarloaf and Copacabana Beach? Well this is exactly what you’ll get and much more in
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Shopping around My recent article, Five Reasons Why Microsoft Store Sucks, not only highlighted some of the shortcomings of that particular online store, but also made reference to other means of obtaining keys for software, notably games. I found myself in a kind of
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Microsoft, please take my frigging money! It all started last week when I read a mini review in The Telegraph for the best games of 2016 (so far) , spotted Forza Horizon 3 and it all went rapidly downhill from there. You see, this particular game is
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