From Pentium 4 To Ryzen In A Decade With another decade coming to a close, I like to look back at how computer technology has advanced and also to remember which PC specifications we thought were the mutt’s nuts back in 2009. For my part,
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The Christmas Dinner Picture the scene if you will. You’re seated in the garden with twenty other people, at a long table, on splendid wooden decking and the temperature is around 29C (85F). The guests either side of you don’t speak a word of English,
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Black Mesa Xen – Public Beta As many of you will know, Black Mesa, a complete remake of Half-Life (1998) in the Source engine, was released in 2012 having been through a painful gestation period since around 2005. The game itself eventually went to Steam
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Finding The Microphone Noise Recently I started to record voiceovers for my GoPro videos but when I started, the buzzing sounds both in the headset and my voice recordings, were unbearable. This would have made any videos impossible to listen to on YouTube or anywhere
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It’s taking a long time for Argentina to accept the notion of virtual or contactless payments, not to mention chip and pin, in part because the banks have been very slow off the mark. But largely this is because cash is still king in a
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I Was Scammed! Back in September, I detailed the new PC Cooler RGB fans I’d fitted to my system in How Many Fans Do You Need In Your PC?, but on closer inspection, I discovered that they were used. This was easy to spot
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This scene from God Of War pretty much sums up the essence of a boss fight, where you, the player, are faced with an enemy five times your size, with huge powers of destruction, fearsome weapons and usually in an arena devoid of any hiding
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More Competition Means More Value It’s no secret that Valve’s Steam has dominated the digital games market in the last few years, both with their store and gaming platform. Steam pretty much became the de facto gaming standard, having revolutionised the way we buy games,
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GoPro Copycat Or The Real Thing? Last year while on holiday in the UK I bought a couple of copycat action cameras (pictured above) in a local supermarket for £30 each, knowing that I’d probably bought a couple of pups. Indeed, when I mounted
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Award Ceremonies? Don’t you just love all that backslapping and air-kissing, with luvees and darlings thanking their cats, hamsters and anyone else within spitting distance, including many others that we’ve never heard of or are ever likely to? You either love ’em or hate ’em,
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Last week, more than 50 million IPTV customers had their services disconnected in a huge European police crackdown when Xtream Codes was shut down by Italian police. For a more detailed explanation about IPTV, please refer to How To Watch IPTV On Your Smart TV.
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Let’s face it, saying or writing GPU is a lot easier and quicker than Graphics Processing Unit, or even the terribly 90s WYSIWYG instead of What You See Is What You Get –who still says that, anyway? But sometimes the gobbledegook can be challenging. Tech
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PC enthusiasts will argue about this question until the cows come home. Or similarly, if you put six doctors in a room and ask for a diagnosis, you may get six different opinions which, by the way, is pretty much the best way to start
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Winners Announced! [message type=”info”] This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by eMail David Hakah Jerry Lafferty John Howey Joseph Idell Roger Dunk Shawn Irfan Dave Pawson Dhruv Gupta Afonso Vicente Karsten Andersen Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who
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