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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Apple iPhone 6s 64Gb vs Samsung Galaxy S3 16Gb Purists would tell you that comparing three year old tech with today’s offerings is like apples and oranges, or in the words of that great justice warrior John McEnroe, you cannot be serious! But why not,
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It’s practically a year since Windows 10 was released and many of us were using the Insider Preview version for many months prior to that, so we’ve had plenty of time to get to know each other by now. Flat tiles When Windows 8 appeared
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Fifty Shades of Grey Author E L James Publisher Vintage Books First published in 2012 (Published as an eBook and print on demand in 2011) Some interesting facts about Fifty Shades of Grey: Sold over 125 million copies worldwide Translated into 52 languages Women over
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DOOM Publisher: Bethesda/Zenimax Developer: id Software Review platform: Windows PC (Steam) The King is Back! id Software pretty much invented the First Person Shooter (FPS) back in 1993 when the original Doom was launched and, as the years have passed, its DNA can still be seen
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Long before the Internet was a thing, we used talk to each other face to face and when we met total strangers we’d introduce ourselves politely without feeling to need to say, “Wtf are you talking about you utter moron?” So, now that I’ve caught
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Meet Mrs Angry! A few days into my motorcycle trip to the north of Argentina earlier this month, when all thoughts of computer-related mishaps had practically been vaporized, I was enjoying a welcome and very cold beer in a small village half way up the
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Alicia Vikander has been confirmed as Lara Croft in a new Tomb Raider film, it has emerged. Miss Vikander, whose previous roles in Ex Machina, A Royal Affair and The Danish Girl have earned her both worldwide acclaim and an Oscar, is said by many to
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Just Cause 3 Developer: Avalanche Studios Publisher: Square Enix Release date: December 2015 Review platform: Steam PC version Some games just jump out of the box and yell “Play me!” This is one of those games, which I only picked up by chance in a
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Take a good look at this picture if you will and imagine that as your living room. Yeah, me too; I’m imagining it and my eyes hurt. Actually, Home Cinema for most of us mere mortals is a euphemism for a PC sitting under the
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