PewDiePie aka Felix Kjellberg Gaming videos on YouTube are big business, very big business. In fact YouTube’s most popular star, PewDiePie (and don’t ask me how to pronounce that) is said to have earned around US$7 million in 2014 alone, through Google Adsense and sponsorship deals. […]
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The Facebook effect Barack Obama’s 2008 race for the White House is often described as “The Facebook Election”, such was his impact on Americans under the age of 25. The current US election race, albeit still in the presidential nomination stages, displays a yet more
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What Microsoft giveth, Microsoft also taketh away. I was a late adopter of cloud storage and it wasn’t until I erroneously installed Windows 8 that I had a crack at OneDrive and with Satya Nadella’s clarion call of Cloud First! now ringing in my ears,
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Developed by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey and Isaac Schankler Released by The Quinnspiracy August 2014. Free to play. System requirements : Windows XP SP2+, Pentium 4, 512Mb Ram Warning: The title is misleading; this is not a game. I came across Depression Quest whilst researching the
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Does the idea of pouring water into your PC leave you trembling with anxiety? After all, water, shiny components and sparkly volts don’t exactly co-exist happily do they? Water is rather wet, seems to leak at the first opportunity and always finds the path of
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With the November 10 (Xbox) release date of Rise of the Tomb Raider almost upon us, Crystal Dynamics have released a stunning new trailer labelled ‘Make your Mark’ which will make all those lucky Xbox owners squirm with delight. For the rest of us, we’ll
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Now, you’re probably wondering who on earth Essena O’Neill is and until today I’d never heard of her to be honest. I was absentmindedly scanning the local news articles in one of our local rags La Nacion earlier today, when I saw a pretty face and
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Writing is fun! Let’s face it, everyone and his dog is doing it today and why not? Before the Internet, if you wanted your voice heard, you wrote a letter to a newspaper or magazine, popped it in an envelope and posted it in the
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The Devil is in the detail I’ve noticed over the years, since I got seriously interested in computers and technology, that a sense of order when working with all things tech is pretty much paramount, but does that mean I have OCD, otherwise known as obsessive
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Play the game! I recently installed Windows 10 on a new 250Gb SSD and naturally enough was keen to start gaming right away, but with Steam installed on another hard drive, what’s the best route to take? In the past with new installs I’ve
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Here at DCT I’m sometimes referred to as Mr Off -Topic as I have a tendency to veer off into outer space and fill pages of this tech blog with tales thinly related to computation. Whilst this it true to some extent, it’s also true
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How cool is my PC? I confess to being a sucker for desktop monitoring utilities probably because, like the proverbial Magpie, I love to see gauges, LEDs, tuning knobs and dials. Maybe it was all those home brew electronic sets I had as a kid
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How much more adulation can we take? With yet another film about Steve Jobs due for release later in the year, I can’t help feeling that our fascination for the man knows no bounds. This latest dramatisation, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny
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Cooler master Storm Trooper Full Tower Case When size matters You know that feeling when you see an object of desire in a shop window and it seems to beckon to you and whisper buy me, buy me? Well, this is exactly what happened
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