The sound bite is to television what the fang bite was to Dracula. It was whilst watching the floppy fringed Hugh Grant giving an interview to The Guardian about his latest flick, when some subconscious buttons must have been pressed in my mind and set […]
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Windows Technical Preview. Build 9841. 64 bit. Is it right to review a preview? I mean, it’s just a glimpse of what might be, right? A beta and as Microsoft is at pains to point out, it may not necessarily represent the finished product and
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Livin’ La Vida Loca Having cleared out those pesky customers, let’s look at how the retro bug has caught on South of The Border. Not content with a PC Chips Slot 1, I decided to scout around for a compatible motherboard for a Pentium III
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Sunny Mini Golf Pro is a very good 3D mini golf game packaged into a very small download… just 3.2 MB. Sunny Mini Golf Pro – Download & Installation Download is a 3.2 MB executable which is flagged by one of 55 antivirus engines through
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Retro is The New Black Have you ever wondered what happens to all those beige boxes you remember from the 80’s and 90’s? Well some of them end up in flea markets, car boot sales and Ebay, if they haven’t already been crushed or thrown
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You have meddled with the primal forces of nature and we won’t have it. Is that clear? ¶ For Tomb Raider fans, this pretty much sums up the feelings about Crystal Dynamics’ decision to go all exclusive and cuddly with Microsoft’s Xbox One, by ignoring
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Is Email on the way out? That’s a bit like asking ‘Do you still watch cable TV?‘ and not quite as off topic as one might think. As for cable/terrestrial TV, no, I don’t watch it anywhere near as much as I did before, thanks
Tuesday Ah yes, another day another dollar. Hopefully. The delivery of cheapo, generic power supply units (PSU) arrives, just in time to apply my attention to another seemingly dead PC, whose PSU has just given up the ghost after six years of loyal service
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Why join a group? There are any number of reasons why you would want to. You could have a group of friends that love crochet or cricket, you could be a biker, a trapeze artist or you simply want to share things with others, without
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What does it mean to root your phone? Not to be confused with the Australian definition of rooting, it is the means of gaining privileged control to the Android sub system, with the aim of overcoming limitations placed on devices by carriers and hardware manufacturers.
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Following on the theme from last weeks games article (6 Free Portable Retro Games), here is another portable retro remake. Asteroids+Plus from Cubex Digital Entertainment Asteroids+Plus is what Asteroids always wanted to be when it grew up. Utilize an arsenal of weapons and missiles against
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Shlock, horror? I have to ask myself this: why write about a genre that scares the living crap out of me? Well, I suppose in much the same way as I recently wrote about Sex, Nudity and Violence in video games; it’s a theme that’s
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These are all small, lightweight, portable games based on classic oldies. All have been tested and worked fine in Windows 8.1. Free Retro Game #1 – Shootapede This is a simple remake of the classic Atari game Centipede. Shootapede has all the familiar foes vying
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In a move which has incensed loyal fans of the Tomb Raider franchise, Microsoft has concluded a deal with publisher Square Enix, to release Rise of The Tomb Raider exclusively on the Xbox One platform, as announced at GamesCom 2014. To add insult to injury, Darrell
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