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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Following the bizarre and quite frankly, cruel announcement that Rise of The Tomb Raider would be an Xbox exclusive, gamers around the world rose up, pounced on their mice and shouted in a very loud collective voice that all was not well in the corporate world
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What is thermal margin? Over the years I’ve used both Intel and AMD processors and whichever monitoring utility I’ve used, it has always reported the real temperatures at core and socket. Since upgrading one of my PCs from an AMD Phenom II 965 to an
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The game that started it all In 1993 Doom pretty much took the gaming world by storm, setting the standard for first person shooters and it’s still played today, although I must confess to never having played it yet. id Software followed up with
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What is downsampling? Downsampling is running a game at a higher resolution than the native resolution of your monitor, which is then rescaled or downsampled back to your native desktop resolution. For example you could change the in-game resolution settings to 2560 x 1440, which
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[message type=”warning”] Warning: This post and associated videos may contain strong language! [/message] The best video game of all time! I remember when GTA was launched in 1997 by the small Scottish developer DMA Design Ltd (now Rockstar North) and wallowing in self righteous
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I would hate to be remembered as that Limey English Pom who spent all his waking hours slagging off Windows and anything else that slinks out of Redmond. Sure, I’m the one who wrote about how much Windows 8 sucks and how Windows 10 is
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Windows 10 – Have You Upgraded Yet? Are you still waiting? Alright, I know, it’s only been a couple of days since Windows 10 was officially released for public consumption. Did you hit the icon and expect a fanfare and choir of angels. I know
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The nanny state I’m prompted to rant again, having read an article in La Nacion, a newspaper here in Argentina, reporting on a proposed new law, which could result in you or me being sent to prison for up to THREE years for exercising our
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The secret state The North Korean leadership enjoys presenting a rosy picture of life in their closeted state and although hard facts are difficult to confirm, watching us, watching them, like in some kind of grim fandango setting, has at least opened up tiny cracks
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Google porn, see what you come up with and you’ll probably find that it’s one of the most widely recognised search terms on the internet and for several very good reasons, but mostly because a lot of people rather like it. Not just men either, which
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The Golden Days of Windows As the tears of nostalgia roll down my face and I reminisce over the launch of Windows XP in October 2001, I can’t help thinking that those halcyon days may have been Microsoft’s finest hour. A full choir singing America
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Running from 16 to 18th June, E3 is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center and is the premier showcase for computer and video games. Here are a few games announced already. DOOM Needing very little introduction, Doom was first unleashed by id Software
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