Do You Email?
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 […]
A Day in The Life of a PC Technician – Day 2
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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How to Create a Private Facebook Group
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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How to Give Root Access to Your Smartphone.
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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Free Game of the Week – Asteroids+Plus
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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Would You Play a Survival Horror Game?
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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6 Free Portable Retro Games
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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Microsoft Spurns Loyal Fans: snatches Tomb Raider Exclusive.
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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Is this the Most Powerful Graphics Card in The World?
New King on The Block According to AMD, the Radeon™ R9 295X2 graphics card launched in April 2014, is the world’s fastest, period and here’s why: 11.5 TFLOPS 5632 stream processors Core Clock 1018 MHz 8GB memory 12.4 billion transistors 512-bit memory interface x 2 Dual liquid-cooled
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Game Preview – The Crew (Beta)
Developer: Ivory Tower and Ubisoft Reflections Publisher: Ubisoft Genre: Racing, single player/multiplayer Release date : November 2014 Last week I threw my name into the hat to participate in the closed beta of The Crew and this morning received the good news that I’d been accepted
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Are Video Games too Violent?
I had a moment of hesitation when coming up with a title for this topic, because violence in itself is a very broad concept in the real world and manifests itself in so many different ways. Video games have a long history of pushing the boundaries
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Which PC case would you choose?
Whatever you decide, then the choice of computer cases available today is mind blowing. Horizontal motherboard Take the Deepcool Steam Castle pictured above as an example of thinking out of the box. This case is so cute you almost want to cuddle it and take it home
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Retro Game Release? – No One Lives Forever
Developer: Monolith Productions Publisher: Fox Interactive Date released: November 2000 Some games are so memorable that they never really go away and this game is one of those. Fondly remembered for all the right reasons, NOLF is a masterpiece of the spoof spy genre; think
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Battlefield 4 – Review and Giveaway
Battlefield 4 – The Review Publisher : Electronic Arts Developer : EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) Review Platform : PC The Battlefield series kicked off in 2002 with Battlefield 1942 and has a huge following of dedicated fans who have followed the game right up to BF4‘s
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