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All steamed up Sometimes known as digital content delivery platforms, game clients have evolved since Steam pioneered the concept in 2003. When the much anticipated Half Life 2 was launched in 2004, most gamers bought the game on DVD, rushed home to install it and […]
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Just about a year ago, a video was posted on the Vimeo website, with the intention of demonstrating encryption for journalists, by one “anon108”. The video was for Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who subsequently broke the NSA mass surveillance stories; he watched it, didn’t really
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In previous articles on gaming we’ve referred to the huge improvements in graphic fidelity in modern games, where an almost photo realistic scenario has been achieved, making the games incredibly immersive, not just to play but even just to gawp at. Similarly, many older games
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Perhaps you’ve read or heard about how coding is the cool thing right now. Kids should be taught it in school; young ladies and gentlemen should be encouraged to get together and start software companies. Everyone should have a go, right? Including you, so read
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If you have recently upgraded your Windows XP computer to Windows 8, you can still access your Outlook Express messages on your computer and move them into Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird. Windows 8 and Windows 7 should have saved your messages in a folder
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E-mail Encryption for Private People Millions of people every day send messages to friends, colleagues, and business contacts, written on postcards. Electronic postcards, but still readable by anyone who cares to pick them up. Would you send a letter without an envelope? Every time you
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Emulation and Virtualisation For many people, getting older programs to run in newer systems is more about the means than the end. After all, once you finally get the program or game running half way decently, it will need to have the life tweaked
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What is a RAMDrive? Before I dig into moving files to and from RAMDrives, let me tell you a little about what a RAMDrive is. Its name perfectly describes what it is. It is a Drive that resides in RAM. In other words, with a
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It’s always handy to centralize one’s email accounts, and Outlook.com added this ability relatively recently and without much fanfare. Outlook.com uses the IMAP protocol to import and monitor external accounts. According to Wikipedia: Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is a protocol for e-mail retrieval and
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There are times when we’re clearing out the old junk lying about in the garage or stuffed away in dusty boxes in the attic, when we come across those treasured artifacts from the golden age of computing. If you’re a gamer, you’ll probably be remembering
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Aliases, or alternative email addresses, are an easy and useful way to isolate/separate specific emails and help keep your main Outlook.com email address off the radar. Aliases were first introduced into Hotmail sometime ago and have been carried over to the Outlook.com webmail service. Outlook.com
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For those who may be unaware, VLC is a popular free and open source cross-platform media player developed by the VideoLan Organization. VLC’s widespread popularity stems largely from its excellent codec (video format) support and powerful range of features, you can check it out here:
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Adding a two step verification is a good way to beef up your security for online accounts. Not every site offers this option but for those that do, you should take advantage and set it up. Setup 2-Step Verification for Evernote Yesterday I set up
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Twitter recently introduced several new features designed “to make photos on Twitter more social”, including the ability to ‘tag’ people in photos. This means your name can be ‘tagged’ (or associated) with any photo, regardless of whether you actually appear in it or not.
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