Next Tuesday, 31st March, is World Backup Day, a day set aside each year to remind all those who keep putting it off to backup their precious photos and important personal files right now. It’s amazing just how many people still don’t bother backing up […]
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Apple held their “Spring Forward” event on March 9th. While new MacBooks were announced, the star of the show was Apple Watch. While much was revealed at Apple’s September 2014 event, several burning questions remained — pricing, release date, and battery life. Well, these are burning
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While Apple is always a news staple, it seems like they have been in the news even more than usual lately. While some of the news has been actual “news” (as in factual), some has been rumors. I don’t typically feed the rumor mill but
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What is Net Neutrality? In basic layman’s terms, Net Neutrality expounds the principle that everyone, regardless of, position, power or wealth, should be treated equally through the internet. One of the main catalysts of the Net Neutrality movement has been the US Internet Service Providers’
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Adobe may have attracted a degree of notoriety over its inherently vulnerable software, notably Reader and Flash, but there is no doubting that Photoshop has been and still is a flagship software in its field. Adobe’s Photoshop graphics-editing software was first released 25 years ago,
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In a slightly ‘believable’ turn of events, Lenovo, the world’s No.1 in PC distributions according to Wikipedia have been caught distributing adware on their new laptops, straight out of the box!. The adware, called Superfish, apparently injects third party ads on Google searches and other
I’ve had my Amazon Echo for not quite two months. If you read my earlier post, you know that I’m a fan. But, apparently, it got even better. Amazon sent me an email last week (January 30th) to let me know that their Echo has
With the passing of the old year into the new, I thought it might be timely to take a look at how the market share statistics finished up at the end of 2014. As usual, the preferred source for market share trends is NetMarketShare. Desktop
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A recent Financial Times article has confirmed that Microsoft and Amazon, as well as Google, have all been paying to be included in Adblock Plus’s default whitelist. The confirmation of a paid deal between these companies and Eyeo (the maker of Adblock Plus) to circumvent
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Apple revealed some mind-boggling numbers at its quarterly earning call last week (January 27th). Apple posted record quarterly revenue of $74.6 billion, an increase of 30% when compared to the same quarter a year ago. QUARTERLY. Wow! It’s hard for me to imagine that much
GoDaddy has been forced to withdraw its Super Bowl ad featuring a lovable puppy after an animal rights petition collected more than 42,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. Following the outcry, GoDaddy decided to pull the ad, even yanking it from YouTube, but predictably,
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A children’s show produced by Sweden’s public service broadcaster SVT recently released a music video for its “Snoppen och Snippan” [penis and vagina] song to coincide with the premiere of its new season. Since the show chose to illustrate the bouncy, catchy track with a
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As many freeware followers will know by now, FreewareBB was sold recently although unfortunately it fell into the hands of people who wanted to use the good name and reputation of the site to scam and trick others. Those very tactics are the likes of
It seems like just about every day there is news of yet another wonderful piece of innovative gadgetry on the horizon, and the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) held recently in Las Vegas has provided a plethora of mouth watering previews to help whet the geek
