I have been looking at ways to make our life simpler as well as cut expenditures we do not need. Currently we have basic Cable television, Hi-speed Internet, Unlimited Long distance/Internet phone with our local cable TV company. We don’t have any sort of contract […]
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Forty years after their introduction, Sony has announced that it will no longer produce Betamax tapes after March 2016. Currently, the tapes are only produced and sold in Japan. Introduced in 1975, the Betamax format was on its way to becoming the industry standard until the
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A few weeks ago we published an article describing what sort of security arrangements are being utilized by the DCT Team, catch up that article here: PC Security: What does the DCT Team Use? This time, we’ve asked them to tell us about their own
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Per capita, Australians are the biggest downloaders of pirated material in the world As the Australian government moves ever closer to enacting legislation aimed at preventing, or at least slowing the downloading of pirated material, a new study by consumer advocacy group Choice has come
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The kind folks over at Frame Your TV have created an interesting infographic showing how Netflix, and streaming in general, are changing the way we watch TV.
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Goodbye Windows Media Center The writing was on the wall with the introduction of Windows 8 and Microsoft has now announced that Media Center will not be available for Windows 10. Microsoft stopped development on Media Center some years back (2009 I believe) and although
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The BBC announced today that it would not be renewing Jeremy Clarkson’s contract following “an unprovoked physical attack” on a Top Gear producer, which is said to have been provoked by Jeremy being served with cold ham sandwiches at a Yorkshire hotel after a long day
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I stopped watching TV on a regular basis about ten years ago but have now returned to it with a vengeance thanks to Netflix. I clearly remember when having a television in your house was considered a luxury and most of them were set in
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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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YouTube – Another Wonderful Internet Thang YouTube is a great, fun web site. It sports thousands of videos and hundreds of hours are being uploaded every minute. It is mind-boggling when you consider that it works at all! There may be a few features of the YouTube
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