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Never Lose Again Your Digital Memories

Losing photos and precious videos is incomparably much more than just a technical inconvenience: it is an emotional loss of dear memories. Cherished captured moments from family gatherings, vacations, and personal milestones hold deep sentiment. It’s as if part of our past has been torn out when these things disappear….

How to Clean Up Your Computer or Laptop after the Holidays

Your laptop most probably carries more than just travel photos and memories from your holidays. Using it to stay in touch, watch movies, or navigate your way around an unknown location during your vacation adventures, it’s no surprise that digital clutter builds up. From downloading huge files and accessing unfamiliar…

Holiday Video Disasters: Common Issues and How to Solve Them

The arrival of summer is often accompanied by cameras ready to capture every special moment of our vacations. However, too often we discover upon returning home that those memories have various types of errors. From videos that won’t play to corrupt files that prevent us from reliving our experiences, it’s…

Man Proposes Using GPS Running App
I’ve heard about all kinds of awesome proposal stories over the years, and with all of the advances in technology, people just seem to be getting more and more creative. (Not all the great stories have happy endings, though – last month Techbeat reported about a young man who... Read more
Outdated Drivers? Try Driver Booster
Driver Booster from IObit is a high quality piece of software that scans your system and updates any outdated drivers that may be affecting the performance of your PC. Failure to update these drivers could lead to system crashes. Driver Booster is a freeware utility, which has been designed with... Read more
Skype Can Now Translate Video Calls!
When you actually stop and think about it for a moment, a service like Skype is pretty amazing. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, Skype allows you to share a video call with any other user. We’ve used it for so long we’ve probably gotten a... Read more
Top 10 Windows 7 Tips
Have you ever wondered just how some people really get, what seems like, full use of their computer?  Sure we all played Minesweeper and wrote the occasional Word document when we first started out using computers.  Nowadays computers are a regular part of everyday life.  From playing games to... Read more
Iowa Investing in Digital Driver’s License
Iowa may be the first state to invest in digital driver’s licenses for citizens. The Department of Technology is working on a mobile app to allow citizens in Iowa to show the driver’s license on the mobile phone, instead of carrying a card every time they enter the car.... Read more
BT EE Deal Worth ÂŁ12.5 Billion
BT said on Monday of this week, that it is expecting “significant synergies” from absorbing EE. This will occur mainly through cuts “network and IT rationalisation, back-office consolidation and savings on procurement, marketing and sales costs”. The firm has said that it will complete its due diligence work over... Read more
New Keurigs Won’t Take Off Brand K-Cups
I don’t know if you have a Keurig coffee maker or not, but I hope you do. My family waited quite a while to finally pony up and buy one, but we are oh so glad we did. It’s been quite wonderful for someone like me who seemed to... Read more
Instagram Updated with 5 New Filters & New Design
Photo apps are great aren’t they? Take Instagram for instance. The app started out as a small platform with a few features, now it has more fresh tweaks and filters than you can shake a stick at. The new update also features a fresh design and a lots of... Read more
Need to Find All Your System Info? Get Speccy
If you need data on every single piece of hardware that your system consists of, then you need Speccy. Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Additionally Speccy adds the... Read more
Minecraft Arrives On Windows Phone
It looks like Microsoft has finally persuaded Mojang to port Minecraft to Windows Phone, following the $2.5 billion acquisition of the small studio. Minecraft is available on almost every platform, including iOS and Android, but has not made its Windows Phone until today. The lack of users on Windows... Read more
Cicret: A Wearable Projection Band That Could Be The Next Killer Gadget
Wearable tech is amazing. From Glasses and wristbands to Smartwatches and fitness trackers, the field is opening up to a wide range of play. One company is willing to take things to the next level with a gadget that quite possibly has the potential to change the game. Meet the Cicret bracelet. Its aim... Read more
FlashFXP Updated

FlashFXP Updated

News December 16, 2014

FlashFXP is a powerful FTP client for Windows. With its intuitive and customizable user interface, Flash FXP provides the fastest and easiest way to transfer or backup files between your local computer and a remote server, or directly between two servers. In addition to FTP, FlashFXP provides additional security... Read more
Alliance of Companies Condemn Title II Broadband Reclassification
A large group of tech companies with interests in the net neutrality debate have sent an open letter to Congress and the FCC, opposing the reclassification of broadband under Title II common carrier—a move supported by current President Barack Obama. The reclassification—according to the “Telecommunications Industry Association”—will affect investment... Read more
Colbert Interviews Smaug

Colbert Interviews Smaug

News December 16, 2014

I know technically we have to wait another month until we can see the dragon Smaug back on the big screen in the final installment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, but that didn’t stop Stephen Colbert from snagging an interview with the mythical beast even though he hails all the... Read more
EE 2 for 1 Cinema Ticket Offer Ends in Feb 15
For over the last ten years many a trip to the cinema was undertaken using the two-for-one cinema tickets from Orange/EE Wednesday’s. The deal is super good for those of us on a small budget or those of us who want a cheap date. Or even if you just... Read more
Glitch At Amazon, Selling Chaos Ensues
When you shop online you can grab a real bargain sometimes. If you have  shopped at Amazon recently, then maybe you have grabbed, what some are calling, the deal to end all deals. On Saturday of last week, some UK-based retailers were appalled as their for sale items were... Read more
The Pirate Bay Goes Down Worldwide
The Pirate Bay has officially went down worldwide, after the Rights Alliance filed a complaint in Sweden against the piracy organization. Instead of simply banning the IP, the Swedish authority raided the server room keeping The Pirate Bay alive. Rumors said The Pirate Bay was on cloud servers now,... Read more
Microsoft Starts to Accept Bitcoin for Windows, Windows Phone & Xbox
Microsoft is definitely  going through a transformation phase. What, with the latest acquisitions, mobile market changes and Windows developments it looks like the guys over at Redmond have really started to get it together again. So, it comes as no surprise (ok, a little surprise) that the company has... Read more