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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery
Desktop Jan 2, 2024
Who doesn’t love creating new memories and saving them as photos on a smartphone, PC, or any other digital media? While many of us share some on social media, we keep the most precious and private ones to ourselves. Sadly, my hard drive of photos became corrupted, which held images…
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GOM Mix Max’s Big Launch
Video Dec 8, 2021
GOM & Company is releasing its newest video editing software, GOM Mix Max, with a big launch celebration. Focused on balancing high-quality and plentiful features, GOM Mix Max will be a powerful tool for new editors and veterans alike. Users who sign up now can get GOM Mix Max for free for…
RIP Google Reader
Internet July 1, 2013
Since Google announced in March that they would be shutting down the RSS reader, millions of users have been looking for alternative services, while web companies try to win Google’s reader orphans. Many are still angry with Google’s decision to close the service but in a blog post Google... Read more
A project to recreate and restore a pioneering 1940s computer has reached a major milestone after the first working parts are demonstrated. The key elements were unveiled at an event at Bletchley Park on Wednesday, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Maurice Wilkes who designed the... Read more
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Smartwatches: A Gimmick or The Next iPad? [Readers Poll]
News June 28, 2013
With the likes of Sony, Apple and Samsung all announcing they are working on smartwatches – it’s easy to get carried away in the hype for these new devices. Add to this the success of the Pebble, Agent and Vachen Smartwatch concepts on KickStarter, and you might already be kicking... Read more
Microsoft Corp released a test version of Windows 8.1 on Wednesday. Many computer users were left confused and unsure of the new tile-based interface that was launched with Windows 8. The interface, which works best with touch-screen devices, left fans of the traditional desktop PC longing for the old-style... Read more
The Danish company Create It Real, has designed a software package that can prevent people from printing 3D guns. It recognises digital gun part models and then prevents them from being printed. The software is able to compare each piece the user is trying to print with a database... Read more
New data shows that in the past year mobile malware has increased by 614 percent, with Android receiving 92 percent of the threats. The data comes from Juniper Newtorks, who released its third annual Mobile Threat Report on Tuesday. The growth of mobile malware was tracked from March 2012... Read more
Sony Release The Xperia Z Ultra
Mobile June 26, 2013
Sony has announced the release of the Xperia Z Ultra, a waterproof Android smartphone with a 6.4-inch screen. They claim it is the slimmest large-screen handset on the market. The company say they intend for this device to challenge Samsung’s dominance in the jumbo-sized handset sector. The Ultra follows... Read more
The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC lost a red panda, aptly named Rusty, over the weekend. To find him the zoo turned to social media, namely Twitter for help. Poor Rusty had only been a resident at the zoo for three weeks and was acquired as a breeding... Read more
The Leap Motion Controller is Only A Month Away
News June 25, 2013
Leap Motion is set to release its controller in late July. This week it enters the next stage of the beta test with its early access developers. Later this week, the company also plan to open up the developer portal to the public, giving developers who aren’t in the... Read more
Last week Apple published a chart showing the break down of operating systems using the iTunes App Store. According to the chart, most of the iOS user base is running the latest OS version. According to Apple, 93 percent of its customers use iOS 6, 6 percent run iOS... Read more
The Samsung Galaxy S4 launched earlier this year and since then they have been expanding the range with niche variants. At an event in London last week, Samsung focused on the latest three models of the S4 family. But in trying to address specific audiences, have they diluted the... Read more
According to an announcement from the Hong Kong government, PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden, has left Hong Kong. The Hong Kong government resisted pressures from the US to extradite Snowden, saying that “the documents provided by the US government did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong... Read more
In a press event yesterday, the popular photo sharing app Instagram, announced the release of their new feature “Video on Instagram”. It’s not a huge surprise after all the recent speculation as to what the event was about. Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram, said in his speech that “the... Read more
Sony Pull PS3 Firmware
News June 22, 2013
Sony has pulled the latest 4.45 firmware update for the PlayStation 3 due to reports that it was causing errors for some of the consoles it was downloaded on. In a post on the official US Playstation forum, it was reported that some consoles were “bricking” as the on-screen... Read more
Several state officials have joined forces in seeking assurance from Google following numerous privacy fears relating to Google Glass. Privacy commissioners and data protection representatives from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Isreal, Switzerland and Mexico, just to name a few, have got together with the EU Commission’s Article 29 Working... Read more
Tethered iPhones Easy To Crack
Mobile June 21, 2013
According to new research from the University of Erlangen in Germany, iPhones that are being used as a Wi-Fi hotspot are open to attack from hackers due to lax security protocols in the automatic password generation system. A team from the university say that passwords automatically created for the... Read more
Microsoft has confimed reports that it’s doing a U-turn on its policies surrounding used Xbox games and the “always on” feature of the device. This follows gamers’ anger at the restrictions imposed. In an official blog post today Don Mattrick, Interactive President of Microsoft, said “Today I am announcing... Read more
After claims that the NSA have been tapping directly into the central servers of some of the leading US Internet companies, the companies in question have denied any involvement. Google, Apple, Facebook and Yahoo, to name just a few, have all denied any involvement but some of them have... Read more