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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…

Top 5 Best Free Photo Editors
Transform your pictures with these great free image editors. Whether you’re addicted to taking quick pics on your mobile phone, or are a DSLR purist, in pursuit of the perfect photograph, your images can look even better with this line-up of fantastic free photo editing software. Features that used... Read more
Get Up To 40% Off Acronis True Image
Back up your data in just two clicks. Acronis True Image 2017 promises the fastest data backup and recovery available, offering protection for your PC, Mac, mobile, social, and remote data. What’s more you can now get all this and enjoy a saving of up to 40%! Available in three versions: Essential; Plus; and... Read more
Top 5 Productivity Apps
The best software to help you be more productive. With winter finally behind us and the promise of summer in the air, it’s the perfect time to ‘Spring clean’ your life, kick start those projects and be more productive… finally! To help you take the first steps towards being more effective... Read more
PDFelement 6 offers powerful editing features, great design and ease of use
Transform your old static Office forms into interactive PDF forms with PDFelement 6 Professional for Windows and Mac. Despite startling innovations in form technology, many businesses still rely on static electronic or paper forms for their applications, questionnaires or surveys. Often created with Excel or Word, these simple forms... Read more
Best Free Data Recovery Software
Lost or deleted files or data? You need our Top 5 free file recovery tools. Whether it’s due to a virus, hardware failure, or just good old human error, it’s all too easy to lose vital files. That critical report you’ve got to deliver tomorrow; the huge end of year... Read more
Top 5 Best Free Programs To Speed Up Your PC
Tune up your Windows PC with these five great system optimization programs. You buy your new PC and the love affair begins… It’s so fast! With so much memory! This relationship will never go bad! But alas, over time, the shine wears off and your amazing new super-computer starts to slow down.... Read more
Top 5 Alternative Browsers
For many, the web browsers pre-loaded onto our PCs and Macs are perfectly fine. They do everything we need, and after all, they’re the ones recommended by the manufacturers, right? Well, an increasing number of users are turning their backs on the pre-installed choices of Microsoft and Apple, instead... Read more
Save 65 Percent On System Mechanic or System Mechanic Pro
Take advantage of System Mechanic’s ‘March Madness’ deal. An award-winning PC optimization suite designed to fix, speed up and maintain PCs so they run like new. System Mechanic is used by more than 36 million consumers worldwide to keep more than 75 million computers running at peak performance. As the... Read more
Top 5 Award Winning Antivirus
Antivirus software. We all know we should have it, right? But there’s a mind-boggling choice available and it’s hard to know what features you really need. So we’ve put together our Top 5 award-wining antivirus to help you pick the right one for you. There’s a mix of free... Read more
Powerful Ad Blocker Features In UC Browser v6.1
Improve your online experience with this popular Chrome-based browser. UC Browser is a fresh looking, Chromium-based browser, that comes packed with all the benefits of Chrome, plus some unique features to make your experience on the internet far more enjoyable. To make things even better, the latest version of... Read more
Word From Our Editor: Tech Prices Take Advantage Of World Politics
Apple, Dell, Microsoft and now Sonos. The list of those profiting from global events keeps growing. We live in constantly changing and uncertain times. From Brexit to the American election, there’s been massive upheaval in the political, and economic, landscape for many months now. And these politico-economic changes appear... Read more
Avast Launch 2017 Software Line-Up
Publisher unveils four security and anti-virus titles. Security and anti-virus publisher Avast, has revealed its latest programs in the on-going war against the internet’s bad guys. Its line-up for 2017 includes: Avast Free Antivirus; Avast Pro Antivirus; Avast Internet Security; and Avast Premier. The lowdown Avast Free Antivirus Lightweight, state-of-the-art... Read more
Word From Our Editor: National Cyber Security Centre Highlights Scale Of Threat
New centre is the public face of the government’s online security efforts. On February 14, the Queen officially opened the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Based in central London, it can be viewed as the public face of the UK Government’s fight against cybercrime. All the sexy, top-secret, national... Read more
Five Arrested In ‘Fully Loaded’ Kodi Streaming Box Raids
Five people have been arrested, accused of selling set-top boxes modified to stream subscription football matches, TV and films for free. As reported by the BBC, the sale of so-called “fully loaded Kodi boxes” has been called a “top priority” by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). The five... Read more
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Word From Our Editor: Flying Cars Might Just Happen After All
The stuff of fantasy for decades, are flying cars to become reality at last? It’s easy to think that our fascination with flying cars is a recent phenomenon. However, way back in 1940, Henry Ford famously predicted: “Mark my word: a combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may... Read more
Word From Our Editor: How Spotify, Netflix and Amazon Know What You Love
Playlists and recommendations are the gateway to great discoveries, but just how do they work? We take a look at the science behind the magic. It’s fair to say we take a lot of pretty amazing technology for granted these days. Self-parking cars? Boring. 100mbps WiFi? Too slow man.... Read more
Word From Our Editor: Scams To Watch Out For On Amazon, WhatsApp And PayPal
Online fraud is on the rise and we’re all at risk… You’re too smart to be caught out by a scam, right? We probably all think it could never happen to us, but the fact is online fraud is on the rise – affecting millions of people around the... Read more