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Never Lose Again Your Digital Memories

Back Up and Recovery Sep 30, 2024

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

Best Software Sep 19, 2024

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

Best Software Aug 28, 2024

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…

Pebble Time Kickstarter Launched, Full Color Smartwatch

News February 25, 2015

Pebble has announced the third smartwatch in the range, called the Pebble Time. The smartwatch has been released first on Kickstarter and raised over $5m in just a few hours. Announcing the news with a Kickstarter campaign, Pebble is returning to its old roots to make a break in... Read more

Google Acquires SoftCard To Compete With Apple Pay

News February 24, 2015

Google wants to compete in the payments business, but for over three years Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile USA have blocked Wallet – the mobile wallet and payment service – from working on U.S. smartphones. This has severely limited Wallet’s adoption rate, while the three main carriers offer the... Read more

Anti-Monopoly Case Taken Against Google In Russia

News February 24, 2015

Google is facing yet another antitrust investigation, this time in Russia by the Anti-Monopoly Service. It follows a lawsuit filed by Yandex, the search provider based in Russia, over Google’s pre-loaded applications on Android. Yandex claims Google gains a significant advantage on mobile search and services use by forcing... Read more

Exploding Kittens Breaks Kickstarter Records With $8.7 Million

News February 23, 2015

Exploding Kittens’ Kickstarter has ended after 30 days, earning $8.7 million and gaining the most backers in the history of the crowd-funding site with 219,382 backers. Matthew Inman, Elan Lee and Shane Small started the campaign at $10,000, but it quickly flooded over the requested amount and in 24... Read more

Google I/O: Wallet Revival Incoming

News February 23, 2015

Google Wallet has been a failure in terms of user and retail adoption, but it is not all the fault of Google. The service is only available in the United States, and even in the country U.S. carriers have blocked the service in favor of SoftCard. It might not be... Read more

The Order: 1886 Lacks The Gameplay, Story To Be A Winner

Gaming News February 20, 2015

The Order: 1886 has been worked on by Ready at Dawn for over two years, but the early reviews on the PS4 exclusive seem to be less than impressive, most declaring it a lacklustre experience in many ways. The biggest topic of conversation is the six hours of gameplay... Read more

Sony Looking To Invest More In PlayStation, Image Sensors

Gaming News February 20, 2015

Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai revealed a three year plan to bring the Japanese electronics company back to profitability, by lowering investment in poorly performing divisions or potentially selling them, alongside investing more heavily on profitable divisions. The new plan comes after Sony sold the PC division to Japanese Industrial... Read more

Mars One Mission: 100 Final Candidates Selected

News February 19, 2015

Mars is the next frontier for space exploration, following four decades of lacklustre progress on finding ways to get to the Red Planet, partly due to the lack of funding NASA have received since the Moon landing. One group looking to be the first to the planet is Mars... Read more

Apple Orders 5 Million Apple Watch Units For First Round of Sales

News February 19, 2015

Apple is preparing five million Apple Watch units for the first round of sales, set to start on April in North America, Europe and some South-East Asian markets. The order of units reportedly includes 2.5 million Apple Watch Sport units, 1.6 million original units and 900,000 Apple Watch Edition... Read more

Neptune Duo Turns The Tables Upside Down

News February 18, 2015

The current state of the wearable market means a smartphone always had to be connected, but wearables maker Neptune is hoping to turn the tables with its new Hub and Pocket, the wearable and display for the Neptune Duo. The Neptune Hub wearable houses most of the technology normally... Read more

Apple Watch Will Not Feature Advanced Health Sensors

News February 18, 2015

The Apple Watch does not have one key feature, instead it has lots of new features to make the wearable appeal to all types of buyers, from fitness fanatics, to people who want a better way to read notifications. Even though it is a broad playing field for what... Read more

LG Watch Urbane Coming To MWC 2015

News February 17, 2015

LG is preparing to launch its third generation smartwatch at this year’s Mobile World Congress —the Watch Urbane—an even more refined all-metal design with a circular display similar to the G Watch R and Moto 360. It comes ahead of the Apple Watch launch in April, but LG is... Read more

Apple Working On Self-Driving Car

News February 17, 2015

Rumors of Apple’s automotive project are spiralling out of control, ever since a photo of a minivan registered to Apple’s HQ in Cupertino was spotted on the streets. In a new report, Apple might be implementing an autonomous component to its car, offering a hands-free feature alongside regular driving.... Read more

Apple Working On Bug Fixes, Stability With iOS 9

Mobile News February 10, 2015

Apple is apparently scaling back from two large updates to the iOS platform this year, content with bug fixes, stability issues and an overall performance buff for users of the forthcoming iOS 9. Two years ago, Apple launched iOS 7 with the fully redesigned look, followed in 2014 by... Read more

Apple Working On Internet TV Service

Internet News February 8, 2015

Apple is reportedly working on an internet TV service similar to Dish Network’s recently announced ‘Sling TV’, a $20 per month TV platform with 20 cable channels available, including ESPN. Several executives have been showing demos of the service to network programmers, looking to grab as many high-profile channels... Read more

Grand Theft Auto V Sells 45 Million Copies Before PC Launch

Gaming Internet News February 6, 2015

Grand Theft Auto V is the bestselling game of all time, following a new announcement by Rockstar Games’ parent company Take Two Interactive, confirming it has shipped 45 million copies since launch. Wii Sports technically still holds the title with 82 million sold copies, but considering Nintendo bundled the... Read more

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Confirms Title II Reclassification Support

Internet News February 5, 2015

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler has officially declared support for Title II reclassification. It comes after a failed attempt by the commission to create a hybrid net neutrality plan, which neither side found ample. Wheeler has apparently warmed to President Obama’s own pledge to net neutrality,... Read more

Samsung Press Invites For MWC 2015, Galaxy S6 Incoming

Mobile News February 4, 2015

Samsung has sent out press invites for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on March 1st. Even though Samsung had a quiet CES 2015 in January, it is reportedly preparing to launch the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy Edge S at MWC to make up for it. Samsung faced a... Read more