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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…

Back To The Drawing Board: Google Delivery Drone Fails

News March 19, 2015

The drone delivery program from Google was part of the company’s drone-delivery system Project Wing, under the Google Project X research lab. The idea was for the delivery drones to be able to take-off vertically and then land vertically. This is the key feature that would be useful in busy... Read more

Tag Heuer, Intel and Google Team Up To Make A Smartwatch

News March 19, 2015

Without a doubt, the smartwatch is this year’s tech must have item. I mean, if you are going to buy a wearable then you are going to be looking at a smartwatch. Unless of course you just need a fitness tracker, but (exercise aside) where’s the fun in that? The... Read more

Destiny Named Best Game at British Academy Game Awards

Gaming Internet News March 19, 2015

And the winner is… At this year’s British Academy Game Awards, the first person post apocalyptic shooter, Destiny won the coveted prize of best game. The first-person shooter was developed by Bungie and it was the US studio’s first release after stopping development on the Halo series. The title has... Read more

CLIP Layerless 3D Printing Unveiled

News March 18, 2015

It seems as though the 3D printing industry is changing every minute. There are new printers, new source materials and new and improved techniques etc. There is one firm, however, that plans to revolutionise the industry with new technologies that have the potential to be a real game changer. The... Read more

YouTube Cards Will Replace Pop-ups

Internet Video March 18, 2015

Have you ever noticed that when you check out a video on YouTube, there are more than the occasional pop-ups, which suddenly appear, wanting you to subscribe to the channel, or maybe look at another video from that channel. In this day and age, pop-ups are not people’s favourite... Read more

Father Remotely Views Birth Of His Son With Samsung Gear VR

Internet March 17, 2015

Three weeks ago, my wife gave birth to our first born son. I was there throughout the whole process and I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. But what if I couldn’t have been there? What if I couldn’t have witnessed the miracle of my son being born? I... Read more

YouTube May Launch Subscription Video Service

Internet Video March 17, 2015

Everybody loves Raymond. No, wait, I mean YouTube. Everybody loves YouTube. YouTube is at the heart of every person’s favourites bar. No matter where you are, you can view the Google-owned service to watch your favourite US classic comedy, sports moments, music videos, lol cats or whatever else you can think... Read more

Computer Slow and Unresponsive? Try Defraggler

Software Reviews System Tuning March 16, 2015

Most defragging tools only allow you to defragment an entire drive. Defraggler lets you specify one or more files, folders, or the whole drive to defragment. When it reads or writes a file, it uses the exact same techniques that Windows uses. Using this application is just as safe for your files as... Read more

Supercard from Travelex Erases Charges Abroad

Internet Software Reviews March 16, 2015

It is really easy to use your bank cards when paying for goods and services whilst abroad. The down side is that more often than not, you are going to return to a few charges in the way of additional fees and charges that have been bolted on by... Read more

Need To Manage Your Music? Try Tag&Rename

Music Software Reviews March 15, 2015

Tag&Rename is a utility for Windows created to manage a wide range of popular music formats. This tool allows for quick and easy editing of tag data, for example MP3 ID, Windows media and iTunes tags. If you need to write new or update existing tag data, then this... Read more

Ericsson To Cut 2000 Jobs in Research and Development

Internet March 15, 2015

Research and Development are the key parts to any organisation that is based around technology. Especially so in the case of hardware manufactures. It does beg the question then, why has Ericsson, the world’s largest mobile network vendor, planning to make 2,200 redundancies in Sweden, mainly in the R&D... Read more

BiVACOR: The Bionic Heart Set To Replace Cardiac Implants

News March 14, 2015

A new ground-breaking bionic heart without a pulse is going to be the next big thing in cardiac implants with within the next three years. The world-first device was designed by an engineer form Brisbane, Dr Daniel Timms, who started the project back in 2001 while studying at the... Read more

Dropbox Patches Remotely Exploitable Vulnerability in SDK

Internet Mobile News March 14, 2015

The developers at Dropbox have recently patched a vulnerability in the Android SDK version of the Dropbox app. The remotely exploitable vulnerability could have enabled an attacker, under specific circumstances, to potentially save files to their Dropbox account, via compromised third party apps.* Researchers at IBM, who found the vulnerability,... Read more

Google Maps Everest Region

Internet March 13, 2015

When a good friend of mine said he was going to Nepal to make the long and arduous trek to Everest Base Camp, I must admit, I thought to myself ‘rather you than me mate!’ The Everest region has some of the most hostile environments known to man. I’m... Read more

Microsoft Create Free Online Courses With EdX

Internet March 13, 2015

Microsoft is partnering with EdX to create online educational courses for software developers. EdX has recently announced on Tuesday of this week that the online courses would be the latest addition to their curriculum of interactive and massive open online courses (MOOC) programs. According to a recent release, Microsoft... Read more

Samsung Announce ‘Charge The Life’ Animal Battery Packs

News March 13, 2015

As I have mentioned one or two times in the past, it is really irritating when your battery runs out on your device. You may have had one of those super hectic days where all you seem to be doing is staring at a screen. The result of which... Read more

UK Schoolchildren To Receive A Free Computer

Internet March 13, 2015

In order to address a future skills shortage, the BBC is taking part in an initiative to give away a million free computers to students that are starting secondary school. Reports state that a skills shortage of some 1.4 million will occur over the next five years. The UK-wide Make... Read more