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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…

August 24 Tech news roundup: Windows will remove Control Panel soon, Chrome gets a critical security update, Access Apple Podcasts on any browser

News Aug 24, 2024

Windows 11 Control Panel will be removed soon Microsoft has confirmed it will remove Control Panel from Windows 11. This has been coming for a long time, since 2015 to be precise. A recent update to a document on Microsoft’s website reveals that the legacy app is being deprecated, in…

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Kenguru Creates A Tiny, Easy Access Car For Wheelchair Users

News February 20, 2014

The Austin-based company Kenguru, has developed an electric car that has no seats. Designed for use by wheelchair users, the driver enters the car by putting their hands on motorcyle-type handlebars and then rolls straight through the rear hatch of the car and into the driving ‘area’. The company... Read more

Fuel: Portable Android Charger

News February 19, 2014

You know how it is, it’s about 6PM and you’ve been on the go since your smartphone alarm woke you up at 6AM. You have mountains of emails that you just didn’t get through on your commute to the office and you had to finish them whilst grabbing your... Read more

Microsoft UX Designer: “Metro is Crap For Power Users”

News February 19, 2014

That comes straight from the horse’s mouth, folks – a guy who is directly involved in designing UX for Microsoft, who goes by the name pwnies on Reddit. Of course, we know just how bad things can go on the site, especially when Redditors get all riled up; and then... Read more

Military Researchers Finally Create A Pizza Ration

News February 19, 2014

Pizza is one of the most requested rations by soldiers but because of the sauce, cheese and dough combination, it often results in a breeding ground for bacteria as the base turns soggy. Food scientists from the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center in Massachusetts think... Read more

Marty McFly’s Power Laces Are Coming in 2015

News February 19, 2014

If you watched Back To The Future Part 2, (and let’s be honest, who didn’t watch it?) you’ll remember Marty McFly’s shoes. You remember them because they were all kinds of awesome – they laced themselves up without Marty having to do anything! And, if you’re anything like me, you immediately... Read more

Order Taco Bell From Your Smartphone

How To Mobile News February 18, 2014

I have good news for everyone who loves to indulge their Mexican fast-food tastebuds every once in a while – Taco Bell is about to make it easier than ever to make a run for the border. Whether it’s lunch time or time for your second dinner around midnight,... Read more

DARPA Developing Shape-Shifting Transfomers

News February 18, 2014

DARPA has been developing shape-shifting, cargo carrying unmanned aerial vehicles in a bid to augment current delivery methods. It is getting increasingly more dangerous to deliver the huge supply loads that comabt bases require and although helicopters are a possible solution, supply of available helicopters can’t meet the demand... Read more

Kickstarter Hacked

Internet News February 18, 2014

The popular crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, has had a serious security breach and the recommendation is to change your password on the website. Also, their advice is to change your passwords that you use on any other websites, if you used the same password. Although the site was hacked, there... Read more

Bing Health & Fitness App Available On Windows Phone

Mobile News February 18, 2014

Health and fitness is no doubt one of the most profitable niches today, and no serious tech player will allow itself to be left behind. In spite of all the struggles that Microsoft has been facing since what it seems like forever, it has a foot in the health... Read more

NASA Has Designed A Satellite Robot Refuelling Station

Internet News February 18, 2014

There are currently over 500000 different pieces of space junk, floating around our orbit. Unfortunately, with every satellite launched into orbit, it will eventually become interstellar garbage, things that have a seemingly unstoppable destiny to be tracked and possibly dismantled by DARPA or ultimately disposed of by huge lasers or something of... Read more

Microsoft Office For iPad Coming Soon?

Mobile News Office Software February 17, 2014

Say what you want about Microsoft – Windows in particular – but one cannot deny just how many of us have gotten used to Microsoft Office. Not that there is a lack of alternatives which do the job – from Open Office to Apple’s own suite of word processing... Read more

A Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion

News February 17, 2014

Nuclear fusion has the potential to produce enough energy to meet humans’ high demands, so it is understandable why scientists invest a lot of time and money into researching this technology. It is unlikely that we will see this energy resource commercially available any time soon but scientists have... Read more

Dyson To Open Robotics Lab At Imperial College

News February 17, 2014

If you’re anything like most “normal” people, part of your daily and weekly activities revolve around housekeeping. Whether it’s doing the dishes, cleaning the bathroom, or vacuuming the floor, we all have duties around the house that we wish we didn’t have to do. If you have children, they... Read more

Rogue Flappy Bird Android Download Contains Malware

Mobile News February 16, 2014

After the extremely popular app, Flappy Bird, was officially removed from official app stores, the game sprang up online in various places and has provoked a variety of different clones. But, sadly, along with the copies of Flappy Bird being provided ,there are malware-injected version which have also been discovered. These rogue... Read more

Trials Scheduled For TALOS Military Exoskeleton

News February 16, 2014

The US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) which is a division of the US Military, revealed late last year that it had created the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) project to produce a wearable environment for soldiers that combines both armour and technology to enhance the soldier’s fighting efficiency.... Read more

Microsoft: We’re Still Committed To PC Gaming

Gaming News February 16, 2014

Anyone who has spent some time playing on a gaming console knows just how it can take you to a whole new world (or dimension, if you want). However, there is something to be said about PC gaming, and everyone knows that that experience is hard to beat. Of... Read more

The Survival Slingshot

News February 16, 2014

An aerospace engineer from Texas has developed a slingshot so powerful, that it can kill a wild animal. Fitted with two mounting points, the standard Survival Slingshot comes with forty rounds of steel shot. There is even an Archer model, which allows the user to fire arrows from this... Read more

URB-E: The Fold Up Electric Scooter

News February 16, 2014

At the Consumer Electronic Show in January, the new up and coming gadget that seemed to get a lot of attention was the Urb-E scooter. The Urb-E scooter is currently live on crowdfunding website, Indiegogo. In order to get the scooter off the ground, the company is sending down the... Read more