After reading our guide to Arduino and Raspberry Pi, you may have decided that Arduino is the way forward for you. If that is the case then here are some project ideas to get you started. We’d love to hear from you if you have already done your own project... Read more

It might very well be only a rumor, but where there is smoke, there’s fire; and what we’re hearing is that the next version of Windows, Windows 9, is already in the works. That’s only logical, as it does take Microsoft a while to get their things together, in spite... Read more

News on the upcoming sequel to Man of Steel has been pretty slow in coming forth. So far we know that Ben Affleck is the new Batman, Jesse Eisenberg will be Lex Luthor and Gal Gadot is playing Wonder Woman. However Zack Synder took to Twitter to tease us all... Read more

Snagit is the powerful screen capturing tool of choice, for manuals, tutorials or presentations.  Techsmith’s SnagIt is a quality image manipulation software that records stills and videos. The captured area can be set to; full screen, window, region or scrolling area. The software has a large range of tools, which... Read more

It has come to light that hackers have stolen personal data of 1.3 million customers of network operator and ISP Orange.  Apparently the hackers have accessed names, email addresses and telephone numbers.  What is a concern is that Orange France has been aware of the attack since 18 April but... Read more

Oracle have just announced the launch of their Oracle Marketing Cloud.  This is a platform that combines technologies from a number of the company’s other acquisitions, including BlueKai, Compendium, Eloqua and Responsys. The Marketing Cloud will cover a broad spectrum of differing capabilities.  This will allow customers to run marketing campaigns on... Read more

Be careful what you say in public. No, really – be careful what you say in public because you just never know who or what may be listening to your words. It could be the person sitting at the table beside you. It could be the waitress who overhears part of... Read more

A 14-year-old girl from the Netherlands thought that I was a good idea to play a joke with American Airlines by sending a terror threat via Twitter. The tweet read “Hello my name’s Ibrahim and I’m from Afghanistan. I’m part of Al Qaida and on June 1st I’m gonna do... Read more

We all know that selfies are the thing to do right now. After Ellen DeGeneres’s record-breaking selfie at the Oscars, everyone seems to be wanting to get in on the action – including Major League baseball players and the President of the United States. (In fact, if the rumors are... Read more

Virus Shield, the popular anti-virus app for Android, has been found to be a scam. In response to the discovery, Google has removed the bogus app from its Play Store. The app had previously held the top spot in the Play Store’s apps chart but has since been labelled “a... Read more

I’ve noticed that lately I seem to be forever plugging my iPhone in to charge. As well as being rather inconvenient, it’s really annoying, so I decided to hunt for ways to make my iPhone battery last longer. Some of them are pretty obvious but others had never occurred to... Read more

Now that being a geek is officially cool, we are surrounded by wannabe geeks with their thick-rimmed glasses, cheesy T-shirts and the odd smart watch but in reality…do they even know their Star Trek from  their Star Wars. So time to man (or woman) up and take the official geekdom... Read more

Manchester City has become the first Premier League football club to introduce free WiFi throughout their stadium.  The Etihad Stadium now has high-density broadband and it marks an ongoing digital initiative at the club, which includes apps that are aimed at visiting fans to help them navigate the area.  The... Read more

Opera Software is the maker of the Opera browser for desktop PCs and mobile devices alike.  But to help those of us who have slightly less up-to-date devices, Opera have just launched the Opera Mini 8 browser for basic mobile phones. Currently, the number of smartphones being used is increasing,... Read more

Feeling peckish?  Have a cupcake from your local ATM machine!  Yes, you heard right!  New York City, the city of lights, the big ‘apple’, has now got its very own, first ever, Cupcake ATM!  Open 24 hours a day, it will help the citizens of New York feed those big... Read more

Online survey software tool, SurveyGizmo, is nearly back to normality after days of issues and outage following a serious cyber attack. The US online survey software tool, which has more than 300,000 customers across the globe, was the victim of a malicious Denial of Service (DOS) attack which started on... Read more

Piriform has released its latest version of the popular freeware cleaner CCleaner, adding Opera Developer Channel Support and improved ActiveX and Class Issue Registry cleaning. Other changes and additions include:  Added Opera 15 and newer Saved Form Information cleaning. Added Facebook and Twitter cookies to Intelligent Cookie Scan. Improved Scheduler... Read more

Facebook has just made another huge purchase.  This time they have furthered their interest in the fields of virtual reality with the purchase of Oculus for $2 billion.  Oculus is the company behind the virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift.  The headset is coming soon to PC and Android devices.... Read more