I think that at last, it is time for me to review what I consider the three main current generation operating systems side by side. After upgrading the family computer with a fairly impressive set of hardware, I now have a computer that runs Windows Vista Ultimate, as well as my 15″ Macbook Pro running [...]
All of you reading this will, in some way, be a gamer. You’re at RSBandB because you do, or did, play RuneScape at some point or another. Many of you will play other games besides these, whether it be Counter-Strike or Pokémon or anything like this. Many of you will have other consoles besides computers. [...]
Yes, that’s 2008 in binary. By the time you read this article, it will be 2008. I think a new year warrants some predictions, so it’s time for my predictions of 2008 in tech. Will Apple finally overtake Microsoft? Will this be the hailed ‘Year of Linux’? We shall find out over the next twelve months. [...]
Since RuneScape’s inception, people have wanted it to be better. There have been probably millions of suggestions throughout the time RuneScape has existed. Many of these are frankly terrible. Many of them simply wouldn’t work. And many of them of them have been very prolific throughout the time RuneScape has existed. Every now and then, [...]
This month saw the biggest update of Mac OS X ever - OS X 10.5, aka Leopard. A release that has been in preparation for months, years even, Leopard has over 300 new features and is being advertised as the greatest version of Mac OS X ever. Being as blunt as I possibly can: yes, yes [...]
If there’s one thing people fifty years ago were bad at doing, it was making predictions of now. In some respects they were way looking way too far into the future. They thought we’d all have laser guns, bubble houses on the moon, and spaceships to take us far into space. But when it came to [...]
Get your tech brains ready, this month has sixteen applications for you to chew your way through. Welcome to the XP Enhancements Marathon! Programmers Notepad Featured before on Apps of the month, I felt it was only right to feature it again, as it is a rather awesome app which I tended to use pretty much every [...]
Have you retired from Runescape? Are you absolutely sick and tired of the nooby updates (or no updates if you’re free-to-play)? Do you just want to move on, get over Runescape, and play something else? Well, this section of the newspaper will hopefully provide you with some starting information to a new, good game to [...]
There are certain things that every computer user should have. Every computer user. Obviously you’ve all heard of backing up your data, but how many of you really do it? Only a small number of users do backup data, and most of those backups consist of dragging and dropping some files onto a DVD every [...]
So, I am sure we have all heard of RSS. But what is it? What does RSS stand for? And what’s this Atom I keep hearing about? Glossary time! RSS: Stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a way of staying up-to-date on all your favourite web content, whether it be blogs, webcomics, whatever. Atom: Is basically the [...]