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 [...]
Welcome to the Internet. I hope you enjoy your stay. But… what is the Internet? Well, first, i’ll just confirm that is it not a series of tubes. The internet is an abstract concept. It is not something you can really see directly. The internet is simply connections. Connections between computers. Big, powerful computers that give us huge [...]
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 [...]
This month, we’ll be looking at two brilliant Mac utilities - Growl and Quicksilver. I’d like to note that these are Mac-only, but never fear, Windows users, for next month, I have a large number of utilities for XP lined up. Quicksilver Developer: Blacktree Licence: Freeware Available from: http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ Every Mac user will know that the dock serves as a [...]
I am what you might call a Windows “champion”. I am one of those people who knows a lot about the OS, has been using it for years, and generally feels comfortable within it. Many of you here, I bet, could not make their own Path Variable or trick Windows Explorer into thinking that C:/Documents [...]
I thought I’d go and look at something I really like, Portable Gaming. I own a PSP and a DS (Lite, ever since I broke my DS Phat) and I enjoy using them both. I got my DS (Phat) the day it came out in Europe (March 11, 2005) and my PSP on the 25th of [...]