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News: Microsoft Announces Xbox One
Microsoft has unveiled its next-generation video games console, Xbox One, its’ new voice and motion-controlled home entertainment… thing. “Where your games look and feel like nothing else, where your TV becomes more intelligent, where all of your entertainment comes alive in one place. Team Xbox is on a new mission – design and build an … Continue reading
News: MasterCard Display Card
I know this announcement originally came from a MasterCard press release in November 2012, but given the recent hack of ATM’s in New York and further credit card fraud, perhaps this ‘future of credit cards’ will be brought forward. The problem with the current generation of credit cards are not well protected. Most of the … Continue reading
How-to: Install Ubuntu 12.x On Older Hardware
With Windows XP support coming to an end and many older PC’s, laptops and net-books struggling to cope with newer software, you might want to think about going Open Source and switching to a free upgrade: namely Ubuntu versions supporting older processors. You may have read that from version 12.x onward, many Ubuntu users thought … Continue reading
Review: Firefox Download Manager
Since early April, the Firefox web-browser comes with a new Download Manager; with the indicator and progress icon now embedded in the Firefox toolbar, you get an aggregate view of what’s currently downloading and how long is the remaining time to completion. Click on the icon and you get a Show all downloads button. Hit … Continue reading
How-to: Widget Visibility and You (Re-post)
Originally posted by Christopher Finke, on the official WordPress.com blog Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned for control. While we can’t give you more control over most of your life, we can give you more control over your widgets. And today, with the new widget visibility tool, you can … Continue reading
Opinion: Why Windows 8 Has Flopped
The numbers are in and the numbers are disappointing. Windows 8 may be shipping in the millions (100 million to date) but against the half billion of Windows 7 licenses and the long tail of Windows XP, the Count Dracula operating system that refuses to die, it has a long way to go. With sales … Continue reading
How-to: Create a Multi-Photo album on Facebook
You all know how I DON’T do Facebook? Well I look after the FB page for a sports club and finally found a reason for uploading photos there that I didn’t want anywhere else. Only it didn’t work… The Help makes it really simple: To upload photos: Click Add Photo/Video at the top of … Continue reading
How-to: Network Settings [Guest Post]
Network Settings by Jan Mussche originally appeared in Full Circle Magazine Issue 72. When you connect your desktop, laptop, printer/scanner, tablet, cellphone or whatever other device you might have, to a network, you need to set a few things straight in order to get connected. The first choice you make is whether you use a … Continue reading
Review: Chrome OS Part Three [Guest Post]
Review: Chrome OS by Art Schreckengost originally appeared in Full Circle Magazine issue 71. In Part Two, Art discussed the Apps available in Chrome OS. Finally, what of reviews that state Ubuntu 12.04 can run quite fine on this unit (the Acer Chromebook)? No fiction there and it does work, but be aware of the … Continue reading
How-to: Deactivate WordPress Plugins on a Broken Site
You try to login to a WordPress site and you get the really helpful 500: Internal Server Error and can’t access the WP-admin panel. WordPress plug-ins can be a common point of failure – particularly if you upgrade plug-ins and the new release has compatibility issues. One of the common troubleshooting tips for WordPress is … Continue reading
Review: Chrome OS Part Two [Guest Post]
Review: Chrome OS by Art Schreckengost originally appeared in Full Circle Magazine issue 71. In Part One, Art discussed the Acer Chromebook hardware and OS. Now, onto the Apps… So, if nearly everything is cloud based, does that mean your Chromebook is a brick if no connection is available? Contrary to other reviews I’ve read, … Continue reading
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