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Photographing Fingers of Frost

Photographing Fingers of Frost

I have never entered a photography competition before - in fact my interest in photography, although long-standing, has only recently become something I'm actively engaged in. Most of what I've been doing has been digital photography with post processing filters used to great an "old world" ...

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Cross-Platform Gaming on Windows Phone 7!

Cross-Platform Gaming on Windows Phone 7!

This fantastic piece of Windows Phone 7 news was released on Tuesday - read on to find out just how Windows Phone 7, Xbox Live and Windows PC games can be integrated! With Xbox LIVE and a Blockbuster Title Line-up, Windows Phone 7 Marks a New Era in Mobile Gaming First ...

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Girls Love the iPhone 4

Girls Love the iPhone 4

I’ve always felt that the hardcore mobile phone market – the one the developed from the PDA/smartphone users as opposed to the Nokia kids – was pretty partisan. For instance, I’ve been literally dragged from using my Windows Mobile to use an Android phone. Similarly, an old friend of mine ...

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BlackBerry Pearl Goes 3G

BlackBerry Pearl Goes 3G

Regular readers will recall my preoccupation with the Windows Mobile platform, which up until recently I was still using despite many alternative operating systems coming onto the market (although in my defence I was using the magic that is HTC's TouchFLO 3D.) However a less well-known fact is my brief dalliance ...

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Fixing a Broken iMac G5 with 7p

Fixing a Broken iMac G5 with 7p

Following a recent eBay purchase of a 2005 Apple iMac G5 rev 1 - which I expected to receive as a "damaged" piece of kit "for spares or repair" - I prepped myself to pickup a brand new soldering iron and researched prices of capacitors. The computer was sold as damaged ...

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HTC HD2 – Wonder Phone

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HTC HD2 - Wonder Phone

As a regular user of HTC phones over the years, I’ve got my eye on a HTC HD2 – something I consider to be something of a “wonder phone”. Of course, I’ve already priced up a couple of options, and I’m looking forward to some widescreen phone fun with the best current version of Windows ... ...

Twitter Hack Leaves Celebrities Follow-less

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Twitter Hack Leaves Celebrities Follow-less

It was recently disclosed that Twitter was hacked by a Turkish computer expert who posted details of a loophole that allowed users to ‘force’ others to follow them… Opinion Piece by Roger Thompson, Chief Technical Officer, AVG Worse still was the fact that as Twitter struggled to rectify the situation, it temporarily removed subscriberâ...

Environmental Disposal of Mobile Phones

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Environmental Disposal of Mobile Phones

Getting rid of an old mobile phone? There are several choices available to you, each preferable to just chucking your phone in a drawer or bin. Throwing away old mobile phones is an ecological disaster waiting to happen – with batteries left in the disposed handsets, there is every chance that in future the batteries that ... ...

The Advance of Politics & Technology: Part Two

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Technology did indeed try to do it’s part for the general election. Did you recently sign into Facebook to be welcomed by an election reminder? Facebook introduced new elements to its layout to enhance the voting experience, including a new feature which allowed you to tell all your friends that you had just voted. Besides Facebook, ... ...

The Advance of Politics & Technology: Part One

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The way we watch and understand politics is changing dramatically. Recently, the UK General Election was initially a showdown of which network had the most impressive graphics. The shift of how we understand politics was also seen in the recent ‘Leader’s Debate’, where all three leaders from the main parties explained their polici...

Google Acquires BumpTop

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Google Acquires BumpTop

For several years, BumpTop has existed as an OS shell program that turns your desktop into a 3D, real desktop environment in which you can play around with icons and files the same way you would on your wood and metal desk. The upside is that it’s really fun to play around with and a ... ...