Posted: 22nd Feb 2012
Fancy a new handheld games console for Easter? Today’s the day that Sony’s PlayStation Vita goes on sale, and is in stores priced £229.91. It’s the most powerful and versatile portable games machine yet, with built in WiFi, front and back cameras and a powerful quad core processor for the best high resolution games. The [...]
Posted: 22nd Feb 2012
Got a PC full of music or media files that you want to watch or listen to on another device? If you’re still using a USB memory stick to copy them over individually, you’re missing out on some of the coolest technology you can use around the house. The key to moving media around from [...]
Posted: 21st Feb 2012
Stand by for the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona next week, because it’ll be the venue for the biggest tech news of the year so far. All eyes are on Microsoft with their anticipated announcement on Wednesday of the launch of the first public beta of Windows 8. That means you’ll be able [...]
Posted: 20th Feb 2012
Ever wonder what happens to old DVDs and CDs once you’ve finished using them? Inevitably, most will end up discarded into landfill sites or washed away to sea, where they’ll slowly begin the process of breaking down into their constituent elements. How long do they hang around as waste? Given that some optical discs decompose [...]
Posted: 17th Feb 2012
A NAS may be one vowel short of space travel, but learning how to use one to look after your digital life can be every bit as eye opening as landing on the moon. NAS stands for ‘Network Attached Storage’, a very dry acronym for a very exciting and increasingly popular technology. A NAS drive [...]
Posted: 16th Feb 2012
Now that the majority of mobile phones sold are smartphones, we’re all familiar with using our handsets to do much more than make calls. We use our phones to email, surf the web, watch videos and even read books or a newspaper. The only thing that hasn’t really caught on yet is using a mobile [...]
Posted: 15th Feb 2012
There are lots of reasons why many of us are choosing to use tablets over laptops these days. Despite being less powerful, tablets are lighter, more convenient, always on and brilliant for taking a quick snapshot with. There’s one drawback, however: they don’t connect up to a printer quite as easily as a laptop. Don’t [...]
Posted: 14th Feb 2012
Ever wondered what happened to the bright new future where by 2012 we’d all be commuting by jetpack and riding our hoverboards to the beach? It’s been a long time coming, but over at the New York Toy Fair Mattel has just announced it’s planning to have a working replica of Marty McFly’s gravity defying [...]
Posted: 13th Feb 2012
Google’s Chrome browser is now more popular than Firefox, and it’s won fans not just because it’s faster and – reportedly – more secure. It also has better add-ons, which is bad news for Firefox which virtually invented the idea that a browser could be something more than just a window for web pages. Browser [...]
Posted: 10th Feb 2012
Later this month, it’s expected that Microsoft will release the final public beta version of its next generation operating system, Windows 8. According to industry insiders there’s a good chance a ‘Consumer Preview’ will be available for download from Microsoft’s website on 29 February. Windows 8 builds on the success of Windows 7 by adding [...]