When hard drives fail Many of us have had that experience where, after tapping away for an indeterminate number of hours at that report, assignment or essay trying to get it ready & proofread for an impossible deadline, when all of a sudden the computer crashes… and it’s gone. It can feel like it’s the end of the world. What if those lost files were your client list, financial accounts, next week’s orders or thesis? Of course, the best way to avoid such situations is to regularly backup files and check that the backups work....
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Game publisher Electronic Arts will release its upcoming basketball game NBA Live 13 later this year, after failing to release NBA Elite 2011 less than two years ago. This new game will bring back the classic “Live” branding that it used before it was changed to “Elite.” It was confirmed by Electronic Arts that NBA Live 13 will be launched in autumn, after setbacks made by its Elite title that led to its cancellation. The move made 2K Sports’ NBA 2K11 the only basketball simulator in the market for the year. Earlier...
Al Gore accidentally spilled the beans on Apple’s plans on releasing new iPhones, saying that new Apple smartphones are coming next month. Speaking at the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit (DILS) in South Africa, the former United States vice president said that new iPhones will be launched in October. Toby Shapshak, the editor of Stuff Magazine in South Africa, was in attendance and quoted Gore on Twitter. “He was talking quite passionately about global warming, Moore’s Law and its effect on computing,” Shapshak said...
Now all the excitement around the iPhone 4 has died down and using it has become an everyday thing, people might just make the phone a little bit themselves. After all, no one knew that by this time everybody would have one. Now, the question is, how would your iPhone stand out from the others? We’ve seen people have ready-made cases for their iPhone 4s, but sometimes there aren’t enough choices that would fit one’s personality. That’s where the ReCover iPhone 4 Case comes in. The ReCover iPhone 4 Case is a great...
A new downloadable content is coming for Rockstar’s critically-acclaimed game Red Dead Redemption. Rockstar hinted in its Twitter that details surrounding the western title’s new DLC will be revealed in a few weeks. “Look for release date and details in the coming weeks,” wrote Rockstar in its Twitter post when @Torpedo36 asked about the launch of a new Red Dead Redeption DLC. The game publisher also announced its quadruple XP offering over the weekend. Red Dead Redemption is an open world game set in the 20th century...
The Apple iPad 2 is set to be unveiled in the UK and USA today but the whole world will be broadcast live via twitter, facebook and of course through all the top tech blogs (ours included). That’s all well and good but not really that useful if you are oblivious to when the announcement will take place in your local time zone. It’s for this reason that we have put together a quick reference guide below for worldwide time zones. Event times in your local area:March 2Hawaii: 7:00AMLos Angeles: 10:00AMNew York: 1:00PMLondon:...
Yesterday we reported on a survey by TomTom that discovered that Geordie and Scottish accent is the most in Great Britain. Today we have received news from Mio Navman who say they have pioneered a quirky system that gives directions in different accents depending on where you are in the country, now that would make journeys more interesting and fun. If it goes into production the software would automatically switch dialects as you entered different counties, regions or countries. Navman say you could expect to hear a good variety of dialects,...
Sony is taking the 3D fight to Panasonic having announced that they too are working on a glasses free 3D TV. 3D TV take up has been unexpectedly massive with more and more people wanting to enjoy their favourite Sky shows and movies but in order to do so users must don a pair of special 3D viewing glasses. While they are certainly better looking than their 1980s counterparts and reasonably comfortable, they can still get a little annoying after a couple of hours sat in front of the TV screen. Nintendo has announced that they will be launching...
We’ve all been there. Rummaging a through a stack of cheap, tacky postcards with images of the Eiffel Tower / paella / Tower Bridge etc. Quite often the problem with these generic postcards is that the image is far removed from what you are actually doing. Not any more, jetsetters. A new, personalised postcard service has been launched by our internet neighbours at eCards.co.uk. Now you can send pictures which genuinely reflect the fun / adventure /debauchery which you are having as you cut a swath through foreign lands. How does...
An interesting survey around British holidaymakers gadget use tells us that 44% of British holidaymakers have missed great photo opportunities because they didn’t know how to operate their fancy camera. Another nice stat reveals that a clumsy 22% have either lost or broken their gadgets while on holiday. More light heartedly (at least for those of you who like to laugh at other people’s physical defects) is that flabby snaps taken on foreign beaches have encouraged 58% of people that it was time to go on a diet. Meanwhile,...