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Like many of our readers, we’ve been fuming over the problems our Humax PVR players have been suffering, with the machines suffering a frustrating mixture of unbearable slow downs, freezes …
Humax Freeview PVR issues – beta fix offered Read MoreHumax has announced details of its new HDR-Fox T2 Freeview HD recorder, with the launch date set rather foolishly after the World Cup. Doh! The HDR-FOX T2 offers just a …
Humax HDR-Fox T2 Freeview HD recorder – caveat emptor! Read MoreDetails of the MacBook and MacBook Pro refresh are now online, but anyone looking for a bargain can jog on, with prices starting at a distinctly upmarket £849 for the bottom …
Apple updates MacBook and MacBook Pro range, battery life up to 10hrs Read MoreLike a Red Bull-supping Duracell bunny on a drip-feed of Colombia’s finest marching powder, Asus’s new EeePC 1015P and EeePC 1015PE netbooks just keep on going. The company is promising …
Asus EeePC 1015P/PE netbooks serve up 13.5 hours of battery life Read MoreInbetween all the mutual high fiving and backslapping over the site’s remarkable achievement of reaching two billion downloads a day, the bods at Google has managed to put together a …
YouTube – monster, fact-bloated infographic unleashed Read MoreThe celebrations keep on happening at YouTube, with the company announcing that it has exceeded the astonishing figure of 2 billion video views per day, just a month after the …
YouTube hits 2 billion views per day [video] Read MoreReviewed back in January this year, the high end photo management tool ACDSee has long been our tool of choice for organising our photo collections, and a fairly substantial free …
ACDSee Pro 3 photo management software updated, still no facial recognition Read MoreA suitably contrite Alan Eustace, Senior VP, Engineering & Research at Google, has posted up an ‘umble apology after it was discovered that Google’s Street View cars had been collecting …
Google admits to colossal Wi-Fi cock-up. Punitive wedgies delivered Read MoreWay back in April we flagged up Google’s Model Your Town Competition which invited towns to submit 3D models of their community using Google’s free SketchUp or Google Building Maker 3D …
Google ‘Model Your Town’ competition winner announced! [video] Read MoreA bunch of employees at Google’s offices in London have constructed a giant Google logo out of 884 individually printed 4×6 photographs.
Google giant logo constructed out of 884 London photos Read MoreIt’s been a big hit in Germany and now the top-selling iPhone navigation app Skobbler has launched in the UK at an introductory price of £1.19.
Skobbler app offers budget iPhone sat nav for £1.19 Read MoreNarrated by a manly voice normally heard in cinemas extolling the virtues of the latest Hollywood blockbuster, Apple’s new TV advert for their iPad tablet device has hit the web. …
Apple iPad gets new TV commercial. It’s “crazy powerful” Read MoreWe can’t say that we’re feeling particularly tempted to join the high-fivin’ Apple queues for the iPad, and research from one British market research company suggests that we’re not alone. …
Apple iPad “won’t be mass market” in the UK. Well, not yet anyway Read MoreTo misquote Oscar Wilde, to lose one iPhone 4G, Mr. Jobs, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness. Sure enough, another iPhone 4G has slipped …
And another Apple iPhone 4G leaks out – video and pics Read MoreTo be honest, we’re still trying to get our heads around all of this ‘web 3.0’ and ‘semantic web’ stuff, but this fascinating 15 minute video provides some helpful pointers. …
Web 3.0 and the semantic web explained in a 15 minute video. Sort of. Read More