Articles for February 2015
Samsung T1 Portable SSD drive
by Pete Daniel
on 10 February 2015
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3853 views
Samsung has just released a cute little drive named Samsung T1 Portable SSD that is curved at either side, sleek clothed in black and plugs straight into your USB 3 port. 250 GB, 500 GB or 1 TB storage options with blistering fast read/write speeds. ... Read more
LG grew by leaps and bounds in 2014
by Pete Daniel
on 10 February 2015
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1807 views
LG had a great 2014. Where other manufacturers struggled to maintain market share and profits, the company sold 60 million phones and grew profits to $474 million. The growth areas are Europe and the Emerging Markets particularly South-east Asia. ... Read more
China squeezes US companies over cybersecurity: Requests pre-approval and source code
by Pete Daniel
on 10 February 2015
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1567 views
A new problem in China has cropped for American businesses operating in the country. US business lobbies have raised major concerns over the latest demand by the Chinese government that American companies telling technology to banks in China provide ... Read more
Kaspersky QR Scanner checking that QR Codes are not malicious
by Pete Daniel
on 9 February 2015
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2700 views
QR codes are useful but a small portion of them link to malicious web sites or aim to mess up a mobile device. Kaspersky now has a QR scanning app which checks the web sites before providing access to the information stored in the QR code. ... Read more
Tinfoil for Firefox adds access to advanced privacy settings
by Pete Daniel
on 9 February 2015
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2934 views
Privacy is a tricky thing to accomplish when using the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Many of the best features are hidden within the about:config settings. To get around this issue, the Tinfoil add on can help configure these settings from a nice GUI. ... Read more
Google will disable Google Talk (Gtalk) for Windows on 16 February
by Pete Daniel
on 9 February 2015
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4088 views
Much to the dismay of some, Google plans to disable Google Talk (Gtalk) for good on February 16. The decision is because Google have moved over to their newer chat application Google Hangouts which is integrated into Gmail & other Google properties. ... Read more
PC improvement tips for National Clean Out Your Computer Day (or any other day)
by Pete Daniel
on 9 February 2015
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18403 views
National Clean Out Your Computer Day is a good reminder to computer owners to improve the performance of their PC. Here is our guide to cleaning up your PC to improve its performance via software and hardware changes that will get it running well. ... Read more
Best Free and Paid File Transfer Apps between iOS and Windows PC
by Chrisanna Lazaridou
on 9 February 2015
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16686 views
Here is a list with the best file transfer apps for iOS. ... Read more
Giveaway: System Mechanic for "Clean Out Your Computer" Day [Ended]
by Mihai Neacsu
on 8 February 2015
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3148 views
We're celebrating Clean Out Your Computer Day with a nice Giveaway from iolo. Here are, up for grabs, 5 licenses for the Standard version of System Mechanic, each one worth $40 USD, valid for 1 year. ... Read more
How to Open the Command Prompt at Boot in Windows 10
by Chrisanna Lazaridou
on 8 February 2015
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25549 views
Here are two ways to open the Command Prompt at boot in Windows 10. ... Read more
Interview with Mauricio Garcia from The Game Kitchen, developers of The Last Door
by Mihai Neacsu
on 6 February 2015
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7113 views
We first mentioned The Last Door game in our list of The Best Adventure Gamebooks for Mobile. This awesome indie game deserves more spotlight though so here we are again, this time with an interview with one of the developers. ... Read more
Facebook user base increases 13 percent with 1.4 billion active users
by Pete Daniel
on 6 February 2015
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1787 views
Facebook had an excellent fourth quarter and ended the year with 1.39 billion active users which is more impressive than their trading figures. To put this in perspective, this is an active user base of about 20 percent of the global population. ... Read more
Samsung get real with TouchWiz in removing bloatware
by Pete Daniel
on 6 February 2015
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1861 views
Samsung are working on releasing the Galaxy S6 model with fewer pre-installed apps. The TouchWiz skin is also being overhauled for speed. One of the biggest complaints with Samsung phones is the slow speed so hopefully these changes will help. ... Read more
OnePlus breathes new life into its new ROM dubbed 'OxygenOS'
by Pete Daniel
on 6 February 2015
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2030 views
OnePlus have developed their own Oxygen OS for when they release their OnePlus One model into the Indian market. Cyanogen have an exclusive deal with Micromax and cannot offer their OS to OnePlus. Oxygen OS features a nicely streamlined interface. ... Read more
Actress Chloë Grace Moretz gifted Lumia 1520 from Microsoft after breaking 2nd iPhone
by Pete Daniel
on 6 February 2015
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1977 views
Smart marketers at Microsoft decided that a new Lumia 1520 smartphone might the ideal answer to solve actress Chloë Grace Moretz's problem when her iPhone broke. They sent over a care package including a kindly note, a Nokia 1520 and some band aids. ... Read more
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