Category: PC’s
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Currys Black Friday Deals All This Week – Get Your Voucher Codes!
It’s almost that time of year again – Yes, the pre-Christmas cash spending carnage known as Black Friday hits stores this week. But wouldn’t it be nice if you could avoid the stores and the queues and pick up some great deals on gadgets and tech online instead? Well the Gadget Helpline has got your […]
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How To: Open Windows 7 Snipping Tool with Hot Keys
The Windows 7 Snipping tool is a nice little trick that not many people are aware of which allows you to screen grab a certain area of what your viewing without having to do a full screen grab. Once you’ve discovered and mastered it it’s an invaluable tool for your desktop or laptop computer – […]
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Researchers Find iOS App Virus ‘Wirelurker’
Researchers checking the new Mac OS X version, OS X Yosemite, have unfortunately discovered an interesting virus which is alarmingly able to make the jump between computers using OS X onto iOS mobile devices. The team at Palo Alto Networks responsible for the research have managed to find the virus, a piece of Malware which […]
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Amazon Prime subscribers now getting unlimited photo storage.
Amazon is now offering its Prime subscribers unlimited photo storage on a number of devices such as android devices, iOS devices, windows and mac computers and for selected smart tvs. The pictures can be saved in full resolution and viewed in great quality on the selected device of choice. Greg Greeley, the vice president of […]
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Dropbox and Office are Set to Integrate Following New Partnership
As accessing cloud stored data through mobile devices becomes ever more popular, it leaves little wonder as to why Microsoft have delved into an integration partnership with Dropbox. The integration will introduce access to Dropbox documents within Office applications such as Word and Excel. The integration has been specifically designed for mobile devices such as […]
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Steve Jobs Film Loses Christian Bale as Lead Role
After the internet exploded last week at the news of British born actor Christian Bale being cast as the late Apple Co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs in the movie of his life it’s now reported that the former Dark Knight will now not be playing the inventor of the iPhone and Mac computer. Rumours initially […]
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XP Losing Market Share As Users Upgrade
It’s been a long while since the support for Windows XP was finally chucked by Microsoft, in a move not only to get the aging, clunky operating system onto the trash heap, but also to get users onto more modern systems, such as Windows 7 and 8. In fact, Windows 7 is already looking […]
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Windows 10 Adds OS X Style Gestures
Windows 10 is getting along fantastically, with a triumphant Microsoft giving us weekly announcements of the software’s success amongst new developer mode users and early adopters. The operating system, which Microsoft CEO proudly announced will ‘run on everything’ is headed for mass adoption once the kinks are all ironed out, as any good Microsoft OS […]
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Apple Rumoured to Unite Beats Music with iTunes
With sales of music downloads on the decline, partly due to the rise in success of streaming services like Spotify, Apple is reportedly scheduling to unite Beats Music with iTunes in a hope to hinder the demise of Apple. One of the suspected reasons for Apples interest in the company was for their music streaming […]
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Christian Bale is Officially Steve Jobs in Biopic
After much Hollywood buzz and online rumour-mongering it has been confirmed that British actor Christian Bale will play the pioneering Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in a movie of his life which will now be directed by Danny Boyle. The Dark Knight Trilogy actor will be portraying the CEO and inventor of the Apple Mac and […]
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Google Introduces Google Security Key to Verify Accounts
Account security has been at the forefront of the media recently with accounts being hacked and personal information being leaked here, there and everywhere. It’s no wonder Google are actively trying to promote two-step authentication and have done for a while now. Well they’re about to take it a step further with the use of […]
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BBC and Doctor Who Teach Kids Computer Skills in New Game
As part of BBC’s Make it Digital campaign children will be able to help The Doctor by learning basic computer coding to command a rogue Dalek in a new online game. In the game, called The Doctor and The Dalek young fans of the Beeb’s longstanding sci-fi series Doctor Who will be encouraged to use […]