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I've used Apple Macs for 8 years now, my first was a 2008 MacBook pro 15" which, by comparison to it's windows equivalent was light years ahead. You see Windows was using Vista, and it was a car crash of an Operating System. I had one, I used it for 28 days, and used system restore, more times in the time I had it, than I'd used on my XP machine I was replacing. Fortunately Tesco were great and refunded it for me as faulty. Which was the best way to describe it. I bit the bullet, and without first hand experience, I forked out 4 times the amount I'd spent on my Vaio for the Mac. And I loved it, I became an advocate. I could name several people, who, from my enthusiasm went out and bought Mac's themselves. But time moves on, and so does technology. Wireless streaming is no longer for the Bill Gates of this world, we all expect it. Music, everywhere. Films, all over. DLNA should be commonplace... but one Manufacturer is out of the game. Because they have their ...

So today I had my first experience with a google chromebook, 12 actually, networked. Initially I was impressed. Being OS light, they were quick responsive and pretty intuitive. Then I came to printing. Printing, something so rudimentarily simple, that it should have taken moments. Alas, no. You see, Chromeboxes don't install printers. No drivers, no messy installation. Because, well. They don't work. Now this wasn't a £30 printer, this is one of the schools £500 canon laser printer, a worthy investment. But to be blunt. It was rendered pretty much worthless. After hunting round for an hour or so for a USB lead, I plugged it directly into the Chromebox. Although the OS detected the Printer, with no drivers to install, it was a pointless effort. Chrome found no apps that were compatible. So it wouldn't work. After further investigation, I found in order to make this printer work, I would need to plug it into a windows machine and share it. Use the windows PC to act as...

I can remember back in 1985, we synchronised the playback of "Dire Straits" - "Brothers in Arms", the LP, with the 'DDD' (Digitally recorded, Digitally mastered, and Digitally stored) CD. Then someone else hid the selector and played back, through a JVC amp and some Mission speakers, both sources. At the time I got them mixed up. I thought they sounded equally as good as one another. I honestly could not tell the difference, they both sounded great. It was the Amp and the speakers in that set up that took the source and made something listenable. So with that in mind the sound quality debate turns it's head to MP3. We'll call it a draw between Vinyl and CD as my opinion hasn't changed, (although I much prefer CD because I always hated the pops and inevitable scratches Vinyl produced. Progress made with CD's, for me at least, was progress ). At this point it's worth considering something important. A CD is a 750mb data source. Stream...

Sometimes, websites fail to give you a proper idea of the specifications of a phone. For these situations, use GSM arena .

Just transferred both my kids onto this 30 day sim only deal, which trumps my previous favourite sim only deal from Virgin. Not sure how long this deal will be on, but this sim only deal could be all anyone needs for a very very long time to come. Talkmoile sim only deals  

Lots of manufacturers trade handsets to the UK. This is great, more competition means lower prices for us consumers. But I've resisted buying many a good handset because the frequencies for usage don't marry up with UK frequencies. This link here shows frequencies licensed to be used in the UK, from GSM arena http://www.gsmarena.com/network-bands.php3?sCountry=United+Kingdom If the phone you're looking at buying doesn't include these, it probably wasn't designed to work in the UK. If it has these frequencies, it has amazing specs, and its a great price, buy with confidence! Here are some places you may not have thought to look, for superb specced reasonably priced cutting edge technology. banggood.com     Link to their european warehouse deals. Shipped quicker than from Hong Kong, some staggering high spec Android hardware from China. Motorola shop   - Motorola have made a tremendous come back, buying direct can mean special offers and unique personal...

My network charges me for data and my phone stores data, and I have 2gb from my network and I get 16gb on my phone, what? Many people I speak to don't even know what their data allowance from their network is or what it actually means. Some people find the whole concept of data perplexing, I know because I have nonsensical conversations with people who's brain I can sense is suffering a meltdown when it comes up. But the same word (data) has been used by both phone manufacturers and networks to describe two totally different things. Even though somehow, they're sort of the same. It's easier to think of Data like this. Disposable data - Incoming data from the network (or over WiFi), watching a video (but not keeping it) reading a news article, searching the internet, finding pokemon or playing a multiplayer online game.  Permanent data - The photos you keep on your phone, the videos, your emails, your account details and apps. This is all data that the phone n...