Monthly Archives: March 2012

Screen protectors: you need one

Screen protectors are not often seen as necessary these days thanks to the emergence of what smartphone and tablets manufacturers describe as scratch-proof and/or toughened glass. This would be to miss the point of screen protectors, however. Let’s cover the … Continue reading

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Gridrunner for iOS review

Porting retro games to modern platforms is never easy and there are two mistakes that developers often make; they either create an exact port of the original which feels out of date in 2012 or they try to change the … Continue reading

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The new iPad

The new iPad has been launched after many months of speculation and it is called ‘new iPad’. It is an unusual approach to naming and bound to cause confusion among the general public. Here’s how someone who does not know … Continue reading

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Smart TVs

Rumours abound that smart TVs will take over the world and with good reason. This is a subject we have written about before on this blog, but it still strikes as odd that the TV has remained largely untouched by … Continue reading

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The easiest mobile platform: all of them

For those moving to a smartphone for the first time, it can be quite a daunting experience. Besides using what is technically a computer, they need to learn to use new hardware without thinking. Feature phones tend to have a … Continue reading

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Podcasts

Mention podcasts to most people and they will either say “What’s a podcast?” or “They are for Geeks aren’t they?” They have always had a bad rap and never quite reached the level of popularity they deserve. They do, however, … Continue reading

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