Ghost emails

Mysterious messages from spooky senders are appearing on iPhones

What are they?

Emails dated ‘January 1, 1970’ being sent to iPad and iPhone users. They have perplexed thousands of people because they have no subject, sender or content, and can’t be deleted. Many users are worried that they are being hacked – or haunted.

Is Mozilla about to shut down Firefox?

The much-loved browser might soon be replaced by one that’s more ‘performant’

Is Mozilla about to copy Microsoft, and launch a new browser? It now seems possible, following confirmation from a Mozilla developer that Firefox’s new browser engine, called Servo, is being released in June.

It would be a significant development, because a browser engine is what all browsers – Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and the rest – use to interpret the code of a web page, using this information to display it on screen. It determines a browser’s speed and stability.

Top 5 Ways To Waste Your Time Online

How to get caught in the sticky web of online distractions…

1 Wikipedia

In spite of its potential for inaccuracy, Wikipedia is generally a pretty good source of information. So how can it be a waste of time if you’re learning something? Well, the problem is even if you visit the site to look up something relevant to your current work, it’s almost impossible not to end up following link after link after link – until  eventually, you’ve strayed a proverbial mile from where you started. Then you look at the clock and realise you’ve lost over an hour, and you’ve no work at all.

Asus Transformer Book Flip TP200SA

A notebook/tablet that’s ‘flipping’ good

The 12" touchscreen laptop market is quite a busy place to get into these days. The likes of HP, Lenovo, Toshiba, Acer and Dell are all there, with each company pitching its own particular brand.

Asus, therefore, has to come up with something special to compete and make its mark. Well, it may have done so with the Transformer Book Flip TP200SA.

Asus 970 Pro Gaming/Aura

Asus reminds us all that AMD’s desktop CPU technology is overdue for replacement

For those people who like AMD’s desktop chips, the drought of new products in this sector has lasted very long indeed.

Checking back, I first reviewed the Asus M5A970 Evo AM3+ motherboard in 2011. And now in 2016, Asus has sent me another motherboard based on the identical chipset and socket. That’s nearly five years later!

AVG PC TuneUp v16.22

Roland Waddilove blows away the cobwebs on his system with this handy tool

AVG PC TuneUp is a collection of over 30 functions that can be used to tune up, clean up, repair and optimise your computer, whether you're still running Windows XP or the latest version of Windows 10. It is an impressive and comprehensive toolkit.

Instead of bringing out new products once a year, AVG has switched to continual updates. New features and tweaks are regularly added, and the latest version is pushed out as soon as it's ready. This is like the way Microsoft has made Windows 10 the last, and instead of new versions, it will continually update the current one. The version of AVG PC TuneUp on test is 16.22.1.58906, but by the time you read this, it could be different.

Asus ROG G20

One of the most extraordinary PCs we’ve ever seen

Asus’s Republic of Gamers (ROG) brand has produced some pretty impressive laptops, desktops and gaming peripherals. However, the ROG G20 is by far one of the most amazing looking products it's come up with.

The Asus ROG G20 is essentially a gaming desktop, with off-the-shelf PC parts shoehorned into a console-sized, futuristic-looking case. It’s a smallform-factor system that sits vertically with a uniquely designed chassis and a subtle selection of LEDs.