BitTorrent has plenty of excellent, legal uses, so don’t be put off using it. Rob Beattie compares the top torrent software for downloading videos, music and more
Tuesday, 6 September 2016
Monday, 5 September 2016
The Problems With Driver Update Programs
They promise to help and optimise your PC, but are driver update programs actually worth it?
Underneath all of the cooling fans, heat sinks, capacitors and within the microchips and storage media of your PC lies the software that you use every day. Powering all of this and telling all of the components of your system how to run together are drivers. These special software packages are the instructions that make your system’s hardware work. From the mouse and keyboard, to the graphics card and motherboard, all of this hardware needs drivers in order to function. Without them, you wouldn’t have a PC capable of doing much.
Friday, 1 July 2016
Clash of Titans
Mark Pickavance looks at Nvidia’s new GPU dynasty and compares them with what AMD has on offer
For me, some of the best bits of the last 30 years of computing have involved the development of dedicated video hardware. From the lightbulb moment that Voodoo Graphics delivered to the advent of multi-GPU systems, they’ve often surprised and occasionally amazed.
That said, the capability range in performance available now is so huge that no game developer could hope to encompass all the subtle layers in a single title.
Google Unites Chrome OS And Android
David Briddock investigates one of the biggest stories of 2016
After years of speculation, Google is finally on the verge of merging the native Android app ecosystem directly into its Chrome operating system (OS).
This is one of the biggest stories of 2016. Uniting the Android and Chrome OS worlds will drive already impressive Chromebook laptop sales still higher. And it means Chrome OS devices have become a serious competitor to PC products from Apple or Microsoft.
How has Google achieved this technology feat? What sort of benefits can we expect? And when will it happen? We’ll answer all these questions soon, but first let’s take a look at why Chrome OS has become the fastest growing PC operating system platform.
PlayDOSGamesOnline
We’re pitting our skills against old school gaming again
Ihad an urge the other day to see if I could get through Alone in the Dark without resorting to any kind of cheats or walkthroughs. As it happens, the most difficult part of the process was actually finding a working copy of Alone in the Dark to play.