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Norton 360, Protection or Scam?

Posted by Danny on September 30th, 2009 No Comments

AvastThe popular anti-virus Norton “360″ comes in useful for protecting your system, from harmless tracking cookies. So I’ve been doing some research into Norton “360″ (£???.99 – scam) Vs. Avast Anti-virus(Free)!

Not too long ago (a year or two) I had a virus Norton “360″ free virus Avastscanner didn’t pick it up, just like the paid for product! But Avast Anti-virus picked it up and removed it no problem. Why pay for something that just has a flashy user interface(Avast’s not so flashy but good enough) and picks up programs and harmless tracking cookies as viruses and “threats”? Just download Avast Free from: www.avast.com and save yourself a few hundred quid! It wasn’t so bad for me I got it at a really low price because of some special offer when I bought my Windows computer!

With the new release of Norton “360″ V3.0 I think their sales will rise due to the flashy new look and the v3.0 (I doubt it’s Nortonthat updated)

(Yes for all those mac fans/users out there, I’m a PC and proud of it! Oh look I’m not compatible with viruses, *que buzzer* WRONG I’ve seen millions of mac viruses)

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Danny: Everything Tech – Everything PC

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Apple iPhone Now On O2 and Orange

Posted by Sam on September 28th, 2009 1 Comment

UK network Orange have announced they are bringing the iPhone to their network. Orange is one of the most popular UK networks and is now ending the exclusive sale and service of the iPhone on O2. Orange have not announced the price of the iPhone yet but just they will be selling the iPhone 3g and 3gS later this year. O2 will continue to sell the iPhone along with the iPhones rival the Palm Pre (Rumoured an iPhone killer)

The deal is rumoured to boost the iPhones sales by 100% moreover creating the UK’s biggest network if the merge between Orange and T-mobile goes ahead.

Source: tecy.co.uk

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Minecraft Review

Posted by Joe on September 22nd, 2009 No Comments

Recently I have been spending a hell of a lot of time on a small indie game called “Minecraft”.
What it is is a world created completley out of different types of blocks, you’ve got sand blocks, soil blocks, water blocks, glass blocks etc etc. These blocks can be deleted and replaced with a different block, so on Singleplayer you make generic houses and dungeons.
But it’s on Multiplayer this game really shines, with several people working on a project you end up with things like inverted glass piramids or massive stone castles, some of these things have to be seen to be believed.
This may sound perfect but it’s not, like every game online you get a bunch of douch bag’s, here called “Griefers”. What these people do is go along and take chunks out of your buildings/monuments/whatever, so you may leave behind a massive tower and come back the next day to find it gone, of course this doesn’t happen on Singleplayer but it’s much more fun and easier to build something with friends.
The only other problem (although temporary) with it is that the forums have been down for a while so I can’t ask if I have a problem. EDIT: This has now been fixed.

Minecraft is free to play, so that’s an instant recomend from me, but if you want to change the look of your charecter the game costs 10€, £8.85 or $14.60, I’ve brought it and there’s nothing to regret from such a small amount of money (my name on it is AstroNit by the way).
It’s only in it’s Alpha stage at the moment but when it’s been released the price will raise to 20€ so it’s best to buy it ASAP.

Minecraft can be found and played at http://minecraft.net.

It’s also worth checking out the YouTube videos on it just to see what can be made.

(The reason the screenshots are bad is because they were taken off YouTube videos on my iPod.)

I have also set up a server of my own, imaginatively named “Astro’s Server”, in case you are confused about what a server is it’s a world where I am the supreme master and I have complete control over everyone :) I can ban, kick etc etc, if you are a minecraft player and want to be an admin on this server, comment with your name. (EDIT: Ok I thought it was working, but I’ve got to set it up again)

Overall I rate this game 9/10.

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I’m Gunna Buy Me Sum Illegal Cheeze!

Posted by Danny on September 20th, 2009 No Comments

So a few weeks (or months) ago I was surfing the web when I thought I wonder what I’ll get if I Google cheese?

The result was boring so I went to the images and saw this one:
Illegal Cheeze

So I clicked it.. and found a website about illegal cheese A.K.A The Cheese Enforcement Agency (C.E.A): http://bit.ly/8uTk2

Here is a quote for the image above:

Sightings and smellings of lethal X-14 have been reported. DO NOT approach this cheese. DO NOT eat this cheese. DO NOT attempt to move it. If safe to do so, cover with a wet blanket and Contact the CEA immediately. TAKE NO RISKS. X-14 is a KILLER.

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Mi-Fi on Three

Posted by Sam on September 19th, 2009 No Comments

Today the Mi-Fi was released nation wide across 3 stores. Three is the first company to released the mobile wireless router technology in the UK after the Novatel Mi-Fi has been a hit with mobile internet users in the USA The Mi-Fi or Mobile Wi-Fi is a device that lets you connect devices like a iPod Touch or a laptop to the internet without a USB port. It works by tacking in Three’s 3g or HSPDA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) network signal and transmitting it as a wireless internet in the form of Wi-Fi.

The benefit of having a Mi-Fi over a USB dongle is that you can connect devices that don’t have USB ports like netbooks, iPod Touch and PSP. Also you can connect 5 devices at the same time and you can keep it in your bag and not have to plug something in to your computer. The benefit of having a USB dongle over a M-Fi is firstly it is cheaper than a USB dongle, they normaly cost around £9.99 the MiFi is £70. Secondly there is more potential to go wrong with wireless people can hack it or if dropped it will break more easily than a more robust dongle. Third and finally dongles are sold by all providers when the Mifi is only on three and believe me that is not my first choice when it comes to phone couriers.

Today I can proudly boast I brought the third Mi-Fi ever sold in the UK and also I can proudly boast even though I can engross myself in the RSS and XML of setting up a podcast I can’t turn the damn thing on and connect it (it doesn’t help when you get two sets of instructions one telling you to put the sim in and charge it for 12 hours and one telling you to leave the sim out and then charge it.) Tomorrow i will post an article on it including connection speeds ease of use and network coverage but first I have the joy of speaking to Three customer support (waiting Two hours for someone in an Indian call centre with a crap microphone so I can’t understand him calling me Mrs Meyer (Thats because of your high pitched voice — Joe) giving me no advice just asking me to buy more stuff)

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FireFox or FireF**ker?

Posted by Danny on September 19th, 2009 No Comments

FireFox 3.5.0, the worldwide favorite web browser known for it’s speed, safety and compatibility is having some issues for people running Windows Vista!
Whenever you open FireFox it just freezes and goes to the “Not Responding” status, there is no bug fix currently I’m not even sure if Mozilla knows about this bug!
I’ll update you more about the current issue when I find any fixes or advice etc.

Lame Joke:

Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer are walking along a street, when they see a beggar who asks them “can you spare something for an old man?”.

So Firefox takes an add-on and gives it to the man. Upon which Opera looks at Firefox saying “I can’t believe you are giving away something that’s so important to you!”, “Don’t worry”, says Firefox, “I have so many of those!”.

Then Opera turns to the man and gives him one of his features. Upon which Firefox looks at Opera and says “I can’t believe you are giving away something that’s so important to you!”, “Don’t worry” says Opera, “I have so many of those!”.

Now of course Internet Explorer doesn’t want to be left out, so he turns to the man and gives him a virus. Upon which Firefox and Opera look at Internet Explorer in stunned silence! Internet Explorer looks back at them in surprise and says “Don’t worry, I have so many of those!”

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Microsoft releases: eRace 1.0 Photo Editor!

Posted by Danny on September 18th, 2009 1 Comment

Microsoft's Original Image (US Site)Microsoft's Edited Image (Polish Site)

NO racism is meant by this post, it is for humor purposes only

The story you’re about to read is not (entirely) true. It is, however, more accurate than most things on television.

Microsoft has apologized for changing the race of a person shown on one of its European Web sites, after a beta test went severely awry.

As reported by major news channels a photograph on Microsoft’s US marketing site titled “Empower your people,” depicted an Asian man, a black man, and a white woman. In the same photograph on the site of Microsoft’s Polish subsidiary, however, the black man’s head was lobbed off and replaced with a white man’s, though his hand remained black.

Microsoft quickly removed the altered photo, which was widely attributed to faulty use of PhotoShop. However, The TechPod has learned that the mistake was in fact caused by a new Microsoft product, still in beta.

An Eastern European tester of Microsoft eRace 1.0 inadvertently posted the offending photograph to the Polish site, sources close to the Redmond company have confirmed.

Codenamed “Pie” in honor of pie everywhere, eRace makes it easy to swap a photo subject’s ethnicity from Asian, Black, or Hispanic to Caucasian with just a few clicks of the mouse.

For example: Load this photograph of six extremely white people into eRace.
Before
Choose the African ethnicity filter, and whola – an instant makeover.
After
Microsoft apologized for its insensitivity in unveiling the racial conversion software while it was still buggy. The company also vowed to immediately begin hiring more black people, if it ever ran into any in the greater Seattle area.

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Borderlands Makes My Trousers Tight

Posted by Joe on September 17th, 2009 No Comments

If you haven’t heard of Borderlands, where the hell have you been?
It pretty much is a free roaming game with up to four player online co-op, did I mention it has more than a million frigging guns? Granted, some are similar anesthetics, but that’s still a gun for every occasion.
There’s four generic charecters you can play as, the sniper, the meele, the soldier and the spy/mage, all these classes can be improved by buying skills from each individual skill tree, so you can make the soldier able to heal your team mates by shooting them, or give him extra damage etc etc.
All in all this looks like a quality game that I look forward to getting a chance to play, me and John are planning to get it.
So if you are going to get this game, tell me and we’ll arrange to play together when it finaly comes out

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A Celebrity has Visted our Site!

Posted by Joe on September 17th, 2009 No Comments

Check out my screen shot here

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The Tech Pod 2: Massively Awesome Game! Massively Awful Name!

Posted by Sam on September 16th, 2009 No Comments

Apple Event, Gaming News and The Palm Pixi With Guest Jack

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