The Programs You Can’t Do Without

When you get a new computer, there is a daunting feeling that it is completely empty.  All you have is the operating system and the few programs that are pre-installed.  It takes forever to get your computer back to the way it was, and even still you’ll go to do something and find that the program you need isn’t there.  So that this task isn’t as daunting in future, and in case you are looking for a program to do something for you that you — Read more →

The Internet in a Sugar-Coated Nutshell: reddit

The internet is a big, sprawling, expansive network – with a sole purpose to feed you information by the gigabyte. Every minute of every day, there are 72 HOURS of video uploaded to YouTube, 2 million Google searches, 6 million Facebook views, 15,000 iTunes downloads and hundreds, if not thousands, of news stories published. It’s vast, and there’s no way of keeping constant track of everything. But there’s one website that helps: reddit. reddit is a content aggregation site at its’ heart. Its’ millions of users post links — Read more →

The Xbox One

The next-generation of consoles is really within sight now, with Microsoft’s new entry, The Xbox One, being unveiled today.  But the conference left many more questions than answers. I’ll focus on what has been shown so far.  The Xbox One seems like it will be more interactive than an Xbox has ever been before, with an upgraded and new Kinect with every console that will be precise enough to read your heartbeat.  The possibilities for this with games are astounding.  What we were shown in — Read more →

The PlayStation 4

Last night, weeks and months (and years, for some) of speculation about Sony’s next home console were finally ended.  Or were they? In what was styled the “PlayStation Meeting 2013”, Sony unveiled their PlayStation 4, the successor to their current console, amidst a flurry of new IPs and sequels.  The conference, which ran for over two hours, touched base on many important factors about the new console; with lead software architect Mark Cerny describing how the hardware of the console is built, and a slew — Read more →