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Going 3D

October 24, 2011

Avatar, a science fiction flick about giant blue aliens, started a craze which saw tens of thousands of kiwis pouring through cinema doors to see what all the fuss was about. The fact that Sir Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital did much, if not all, of... Read more

Making music

September 14, 2011

The personal computer has been capable of converting your favourite long playing records and tapes to digital music files for years. All you needed was something to play them, some audio cables and free software, such as Audacity, and you could do a... Read more

Securing your Facebook account

September 2, 2011

More than 500 million people have signed up to social networking website Facebook. While the less discerning seem to have made it their goal to invite just about every other member to become their Facebook friend, the most paranoid of users have... Read more

Zoombrowser EX

August 29, 2011

When it comes to making good holiday snaps the world and his wife have gone digital. The work after you have pressed the shutter button is just as important for producing a good photographic print as how you used the camera to make the photograph... Read more

Wikis

July 22, 2011

Wikileaks, the website which publishes leaked documents online alleging government and corporate misconduct, has been in the news a lot lately. You would have to have been hiding in a cave (perhaps in Afghanistan) to have missed the reportage around... Read more

Digital Music

July 8, 2011

Sony recently announced it had stopped making the cassette Walkman.  Its days were numbered as soon as Apple rolled out is first iPod in 2001. There is now a proliferation of digital devices designed to play digital music files which make music... Read more

Digital Video

May 27, 2011

YouTube is the world’s largest video sharing community. You name it and they have it. Entertainment, music, news and politics, film and animation, sports, how to, style, people and blogs, gaming, most viewed and top favourites are amongst the... Read more

Turning the airwaves blue

May 20, 2011

Blu-Ray is quickly becoming the preferred format for movie buffs. Blu-Ray discs, developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association comprising the world’s leading consumer electronics firm, can hold more than five times the information of a standard DVD... Read more

Gaming Consoles

June 11, 2009

Chances are that if you have children or teenagers at home you will have some sort of gaming console in your house. Many of you will have at least seen or played on one recently, maybe at a friend’s house. So what is a gaming console? A... Read more

  • Nerd Online Backup

    We’ve had more than our fair share of disasters in New Zealand this year and disasters, both natural and... Read More

  • Smartphone - Bad Apps

    According to an analysis from some phishing sites, secure web services provider Trusteer found that people using... Read More

  • Mobile data

    A smartphone is a fantastic tool for the savvy owner, with a host of useful applications and features. There is however... Read More