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Microsoft Office 2010

Despite it being the second most used application on my work computer (behind the Mozilla Firefox browser),it’s still impossible for me to get excited about a new edition of the Microsoft Office suite.

With the final release due in a couple of months,Microsoft have provided a beta test version of Office 2010 that’s [...]

Aviary Online Design Suite

This week we’ve been making paper penguins.  Our reasoning isn’t quite as tenuous as you would imagine;our company mascot is a penguin,we had an hour to kill,and we needed something to put on the Refresh Cartridges blog.

Of course,you never know where a journey to create a penguin template will take [...]

World of Warcraft

The below article has been written by our very own Becky Brand who works in our Torquay Store and has long been a diehard fan of the World of Warcraft series of games.   As an avid gamer;I thought she would be better equipped to talk about this subject with you this week.

World of [...]

iPhone Games

I declared quite publically around a year ago that I was refusing to select an iPhone as my next contract phone,not due to the fact that I consider it a poor piece of technology but rather that it would have immediately made me ‘one of those’ people.

You know the type;you’re busy minding [...]

AC Networking

One of the biggest growth areas for home computing this decade has been the humble network.

At the turn of the century it was most often the case that we used a single machine connected directly to a phone line whereas now it would be rare to find a home that hasn’t been networked to [...]

WordPress 2.8.5 – Part 2

Last week we were looking in to the powerful WordPress editor.  Those that missed my last article can view a copy either at the Herald Express’s website (www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk) or on my own online blog (www.computerarticles.co.uk).

To recap,WordPress (www.wordpress.org) is an open source application which gives home users the ability to quickly and easily create [...]

WordPress 2.8.5

It’s been a year now since I was first properly introduced to WordPress and started using it to create an online archive of my work.  Over the last 12 months I have grown to appreciate the power and flexibility of this piece of online blogging software and feel the need today to go in to [...]

Windows 7 Release

“It’s the big week when Windows 7 is launched on Thursday,but one statistic that grabbed my eye was in a Wikipedia article stating that there are estimated to be three times as many XP computers in use today than Vista ones (68.49% XP versus 22.39% Vista). This suggests that XP is far from being [...]

Kongregate

This week Matt Stevenson from our Torquay Road store has kindly offered to write about the fantastic gaming site Kongregate which,as a non gamer,I felt ill-qualified to cover. Enjoy!

“ A year and a half ago I was shown a website that was pitched to me as “YouTube for video games”and as [...]

MediaPortal

Tomorrow evening represents a huge technological change for football fans as we see the Ukraine v England World Cup qualifier this Saturday become an Internet only event. The move follows the collapse of the television company Setanta who previously had the rights to the game after no alternative agreements with conventional broadcasters were reached.

Personally,[...]