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20 January
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New GiffGaff Member – Review

Has your phone contract expired and your looking for a good SIM only option? Or maybe you just want to save some money compared to your current plan? If you said yes to either then maybe the lesser known mobile provider GiffGaff is an option for you.

GiffGaff works in a slightly different way to most mobile providers, instead of paying a set monthly fee and getting a set number of minutes and texts you buy credit (Like Pay as you go) which you then spend on what GiffGaff calls ‘GoodyBags’. These goodybags are basically a package of minutes and texts, all goodybags come with unlimited internet. This allows your mobile to be a little more flexible with your use depending on your prediceted usage each month. Of course you dont have to use the goodbags, you could just treat your credit like a Pay As You Go service….. but that would just be old fashioned:-) Read more…

16 January
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Master Meta Data With Media Center Master

There are several bits of software out there that will add the relavent Metadata to your movies but I have heard good things about this software so lets give it a go. The authors claim that it is perfect for XMBC, Popcorn hour, windows media center etc. It uses data from the IMDB Database to complete all the imformation about your films.

What is Meta Data?

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12 January
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Zotac reveals new ITX HTPC motherboard

At the CES conference 2012 Zotac have revealed yet another mini ITX motherboard aimed squarely at HTPC machines, the ZOTAC D2700-ITX WiFi Supreme . It has a buit in Intel Atom D2700 which is a dual core processor clocked at a fairly impressive 2.13Ghz while only drawing 10W of power. This little CPU should be ample, if not overkill for any Media playing machine and probably wouldnl’t play too bad with encoding (although only time will tell).

Builtin you will also find a GeForce GT520 with 512 DDR3 memory, this graphics unit supports 3D Blu Ray playback and HDMI 1.4a technology that can send 8 channel audio over a HDMI cable.

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09 January
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2012 CES LG announcement

At the yearly CES conference meeting in 2012 LG announced their newest products to join their electronics line.

3D Smart TV’s

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09 January
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Windows 8 Metro Apps – Installing software

Unless you are a user of a touch screen that you are using to testing Windows 8 on you have probably only heard bad things about windows 7 Metro apps. In case you have been living on another planet and dont know what this is all about then I try to explain it:

Microsoft’s windows 8 platform comes with a grid view of your apps as the start menu. This grid can be customised to only show what you require, the large grid view is primarily designed for touch screen devices in mind.

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