How Music Can Make Or Break A Sale
The idea of a jingle – a short sequence of notes intended to catch the attention of a prospective buyer – has been around for ages. It’s an advertising cliché. …
Vickie’s Laptop Upgrade
You know, in the midst of my upgrading frenzy, I forgot to mention Vickie’s Toshiba Satellite A100. Since I bought it for her, Vickie’s had to wrestle with Windows Vista. …
I Just Want My PC To Work
A little while ago, I wrote about how I’d chucked my Grand Idea of starting my own business doing PC support, and I’m ever more convinced that I made the …
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Chaos Rising
That’s right, folks; yet another game review in today’s paper! Check it out here OR on the cairns.com.au website! Next up: Hopefully, the Russian-developed post-apocalyptic FPS, Metro: 2033.
New Networks Keep LAN Alive In Cairns
That’s the title of my second op-ed piece in The Cairns Post’s Tuesday Digital Life section. There’s a first here, though; Angelo “DJ A.N.G” Saliba is my first ever interview …
Piracy Numbers
Continuing on from my link to Tycho’s summation of the issue of computer game piracy, here’s another well-reasoned article that tries to shine some light on the actual extent of …
Gaming in 2010
While 2009 wasn’t a gaming-free year by any stretch of the imagination, I’m really looking forward to what 2010 will bring gaming-wise. Let’s start with computer and video gaming. Vickie …
Why I’ll Never Be Pro
What I heard: We are practicing pretty much every single day and practicing around five hours a night… – Roy, Major League Gaming: Get Better Fast Player Match Commentary What …
Unusual Hard Disk Activity
It’s been a busy past couple of weeks when it comes to computers. It started, as I mentioned on the 24th, when I installed Ubuntu 8.04, a Linux distribution, on …
A Scary Story
Almost every Tuesday night for the past three months, I’ve been firing up my Xbox 360 and joining the men and women of PMS|H2O Halo 3 Australia for some clan …