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If you still think Apple are cool…

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Wallpaper images: a quest

Speaking of what makes a good wallpaper image, Vanity Fair has an article up about one writer’s crazed quest to track down the location of Windows XP’s “Autumn” background. [via Engadget]

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Wallpaper Images

I first learned that Microsoft had approached a Flickr user to supply some of the standard wallpaper images included with Vista a while ago, but that little nugget of info has re-appeared today on Ars.Technica. I think it’s worth linking … Continue reading

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Inbox of awesomeness +1: 5 Emails You Should Be Getting

Lots of people these days are down on email – my friend (the “internet famous tech writer”) Wil Harris and Stan Schroeder at the nifty Frantic Industries blog are two of its most recent critics, and both have good points: … Continue reading

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The best thing about Twitter

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IPTV’s biggest problem

IPTV, or to give it a name rather than an acronym, TV over the web, is currently a very hot topic – whether it’s industry / IP clashes (of which this is just the latest in what will certainly be … Continue reading

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The Digital SLR Camera Conundrum

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Lost In Translation: Translator Etiquette

Pretty much all the IT hardware I see at work comes from outside the UK, and while some of it is designed in the US, a good deal comes from Taiwan. Despite the fact that I’ve met plenty of Taiwanese … Continue reading

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Top 10 Unique Game Controllers

Another article of mine is up at Bit-Tech – a top 10 list of ‘unique’ game controllers: “There’s only so far you can go with a traditional gamepad. A few talented, brave and frankly bonkers designers have managed to convince … Continue reading

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Dream PCs

Custom PC Issue 37 is out, which features our annual ‘Dream PCs’ competition. We invite four top PC building companies to submit a no compromise PC – so there’s no budgetary constraints, we just want the most amazing computer going. … Continue reading

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