Although AOC generally caters for the cheaper side of the monitor market, this mid-priced 27″ model sees the company up its game slightly, but there are a few questionable omissions. To begin with, it’s a full HD 1080p IPS panel with a semi- borderless design, which fools you into thinking the screen is bigger than … Read more
David Hayward really misses his Sega Mega Drive. Really, really misses it There’s no secret regarding the way we feel about the old 16-bit console, the Sega Mega Drive. The sleek black plastic exterior, housing the Motorola 68000 CPU alongside a Zilog X80 for backwards compatibility with its older brother, the Sega Master System. 72Kb … Read more
Ryan Lambie has loved videogames since he first stared up in awe at a Gaiaxian arcade cabinet in his local chip shop. 28 years on, Ryan writes about gaming for Micro Mart. He’s still addicted to chips and still useless at Gaiaxian. Plug & Play There have been numerous games based on the Alien movie … Read more
Get the most of the free virtualisation tool with Keir Thomas’ 10 lesser-known features.Open source has many jewels in its crown, but few are of the quality of Oracle’s VirtualBox. If you find VMware Player limiting then you’re in luck because VirtualBox provides virtually everything the commercially sold VMware Workstation app does – and it … Read more
Computer tips and tricks examines the destiny of Microsoft’s most successful OS and how It might survive ts impending eulogy.I’m not sure if it’s a seasonal thing, but Microsoft has been doing a very passable impression of the ghost of Jacob Marley these past few months.This isn’t anything new, mind, because it started rattling chains … Read more
Lumpen design and an off-colour display leave the Arc trailing the best tablets. In today’s tablet market, your product must be ultra-cheap or ultra-high-quality. Tt seems Kobo didn’t get the memo. The Kobo Arc 10HD arrives at a time when Apple has just raised the quality bar with the Apple iPad Air (web ID: 385255) … Read more
There are loads of apps running in the backgroundIt’s the bane of owning a smartphone-apps car, and wilt, demand data. And when they’re not demanding it, they’re sending it. While you’re or a Wi-Fi connection this will usually be okay. The problems start when you’re using metered mobile internet. There are several ways you can … Read more
More memory doesn’t always mean better performance – in fact, you may need less RAM than you think. Pc tips and tricks explains. Typically, today’s budget PCs come with 4GB of RAM. A mid-range configuration may offer double that, and high-end gaming systems and workstations go as high as 16GB. There’s no doubt which way … Read more
YET AGAIN THE NUC CONCEPT SUFFERS FROM OVERLY NOISY COOLING We hove been quite fascinated with Intel’s Next Unit of Computing concept. It takes the advancements in power consumption and thermal performance of Intel’s mobile push and aims to produce a pretty powerful PC in a very small space. Unfortunately, apart from designs with very … Read more
THIS HIGHLY POLISHED RACING GAME FOCUSES ON PURE ADRENALINE MORE THAN INNOVATION Need for Speed : rivals seems to be a pretty bullet proof franchise these days. It can deliver the odd stinker (The Run, I’m looking at you), but in a year or two the game will fold back to its roots and deliver … Read more
The fourth Mageia plans to make the distro even easier to use for both newcomers and veteran users alike Although not expected until February, the next edition of Mageia is under development.The last version of the distro was pretty much the pinnacle of what the team set out to do – fixing all the major … Read more
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the masses, the Community Enterprise Operating System has been upgraded with new features from RHEL Red Hat is a very big name in the open source community. Not only is it one of the most well-known companies that profit from open source, but they’re also responsible for Fedora, one of … Read more