Review: Windows 8.1 Preview

About two months ago I accidentally deleted my Ubuntu install, then started again with Debian but made a mess of that too. All the while I was dual-booting Windows 8 on another hard drive and installing GRUB with Debian irreversibly broke the Windows boot process. To cut a long story short, I decided to format all … Read more

Originality is key

Smartphones have become a mass phenomenon within the technology market, being able to access the internet whilst on the go has changed everyday life for everyone. Especially as consumers, we’ve become reliant and addicted to the social media window smartphones have opened up to us. It’s hard to believe that only a few short years … Read more

News: Vodafone’s 4G plans available to buy from 12 Aug, 4G service goes live on 29 Aug

We have received word from Vodafone that their 4G price plans will be available to buy from Monday 12 August, although their 4G service won’t actually start rolling out until slightly later in the month on 29 August. 4G will be rolled out first in London, with 12 more cities going live by the end … Read more

LG G2 – What it is, and what we think!

  In a high profile event in NYC, LG have just announced the LG G2, their latest flagship offering. While the ‘thing’ on the rear of the phone is not a fingerprint scanner, it is an intelligent rocker switch which replaces those annoying volume buttons on the side, and offers quite a few purposes! Obviously, … Read more

LG G2 to be announced today!

  LG G2 is about to be unveiled in New York, and you are all invited to see the live stream! http://www.g2.lgmobile.com/ While there is a few hours to go, we’ll bring you the news and thoughts on the phone as it gets announced. The big thing though, will they squeeze the finger print scanner … Read more

Solar Thermal Panels overtaken by Thermodynamic Systems

Another feature from Magic Thermodynamic Box, where they discuss their systems vs Solar Thermal Panels: Quarterly solar thermal statistics from the UK’s Solar Trade Association (STA) covering 80% of the total market volume show that solar thermal sales have declined by 35% in the first quarter of 2013 when measured against the same period in … Read more

How to get your central heating system working as it should

We have featured Magic Thermodynamic Box in the past as well. Here we have a new article from them, discussing how to cure some of the commonly found defects in your central heating system.  Reducing the carbon footprint and thereby reversing climate change is the goal of the renewable energy sector.  This entails considerable expenditure … Read more