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Author Archives: Jack Pierce

Why I Won’t Be Buying Another iPhone

On December 26, 2008 I got myself a black iPhone 3G 16Gb, from The Carphone Warehouse. I thought it was an amazing phone and I’ve done so much with it. However recently O2’s pricing got spiked a little, I’m on pay-as-you-go,and was told I would have to pay £10 a month to keep my data [...]

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Psystar Back From the Dead. First Thoughts: Why Lord?

I expect many of you will have known about the OSx86 or ‘Hackintosh’ community. Some of you, even from when it originated. Apple supplied developers with PCs running Tiger, to get their applications running on the Intel architecture. If you don’t, then I’ll quickly explain. A “Hackintosh” is a computer running OSx86, a version of [...]

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Orange-UK Outs a Superphone Contender… Running Windows.

So, if you read the two posts I wrote out yesterday, you will have heard me ranting about how O2 was getting slightly greedy. Having both the iPhone and the Pre on it’s books, and how my money was on the Pre going to Orange. Well, today I found a post on the Toshiba TG01.

So [...]

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Apple to Drop nVidia

Late last year Apple revamped their MacBook and MacBook Pro lines. This give them a precision made aluminum unibody design, and more importantly, added a nVidia 9400m to the MacBook, and the MacBook Pro had its 8600m pumped up to a 9400m AND a 9600mGT, making the graphics power in these notebooks a worthy opponent [...]

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O2 UK Getting Greedy?

So it’s been recent news that O2 has just got the Palm Pre in the UK, Meaning O2 now has both the iPhone and one of it’s competitors signed to them. Personally as a UK citizen, I was almost certain the Palm Pre was going to get signed to Orange, as every Palm phone I remember [...]

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Which is your favourite netbook ?

So this is just a little poll for you our readers, to see which you think is the greatest netbook, ever since the netbook market started with the eeePC and its sucess everyone has been wanting a slice and nearly every vendor on the planet has pushed one out, so this is just a poll [...]

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Speakers that add a little class to your set-up

So if you like myself spend your days roaming around the internet then theres a good chance you’ve heard about this.

This speaker, cunningly named the speak-er has been causing quite the stir over the net for the last few days. Sitting at 4″x6″x2″ with a cost of $120.00 USD, these “speech bubble” shaped speakers seem [...]

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Windows 7, Build 7000 to be last public beta

As many of you may have heard, I’m a really big fan of the windows 7 beta, It’s amazing, it’s the speed of XP, with even more features than Vista, without the badness factor of Vista. It’s so good in fact that I wiped my partition of XP on my Custom PC and my MacBook, [...]

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Antec P180 Review.

Recently I purchased the Antec P180 ATX case for my build and I have to say it’s truly an amazing case, with only a few drawbacks.
I have always thought this case was beauty at an expense. 3 layers of noise canceling metal, a minimalist design, that just looks really good, for a whopping £80; double what I paid for [...]

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YellowSn0w gets an iPod Touch 2g Bredrin

I’m sure many of you iPhone 3G users will have heard of yellowsn0w, the unlocking utility. A first for the 3G. Im sure anyone who has ever got near the jailbreak scene will also be aware that the iPod Touch 2nd gen, was proving to be a little unbreakable. However the good old guys down [...]

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