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tsoHost saved my bacon

I host a lot of web sites for clients, that’s what I do. So imagine my dilemma when the company that I used to host sites with informed me that they were […]

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Posted by on Thursday, 21 January 2021

My first Raspberry Pi adventure

I’ve been looking for a new hobby and I’ve been scratching my head but then it came to me. Why not give the world of the Raspberry Pie a go? So I’ve […]

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Posted by on Sunday, 13 September 2020

Rii RK100 Keyboard

I bought a gaming keyboard the other day. But Paul, I can hear you thinking, you’re not a PC gaming person, and you’d be right, so why on earth did I get […]

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Posted by on Tuesday, 01 September 2020

Duke Nukem World Tour

Back in the 90’s we were all yelling ‘hail to the king baby’ as we shot the crap out of alien invaders in Duke Nukem 3D and it really was a phenomenon. […]

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Posted by on Saturday, 29 August 2020

Living with just an iPad

I recently had to spend some time in hospital and for the first couple of days all I had was my iPhone 11, which is great but in terms of being productive […]

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Posted by on Monday, 24 August 2020

2 Quid Wireless Charger

I’ve been rocking the iPhone 11 for a little while now but always relied on lightning cables to charge it and never took advantage of its wireless charging capabilities.  Now I didn’t […]

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Posted by on Sunday, 23 August 2020

All hail the Gamet

Although he lives across the pond, Jeff Gamet is most certainly an honorary Brit and an anchor of BTN. Over the years he has given us some of the funniest moments ever. […]

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Posted by on Saturday, 22 August 2020

Streets of Rage 4

You often have to wait for sequels to decent games but nearly 25 years might be pushing it, but when it’s worth the wait you can forgive developers for their lapse in […]

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Posted by on Thursday, 20 August 2020

Cheers Ewen

Many, many years ago I got into podcasts, mainly tech ones. I realised that many of them were the output of corporate engines and offered nothing apart from what their corporate partners […]

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Posted by on Friday, 14 August 2020

iMendmacs

You’ve all seen it, especially on platforms such as YouTube. Channels are constantly sponsored by a range of products from headphones you’ve never heard of to male grooming products. The alarm bells […]

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Posted by on Thursday, 13 August 2020

Free Stay-at-home games

While we’re all stuck at home most of us geeks will turn to gaming. But gaming costs money, or does it? Due to the current situation a bunch of gaming companies have […]

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Posted by on Sunday, 05 April 2020

Virtua Racing

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I know I’m always going on about Street Fighter 2 as my favourite arcade game but there is one more that steals my heart, and maybe the game that changed racing games […]

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Posted by on Wednesday, 26 February 2020

Stamp it Out

Video Game Stamps

I’m no stamp collector but my attention was grabbed by Royal Mail’s latest special collection which is dedicated to video games, and not just any old games, games made and developed in […]

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Posted by on Monday, 27 January 2020

DIY Wifi Extender

I’m sure we’ve all come across the same problem. There are bits of your house that wifi doesn’t quite reach or at least is patchy. In my case the dead spot is […]

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Posted by on Saturday, 25 January 2020

My Chrome Extensions/Apps

As you may or may not know I work in design for a living. As you may have seen in a previous post I am testing the new Microsoft Edge built on […]

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Posted by on Friday, 24 January 2020

Apple iBook G3

I thought it was time to look at how tech used to be and to see how far we’ve come. This week I’m looking at one of my most treasured possessions, a […]

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Posted by on Wednesday, 22 January 2020

The New Microsoft Edge

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Do you remember the days before Safari on Mac OSX? The default browser was Internet Explorer. Oh how far we’ve come, and also how far Microsoft has come by basically becoming platform […]

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Posted by on Monday, 20 January 2020

Windows 7 RIP

I’m an Apple boy through and through. But as part of both my personal and professional lives I do use Windows. One, because some apps only works on Windows, and two, my […]

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Posted by on Saturday, 18 January 2020

2 Quid AirPods

Apple is all about wireless technology. We get it! So much so they had the ‘courage’ to remove the headphone jack with the launch of the iPhone 7. They did address this […]

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Posted by on Thursday, 16 January 2020

iPhone 11 Review

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Hello all. I’m back writing at BTN and I thought that I’d start with my most recent purchase of the iPhone 11. Now I’ve added this to the blog channel opposed to […]

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Posted by on Wednesday, 15 January 2020