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In Depth: 16 best TV streaming services
By TechRadar, published 12-04-2011
16 best TV streaming servicesWithin the last few years there's been a new explosion of TV in our lives. Before, we were content to watch television on a schedule dictated by the broadcasters, but things have moved on a long way since then. We now have a huge range of services that let us to get our fix of programmes and movies at any time and through a multitude of devices. No longer are we confined to the living room - the internet lets us watch TV anywhere in the house, while portable media devices like smartphones and tablets keep us entertained on the move. Viewing habits haven't quite kept pace with technological advancement, so although the amount of time we spend watching television is increasing every year, we're still a long way from ridding our homes of the big TV - just 0.2 per ...
In Depth: 16 best TV streaming services
By TechRadar, published 12-04-2011
16 best TV streaming servicesWithin the last few years there's been a new explosion of TV in our lives. Before, we were content to watch television on a schedule dictated by the broadcasters, but things have moved on a long way since then. We now have a huge range of services that let us to get our fix of programmes and movies at any time and through a multitude of devices. No longer are we confined to the living room - the internet lets us watch TV anywhere in the house, while portable media devices like smartphones and tablets keep us entertained on the move. Viewing habits haven't quite kept pace with technological advancement, so although the amount of time we spend watching television is increasing every year, we're still a long way from ridding our homes of the big TV - just 0.2 per ...
Future Tense: Whither Apple?
By MaximumPC, published 11-09-2011
800x600 800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Whither Apple? I believe America’s greatest strength has been its ability to cultivate the most profitable crop in human history—geniuses. This country is the way it is because of men and women with genuine vision and the ability to move that vision into the realm of ac...
Tutorial: How to make OS X Lion like Snow Leopard
By TechRadar, published 30-10-2011
How to make OS X Lion like Snow LeopardNew features that make your Mac easier to use are always welcome, and Lion is packed with plenty of them, but it also changes a few things that can be hard to adjust to. Many of them can be rolled back in System Preferences and in applications' preferences. In addition, there's a bunch of covert settings that can be amended by typing commands into Terminal. So, if you're finding it hard to settle in with Lion, here's how to restore a sense of normality to many aspects of OS X. The first thing that will hit you is what Apple calls 'natural scrolling'. It makes moving around a document or website more like pushing a piece of paper around your desk, rather than making you interact with artificial elements like scrollbars and a viewport onto a document. E...
31 Apps, Games, and Utilities to Enhance Your Chrome Experience!
By MaximumPC, published 10-12-2011
Like any dependable sidekick, Google Chrome has proven to be reliable, fast, and easy to work with; so much so, in fact, that we decided to feature the various apps, games, and utilities Chrome has to offer in a weekly series. But to make things easier for all you Chrome fans, we've decided to compile the last 30 weeks worth of posts and bring them to you here, in one huge comprehensive list of reading apps, games, utilities, and more. Check em' out below, and by all means, let us know what we missed in the comments. Enjoy! Gaming Gun Brothers No matter how much we love Gun Brother’s special brand of shoot ‘em up gunplay on Android and iOS devices, we couldn’t recommend it for use as a Chrome web app. When it was released to the Chrome Web Store several months ago, it was a glitchy, ...
In Depth: How 3D video chat and sound is shaping up
By TechRadar, published 20-08-2011
When talking about the prospect of 3D telephony, it's easy to get distracted by the newest 3D phones like the HTC Evo 3D and the LG Optimus 3D. However, while impressive, these devices don't let you make calls in 3D. What are the odds of 3D video chat happening? When (if ever) will we be able to recreate that famous scene from Star Wars in which R2-D2 plays Princess Leia's holographic voicemail message? Disappointingly, we're a long way from being able to beam 3D video from pico projectors in our phones or laptops, but the technology exists. Scientists at the University of Arizona in Tucson have created a system to capture a 3D image and transmit it (in near real time) anywhere in the world. According to Nature journal's website, the team's system "captures 3D information by filming an obj...
Don't Call It A Comeback: 7 Products That Saved Their Companies (And 2 That Didn't)
By MaximumPC, published 19-08-2011
They say fate's a fickle mistress, but destiny's got nothing on the free market. For every Microsoft-esque success story, there's the burnt out husk of Sun Microsystems (R.I.P.). The really interesting tales have nothing to do with overwhelming successes or overwhelming failures, though; any budding novelist can tell you that a good story needs some tension. Join us as we take a look back at ten companies that found themselves broken, beaten, and battered, leaning on the ropes and looking woozy. Seven of them were able to summon the strength of Soda Popinksi and roar back to life stronger than ever. Two Glass Joe wannabes tried to put up a fight but found themselves on the mat in short order. The last one's still covering its face and playing rope-a-dope. Can it survive after staring down ...
Feature of the Week Super Roundup: 52 Awesome Sites, Add-ons and Apps
By MaximumPC, published 08-12-2011
Here at Maximum PC, we adhere to a few simple maxims: Make it faster! Be thorough. And keep things as simple as possible. Adhering to that philosophy, we'd like to present to you a mega-ultra-laser-shark mix and mash of features we've published these past couple of months, including some of our favorite websites, Windows Phone 7 aps, and Chrome and browser add-ons that you've been seeing grace the pages of our site recently. Because, after all, we wouldn't want you guys to have to dig around for all these yourselves. Remember. We keep it simple, just for you. Enjoy! Awesome Sites NASA The last Star Trek TV series was kind of terrible, and they cancelled Firefly before the series had a chance to really come into its own. Sure, Battlestar Galactica was great but now that it...
Review: Touch Mouse, Microsoft's Answer To Apple's Magic Mouse
By DigitalVersus, published 08-10-2011
Microsoft's answer to Apple's Magic Mouse is the new Touch Mouse. The Apple Magic Mouse is white and flat, but the Microsoft version is black and curvy. After trying...
Exclusive: Microsoft Touch Mouse delayed until end of August
By TechRadar, published 08-09-2011
Microsoft's Touch Mouse has been delayed until the end of August, missing its announced UK release date by two months. First unveiled at this year's CES, the Microsoft Touch Mouse UK release date was originally slated for June 2011. But you may have noticed that June 2011 has been and gone, bringing with it no sign of the Microsoft Touch Mouse. Time goes by so slowlyThe reasons for the delay haven't been revealed but we expect to hear more from Microsoft over the next few days. But it should perhaps come as no surprise, given that the Microsoft hardware team spent over a year turning its original multi-touch mouse prototype into a marketable product. The wireless Touch Mouse is Microsoft's rather tardy answer to Apple's Magic Mouse, a multi-touch cursor-controller which lets users flick an...
In Depth: 25 Mac OS X Lion tips and tricks
By TechRadar, published 08-01-2011
The latest version of Apple's OS X is easier to use than ever before, but not all of its joys are obvious - and some of the more obvious changes can be rather annoying. But there's also a lot to love about Lion. So to help you master the new OS, we've rounded up our favourite new Mac tips, features and workarounds to help you become a Lion tamer.1. Get normal scrolling backIf you think Lion's new natural scrolling mode is strange (and inconsistent: arrow keys work as they always have), it's easy enough to revert: go to System Preferences > Mouse and uncheck the "move content..." option.2. Tell Finder to start with a different folderBy default, opening a new Finder window opens the new All My Files smart folder. You can change this in Finder > Preferences > New Finder Windows Show.A bit of ...
In Depth: Hands on: Mac OS X Lion review
By TechRadar, published 20-07-2011
It's here, it's clogging up the internet and it's probably put a few people over their monthly bandwidth caps already. Yes, we mean Lion, the latest version of Apple's desktop and laptop OS. It promises to bring the best of iOS back to the Mac, and there are some interesting new features too. So is it worth the budget price of £20.99?We'd say yes, but only if your apps will work on it: for example, we found Logic Pro 8 refused to launch once we'd upgraded; if we were musicians rather than writers, that would have been a disaster. As it is, we suspect an update won't be forthcoming, and Logic isn't exactly cheap. Expect other irregularities too. Lion decided it didn't like our mouse, and decided not to recognise our magic trackpad in a fit of pique. These are the joys of early adoption: if...
Tutorial: How to use multi-touch gestures on your Mac
By TechRadar, published 20-07-2011
Gestures make life easier. Pioneered in iOS and warmly welcomed by OS X users, Apple's multi-touch gestures are a little like keyboard shortcuts in that they augment rather than replace more traditional ways of interacting with your computer. But are you getting the most out of them? If you use a Mac notebook, a Magic Mouse or a Magic Trackpad, it's worth checking out everything that Apple's gestures can offer. They're very easy to use and - believe it or not - soon become second nature. The first multi-touch trackpads in Apple's notebook range appeared in early 2008 with the original MacBook Air, before reaching the MacBook Pro range a month later. As well as two-fingered scrolling offered by earlier models, the new trackpad allowed three-fingered gestures too. This was made possible by a...
In Depth: OS X 10.7 Lion guide: get started with Lion today
By TechRadar, published 20-07-2011
The eighth release of OS X - OS X 10.7 Lion - is packed with over 250 new features, many of which were inspired by iOS. With Lion, Apple takes note of lessons learned developing the engine that powers the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and brings them to the Mac. Take LaunchPad. You can tell at a glance Lion's new application launcher is based on the iOS home screen, with its application icons arranged in a user-modifiable grid. Lion brings full-screen apps to Mac OS too. At the push of a button, your application fills the screen, offering the same distraction-free usability you get with an iOS device. Mail, Apple's respected email client, also benefits from qualities and features developed for the small-screen version.But it's not all about features gleaned from iOS; Mac OS has also learned...
Does Not Compute: 10 PC Myths from Movies and Television
By MaximumPC, published 15-07-2011
For over half a century, Hollywood has been making computers do whatever they damn well please. Routinely featured on television and in movies, supercomputers, desktop rigs and laptops—and in some cases, the people that use them—are all too often imbued with near-magical capabilities, painting a deceptive picture of what our beloved machines can and cannot do. Not sure of what tech-centric malarky we’re talking about? No problem: We’ve put together a list of our top ten Hollywood TV and Movie myths. We’re betting they’ll be just as familiar and irritating to you as they are to us. A computer will blow up if there is a question it cannot answer. According to Hollywood, computers are so delicate that when confronted with a question that they’re unable to answer, they’ll exp...
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion features explained
By TechRadar, published 06-04-2011
When OS X 10.7 Lion was first announced back in October 2010, it received a lukewarm response. Apple lifted the lid on very few of its features, and what was shown was useful, but by no means essential. Since then, two things have happened. Apple demoed the OS X Lion to the media back in February, revealing far more of its secrets. Also in February, a preview version of Lion was released to developers, leading to inevitable information leaks on the internet. We now know much more about OS X Lion than we did when we first previewed it. So what will OS X 10.7 bring us, and are we sufficiently excited? Announcing Lion at the Autumn 2010 keynote, Steve Jobs said the new OS would bring features developed for iOS back to the Mac. "We started with Mac OS X, repurposed it for the iPhone and used i...
Review: LG ST600 Smart TV Upgrader
By TechRadar, published 29-05-2011
The LG ST600 Smart TV upgrader is a little black box that functions as a means of enjoying the multimedia functionality offered by LG's current 'Smart TV' Connected TV platform on any TV with an HDMI. Its compact (11cm x 11cm) minimal stylings should fit in nicely with most black TVs. It has no onboard storage, instead it gives you a USB port on the right-hand side (next to a 'Reset' button) in which to connect drives of your own on top of DLNA networking functionality. At the rear sits an HDMI, an optical S/PDIF with AC3 support, and an Ethernet port. A small but serviceable 'Magic' remote control is well laid out with buttons catering for most key functions and doubles up as a touchpad for mouse-style control of the included web browser, though this is not quite as responsive as we'd lik...
Review: Apple iMac 21.5-inch 2011
By TechRadar, published 20-05-2011
Apple's new 2011 iMac range retains the form factor of the 2010 models, but enjoys a very significant component upgrade. Second-generation quad core Intel Core i5 processors are used throughout the 2011 iMac lineup - which includes two 21.5-inch models and two 27-inch models - where previously all but the most expensive model had dual Core i3s. New graphics give up to three times the power of the mid-2010 iMacs, and the Thunderbolt port could revolutionise I/O technology.The 2011 21.5-inch iMac reviewed here is the new range's entry-level model, costing £999. It offers a quad core Intel 2.5GHz Core i5 processor, a great leap forward from the dual core 3.06GHz Core i3 used in the cheapest 2010 release. Its discrete graphics chip is a powerful AMD Radeon HD 6750M, with 512MB of GDDR5 memory...
This Week in Mac|Life
By TechRadar, published 05-06-2011
Apple announced new iMacs with fancy new Thunderbolt ports and i5 and i7 processors. Plus we find a 25 awesome icon sets to customize your Macs desktop.If you were afraid to leave the house because your iPhone was keeping a database of the recently encountered cell towers, worry no longer. Apple pushed an update that should allow you to remove your tin hat.FeaturesGame Time : The Age of IndustryIn honor of Skynet going online, we decided to pay special attention to machines and the chaos they create in this week's Game Time. Sure, there's a bit of irony in an Apple-centric mag covering the possibility of machines being evil, but we consider it our duty to our readers to report our findings.Gallery: 10 Great Mac Games Under $20The Mac App Store made it easier than ever for Mac gamers to fin...
New iMac with quad-core processors and Thunderbolt announced
By TechRadar, published 05-03-2011
Apple has announced a whole new range of iMacs, which come with quad-core processors, enhanced graphics and Thunderbolt I/O technology.Apple is boasting that the new iMacs are 70 per cent faster than the old ones and have graphics that are three times the performance of last year's range.The new iMacs come brandishing quad-core Intel Core i5 processors but you can upgrade these to Core i7 processors up to 3.4 GHz. Alongside this there is AMD Radeon HD graphics processors, which mean that the iMac can now come with the boast of having "most powerful graphics ever in an all-in-one desktop".Thunderbolt of lightningThe iMacs come in two sizes: the 21.5-inch iMac has a single Thunderbolt port while the 27-inch model features two ports. This shows that Apple is pushing Thunderbolt hard as being ...
New Apple iMac: Thunderbolt, Sandy Bridge and FaceTime HD
By SlashGear, published 05-03-2011
Apple has unveiled its new iMac range, and as expected the all-in-one desktops have been upgraded with Intel’s 2011 Sandy Bridge quad-core processors, new graphics and Thunderbolt connectivity. The new iMacs come in the same 21.5-inch and 27-inch versions, with the entry-level $1,199 21.5-inch model having a 2.5GHz quad-core Core i5 processor, AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics and a 500GB hard-drive. At the other end there’s the $1,999 27-inch machine with a 3.1GHz quad-core Core i5 processor, Radeon HD 6970M graphics and 1TB of storage. Optional is a $200 quad-core Intel Core i7 processor upgrade on select models, running at up to 3.4GHz. There’s also a second 21.5-inch pre-config model, with a 2.7GHz Core i5, Radeon HD 6770M and 1TB of storage, for $1,49. The entry-level 2...
Tutorial: Snow Leopard guide for new users
By TechRadar, published 04-03-2011
Mac OS X is packed to the brim with clever little tricks that will enhance the way you work and help you save time. But so much of the operating system is easy to use that you could hardly call yourself a pro. However, that's all about to change. We show you just how easy it is to become a Mac OS guru with the best collection of power tips for a wide range of tasks. From Finder shortcuts to image manipulation, we've got all the techniques you need to get even more from your Mac use. We will even demystify the obscure apps lurking in the Utilities folder that you may never have used. While the majority of tips found in this feature will focus on the OS in general, we've also included some sections that cover pro tips for media and other files as well as a good bunch of tweaks to be found wi...
Tutorial: Snow Leopard guide for new users
By TechRadar, published 04-03-2011
Mac OS X is packed to the brim with clever little tricks that will enhance the way you work and help you save time. But so much of the operating system is easy to use that you could hardly call yourself a pro. However, that's all about to change. We show you just how easy it is to become a Mac OS guru with the best collection of power tips for a wide range of tasks. From Finder shortcuts to image manipulation, we've got all the techniques you need to get even more from your Mac use. We will even demystify the obscure apps lurking in the Utilities folder that you may never have used. While the majority of tips found in this feature will focus on the OS in general, we've also included some sections that cover pro tips for media and other files as well as a good bunch of tweaks to be found wi...
Tutorial: Snow Leopard guide for new users
By TechRadar, published 04-03-2011
Mac OS X is packed to the brim with clever little tricks that will enhance the way you work and help you save time. But so much of the operating system is easy to use that you could hardly call yourself a pro. However, that's all about to change. We show you just how easy it is to become a Mac OS guru with the best collection of power tips for a wide range of tasks. From Finder shortcuts to image manipulation, we've got all the techniques you need to get even more from your Mac use. We will even demystify the obscure apps lurking in the Utilities folder that you may never have used. While the majority of tips found in this feature will focus on the OS in general, we've also included some sections that cover pro tips for media and other files as well as a good bunch of tweaks to be found wi...
In Depth: Beyond the touchscreen: interfaces of the future
By TechRadar, published 03-12-2011
We're living in interesting times. Tech firms want to take over our TVs, our phones are more powerful than some recent PCs, and we can control games consoles through the medium of dance. New interfaces are all around us, from touch screens to augmented reality, and the way we interact with technology is being transformed. But which interfaces are genuine leaps forward and which are digital dead ends? What makes a good user interface anyway? Videos of very young children playing with iPads have become an internet cliché, but they demonstrate how intuitive technology is becoming: nobody was filming two-year-olds using IBM's original PC. The IBM PC's command line interface was streets ahead of 1970s computers' switches, of course, but it wasn't until the arrival of the graphical user interfa...
In Depth: Beyond the touchscreen: interfaces of the future
By TechRadar, published 03-12-2011
We're living in interesting times. Tech firms want to take over our TVs, our phones are more powerful than some recent PCs, and we can control games consoles through the medium of dance. New interfaces are all around us, from touch screens to augmented reality, and the way we interact with technology is being transformed. But which interfaces are genuine leaps forward and which are digital dead ends? What makes a good user interface anyway? Videos of very young children playing with iPads have become an internet cliché, but they demonstrate how intuitive technology is becoming: nobody was filming two-year-olds using IBM's original PC. The IBM PC's command line interface was streets ahead of 1970s computers' switches, of course, but it wasn't until the arrival of the graphical user interfa...
In Depth: Beyond the touchscreen: interfaces of the future
By TechRadar, published 03-12-2011
We're living in interesting times. Tech firms want to take over our TVs, our phones are more powerful than some recent PCs, and we can control games consoles through the medium of dance. New interfaces are all around us, from touch screens to augmented reality, and the way we interact with technology is being transformed. But which interfaces are genuine leaps forward and which are digital dead ends? What makes a good user interface anyway? Videos of very young children playing with iPads have become an internet cliché, but they demonstrate how intuitive technology is becoming: nobody was filming two-year-olds using IBM's original PC. The IBM PC's command line interface was streets ahead of 1970s computers' switches, of course, but it wasn't until the arrival of the graphical user interfa...
iPad 2: Post-PC is Premature
By SlashGear, published 03-04-2011
The “post-PC” world. Sounds great, doesn’t it. No more malware headaches, none of that awful association with dull cubicle work. Steve Jobs sits in a comfy chair and pages happily through his latest productivity-slash-entertainment apps; we imagine ourselves soaking up the WiFi in our local coffee shop, whiling our days shooting 720p video, editing it and uploading it all in one fell swoop. Dump your desk chairs, throw away your mouse mats. The iPad 2 has saved us from our shackles and shown us the light. It’s easy to get caught up in Jobs’ rhetoric. Sure, people are buying Macs, but look how many iPads we’ve sold. See how well we slotted this slice of finger-friendly beauty into peoples’ lives. This is no inflated iPod touch, and if you thought ...
Wish List for the iPad Part Deux
By SlashGear, published 03-02-2011
On the eve of the iPad 2 event tomorrow, I wanted to share a few things I hope to see in the iPad 2. Myself and others from the SlashGear team will be in attendance to report and analyze all the details of the announcement. For now i’m throwing in my best guesses and hopes for the potentially magical new device. Dual Core I’m going to start with this one because I happen to be a performance junkie. While others may be happy with their current processors and question why they need more CPU power; I happen to always want more performance so I can try to push the limits of computing. I also enjoy seeing what the software community can do with more computing power. Now we must take into consideration that more cores or more performance does not always equal a faster computer...
Rumor: Apple to give next iPhone a 4-inch screen
By SlashGear, published 15-02-2011
A new rumor has surfaced that claims the next iPhone will have a larger 4-inch screen. The rumor comes by way of component supplier sources and DigiTimes. According to the rumor, the production lines for the next iPhone are in testing right now and the screens are supposedly 4-inch. I can see a bit of validity here, the iPhone used to have a large screen compared to other smartphones and today many phones are over the screen size of the current iPhone. There are also some rumors that the next iPhone and iPad will both sport multi-core processors. A larger screen and a dual-core processor will help the iPhone out to compete on paper with the other smartphones on the market running Android with multiple cores and larger screens. Naturally, there is no official word from Apple on any iPhone...
Nokia E7 Review
By SlashGear, published 02-10-2011
Arriving on the market late, the Nokia E7 finds itself launching at a shaky point in the Finnish company’s history. Under new management, suffering doubts – internal and external – over the strength of its current platforms, and watching increasing amounts of attention and revenue being taken by key rivals like Apple, Nokia has high expectations for its new business flagship. Misplaced, misguided or money in the bank? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut. Hardware The E7 may be the largest of the recent Symbian smartphones – looking at first glance like an oversized N8 and significantly chunkier than the svelte C7 – but inside it’s business as usual. Keeping Symbian moving is a 680MHz ARM 11 processor, paired with 256MB of RAM and OpenGL 2...
Review: Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse
By TechRadar, published 02-03-2011
The Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse is yet another innovative addition to the long-line of classic designs that the Microsoft Hardware group has blessed the world with over the years. The Arc Touch Mouse attempts to take style and function to a new level in the modern mouse world by combining a wireless portable mouse with touch-sensitive features and the BlueTrack sense system. The result is the Arc Touch. The name partly gives away its key design feature: a flexible rear section that doubles as the main wrist support and also folds flat turning the mouse off and leaving it perfect for carrying.Beyond its physical design, the Arc Touch mouse uses an Apple Magic Mouse besting touch-sensitive wheel. With built in haptic feedback this adds a sense of style beyond just its design through unobtrusiv...
Apple patents multi-touchscreen mouse
By TechRadar, published 21-01-2011
Apple has patented a wireless mouse design with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that features a built-in touchscreen display.The design of Apple's futuristic peripheral is referred to, in rather obviously literal terms, as a "Computer Input Device Including a Display Device." Multi-use mouseThe mouse's touchscreen display is said to be capable of multiple types of use, either as a simple info display or as a customisable touchscreen input device.Alongside the touchscreen display on the futuristic Magic Mouse sites two physical buttons, much like a traditional mouse, and an optical track navigation system.Apple launched its Magic Trackpad last summer, targeting graphic designers and those users that preferred a larger multitouch device to the standard mouse.In its latest patent Apple h...
Apple patents multi-touchscreen mouse
By TechRadar, published 21-01-2011
Apple has patented a wireless mouse design with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that features a built-in touchscreen display.The design of Apple's futuristic peripheral is referred to, in rather obviously literal terms, as a "Computer Input Device Including a Display Device." Multi-use mouseThe mouse's touchscreen display is said to be capable of multiple types of use, either as a simple info display or as a customisable touchscreen input device.Alongside the touchscreen display on the futuristic Magic Mouse sites two physical buttons, much like a traditional mouse, and an optical track navigation system.Apple launched its Magic Trackpad last summer, targeting graphic designers and those users that preferred a larger multitouch device to the standard mouse.In its latest patent Apple h...
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