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How To Buy A Gaming PC

When trying to justify your new PC you will probably tell everyone you need it for business use or schoolwork or to further your studies, but secretly you might just want it to play games! If you are going to spend the money you need to make sure that you get a good gaming PC. Here is some advice on how to pick a machine that can blast those aliens with the best of them.

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Which Web Browser Should I Use? Web Browser Review

ccording to the statistics you are probably reading this article using Internet Explorer. The dominance of IE has worried some in recent times including the European Union who consider Microsoft position as a monopoly, especially since when you start your new PC the only web browser available is Internet Explorer. This probably means you will start using it and stick with it. But there are a whole bunch of alternatives out there and most are better than IE. Here is a look at the other main web browsers available today.

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Top 10 Netbooks for Christmas: The Good, The Mad and The Stylish

Sometimes it is easy to forget that the netbook revolution started just two short years ago when Asus introduced the Eee PC 701. Their popularity was almost instant with Asus selling over 300,000 units in the first three months. Now in 2009 there are more netbooks than ever in the market and giants like Dell, HP and Sony all have offerings. So with Christmas coming up, here is a run down of the good, the mad and the stylish in the netbook marketplace.

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Choosing the right technology to create your dynamic website – ASP.NET, PHP, MySQL, SQL server, the list goes on

Developing basic websites nowadays is very simple. You can choose between a whole raft of online services like Facebook and specially written applications like Wordpress. The problem comes when you want to get more advanced, all you hear is acronyms.

Due to this a few people have asked me recently, what technology should I use in order to create my website? Well I faced that not so long ago myself. Anybody wishing to create a dynamic or database driven website is presented with two main stream choices, PHP or ASP.NET. So how do they compare and which should I use?

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5 External hard-drives that can take a bashing

With Summer just around the corner and the desire to take our laptops alfresco soon upon us, we thought it might be sensible to pick up a storage device that can rough-it a bit and still keep on truckin’. So we’ve rounded up 5 consumer-level rugged external hard-drives for your perusal. Here we look at the: Lacie Rugged XL 1TB, Buffalo MiniStation TurboUSB, Transcend StoreJet 25 Mobile, Freecom ToughDrive Sport and the Iomega eGo Portable BlackBelt 250GB

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An absolute tech junky, I graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Computing and now live on the outskirts of Leeds working with you guessed it, Computers. I love all things gadgety but really dislike wires. For those of you who haven’t worked it out the name of the site is a combination of my nickname (Gaj) and the pronunciation ‘Gadget’.
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