Techie Tips April 23rd, 2010 by Website Administrator

Downloading videos to save bandwidth

With the popularity of video sites such as YouTube, many people are nowadays spending a lot of time watching videos which are hosted online. What most people are not realising is that every time they play a video they are using up a lot of bandwidth because every time a video is being played, [...] Related posts:
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Apple releases iPad but rivals are coming soon

Apple released their iPad on Saturday 3rd of April and on the first day managed to sell more than 300,000 units. With the release Apple will certainly have a lead in the tablet market, and this is a good thing for them [...]

Apple to offer free iPad O/S upgrades till version 4 only

According to AplleInsider, iPad O/S upgrades which will come out after version 4.0 will not be free. The same situation is being currently faced by iPod Touch owners. And if you think that an O/S with a version higher th[...]

Asus to release new Eee PC with USB 3.0

Asus are planning to release a new Eee PC netbook called the Prime 1018P. The netbook looks very nice, it is very slim and also comes with integrated USB 3.0 ports. This netbook will also include a fingerprint reader, s[...]

Mozilla release critical Firefox update

All users of Firefox 3.6 should download a security update which once installed will upgrade the browser to version 3.6.2. This is a ‘high priority’ update because systems with Firefox 3.6 are vulnerable to [...]

Google Chrome OS will come in different editions

Chrome OS, the new operating system by Google will make its first public appearance later this year but initially Google plan to only target consumers. Nevertheless, Google don’t plan to stop there because in 2011[...]

Problems with latest NVIDIA Drivers

Several NVIDIA consumers have recently reported some fan speed related issues after installing the latest WHQL 196.75 drivers. For this reason, NVIDIA are currently recommending a roll back to version 196.21 for those wh[...]

Windows Phone 7 Series coming in Q4

In mid-February, Microsoft announced that Windows Phone 7 Series (the next version of Windows that powers Microsoft based smartphones) will be released between November and December of this year. Originally, the new ope[...]

Faster Atom hits the road

On the 1st of March, Intel released a faster Atom, the N470. The new processor still targets netbooks and low-end notebooks and it runs at 1.83 GHz which is just a bit more than the original Atom N450 which runs at 1.66 [...]

You Tube to stop working on IE 6

Google have recently announced that users still running Internet Explorer have time till the 12th of March to upgrade to either IE7 or IE8 or switch to another browser if they want to enjoy any new features offered on Yo[...]