By now, regular readers of TechCritic will be well-versed with the name ‘Rob Shoesmith’. The PR & Marketing expert recently completed a ten-day experiment, waiting in line for the new iPhone 4S, where he couldn’t spend a single penny of his own money. Instead, he had to rely on donations from various companies, in exchange [...]
Google has been naughty. Very naughty. Many companies struggle to dominate their chosen market, let alone others, and would never consider trying to replicate their success elsewhere, particularly given the stiff competition. Google on the other hand love to break the mould, and following a flurry of experiments, outside the realm of the search engine [...]
The future of internet music? A week ago, I succumbed to the lure of a persistent temptress. For roughly a year now, I’ve been enjoying the musical delights provided by Spotify, and the countless hours of music that I’ve streamed for free have been nothing short of great. However, between batches of my chosen songs, [...]
Memory sticks, data pens, USB keys and flash drives. The terminology that we use for such devices varies greatly, but there’s one overwhelming constant between them all that just can’t be ignored – they get a pretty bad press. Prone to corruption, theft or good old-fashioned physical damage, they don’t have the strongest rap-sheet [...]
Things go wrong. Data get’s deleted. Mistakes happen. I trust you’ve read my review of Recuva, and thus you backup your computer’s data religiously, not only to a second hard-drive but also to the cloud. I can also only presume that you afford the same treatment to those excruciatingly important data files of your WordPress [...]
It’s been a busy few weeks for browser development. With Internet Explorer 9 released on the 14th March and Firefox 4 just a few days ago on the 22nd, competition to control the browser market has peaked. And in light of my recent overview of IE9, it seemed appropriate and somewhat necessary to give Firefox [...]
I’ve long been a fan of Internet Explorer. Sure, it’s taken a few knocks here and there on the issues of security and performance, and lost a considerable share of the browser market as a result, but for a program that’s bundled with Windows, it’s fairly robust. As IE was one of the first tools [...]
Before I start, I would like to make it very clear that this is an opinion piece. If you’re looking for an article brimming with facts, figures and helpful diagrams, then this isn’t for you. I have, however, provided links to quasi-authoritative reports on the topics I discuss, to show that they are not merely [...]
We’re not incompetent, we’re only human. We all get distracted from time to time. Somewhere between our almost instantaneous broadband connections and the never ending onslaught of emails, IM’s and other unnecessary tid-bits of information, distraction snuck up on us and attached itself aggressively to our workload. The sheer difficulty associated with remaining productive for [...]
Late last week, at a time when I should have been awfully busy wrapped up in work, I somehow felt compelled to game. As I had neglected my gaming addiction for some time by this point, it didn’t take much mental persuasion, and I quickly chose to shun my responsibilities, turning instead to my fairly [...]