I have to admit, a lot of new tech that I read or hear about, or see, is enough to get me pretty excited. My internal hype engine is tuned only to technology and games these days — the newest Lamborghini only gets a yawn from me; it’s far too much like the Batmobile. But [...]

I work at Ibayi PC, one of the busiest IT solutions companies in Port Elizabeth. I’ve worked here long enough to start seeing patterns in the problems customers have, and with my previous personal experience fixing friends’ computers, I though I’d share a bit of my troubleshooting knowledge with you, in the hope that this [...]

We’ve had time to get to grips with the amazing performance of Intel’s Core i5 series: the latest addition to what Intel calls the “high mainstream” segment. Unfortunately, the new chips have been priced just out of reach, and a lot of potential buyers have turned to AMD and their value-centric Athlon II range. While [...]

I was born deaf. My mother, bless her, contracted German Measles while I was still sleeping my early life away in the womb, and as a result the hairs in my ear are irreparably damaged. Thankfully, this doesn’t have a knock-on effect as I have learned to live with it, but it does bring up [...]

My first PC ran on an AMD AthlonXP 1700+. It had a Palomino core running at 1.43Ghz, a 266MHz front side bus, and 256KB of  L2 cache. But that wasn’t what started my infatuation with technology. That was due to my friend’s Pentium 1 133mhz and Voodoo graphics card. Back then, playing StarCraft, Theme Hospital, [...]

One of the hardest things for most people to do is to draw up a Christmas wishlist. For those of you readers not yet working, the choice is especially difficult when it comes to technology, because there’s a lot of stuff out there that we simply can’t afford.
The following nine items are products that I [...]

We all have our special few programs that we cannot live without and always install after every time we format our PCs. Below are a few of the applications that I hold dear, and all are free to download.
Firefox (7.6MB)
When looking at the market share for October 2009 [as per w3schools.com - statistics vary significantly [...]

Seacom is going to be one of the best things to happen to South Africa. We’ve now been stuck with Telkom’s ridiculous broadband prices for more than a decade, and it finally looks like things are shaping up. Lets have a look at a few companies that are now offering low-cost bandwidth direct from Seacom:
DIGICHILLI
A [...]

A hard disk drive is the slowest component in your PC. While SSDs are freakishly expense (the G.Skill Falcon SSD 64GB costs around R2600) they do vastly improve the performance of the PC equation. But is price the only reason people aren’t more interested in them, or do people just not care about HDD performance? [...]

Can anyone believe that the successful, and potent, LGA1366 is now one year old? Since 2008, we’ve seen five new chips for the LGA1366 platform, as well as the introduction of the i5 series of CPUs and the new LGA1156 socket. It seems as though Intel’s market research paid off: things are selling well and [...]

We all hate the fact that cellular phone calls are so expensive, but have you ever given any serious thought as to why? We have some of the most expensive call costs in the world mostly due to high interconnect rates. The interconnect rate is what telecommunication companies charge each other when a call from [...]

By now, I’m sure many readers know the joy of buying your own computer in separate parts, instead of buying a complete one from, say, Game or Incredible Connection. You also save some money. Do you want to save yourself more money, and teach yourself a few things in the process? Put it together yourself!

Step [...]

In light of the recent announcement by Activision that they are going to mark up their retail price for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, a lot of gamers, both local and abroad, are wondering whether this will set a precedent for all other AAA PC titles released in the future, finally bringing the prices [...]

As most of you should know, nVidia doesn’t just manufacture video cards. It also has a motherboard chipset division, and produces mobile chipsets like Tegra, which is found in the Zune HD.  While ATI has been taking all the headlines with RV870 and DirectX11, and most of the nVidia partners are set to discontinue their [...]