Best Powerline adapters roundup

June 10, 2014 11:37 am | Leave a Comment |
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Fed up with flaky Wi-Fi? Can’t conceive of cabling up your whole house? Then Powerline is the technology for you, and we’ve picked out six of the best powerline adapters worth considering for your home.What are Powerline Adapters?
Powerline (also known as HomePlug) is a networking technology that uses your home’s existing power cables to distribute the network throughout your home.As the diagram below shows, you just plug a network cable from your router into one Powerline adapter then plug that adapter into a conventional plug socket.

Then go to the room where you’d like to receive the signal and plug in a second adapter. From there you can connect directly to your computer or plug in other conventional network devices like routers, switches and hubs.

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Unique Melody 2X Review

June 5, 2014 11:41 am | Leave a Comment |

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The Unique Melody 2X is a dual-driver set of universal IEMs that uses a combination of a balanced armature driver for mids/treble and a dynamic driver for bass.

Along with the Unique Melody 3X, which was announced alongside the 2X, this is the first universal-fit IEM the British company has made, after making its name in custom-moulded IEMs.

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Burden Of The Noose through to Bloodstock Metal to the Masses Final

May 31, 2014 3:47 pm | Leave a Comment |

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Burden of the Noose has won its the semi-final for the Bloodstock Metal to the Masses battle of the bands.

Now we’ve just got to win the final to book our slot on the Metal to the Masses stage at the Bloodstock festival.

The final takes place at The Roadhouse, Birmingham on 13th July (yes the same day as the World Cup final). We’ll be facing off against five other bands and there’s only one band going through – fingers crossed.

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Walking Distance Tube Map

April 29, 2014 1:22 pm | Leave a Comment |

A walking distance tube map has been created to help travellers disrupted by the latest London Underground strikes.

Designed by London-based creative team, Joe Watson and Aryven Arasen, the map shows the walking time between each station, allowing users to easily calculate their total walking travel time.

Although touted as a solution for regular London travellers, it is perhaps most useful for more occasional visitors who haven’t learned the lay of the London land.

Either way, it’s something I’ll be checking every time I now plan travel to London.

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SteelSeries H Wireless Review

April 25, 2014 9:37 am | Leave a Comment |

 

What is the SteelSeries H Wireless?

The H Wireless is Steel Series’ top of the range stereo, wireless gaming headset that is also just about the best headset I’ve ever used.

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New Google Camera App Review

April 17, 2014 3:37 pm | Leave a Comment |

Google has just released a new Android Camera app that’s free to download from the Play Store for any phone running Android 4.4 KitKat or later. I’ve taken it for a spin to see how it performs compared to the previous standard Android camera app and several others that are available, including the standard Samsung Galaxy S4 camera app.

 

The first thing you notice with this new app is that Google has stuck largely with the clean design ethic of the previous Android camera app. After briefly appearing for a moment to hint at where they can be found, the main menu controls disappear off screen leaving just the shutter button (which will either be black if the camera aspect ratio is 4:3 or semi-transparent if 16:9) and the ‘…’ that signifies the settings menu.

 

Tapping the settings menu brings up options for turning on a guidance grid, toggling the flash and switching to the front camera. Just tap on the image to choose your focus point or let the autofocus do its thing.

 

Further options can be brought up by swiping in from the left edge. Here you can access the photo sphere mode, panorama and lens blur modes, as well as select the normal camera and video modes.

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Android TV revealed

April 7, 2014 11:47 am | Leave a Comment |

Google has revealed its latest attempt to takeover the TV, following the flop of Google TV, with Android TV.

The new interface, as the name suggests, leverages all the content deals and interface know-how of Android and simply ports them to the big screen. Movies, TV, Music and of course apps will all be available at the touch of a remote button.

As Google puts it “Android TV is an entertainment interface, not a computing platform […] It’s all about finding and enjoying content with the least amount of friction.”

The interface will also support voice recognition and notifications, though Google is encouraging developers to keep things simple to ensure users actually use the products.

All told Android TV is very similar to Amazon’s just released Fire TV, once again marking how the TV is being seen as the next big battle ground.

A key part of the experience will also be that content from different apps is pushed to the homescreen, allowing for the user to skip having to open specific apps to get to their content.

The interface will also support resuming of content, allowing for seamless switching of screens, from an Android tablet or phone to a TV.

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Xbox One controller getting another update

April 5, 2014 2:33 pm | Leave a Comment |

It has been revealed that the Xbox One controller will be getting another firmware update when the latest Xbox One patch is released.

The update should fix connection and headset issues.

The news is a little surprising given that Microsoft already released a firmware update for its controller in March, which you might have hoped would be the final fix.

However, the process for updating the controller is quick and simple – or at least it was last time – so it shouldn’t be too much of a hassle.

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YouTube paid music service delayed over design problems

April 5, 2014 1:50 pm | Leave a Comment |

YouTube’s planned paid-for music service is being delayed as Google executives are insisting the product launches in a competitive state.

Somewhat contrasting with the Google release philosophy of old, whereby products were simply released in beta and then worked on in a live state, it would appear Google doesn’t want to show its cards too early on this occasion and is holding back.

The service was originally earmarked for release earlier this year but the service has now been delayed until “the second quarter or beyond.”

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Apple documents reveal concern over iPhone sales and Android competition

April 5, 2014 1:41 pm | Leave a Comment |

Internal Apple documents from last April reveal the company was scrambling to identify ways to compete with Android phones as well as keep sales of iPhones from declining.

The documents were revealed in a court session during a trial which is seeing Apple sue Samsung for patent infringement. They were referenced as Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller was being cross examined.

Schiller downplayed the presentation, saying it was for an off-site meeting with “a few sales people” and not something that he attended.

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