Author: Alex Lowe

Windows 10 now owns 14.35% of the market

Since the launch last year in July, Microsoft had a rocky yet successful start with Windows 10. Despite the new operating system downloading and installing itself on loads of peoples computers it has proved popular with users, Windows 8 certainly wasn’t the company’s finest hour, users just didn’t want a all touchscreen experience on their desktop and for some it was too alienating of a change from Windows 7 and […]

Why consumer routers are plain awful and what you can do about it

Okay, so in the current space a lot of people do buy inexpensive routers, such as a Netgear or TP-Link generic box or just use the one provided with their ISP. and wonder why they have occasional dropouts and a wireless coverage which doesn’t and mainly can’t cover the whole house. Sometimes some random speed issues which can be fixed by simply ‘restarting the router’ or ‘turning it off and on again.’ I […]

This guy installed Windows 95 on his Apple Watch

People just like installing Windows 95 on every device that they can, but it really shows how far we have come in the last few decades with processing power and miniaturisation, it’s now possible to run Windows 95, sort of on the Apple Watch that shows how far we really have come, back in the 90s it would have required a bulky laptop or a huge desktop tower to do […]

Android TV remote app now out on iOS

Google has certainly dabbled with the TV experience in the last few years, first it was Google TV – which was a huge flop and that was quickly abandoned, then in 2012 Google brought out the Nexus Q which only lasted a matter of weeks after it was introduced at the Google Developers conference that year, one because it cost $299 and it didn’t do that much. Following that in 2013, […]

Cortana, in Windows 10 just can’t search Google

I’ve been using Windows 10 for quite a few months now, actually since January when it officially first came out on the Insider Program. Since then it has had it’s up and downs for random restarts and bugs but despite most things it has been good. Now some more bad news about Windows 10, the way Cortana has been designed Microsoft doesn’t want you using Google for voice searches, instead […]

Netflix on Android can now be charged to Google Play

Similar to how the payments system works on iOS, Google also allows third-party developers to utilise users payment details from their Google Play account to make purchases for subscriptions and various things within the app. Now Netflix is one of the latest apps to use Google Play Billing, Netflix has said that this will be slowly rolling out over the next few weeks. This feature on iOS and Android just makes […]

Volvo will be testing self-driving cars in public next year

It’s well known by now that Volvo lead the industry in car safety and how the car reacts when it crashes into something, but also the company has been developing self driving cars for a while now but Volvo has never tested the tech on the public and on roads used by everyone, only with engineers behind the wheel. Next year, Volvo will be letting the cars loose on the […]

Apple reveals Q2 2016 earnings

Just yesterday, Apple revealed its earnings for the second quarter of this year, although when compared to this heater last year – the earnings seem to be down and overall sales of the iPhone seem to be slipping slowly year over year. However Apple did predict this during the last earnings call, so the slight decline in sales shouldn’t be surprising. So here is a comparison between Q2 2016 and […]

Amazon Prime Music is now available on Sonos systems

It’s no doubt that Sonos is leading the home music system space by storm and it seems to be adding more and more music streaming services all the time, just earlier this year in February Apple Music was opened up to the wireless speaker platform and now following a short beta of six months, Sonos has added support for Amazon Prime Music in Europe. Amazon Prime Music on Prime is available […]

This video compares the speed of every iPad

A new video by YouTube channel EverythingApplePro has released footage of a test that they did of comparing the speed of all the iPad generations so far, including the original iPad 1 and the latest 12.9-inch and 9.7-inch iPad Pro. Tests include, heat, WiFi, boot times and more. Video