Tell your audience that more than 200,000 Haitians are dead in the devastating earthquake and they’ll change the channel to check the football score. Show them the little girl found alive under the rubble desperate for food, water and shelter and hearts (and wallets) stricken by grief will open. … Continue readingThe Hidden Brain
Countless writers have thoroughly dissected the dangers of instant gratification of everything from sexual desire to self-expression on the human condition. Siegel goes one further, asserting that our whole lives become a 24/7 economic transaction as we drift through the digital world producing and consuming. … Continue readingPut your money where your mouse is
Most multifunction centres connect straight to your PC via a USB cable, and if you’ve ever tried to share a printer over a network of different operating systems you know how tricky it can be. If you have a small office or home network it’s worth looking at models that connect to your router and let you install the software to access them on each system. … Continue readingPrints Charming
Take the term ‘bling’ and reverse it. Big and shiny is out, muted and understated is in. Bling’s ideologically masculine, aggressive stance is making way for unobtrusive, calm androgyny. No more high-top sneakers, diamantes on handbags or huge jacket slogans. … Continue readingBlang
Keep antivirus software up to date and if you use Internet Explorer 6, upgrade to version 7, which is better at warning you of hidden executables. Better yet, move to open source browser Firefox — in its native state it can’t run the sort of scripts that contain executable viruses. … Continue readingDrive-by Downloads
The technology behind LCD computer monitors has been steadily improving in the 5-10 years since they became affordable to the average PC user, and the reasons to buy one are
Together with a host of add-ons from CD cataloguing software to a label designer, Toast has moved forward when basic OS capability threatened to render it obsolete. It’s still a snap to use and great value for money. … Continue readingToast Titanium 8
The magic of video editing happens in the timeline. Any motion image software operates on the same basic principles of arranging video and sound clips into tracks that play concurrently, media or ‘assets’ coming into frame according to how you arrange them. … Continue readingChoice Cuts on the Rise
Blaze is as easy to read as it is high in quality and, although King has left the ghouls and shapeshifters far behind, it will remind his fans why they’ve loved his work for four decades. … Continue readingBlaze
While it’s perfect for the sensual nature of poetry, it does nothing to advance a narrative. He obviously knows his way around the chemistry of 18th century perfume manufacture, but if you’re that keen, Wikipedia’s quicker. … Continue readingPerfume
