Before long Christmas will be upon us! So, what is hot this year, what gadgets are the in things to own? As the technology reviewer, I thought I could be worthwhile to give a bit of insight into the expected big sellers and give you a few ideas. If you plan on buying any of [...]
Leftover food is unavoidable. Whether its produce that’s on the brink of expiry or a small amount that won’t make a meal on its own, it can almost always be cooked up with minimal use of extra ingredients.
If you have cheese that’s starting to harden, turn it into a cheese sauce. This is also good [...]
It was a cold and bleak November evening in Birmingham, and there couldn’t have been a better place to spend it than in the Carling Academy. Feeder had attracted a sold out crowd, with over 3000 people of mixed age and gender attending.
The new album, ‘Silent Cry,’ was being promoted for the tour so it [...]
Ron Sexsmith
Live @ Birmingham Glee Club (Tues 4th Nov)
I made the impulse decision to check this gig out only hours before Ron Sexsmith was due on stage at the intimate and very awesome Glee Club venue in the heart of Birmingham’s lively Chinatown district. At £20 a ticket, I reluctantly handed over my shopping money [...]
Since its first preview trailers back in early 2007 Little Big Planet (LBP) has been set to provide gamers with the ultimate means to “Play. Create. Share.”.
The game starts with a unique and quirky opening credits, shortly after which you are greeted by the familiar voice of Stephen Fry who will guide you through the [...]
I know my columns usually consist of me complaining about something modern games lack which old, dusty games delivered in spades, so today I will be discussing something which more recent games have actually tried to embrace – co-operative gameplay.
As I write this, literally tens of people may be playing Left 4 Dead – the [...]
You get up, 7.00 in the morning. Have breakfast, commute to work, its 9.00 and you arrive at work you turn your computer on. At 10.30 you take a trip to your lunchbox and eat your sandwich. 12.00, the trip to the canteen, with your colleagues, you buy something half healthy (as you sandwich has [...]
It’s a well known fact that sound is the single most under-valued aspect of gaming (despite the modern electronics price dive-bomb meaning there’s little reason not to own at least a cheap 5.1 system) and I can’t be the only person who finds it rather annoying that an aspect can be well known as under-valued, [...]
I have as a rule of thumb, decided that books from the Richard & Judy book club are not for me. That is not to say they are bad books, merely that they don’t appeal to me in the slightest. So imagine my surprise when I turned over the cover of ‘No Time for Goodbye’ [...]
From A to B, How Many Hours Wasted ? by Liam Hamilton
Most people today use e-mail. Some people like it some hate it. What are the other effects of e-mail though? How long do we become distracted by e-mails? Apparently it’s something like 64 seconds on average. Sixty-four seconds is the amount of time it [...]
