The Surprisingly Easy Guide to…Making Your Android Phone Safe

Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world, with an estimated 1 billion users. Unfortunately, this popularity makes it a target for hackers, who take advantage of Google’s open source code and relatively lax policy on approving apps to infect devices. There have been a number of …

09/08/2015

Chris Smith

How-To Guides

Celebrate International Cat Day with the Best Cats from Movies and TV

To celebrate International Cat Day, here are some of our favourite on-screen felines. Share your favourite with us in the comments! Simba (The Lion King) As much as we love them, most cats are pretty lazy. They sit around licking themselves, sleeping and eating…then saunter off around the neighbourhood to …

07/08/2015

Chris Smith

Freddyâ€™s (Not) Dead: A Nightmare On Elm Street To Be Rebooted Again

Stock up on coffee and Pro Plus: legendary dream-murderer and sometime rapper Freddy Krueger is returning to the big screen again. According to reports, New Line Cinema is planning to resurrect the franchise with another reboot. It’ll be written by David Leslie Johnson, whose previous credits include Orphan, Wrath of …

07/08/2015

Chris Smith

News

The Surprisingly Easy App of the Week: Football Special

The Premier League kicks off this weekend, but are you fully prepared? Here are 7 essential apps to help you stay on top of the latest scores and news, wow your mates with knowledge or just find a pub to watch the game in. Sky Sports Live Football Score Centre …

06/08/2015

Chris Smith

App of the Week

Hoverboards are real! Back to the Future 2 was right…sorta.

Yes, it’s true: as foretold in the prophetic Back to the Future 2, hoverboards exist! In the same year that Marty McFly travelled to the future and stoked the imagination of children everywhere, Lexus have unveiled a short video shows professional skateboarder Ross MacGouran riding a hoverboard around a facility …

06/08/2015

Chris Smith

News

10 of the best iPhone and iPad games of 2015 so far

You’d be forgiven for thinking mobile gaming is all Clash of Clans and Angry Birds, but there’s actually a whole host of brilliant, innovative games ready and waiting for you to download and play (for a couple of quid, usually). Here are 10 of the best iPhone and iPad games …

05/08/2015

Chris Smith

Microsoft announce new Halo game at Gamescom 2015

Microsoft has announced a brand new Halo game at Gamescom 2015. Halo Wars 2, the sequel to the real-time strategy spin-off of the popular franchise, will be developed by Creative Assembly, the team behind Alien Isolation and the Total War series. The game will be released on Xbox One and …

05/08/2015

Chris Smith

News

The 9 weirdest UK number 1 singles of all time

Britain is renowned for producing good music, with the Beatles, David Bowie, Radiohead, the Rolling Stones and too many more to list all emerging from our wonderful isles. Unfortunately, the British public has quite a fondness for novelty singles too. Here are 9 of the weirdest songs to hit number …

05/08/2015

Chris Smith

Music

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