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By Mark Wilson There are many YouTube downloaders, but Free YouTube to MP3 Converter does something slightly different: it just grabs the audio. You might want to use it to grab the audio from a concert someone has uploaded, or perhaps save the narration from a vlog. With support for saving audio as MP3, M4A…

By Mark Wilson How many times have you watched a video on YouTube – or another video site – and wished you could save a video to watch at a later time? This is where ClipGrab could help you out, as it lets you download streaming videos from a wide range of sites including Vimeo,…

By Mark Wilson PhotoScape is primarily a photo editor, but this label doesn’t really do it justice – there is much more to it than basic retouching. There’s also an image viewer, a batch editing function, a built in screen capture tool, and a host of filters and effects to quickly liven up any image.…

By Mike Williams Sumatra PDF is optimized for speed and ease of use. There are no fancy extras – just the essentials for viewing PDFs and ebooks, navigating, searching and organizing them. As an added bonus, Sumatra PDF is also available in a portable edition so you can stick it on a USB drive and…

By Mike Williams VPNs can seem a complicated technology, packed with low-level geeky details that hardly anyone understands, but check the TunnelBear site and you’ll quickly realise this service does things differently. The Canadian-based company doesn’t drown you in jargon. There’s no talk of protocols, no mention of encryption types, barely any technical terms at…

By Mike Williams Canadian web host Netfirms was founded in 1998 and went on to host 1.2 million domains, before being acquired by tech giant Endurance International Group back in 2011. Some Endurance companies keep their profile – HostGator, Bluehost – but Netfirms is different, and seems to have been left to drift since the…

By Nicholas Fearn Usenet services have been around for decades, and Altopia is among the oldest on the market. The company was set up in 1995 by a university system admin who wanted to create a useful, uncensored newsgroup service for students. Since then, it’s gone on to become a commercial service for different industries.…

By Kevin Lee HyperX might be better known for making RAM and gaming headsets, but recently the company has gone full-long into peripherals. Now, HyperX has introduced its first gaming mouse, the PulseFire FPS. Priced at $49 (about £40, AU$65), the HyperX Pulsefire FPS is an affordable gaming mouse that feels comfortable in the hand…

By Desire Athow We recently reviewed the Origin EON17-X, and this is another spin on the laptop which turns it into a Windows 10 Pro-toting workstation. That underlines one fundamental shift currently happening in the world of high-end computing. The growing popularity of portable gaming rigs has been beneficial to the mobile workstation market as…

Microsoft might indeed be set to release a Windows 10 Cloud device, which many expect to be its own take on the Chromebook. Here’s why such a move makes sense. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

AMD and Nvidia are both expected to unveil brand-new cards this year, with the former’s Radeon RX Vega GPUs, and the latter’s Volta-architecture cards. Nvidia, however, may have a leg up in this race. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

Surface Pro 5 leaks and rumors have been making rounds for ages, yet the device is still not official. The Samsung Galaxy Book 12, meanwhile, just went up for preorder and it might just be the best alternative. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

By Mike Williams Established in 2001, Webhosting UK (which refers to itself as WHUK for short) is an experienced hosting company with a wide and keenly-priced product range. Shared hosting starts at £2.49 ($3.10) a month, for instance, with cPanel, Windows, managed WordPress and Magento options, and a Website Builder. The plan specification is mostly…

By Mike Williams If you’re looking for a web host which offers unlimited everything for the lowest price, Media Temple is going to be a disappointment. The company sells itself on quality, not price, and its shared hosting package looks very different to most of the competition. A chunky $20 (£16) gets you only 20GB…

The second attempt of Microsoft to bring Windows into ARM-based hardware will be seen in the fourth quarter. The upcoming Windows 10 devices will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers