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Can You Use a Portable CD Player In Your Car? This One You Can!
It often pays to be safe rather than sorry with tech, especially in an age of breakable touch-screens. When it comes to CD's people are particularly wary, and for good reason. From games consoles like the Xbox 360 tearing discs apart to vinyl being scratched, disc-based media deserves protection. If you've a CD collection and need to listen on-the-go to that high-bitrate sweetness then a portable CD player is a must. Don't think that just because it uses CD's it's all outdated tech, though, as our SE10 CD player features... Read more...
Freeview Boxes in 2024: Are They Worth It?
UPDATED JUNE 2024 With the release of "Freely" as yet another alternative to Live TV, it has been added to the list of alternatives. It doesn't really devalue a Freeview box yet, though, since Freely comes with a fraction of the channels, requires powerful internet, and still relies on a backup aerial anyway... We've come a long way from the days when a fourth channel on the TV was a big deal. The biggest change of the last few decades of television has certainly been the "Digital Switchover", in which old... Read more...
Freeview Channel Disruption February 2024
Freeview Channel Disruption February 2024
This week's update is bite-sized, but could save our avid Freeview-users a heap of stress! Get in-the-know about Freeview signal down this week so you don't endlessly retune to no... Read more...
Present with Freedom using a Presentation Clicker
Present with Freedom using a Presentation Clicker
Little gadgets that go a long way is the core philosophy for our guardian motion lights and USB converters, and it's a drive shared by UK-based tech manufacturer August international... Read more...
New Freely Details Are Equally Concerning and Exciting
New Freely Details Are Equally Concerning and Exciting
For those of you who see our weekly newsletters, you'll be familiar with "Freely", the 100% online TV service which offers live TV through an EPG just like terrestrial or... Read more...
How To Send an SOS to Someone's Phone with AUDAR E2
How To Send an SOS to Someone's Phone with AUDAR E2
The AUDAR E2 vital sign watch is the world's first publicly accessible IoT mobile health watch with access to personal telehealth. With so many ground-breaking features and technological buzz-words it's... Read more...
What is a Set Top Box? Daffodil Basics
The way we access entertainment has changed decade on decade ever since the inception of public radio broadcasts! We went from radio shows to national broadcasts and now entertainment from a world away is available in the palm of our hand 24/7. With terrestrial TV, satellite TV, IPTV, catchup and streaming all vying for our attention, there's a whole generation that don't know the joy of the humble set-top-box! Let's fix that: Terrestrial Television in 2024 First off, we need to make it clear what we mean when we say... Read more...
The Digital Transformation in Healthcare is Finally Open To The Public
The Digital Transformation in Healthcare is Finally Open To The Public
Healthcare across the UK has been undergoing a change, in recent years. The NHS laid out an official initiative to digitise healthcare, make data remote, cloud-based and generally support products... Read more...
A Complete Overview of Speaker System Terms YOU should know!
A Complete Overview of Speaker System Terms YOU should know!
When shopping for tech, you can often find yourself confronted with abbreviations and acronyms that confound, confuse and generally go unexplained in product descriptions or adverts. These "technical" terms may... Read more...
Last Freeview Updates of January 2024
Last Freeview Updates of January 2024
I did say it would be a busy month for Freeview owners! This week there was a Freeview EPG update moving some channels and introducing some new names to the... Read more...
Understanding Video Standards for VHS Conversions
Understanding Video Standards for VHS Conversions
Modern devices like USB dongles and even standalone capture card boxes allow us to re-record our camcorder, VHS and dvd footage on to digital files for sharing through email, social... Read more...
How to Format USB FAT32, NTFS, exFat on Windows
How to Format USB FAT32, NTFS, exFat on Windows
USB drives are commonplace for professional and personal use. From saving VHS tapes to USB of old family holidays all the way to holding end-of-year reports for the largest companies... Read more...