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James Bruce

Hardware Reviews Editor

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About James Bruce

James has a BSc in Artificial Intelligence and is CompTIA A+ and Network+ certified. When he's not busy as Hardware Reviews Editor, he enjoys LEGO, VR, and board games. Before joining MakeUseOf, he was a lighting technician, English teacher, and data center engineer.

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3 More Ways To Track Your iPhone & Other iOS Devices

Having just received notification of my 4G iPad shipping, I decided to look into some better ways of tracking my mobile devices. Right now, I'm a steadfast user of Find My iPhone - both my wife and I use it to log into each others accounts and figure out when we're coming home, or where we are when trying to meet up in town. But what's the best way to track multiple devices?

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My First Hour With The Windows 8 Consumer Preview - A Snap Judgement [Opinion]

I want to be surprised by Windows 8; I want to be pushed into a new paradigm of home computing, one that feels futuristic with it's bold colors and simplistic interface; I'm fully prepared for that. This is the premise of Windows 8, and I decided to try out the recently released Consumer Preview build to just get a taste of what's coming.

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Try Out Sublime Text 2 For Your Cross-Platform Code Editing Needs

Sublime Text 2 is a cross-platform code editor I only recently heard about, and I have to say I'm really impressed despite the beta label. You can download the full app without paying a penny and with no enforced time limit for your evaluation. So I really think it's worth taking a look at, in your search for the elusive best code editor ever.

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4 Creative Projects To Do On Your Mac [OSX]

With summer still way off and spring only just poking its head out, there's still time to get some creative juices flowing while stuck in front of your computer. If you still haven't done anything with last year's video footage and photographs, here are 4 creative projects you can do on your Mac (or on the Internet), mostly for free.

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AdBlock, NoScript & Ghostery - The Trifecta Of Evil

Over the past few months, I've been contacted by a good number of readers who have had problems downloading our guides, or why they can't see the login buttons or comments not loading; and in 99% of cases, it's because they're running one these plugins - AdBlock, NoScript, or Ghostery - which I shall hereby refer to as the "trifecta of evil". Here's why.

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How to Set Up a Proper 404 Error Page on Your Wordpress Blog

The humble 404 has been with us since the tubes that make up the internet were first plumbed in.

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The iOS-ification Of OSX - The Beginning Of The End? Or A Natural Harmonisation? [Opinion]

Recent announcements about the next major upgrade of OSX, named Mountain Lion, have garnered mixed reactions from the community. Some are proclaiming the death of the Mac; some think it's the first step in dumbing down OSX; while some believe it's a natural evolution given the success of iOS devices. One thing is certain - the iOS-ification of OSX has been officially confirmed. Is that a good thing though?

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A Preview Of Features In The Next OSX, Mountain Lion [Mac]

Last week, Apple announced preliminary details of the next major release of OSX, named Mountain Lion. Some are calling it non-news - an incremental upgrade with no real new features or changes. I'll let you be the judge of that. Inspired by the iPad is the theme of this upgrade - though iOS-ification of the desktop might be more accurate.

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Learn Podcast Editing Basics With Garageband [Mac]

Last week, I talked about how to get started recording a podcast - microphones, Skype or Google Plus and how to record either. This week, I'll be looking at how to edit your (audio) podcast in Garageband. Garageband is free with most Macs, and it's an incredibly capable audio editor with everything a podcaster could need.

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Add Graphs to Your PHP Web App With pChart

pChart is a remarkably advanced graphing toolkit for PHP. It’s free under GPL licence, highly customisable, fully object oriented, and more than capable of handling any data you throw at it. Let me show you how to get started with using it for your web app.

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A Tutorial On Using AJAX In WordPress

AJAX is a remarkable web technology that moved us beyond the simple “click link, go to another page” structure of The Internet 1.0. It enables websites to dynamically fetch and display content without the user moving away from the current page. Making use of AJAX is quite easy to do from within the WordPress environment, and today we show you how.

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Working With Custom Database Tables In WordPress

A quick scan of the Best of WordPress Plugins page will reveal some of the many unique and niche ways you can make your blog work harder. What if you already have a database of say, customer information, but you want to be able to query that data and display it within a WordPress template? Today I’ll be showing you just how to do that, safely within the WordPress engine.

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Setup A Proxy On Your WordPress Site To Bypass Filters & Firewalls

Everyday the onslaught to our freedom and censorship of the internet continues to escalate, but you can help. If you want to ensure certain sites remain available, then look no further than a new, free Wordpress plugin called RePress. It allows you to quickly and easily setup a web proxy without complicated programming.

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The State Of The Internet, 2012 [Opinion]

Trouble is brewing, dear readers. Our rights and freedoms are under increasingly under attack from corporate entities with enough money to control those in power. We may have won a minor victory against SOPA, but that's the least of our worries. We can't keep up the fight forever, and I predict we're heading to a dark, dark place. Let's look at the evidence.

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Start A Recipe Blog With The Recipress Wordpress Plugin

Recipress is a free, professional quality plugin for adding beautifully styled recipes to your blog posts. Since I’ve been told my Jalapeño bread is to die for, I thought maybe it would be worth adding the recipe to my Self Sufficiency blog - and this was the perfect solution to do that. Let’s take a look at this fantastic plugin, and a quick walkthrough on how to add and display your recipes.

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Microsoft Skydrive Gets Big Update - 25GB Of Cloud Storage

Microsoft SkyDrive has been around for a while, but was recently given a fairly significant update. We took some time to talk to Microsoft about the new features and play with it all, so here's a breakdown of what you can expect.

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Why The Campaign Against Piracy Is A Farce [Opinion]

DMCA, SOPA, MegaUpload shut down, piracy becoming a religion in Sweden - not a week goes by without some shutdown, anti-piracy laws or shocking statistics about torrents - and I have to ask myself, is it really worth it? Is this really how want to be spending our time as a society? Is piracy actually all that bad?

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How To Submit Your Own App To The iTunes App Store

So you've programmed your first iOS app and you want to get it uploaded and submitted to the iTunes store? Well, as I found out recently, it's not quite as easy as it sounds. The latest Xcode 4.2 development tools from Apple have certainly streamlined the process, but it's still a daunting task your first time around. What I can do is give an overview of the entire process.

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3 Social Media Campaigns That Worked Their Magic On Me

What kind of socially devoid person Facebook-likes Nike or Coca Cola just to get some marketing spiel pseudo-status messages fill up their Facebook homepage? Surely this new social marketing fad is just a bunch of stale baloney? Well, I've come to the conclusion that there is some merit to it after all, so I present to you 3 social media campaigns that got me, hook, line and sinker.

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Is Netflix The Solution to Video Piracy? [Opinion]

Netflix recently launched in the UK - and I wrote up a full and shining review of the service last time. It offers an affordable way to get high quality on-demand movies and TV straight into your living room (or any portable device). My question today is - is Netflix the ultimate solution to piracy? Our generation has grown up believing everything should be instant access. But the industry hasn't adapted.

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