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James Bruce-Hardware Reviews Editor

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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Netflix Versus LoveFilm - The Battle Of The UK Movie Streaming Services

With Netflix having recently launched in the UK, it looks like consumers are going to have to make a choice between the established Amazon-backed LoveFilm, and the newcomer Netflix.

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Garden Plan Pro - The Best iPad Gardening App Yet

GrowVeg.com, a subscription based online garden planning tool, has recently launched an iPad app based on the service. It costs $9.99 (no subscription) during the introductory period. It's possibly the best tool I've found yet for planning your vegetable plot or allotment, with a fantastic advanced feature set such as square foot gardening and space requirements for individual varieties.

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Shazam Player - A Free Replacement Music App With Lyrics [iOS]

Shazam - the guys who brought you the awesome app that tells you what music is playing - have launched a new, free player app for iOS designed to replace your regular iPod app. Its greatest feature is the unique lyric display option, but it also comes complete with some playlist building and social functions.

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5 Reasons It's Better To Date A Geek [Opinion]

Let's face it - geeks make for a better relationship than any of those alpha-male types. Exactly why is that though? Are you prepared to shun good looks for reliability and utility? What can you expect when you exchange your old boyfriend for a new geek version?

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Lasers, Unblockable Messaging, LED Hats & Plastic Recyclers - 4 More KickStarter Projects Worthy Of Your Attention

I think crowd funding is a great way to support independent developers and scientists, so I'm not ashamed to promote awesome technology projects when I see them. Kickstarter is a microfunding platform for artists and entrepreneurs to find support for their projects. Here are some picks - from lasers in education, unblockable messaging apps, LED hats and plastic recycling for 3D printers!

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DIY
Arduino Programming - Playing With Shift Registers (a.k.a Even More LEDs)

Today I’ll attempt to teach you a little bit about Shift Registers. These are a fairly important part of Arduino programming, basically because they expand the number of outputs you can use, in exchange for only 3 control pins. You can also daisy-chain shift registers together in order to get even more outputs. This is a significant jump in difficulty from previous tutorials.

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3 Tactics To Really Make Your New Year's Resolutions Stick

New Years Resolutions are generally well intentioned attempts to kickstart ourselves into learning something new, losing weight, or saving money. Realistically though, they’re exceptional if they aren’t forgotten by February. But seriously now, let’s make this year the one where we really stick to our well made plans and finally achieve something worthwhile.

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Think Your WPA-Protected Wifi Is Secure? Think Again - Here Comes The Reaver

By now, we should all be aware of the dangers of securing networks with WEP, which I demonstrated before how you could hack in 5 minutes. The advice has always been to use WPA or WPA2 to secure your network, with a long password that couldn't be hacked by brute force. Well, it turns out there's a significant backdoor in most routers that can be exploited - in the form of a technology called WPS.

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The Top 25 MakeUseOf Articles Of 2011

With 2011 now over, it’s been a wild ride here at MakeUseOf - so I thought it might be interesting to take a look back at the most popular articles of 2011. What stories did you appreciate so much you just had to share it with friends, or really got you talking? Read on to find out!

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What's New In WordPress 3.3 ?

If you haven’t logged into your dashboard lately, you probably should. Wordpress 3.3 was released about a few weeks ago, and as a major release it brings some fairly significant changes which I’ll outline today. The underlying theme is accessibility for new users.

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5 Ways To Get 3D Content For Your New 3DTV

So, lucky you - you got a new 3DTV for Christmas, eh? May I be the first to say, congratulations - you obviously understand that 3D is most certainly not a passing fad, and at the end of this article will be armed with the know-how to suitably impress your friends with all the 3D content you'll have. So, where does one actually go about getting 3D content then? Read on!

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How to Set Up iTunes Match for the First Time: The Definitive Guide

Our definitive guide to what iTunes Match is and how to upgrade all your matched songs to high-quality versions.

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Is Amazon Killing the High Street? [Opinion]

While online retailers such as Amazon go from strength to strength, a damning new report in the UK has stated the high street is facing a crisis - in towns and cities, 1 in 7 high street locations lie empty.Is the report justified? Are online retailers like Amazon responsible for this, and why? What can revitalize the high-street?

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The Top 10 iPhone Apps I Like To Use The Most

We're in the habit of reviewing hundreds of new apps here at MakeUseOf, and though most of us probably have pages and pages of random apps on our iPhones, how many of those can we honestly say we use on a regular basis - like at least once a week? Once I took a cold hard look at my home screen, I narrowed it down to the following 10.

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5 iPhone Apps To Help You Battle Dragons

The sheer scale of Skyrim - not only in terms of explorable areas, but also the stories and lore contained within characters, books, and taverns - results in a game that many will never get to fully experience. So here are 4 iPhone apps and 1 eBook to aid you in your epic quest and help you get the most out this amazing game

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Impressions Of The XBox Live Winter Dashboard Update

The latest update to the Xbox system has been released, bringing tighter integration with Kinect and voice control, a shiny new Metro look, and a slew of new media capabilities (with more promised in the coming months). Read on for a full and honest review of everything it brings to the table.

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Building A PC For Christmas: A Visual Diary Of The Build Process

Having recently heard the woes of some family who are getting by with a tiny netbook and some kind of obscure Linux, I decided to build them a real computer for Christmas using components I have left over after various upgrades. I thought it would make for an interesting article to document the build process with photos, so here it is.

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An Arduino Project: How To Make Flashy Christmas Lights Ornaments

This is the next part in our learning Arduino series, and this time we’ll be learning about and using Arrays to make a little Christmas tree ornament with various flashing sequences. This would be an ideal project to keep the kids occupied if you'd like to teach them basic soldering - just mount the LEDs on a piece of card, and you can get power from a standard 9v battery.

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The Top 5 iPad Designer Board Games You Can Gift This Christmas

Giving apps as gifts can be great little stocking fillers for your loved ones, and if you know someone who loves both boardgames and their iPad, then I have the perfect list for you right here.

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4 Things That Really Annoy Me In Tech Today [Opinion]

I'll admit, I get a little cranky sometimes. I guess we all can, and sometimes it's a good thing to vent. So here's a list of the top 5 things in tech that are really getting on my nerves today - see how many you agree with. And whatever you do, please don't take this 100% seriously, because I'm not really half as cranky as I sound.

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