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Toshiba’s Portégé laptops are built for the business user, and the R600-13Z is a fantastic laptop which cements the Holy Trinity of portability, performance and usability under one roof, with very few concessions made – despite its small and very light form factor. The laptop boasts the inclusion of a dual-core Intel processor and 3072MB of memory. Running word processors, internet browsers and email clients simultaneously won’t prove an issue for this laptop, making it more suited to intensive work than the Sony VAIO VPC X11Z1E/X .

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We’ve teamed up with mobile phone recycling price comparison website SellMyMobile.com to offer one lucky winner an unlocked Google Nexus One. Slim, stylish and full-featured, the Nexus One is easily one of the best Android models we’ve used. There are thousands of apps available, the touchscreen is smooth and fluid, and the 5-megapixel camera is a major upgrade from the early days of washed-out photos and choppy videos. Elements like the responsive touchscreen and Facebook contact imports are a real boon. SellMyMobile.com is a mobile phone recycling price comparison website covering more UK phone recyclers than any other service in the UK

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Napoleon: Total War is the new chapter in the Total War series, where you assume the role of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, tactically assemble armies together and get to battle it out in real-time all across the world. Critically acclaimed and only on PC, the game is a must-have for strategists and also for those who like a bit of multi-player action – as Napoleon: Total War has a new ‘drop-in’ multiplayer campaign mode. To celebrate its release we are giving away, in association with Intel, a limited edition PC, equipped with an Intel Core i7-860 processor. Not only that, five runners-up will receive a copy of the game and an Intel Core i7-860 processor

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Good news – Freeview HD is finally rolling out across the UK during the next few months! To celebrate, TechRadar has teamed up with the set-top box experts at Humax to give away a Humax HD-FOX T2 Freeview HD box to three lucky winners in time for the HD switch-on! High definition programming has, of course, been available from the likes of Sky and Freesat for a while. Freeview HD has been a long time coming though – but the wait for free-to-air HD TV through standard TV aerials is nearly over. Read: Humax HD-FOX T2 review By June 2010, around 50 per cent of UK homes will be able to enjoy Freeview HD.

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Mac users with a MobileMe subscription may well be familiar with the Back to my Mac feature that enables you to connect to and use your Mac from another one anywhere in the world. But it only works between Macs, and chances are you’ll only have access to a PC when you really need access to that one essential file. Step forward, GoToMyPC for Mac. GoToMyPC has been available to PC users for some years. Now the company has made a version for Mac users, so you can connect to your home Mac from any computer anywhere, as long as it’s on the internet and can run Java

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Why don’t we have Hulu? That’s the most frequent question asked when discussing the state of video on demand in the UK. Well, now we now do.

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SeeSaw, the video-on-demand service which has risen from the ashes of Project Kangaroo, is launching today with over 3,000 hours’ content available to viewers for free. The service brings in programmes from Channel 4 and Channel Five and also is the base for some archived BBC Worldwide content. Although ITV isn’t part of SeeSaw, you will be able to get some archived programmes from the channel thanks to deals with independent producers. Shows on demand The shows, er, on show range from premium programmes ( Doctor Who ), adult drama ( Red Riding ) to comedy ( Eurotras h and Green Wing ). There’s a limited amount of adverts on the service but you will still have to sit through some pre-roll and mid-roll adverts.

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Making money with online video is no easy task, just ask Google. It’s king of the hill video sharing service YouTube continues to operate in the red almost 5 years after its initial release, a reality which makes us wonder how anyone without Google’s nearly infinite resources could possibly survive in this space. The latest competitor to bite the dust is Veoh , which if you haven’t heard of it, was aiming to fill the void of copy protected content that was created when Google purged its archives at the behest of the TV networks a few years back. The ultimate goal of Veoh was to give users access to major studio content and independent productions, but costly legal battles, primarily with Vivendi’s Universal Music Group ended up overwhelming the good intentions of founder Dmitry Shapiro. Veoh had content agreements in place with CBS, ABC, Viacom, MTV, and even ESPN.

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Abbyy FineReader 10 is an OCR tool that can be used to digitise a range of different types of document into a format that can be easily stored on disc, made searchable and even edited. Printed pages can be converted into Word documents, websites and much more in just a few easy steps. FineReader offers many ways to transform printed documents into files of various formats. The program can work with scans, digital photographs, PDFs and image files as a source, and can convert these into HTML documents, Excel and Word files, PDFs, image files and a number of other formats

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I’m going to say something I don’t get to say enough: Copyright can be great. It can provide a living wage, spread knowledge, and even sometimes enhance art. It gives us Open Source, viral art, and countless creative works that would have died in the desk job. Many of the worst uses of copyright are actually misuses, deceptions, and hustles. They often trade on how confusing copyright is, giving too much power to legally worded nonsense meant to squeeze money or restrict use that’s all bark and no legal standing.

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