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Having moved from Virgin Media nearly 18 months ago now, I have had a fair amount of time to make my decision about Sky's brand new TV service - Sky Q. I must admit, our 18 months with the service has not been without fault, but overall I do believe that the money we have spent with Sky has been better spent than with Virgin Media's TiVo service. Why did I move provider in the first place? We were with Virgin Media before moving across to Sky Q, and we were beginning to get very unhappy with the service, the TiVo box was sluggishly slow, the internet not much better. We were left dumped with the first superhub and the first version of the TiVo box. Having had these for a few years they were slow and needed replacing, and we had asked Virgin to replace these many times but they were refusing - claiming that it still worked and therefore why should they send us out the newer services. They eventually agreed that we were in fact eligible to have the newer boxes; but at our e...

So recently I have been using my PC more (unusual for me as I'm a mac person myself, but I decided to give it a go as I had it on my desk) and discovered the sheer amount of resources that Chrome uses up and hogs all too itself. The question which I began to ask too myself was, Why is chrome using all of these resources? And is there an alternative which I could use which would be less intensive yet still provide a useable and pleasant interface and experience. There aren't exactly a huge amount of choices when it comes to browser on Windows (FYI: On mac I use Safari mainly, it does everything I want fast and I can't find too many faults.); I mean what are the options? You've got Edge - just LOL, Firefox - Meh, Chrome - resource intensive and then the final one that I found. Opera. And so far, it ticks all of the boxes. It must be a pain to convert to a new browser after using the same one for years? Nope, In fact its surprisingly easy. Included in the download f...

Let's be honest when you think of the newest and best iPhone, you think of the iPhone X, this is fair, I mean its the most expensive and that screen is just stunning. But is it really as good as it has been hyped up to be, and more importantly how good/bad is the price to performance ratio? So for the first time this year I got the iPhone on release day, the reason for this being that last year I got my iPhone 7 on the iPhone upgrade program from Apple, which meant I had the choice of three iPhone's this year which were all more expensive than the iPhone 7, something which I was really annoyed about. I mean an upgrade program which goes up every year - whats the point? And I can guarantee that if it goes up this year then I will be moving to something like the EE upgrade style program which would also give me the opportunity of Android, something which I'm pretty sure I will not be doing anytime soon. Anyway, back to the actual thing this blog post is about, the iPhone ...

So today I was simply watching a few technology vlog-style videos on YouTube and the person I was watching (who's name I won't mention) was in Curry's / PC World and this person was basically looking at everything in there - I don't know why but oh well. At first I actually had my iPad sat next to me on the sofa and I was playing Forza Horizon 3, so not paying much attention, but when I did look over I saw them looking through the household section; specifically vacuum cleaners. This person was looking at the different Henry vacuum cleaners and suddenly I noticed something, one of them looked rather different too the rest, it had a battery compartment and a charger right next to it! And much to my surprise, Henry now comes with a cordless variant! I eagerly wanted to know more about this, it wasn't something that I saw Numatic doing soon to the Henry, I have never really had a problem using a Henry with the cord; others I believe have had issues with the cord...