Articles for December 2014

Sudden and successful DDOS attacks took down the Playstation Network and Xbox Live online gaming services on Christmas day, and although Xbox Live went up and running again, PSN technicians are still struggling to get their network up again. ... Read more

Our scientists in the labs of Download3K have searched and compiled a list of the 10 best iOS games of 2014. ... Read more

Amazon is giving away for free 40 highly popular apps for FREE! The offer ends tomorrow, so don't waste any more time! ... Read more

AdBlock Plus is one of the leading ad blocking programs on the internet that is currently causing a bit of a stink in some circles over the loss of advertising income. AdBlock Plus team actually have an app for the Google Android market as well. ... Read more

Google Drive is one of the most popular cloud-based storage services. A local copy of files is kept on a hard drive connected to a PC & sometimes a user will also connect via a the Google Drive app. But how can someone create a backup of Drive? ... Read more

You would be not be scolded for not knowing who Qualcomm are. For many years they were owners of intellectual property. Now their SnapDragon mobile processors make billions in revenue. $24 billion in 2014 alone up from $10 billion just 4 years prior. ... Read more

MultCloud is a new cloud-based services from AOMEI. The Chinese company may not be a household name just yet, but their series of disk management tools like AOMEI Partition Assistant Lite Edition showg that this is a company who can be trusted. ... Read more

The Lenovo Group may just surprise you having recently become the global leader in the combined Laptop and Tablet category. Their Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro as the thinnest 2-in-1 on the market attest to their consistent progress in the technology market. ... Read more

This is the 2nd part of Apple’s “Best of 2014” apps and games article. In this part we present you the games that made it to the “Best Games” category. ... Read more

Apple has released a "Best of 2014" list, which includes various categories and their top-ranked apps for 2014. Check out this first part of the article with some of those categories. ... Read more

The researchers at the Harvard Medical School seeing the growing trend to watch movies, listen to audio content and read e-books on a back-lit tablet or smart phone at night, wondered how this might affect a sleep. Learn what their findings were. ... Read more

Google is coming under pressure to lead the charge in making the internet safer for children. Various initiatives and new laws are catching out companies who are often unaware of country-specific laws relating to children and the internet. ... Read more

The tray clock in Windows 8 usually just tells the time and the date. The amount of information provided is pretty spartan. Wouldn't it be more useful if you could add the day of the week to the Windows 8 tray clock? Well here is how to do it. ... Read more

After an extensive four week investigation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (the FBI) in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies reached the conclusion on December 19 that the North Korean government were responsible. ... Read more

For those of you who've been a long-time fan of the Chicken Invaders saga, there is no better Christmas gift than the brand new fifth iteration of the poultry blasting space crusade. ... Read more