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The Big Draw 2009

By Thistle, on October 10th, 2009

The Big Draw is a UK wide ‘arts workshop’ that runs in October every year. Libraries, museums, schools and many other organisations run hundreds of drawing and sketching events for kids and adults. The range of activities is remarkable and the Big Draw has become a huge success over the years.

Windows 7, Intel Core i5 and Graphics Cards

By Thistle, on October 2nd, 2009

The release of Windows 7 and the new Intel Core i5 chips brings some major changes to the PC market. Related developments include a new range of AMD graphics cards designed to be compatible with Windows 7′s DirectX 11.

For business PCs the 4Gb memory limit on 32-bit systems is unnecessarily [...]