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After 20 years in the business you'd expect DreamHost to know what it's doing, and first impressions don't disappoint. The company offers shared, WordPress, cloud, VPS and dedicated web hosting with stacks of features and interesting options. Shared hosting begins with the Starter plan which gets you 50GB storage,  automated daily backups, unmetered bandwidth, free SSL, a free domain (with free domain privacy) and automated WordPress installation. DreamHost's free WordPress plugin can migrate your existing WordPress sites (Image credit: DreamHost) Using WordPress already? The company now provides a free DreamHost Automated Migration plugin to help import your site. The plan also includes an optional WordPress Website Builder. This is powered by BoldGrid , and enabling the builder gets you access to BoldGrid's Premium tools and themes, something that would cost $5+ a month if you signed up with BoldGrid direct. Want to try DreamHost? Check out the webs...

If you're looking for a web hosting service which offers unlimited everything for the lowest price, Media Temple is likely to disappoint. The company sells itself on quality, not price, and its starter shared hosting Deluxe package looks very different to most of the competition. The plan supports unlimited storage and websites, includes unmetered bandwidth and 100 email inboxes for, gulp, $16.67 a month on the annual plan, $20 billed monthly. Meanwhile, HostGator's Baby plan , with similar specs, is $5.95 a month on the annual plan, $11.95 on renewal, and InterServer has an unlimited websites package available from an initial $5 a month. Media Temple's comparison table helps you understand what each plan includes (Image credit: Media Temple) Media Temple can look expensive, then, but the company argues that you're getting valuable extras, too. Its clustered server architecture gives you faster, more scalable and reliable hosting, for instance; even the shar...

Two-minute review Asus built its reputation on scorching hot gaming rigs and sleek business ultrabooks, but this impressive entry level notebook reinforces why it's one of the fastest growing laptop brands.  It's a thoughtful combination of features from the lightweight body shell to the battery sipping, cool-running processor, and the decent-size 14-inch screen. Add in a reliable and fast SSD drive, something rarely seen in entry level models, and you've got a fantastic starter PC for a learner to use at home and at school, or for a college student researching and writing assignments.  There is no number pad to the right of the main keyboard. While this is not uncommon on the more compact notebooks, including this one, Asus have cleverly worked this into the trackpad. It sounds gimmicky but in practice this worked out great, and might be important for those studying maths, science and business, for example.   Obviously, for a laptop costing just R5000 there must be ...

Pinnacle Studio Ultimate is Corel’s big brother video editing software to their more simplified version, VideoStudio Ultimate. As such, you will notice that the interface looks extremely similar, with three tabs at the top to separate your workflow into logical sections: Import, Edit and Export (VideoStudio’s are labelled Capture, Edit and Share). However the way everything about it is refined makes for a much more pleasant and professional experience. Want to try Pinnacle Studio 24 Ultimate? Check out the website here The Home screen is where you can check out the latest news, and access the online store (Image credit: Corel) If you’re familiar with this software package, you’ll know that when you launch Pinnacle Studio 24 Ultimate for the first time, you’re treated with the Home page (a page you can go back to at any time by clicking on the little ‘home’ icon, top of the interface). This is where Corel offers you some of its latest news and tutorials, and it can be a usef...

Back in the day, the Internet was a much simpler place. But it all changed about a decade ago. Websites became more complex and your ISPs DNS server started running out of steam keeping up with the multiple lookup requests from the web pages.  DNS lookups can have a significant impact on your web browsing experience, considering you query it several dozens, if not hundreds, times each day. The growing complexity of the web opened up room for dedicated third-party DNS servers, which promised to be faster than your ISPs default option. Not surprisingly, Google hosts one such DNS service as well. The search engine’s crawlers already roam around the web collecting and caching DNS information. So Google decided to use this information already sitting in its data centers to offer a DNS service that’s focused on performance and security. You can sign up for Google Public DNS here . (Image credit: Google) Features One of the most attractive features of Google’s Public DNS is t...

Two-minute review  The Oppo Find X2 Lite is, as its name suggests, the junior and most affordable member of the Find X2 range, sitting below the Find X2 , the mid-ranged Find X2 Neo, and the premium Find X2 Pro . Oppo is clearly pitching the X2 Lite at the ‘affordable 5G phone’ market, and while it’s been beaten to that market by a few devices, namely the Moto G 5G Plus , OnePlus Nord and Huawei P40 Lite 5G, it’s still certainly worth considering if you want next-gen connectivity without breaking the bank. Jump to… (Image credit: Future) Price and release date Design Display Cameras Performance Software Battery Should I buy it? The Oppo Find X2 Lite isn’t just an outlier from its siblings in terms of price; it misses out on key design elements shared by the other three, including their curved-edge displays and ‘punch-hole’ camera cutouts. The Find X2 Lite looks very much like your run-of-the-mill mid-range Android phone: it has a ‘teardrop’ notch for the front-...