( The two main characters in the game - Ellie and Joel )

The Last of Us is an upcoming action-adventure survival horror video game by Naughty dog for the Playstation 3 video game console. The scheduled release is on June 14, 2013 and we are already taking pre-orders for this amazing and awaited game which will be selling for the price of €52.95 !

The game focuses on two survivors, Joel and the young Ellie. In fact, the player will be taking control of Joel while Ellie will be controlled by AI (artificial intelligence). The game involves gun fighting and melee combat as well as a cover system. The player will fight off the Infected - former humans - and the Survivors - humans that are not infected but who are hostile towards Joel and Ellie.

Below you can see the teaser trailer released by the developers where one can truly appreciate and imagine the high level of graphics that this game will have :

The Asus Google Nexus - 7" Android Tablet

What makes the Asus Google Nexus tablet one of the most fast-selling tablets nowadays ? Probably the impressive price for a quad core 1.2 GHz, Tegra 3-endowed tablet which gives it amazing performance, great graphics and makes it ideal for those who want a great tablet which doesn't cost a lot.

The Nexus features a 7" LED-backlit IPS LCD Capacitive touchscreen, a 1.2MP primary camera with HD video-calling capabilities and 32GB Internal Storage.
The Nexus runs on Android OS v4.1 (Jelly Bean) with a full access to Google Playstore and the thousands of applications, utilities and games one can download !

The Asus Google Nexus 7" is available at our store for only €289 !!

The band ManaTapu has been chosen to represent Malta in the Hard Rock Rising global competition. Public voting will open on the Hard Rock Malta Facebook page from Monday 22 April at 5pm - Wednesday 1st May at 10pm. Make sure to give them a helping hand by voting for them!

Earlier this year, Hard Rock International called on aspiring musicians around the globe to rock out for a chance at stardom through this year's GO Hard Rock Rising global battle of the bands competition and they responded.

Over 12,000 entries, 390,000 fan votes, and 941 competing bands later, ManaTapu is now one step closer to having their dream come true. Following several battle rounds against some of Malta's other top talent, ManaTapu will now move on to the global voting round and vie for the opportunity of a lifetime - a World Tour in six big cities arranged by Hard Rock International - including a spot on the bill at the Hard Rock Calling Festival in London; an album and music video produced through Hard Rock Records; and new music equipment and gear valued at $10,000!

Now, ManaTapu is calling on Malta fans to show their support. ManaTapu, along with 95 other winning bands from around the world who took the top spot in their respective city, will battle it out during the final online fan vote. Starting from the 22nd of April at 5pm CET, fans will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite band, while downloading free tracks from any band of their choice.

The top 25 bands, as determined by total votes, will move on to the final round, where a panel of music industry professionals; including Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band, Live Nation Senior Vice President of Music Toby Leighton-Pope, Hard Rock International's Head of Music & Artist Relations, John Kirkpatrick, and Hard Rock Records Co-Heads of A&R, James Buell and Blake Smith will evaluate the bands and select the Grand prize winner and two-runner up bands, that will each receive new music equipment and gear valued at $10,000.

It is very easy to Vote for ManaTapu - Babylon Aside, follow these easy steps:

1. Visit http://www.manatapu.com

OR

1. Visit app:http://www.reverbnation.com/contests/1838/artist/3029323

2. Find ManaTapu (First position)

3. Press the 'Vote' button

4. Click 'Like' if you are asked to

5. Share with friends!

The song is free for anyone who votes!

Vacancy at Klikk Computers

Technical Department - Front Office

Klikk Computer Store is seeking to recruit a full time technician to work in the Technical Department front office area.

The main responsibilities include:

• To perform all front office duties professionally and efficiently
• Welcome and handle customer enquiries in the reception area
• Cashing, creating & closing tech jobs and parts order
• Customers follow-up, setting up of appointments & feedback
• Answer and direct telephone calls to the relevant department / personnel
• Answer or direct all Support emails received
• Administrative duties
• Items inspection & repair

Requirements:

`O’ Level Pass in English, Maltese, Maths and any other 3 subjects preferably one of which is Computer Studies

Post-secondary education in IT

• Self-motivated, good communication and interpersonal skills
• Presentable and well groomed
  
• Positive attitude, with excellent customer service skills
  
• Required to work retail hours including Saturdays
• Previous experience in IT is a must. Customer Service experience will be considered an asset

To apply, please send your Curriculum Vitae to support@klikk.com.mt

Grand Theft Auto V (shortened to GTA V) is an upcoming open world action-adventure video game being developed by Rockstar Games. This game will be the first major title in the GTA series since the last GTA was released in 2008. 

The above are some screenshots released by Rockstar that give gamers a glimpse of the amazing graphics being developed for this game. Rockstar already announced that the game will be available on PS3 and XBOX with nothing yet confirmed for a PC release. The game will go on sale on 17th September 2013, a little later than planned although Rockstar attributed this delay to finishing touches to make the game a truly exceptional one ! 

The most awaited Android phone of the year will be soon available at our store.

Pre-order yours now !

The Samsung Galaxy S4 brings an amazing 5.0 inches Full HD screen, an improved camera and faster innards but keeping the size of the chassis approximately the same size as the S3, the ideal size to handle it comfortably.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 also comes with some amazing software features like the Smart Scroll and Smart Pause as shown in this hands-on video demo :

 

Check out the full specifications and prices on our website by following this link : http://goo.gl/1iwXg

It was exactly 12 years ago that sadly for many and joyfully for others, Microsoft announced that it had no plans to continue using Clippy.

Some of you might be wondering 'Who the heck is Clippy ?'

Clippy is the little impersonated paper clip who used to help (or sometimes annoy) you when using Microsoft Word both for PC and MAC from 1997 to late 2003 ! Although Microsoft gave you the ability to change the office assistant to other characters such as HoverBot, Will and Mother Nature, Clippy remains the most famous one !

Clippy was abolished after the feature drew a strongly negative response from many users and even Microsoft employees.

A new solution for cheaper toner cartridges !

Changing your printer's toner cartridge often proves to be big a headache because of the relatively high prices.

We now have a solution for you !

Our new range of Compatible toner cartridges can save you up to 50% when compared to the original cartridges. These toner cartridges are high in quality just like the original ones and the only difference is that they cost much less !

Follow this link to see all the range of our compatible Toner Cartridges !

Klikk Tourneys held yet another successful PS3 Fifa 2013 Tournament !

Last Saturday, more than 30 participants spent their afternoons challenging each other in very interesting and balanced Fifa 2013 matches. The tournament was organized and held at Klikk Computer Store in Birkirkara. Apart from participating in the tournament, players had the time to discuss the matches, analyze their performances and chat together in a friendly environment with refreshments being served on the house throughout the event.

As time passed by and some players started getting eliminated, the atmosphere started to get more tense with less shouting and talking which clearly meant maximum concentration for the remaining participants.

The tournament ended with a two-legged final tie between Christian Spiteri and Mark Magri. Christian Spiteri was declared the winner after winning both matches and thus recieved the €200 cash prize for his achievement. Both the 2nd and 3rd placed recieved €50 and €30 respectively in vouchers for their efforts.

We would like to thank all participants and invite anyone who would like to be part of our next tournament to join our facebook group Klikk Tourneys to keep themselves updated with the latest information !

The Acer Iconia Tab B1 is finally here ! Come check it out at our store !

This lightweight yet powerful tablet features a full 7" touchscreen and boasts of a 1.2GHz dual core together with a 512MB ram. It also has an 8GB internal memory that can be upgraded up to 32 GB more through the micro SD card slot.

Apart from the great specifications, since this tablet runs on Android 4.1 (JellyBean), you have full access to the Play Store which gives you the ability to download loads of different applications varying from games to office applications !

This tablet is ideal both for children and grown-ups altogether !

This amazing tablet can be yours for only €149 !

The above picture shows the Microsoft staff in 1978, just 3 years after the company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

In fact Microsoft was born exactly 38 years ago on the 4th of April 1975 after Paul Allen showed Bill Gates an issue of 'Popular Electronics' that inspired both Allen and Gates to develop an implementation of the programming language BASIC for the system.

Nowadays Microsoft has come a long way from 1975 to become one of the largest companies in the world with an estimated $41 billion in assets ! It is also the owner of networking giant 'Skype', search engine 'Bing' and gaming console 'Xbox' although it is mostly known for it's operating system 'Windows'.

Some rumblings from Daring Fireballall's John Gruber on a Branch thread this evening point to possible delays in iOS 7 and perhaps subsequently OS 10.9.

What I've heard: iOS 7 is running behind, and engineers have been pulled from OS X 10.9 to work on it.

As he points out, Apple had this problem/solution before. In 2007, Apple had to devote some Mac resources towards getting the iPhone out the door. The press statement at the time read:

iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team. As a result, we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us.

However, the Wall Street Journal says:

Apple is also expected to ship the next version of its iOS mobile operating system around midyear, other people familiar with the matter have said.

MG Siegler adds:

Since we're talking whispers, the one thing I've heard multiple times now is about some sort of biometric scanner on the new iPhone. Perhaps not surprising given the AuthenTec buy - but surprised it would be this soon. Still, have heard it could be a big part of not only authentication, but payments of some sort (maybe even through Passbook) down the road. The most intriguing whisper: that Apple could charge a fee for devs to use it.

Gruber points out that Apple engineers carrying iOS have protective screens on them so it is hard to see the OS, something we've heard has been common practice for some time.

Tickets are available from our store in Birkirkara for €5 or €10.

Prizes up to €200 to be won !
Foods and Drinks will also be served on the house throughout the day !

Click on the following link to access our event and additional information on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/events/501967856506773/?fref=ts

Should you need to ask any questions do not hesitate to leave us a message on Facebook, give us a call on 2750-2750 or send us an e-mail on sales@klikk.com.mt

You can also watch this video of our past Fifa tournament below :

Manatapu probably the most international band on the island is a new and upcoming local band. With members from Germany, Spain, France, Canada and Malta, this band offers a new sound with influences from different backgrounds.

1. Visit: Download Babylon Aside
2. Like the App's page
3. Download the FREE song - Babylon Aside

Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter video game developed by 3D Realms and published by GT Interactive Software. The full version was released for the PC (the shareware version was released on January 29, 1996). It is a sequel to the platform games Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II published by Apogee. An expansion pack, Plutonium Pak, was released in November 1996.

Duke Nukem 3D features the adventures of the titular macho Duke Nukem (voiced by Jon St. John), who fights against an alien invasion on Earth. Along with Wolfenstein 3D and Doom,Duke Nukem 3D is considered responsible for popularizing first-person shooters. It was released to major acclaim; reviewers praised the interactivity of the environment, level design, gameplay and unique risqué humor (a mix of pop-culture satire and lampooning of over-the-top Hollywood action heroes). Its lasting appeal and impact on modern video games has led to its being considered one of the most important video games of all time.^[4] It was a commercial hit, selling about 3.5 million copies.^[5] The game's violent nature, erotic elements and portrayal of women have incited controversy. After fifteen years in development hell, a direct sequel was released called Duke Nukem Forever.

A term used to describe Internet websites ending with the domain suffix .com. This term started being used and was popularized in 1995 during the start of the dot-com boom, when companies and individuals in large quantities started websites on the Internet and started making a lot of money. Between 1995 and 2001, the Internet experienced what is now referred to as the dot-com bubble, which was the time dot-com companies and websites were making an enormous amount of money primarily off of stocks until the bubble started to burst in 2000 and Internet companies started going under.

The Macintosh marketed as Mac, is a line of personal computers (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It is targeted mainly at the home, education, and creative professional markets, and includes the descendants of the original iMac, the entry-level Mac mini desktop model, the Mac Pro tower graphics workstation, and the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops. Its Xserveserver was discontinued on January 31, 2011. The first Macintosh actually introduced itself.

Apple Inc.'s then-chairman Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh on January 24, 1984. It became the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface, rather than acommand-line interface.  The Apple II saw success through the end of the decade, though popularity dropped in the 1990s as the personal computer market shifted toward the "Wintel" platform: IBM PC compatible machines running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. In 1998, Apple consolidated its multiple consumer-level desktop models into the all-in-one iMac, which proved to be a sales success and saw the brand revitalized.

Production of the Mac is based on a vertical integration model. Apple facilitates all aspects of its hardware and creates its own operating system that is pre-installed on all Mac computers, unlike most IBM PC compatibles, where multiple sellers create and integrate hardware intended to run another company's operating software. Apple exclusively produces Mac hardware, choosing internal systems, designs, and prices. Apple uses third party components, however, such as graphics subsystems from nVidia and ATi. Current Mac CPUs use Intel's X86-64 architecture. The earliest models (1984–1994) used Motorola's 68k, and models from 1994 until 2006 used the AIM alliance's PowerPC. Apple also develops the operating system for the Mac, OS X, currently on version 10.8 "Mountain Lion". The modern Mac, like other personal computers, is capable of running alternative operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD, and, in the case of Intel-based Macs, Microsoft Windows. However, Apple does not license OS X for use on non-Apple computers.

VACANCY - SALES PERSON

From today, Klikk is giving you an opportunity to work within its sales team.

Passionate candidates who satisfy one or more of the following personal interests or qualities should apply.

• Love technology, meeting, helping and serving new people in a techy environment
• Has worked in IT or other related retail business before
• Live the Apple brand 
• PC or any other console gamer
• Practice photography or audio/visual productions as a hobby

Working hours are as follows (may change in the future):

Monday to Friday from 9:00 till 19:00

Saturday from 9:00 till 14:00

Anyone interested is invited to send his or her CV to vacancy@klikk.com.mt or by means of a private message on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/klikk

Yahoo.com domain is created.

In January 1994, Yang and Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University when they created a website named "Jerry's guide to the world wide web". David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In March 1994, "David and Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!" The "yahoo.com" domain was created on January 18, 1995.

The word "yahoo" is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "source of truth and wisdom," and the term "officious," rather than being related to the word's normal meaning, described the many office workers who would use the Yahoo database while surfing from work. However, Filo and Yang insist they mainly selected the name because they liked the slang definition of a "yahoo" (used by college students in David Filo's native Louisiana in the late 1980s and early 1990s to refer to an unsophisticated, rural Southerner): "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Filo's college girlfriend often referred to Filo as a "yahoo." This meaning derives from the name of a race of fictional beings from Gulliver's Travels.

Yahoo grew rapidly throughout the 1990s. Like many search engines and web directories, Yahoo added a web portal. It also made many high-profile acquisitions. Its stock price skyrocketed during the dot-com bubble, Yahoo stocks closing at an all-time high of $118.75 a share on January 3, 2000. However, after the dot-com bubble burst, it reached a post-bubble low of $4.05 on September 26, 2001.

In 2000, Yahoo began using Google for search. Over the next four years, it developed its own search technologies, which it began using in 2004. Yahoo revamped its mail service to compete with Google's Gmail in 2007. The company struggled through 2008, with several large layoffs.

In February 2008, Microsoft Corporation made an unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo for USD $44.6 billion. Yahoo formally rejected the bid, claiming that it "substantially undervalues" the company and was not in the interest of its shareholders. Three years later, Yahoo had a market capitalization of USD $22.24 billion.[14] Carol Bartz replaced Yang as CEO in January 2009. In September 2011, she was removed from her position at Yahoo by the company's chairman Roy Bostock, and CFO Tim Morse was named as Interim CEO of the company.

In early 2012, after the appointment of Scott Thompson as CEO, rumors began to spread about looming layoffs. Several key executives, such as Chief Product Officer Blake Irving left. On April 4, 2012, Yahoo announced a cut of 2,000 jobs or about 14 percent of its 14,100 workers. The cut is expected to save around $375 million annually after the layoffs are completed at end of 2012. In an email sent to employees in April 2012, Thompson reiterated his view that customers should come first at Yahoo. He also completely reorganized the company.

On May 13, 2012, Yahoo issued a press release stating that Thompson was no longer with the company, and would immediately be replaced on an interim basis by Ross Levinsohn, recently appointed head of Yahoo's new Media group. Thompson's total compensation for his 130-day tenure with Yahoo was at least $7.3 million.

In June 2012, Yahoo hired former Google director, Michael Barrett as its Chief Revenue Officer.