Boydo's Tech Talk

If you have been looking for a thought provoking game but have been reluctant to shell out your hard-earned cash, you might be in luck. Portal, is a game that will challenge your spatial reasoning and get you to think outside of the square when it comes to physics. The basic premise of the game …

In an article published on Neowin, it appears that Intel is looking at shipping some processors with some capabilities initially locked that can be unlocked later on for a nominal fee. It does look like this is being aimed at the low to mid-range market where a performance boost might be more readily noticed than …

In an idea floated by Independent Senator Nick Xenophon, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is investigating the introduction of an “online ombudsman”. In a nutshell, this ombudsman would deal with issues such as pornographic and obscene messages being left on the Facebook memorial sites for Trinity Bates and Elliot Fletcher, both recent Queensland murder victims. Personally, …

Most cars still utilise traditional turn key locks in rider to restrict access and usage but a growing number of vehicles employ the use of keyless entry mechanisms such as the Toyota Prius and certain Lexus and BMW vehicles amongst others. Such systems usually include push button locking and the ability to start the vehicle …

Here’s a short and sharp tip for tonight. If you’ve ever used Norton Ghost (or Symantec Ghost as it might be called) to capture a disk image at some point in time but you’ve now lost the software there is a solution to help you out. You can still grab a copy of the Ghost …

Shortly after ACMA had given the green light for cellular communication technology to deployed in aircrafts, QANTAS and Jetstar have quickly put the brakes on any such deployment in their fleet. In a blog entry earlier this week I touched on how this technology could become a nuisance particular on longer international flights. At the …

Over the last few days there have been murmurs of an official Facebook app for the iPad which has been noticeably absent given high expectations when the iPad was launched last year. As time wore on, people came to accept that an app was just a fairytale and that using the full website in Safari …

Today, I went out to Officeworks to pick up a few things (printer cartridges, paper and some plastic sleeves but I could have easily have come back with half the st0re). For a while now, Officeworks has stopped offering plastic bags as part of the corporate social responsibility initiatives which is fine when you only pick up …

Another quick tip for tonight. For those of us with desktop computers a good deal of us probably don’t open it up once the unit itself has been removed from the box (or once it has been put together in the first instance for the system builders out there). You might open it up quickly …

Following on from yesterday’s post I briefly outlined a problem that I was having with my LG GGW-H20L Super-Multi Blu-ray drive burning to a Shintaro single layer BD-R (Blu-ray disc recordable). In a nutshell, it seemed that my burner did not know how to handle the Shintaro BD-R discs when it came to burning so I …