Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you are running Windows Home Server 2011 on a box at home and you are using DriveBender to reimplement the missing “Drive Extender” technology that was stripped out in the new version then you might need to know that the current beta expires tonight (if it already hasn’t …
Monthly Archive: September 2011
Sep 28 2011
Access Accented and Special Characters Easily in Mac OS X Lion
Here is a quick tip for tonight. On the odd occasion you might need to use accented characters like “é” or “ç” or even “ß” but don’t want to go through the chore of finding that character somewhere else and doing a copy and paste. Luckily, under Mac OS X 10.7 you can hold down …
Sep 27 2011
Panasonic DMR-BWT800 Full HD 3D Blu-ray Disc Recorder Launch
Tonight, I attended a launch event with a number of the Insider Crew for the Panasonic DMR-BWT800 Full HD 3D Blu-ray Disc Recorder (henceforth called “the recorder”) at Panasonic HQ in Macquarie Park. This was the first time that we had a go at live streaming the event so that Insiders who weren’t lucky enough …
Sep 26 2011
Panasonic NA-140VG3WAU Washing Machine
One of the products that Insiders and Soupers got to see on Wednesday evening was a new washing machine added to the whitegoods lineup. Incidentally, it had only been released six weeks prior to the launch event compared to a couple of other products that had yet to be released and other that had been …
Sep 24 2011
iTunes Playing Audio Out of Sync With Audio
This is just an observation that I have made on my own computer so I don’t know if this is more widespread. Today, I was troubleshooting an issue when playing videos and the audio going in and out of sync (or maybe vice versa depending on how you anchor things). This was happening in Windows …
Sep 23 2011
Panasonic 2011/12 Home Appliances Launch Event
A couple of days ago I wrote about my forthcoming attendance at the Panasonic 2011/12 Home Appliances Launch in Sydney which was held in the penthouse at the Diamant Hotel. Tonight, I’m going to share with you my thoughts of the event itself and what I saw as an invitee on behalf of the Panasonic …
Sep 21 2011
Panasonic Home Appliances Launch
Hi folks. Just a quick note to let you know that I am attending a Panasonic home appliances launch event this evening. Whilst most people might find it difficult to get excited about whitegoods (particularly when the focus is on audio/visual products, mobile devices and computers) I think that it’s worth looking under the covers …
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