I know a lot of people read this site on their mobiles and so would have bypassed the desktop layout of my blog. That said, there’s still a significant number of people who visit from their computers and would have put up with the way the site looked. Amyway, I’ve updated the theme to something …
Monthly Archive: February 2012
Feb 28 2012
Fix Choppy Audio in VLC Player
For a long time, VLC has been one of the well regarded media players with its ability to play almost any audio and video format without having to install special codec packs. It’s relatively small size in terms of disk space consumption and memory footprint comparison to other media players was also a bonus. However, …
Feb 27 2012
Try the Skype Beta for Windows Phone
Okay Windows Phoners, you’ve been hanging out for this for a while and now there is light at the end of the tunnel. Skype for Windows Phone is now in beta as per this announcement on the Windows Phone Blog and you can try it out for yourself. However, it seems to be region locked perhaps to …
Feb 26 2012
Take Part in Steam Beta Updates
If you like to live on the edge and try out new updates to your favourite Steam games before they are released then you might like this tip. If you choose to proceed then you do so at your own risk! You can opt yourself in to take part in the beta releases of particular …
Feb 25 2012
Meeting the 2GB RAM Prerequisite for Windows Home Server 2011
I’m doing a server build for a business at the moment who needs the neat automated backup functionality found in Windows Home Server 2011 to help keep daily backups of important point of sale computers and office machines while consolidating and centralising the data storage on the network. For this task, I thought that Windows …
Feb 24 2012
Solving TLS Timeouts in FileZilla
Here’s something that I had observed today. When attempting to connect to my webhost today I found that it would accept my username and password however, when initiating TLS, it would timeout even though my website was up and I had seemingly reliable connectivity to my webhost. In order to resolve this problem I tried …
Feb 23 2012
Signup to the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta
Here’s something for those Counter-Strike 1.6 and Counter-Strike: Source fans out there. A new version in the CS series, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is in the making and is undergoing a limited beta stage at present. In order to have a chance of being a part of the beta you need to complete a survey in …
Feb 22 2012
Keep Informed on Product Recalls
Not all electronic devices are created equally and sometimes, due to poor manufacturing or lack of testing, product recalls are necessary to correct these defects. Companies may take out newspaper ads, attempt to contact customers based upon their product registration details and perhaps even television ads (if they are brave). Anyway, there is something you …
Feb 21 2012
Pinterest – Social Image Sharing
Here’s a quick one for tonight. In amongst the melting pot of social media sites is a new social image sharing site called Pinterest. As the name may imply, this service allows you to pin images and videos of interest to one of your virtual pinboards. Probably the easiest way to pin stuff to your …
Feb 20 2012
Incoming Gadget – Fitbit Aria Wi-Fi Scales
I’ve been on a bit of a weight management thing lately (i.e. getting out and exercising instead of sitting on my butt all the time) and part of that is obviously tracking and recording your stats to make sure things are going in the right direction. Anyway, I’ve had my Fitbit for a year (still …
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