With Windows 8.1 upon us I thought I would do a video on how to upgrade your Windows RT device (such as a Microsoft Surface RT) to Windows RT 8.1. It’s not a difficult process but it does take some time given the limited processing power in RT devices. The upgrade process for both Windows …
October 2013 archive
Oct 20 2013
Apple iPhone 5S Unboxing
Well, it was time for my wife to upgrade her smartphone which saw the iPhone 4S replaced with the iPhone 5S. The replacement was somewhat of a necessity given a very annoying quirk with the iPhonewhere the volume would turn down by itself (both music and phone calls) which was a constant annoyance. Apparently, the …
Oct 19 2013
Use the Rain Radar to Approximately Track Bushfires
With the recent bushfires in New South Wales it isn’t surprising that a good number of people have been hitting up the Rural Fire Service website to find out what is going on. Unfortunately, the demand has been so high that the RFS website has buckled under the strain leaving its Twitter account to pick …
Oct 17 2013
Meeting Request Error 0x80070057-00000000-00000000 In Microsoft Outlook
An obscure tip but one that I found worked this week. A colleague at work was attempting to send a meeting request but repeatedly received errors from our Microsoft Exchange server for one of the recipients. Everything seemed fine and the contacts were correctly populated from the contacts cache. Sending the request met with no …
Oct 16 2013
Pinterest – Not Just for Sharing Pictures
There are lots of picture sharing services out there – Flickr amd Instagram come to mind whilst Facebook and Twitter are also popular alternatives. However, Pinterest is another alternative that is growing on the masses particularly when it comes to arts and crafts. That said, I’ve found another use for Pinterest – it’s great for …
Oct 14 2013
PRTG – Realtime Network Monitoring
Well, after the old Dynalink RTA1025W ADSL modem died and I took the opportunity to remediate several network devices in the process I lost the ability to measure network traffic. Most notably, I could no longer measure the amount of data being uploaded and downloaded over the ADSL connection via the new Billion 7800 DXL …
Oct 13 2013
Excel Spreadsheet Dates Out by Four Years
This might be a bit of an obscure issue but one worth keeping in mind. If you work with Microsoft Excel under both Mac OS X and Windows then you may find an issue with date values changing by themselves when you open them on the other platform (i.e. opening a spreadsheet creating in Mac …
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