Apr 15 2012
Last night, I got along to check out the new range of Panasonic televisions, recorders, players and Hi-Fi out at Dunbar House in Watson’s Bay, NSW. The venue was very swish with some tasty food on offer and it presented a setting similar to what you’d expect to experience when you’d be using home entertainment …
Mar 10 2012
Wi-Fi has been one of those conveniences that has been around for a little while now but with an increasing number of Wi-Fi standards you could be forgiven for not understanding some of the key differences (including speed and connection requirements) between them all. Currently, we have four Wi-Fi standards with another one on …
Dec 20 2011
The instant messenger wars have been waged for a while now with ICQ and AOL instant messenger seemingly enjoying a bit of a honeymoon until the likes of MSN Messenger (now Windows Live Messenger) and other modern instant messengers quickly stole their thunder. However, one thing that has remained is the persistent incompatibility between them …
Nov 22 2011
Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) are becoming more common these days in the form of things like the TiVo, Optus MeTV and the Foxtel IQ and IQ2 devices just to name a few. The ability to record and timeshift content is a great convenience when there are regular programming clashes involving the shows you really want …
Nov 19 2011
We might have come to expect that Microsoft can be a little slow in catching up to the competition (perhaps to avoid antitrust suits by innovating too quickly) but it appears that Microsoft will finally add two major features to IE10 when it ships with Windows 8 as well as being released for Windows 7. …
Nov 18 2011
Just a quick note tonight. I have found an Icecream Sandwich (ICS) ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S today courtesy of Galnet MIUI. Hopefully, I will have time to flash my phone tomorrow and give it a bit of a test drive. I will post the link later on if you are keen to give …
Oct 21 2011
Maybe straying a bit away from pure technology but a worthwhile tip nonetheless. Today, I took the Prius in for its 80,000km service which was also a major service (major ones are divisable by 40,000). Anyway, I was offered a number of additional recommended services for the car including a “power steering fluid flush” which …
Oct 03 2011
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. Apparently, this has been missing for a while but it seems that you can now print natively from the Office Web Apps to a local printer. Previously, you had to wrestle with your browser and its ability to print what was on screen instead of being nicely formatted. Quite …
Aug 25 2011
Sometimes, software gets corrupted during the daily grind and we need to undertake an exercise of repairing the affected software. In some cases you may need to resort to a full uninstall and reinstall (or maybe a reinstall over the top if you’re lazy but I would recommend against it) but in other situations you …
Aug 20 2011
Just a quick update for tonight Well, Firefox 6 only just came out earlier this week and the Aurora channel has just ticked over from 7 to 8 in the last 24 hours. I am hoping to see improvements in the memory management of the browser at some point (particularly as it was supposed to …
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