Tag: tablet

Insider Guru Blog – Blu-ray Recorders

Time to share another article of mine on the Panasonic Australia blog. As is customary, I’ve updated the Insider Guru Blogs page with my fourth article for the Panasonic Australia blog – it been a little while between drinks but needless to say things have been rather busy! On this occasion, I have focussed on Blu-ray recorders and …

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A Simple Way to Improve Audio Quality

Here’s a quick tip for this evening. It is fairly common these days for us to plug in our smartphones, tablets and portable music players into our car audio systems, home entertainment systems or other standalone speakers to enjoy some music or listen to podcasts. However, in order to ensure that you are preserving audio …

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Windows 8 Tablets Can Beat Retina Displays

Today, Microsoft published a blog entry about Windows 8 and its requirement and ability to scale to different screen sizes and resolutions with differing ranges of pixel density. One interesting thing caught my eye which was this diagram. The thing that interested me most was not what was on the right hand side of the …

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Why I Won’t be Buying iPad 2

Today, a lot of people asked me whether or not I would be eagerly waiting to purchase an iPad 2 when it is eventually launched in Australia perhaps some time later this month (although last year’s delays for countries apart from the USA did cause some angst amongst customers). I was expecting to be asked …

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Common Treatments for Lack of Dataflow on Mobile Devices

Another quick one for tonight. For the techies amongst us this post should come as no surprise but for others who may struggle with these fancy mobile gizmos. Sometimes a smartphone or a tablet device will simply refuse to load webpages or send and receive e-mail. Try as you might, repeatedly refreshing the page doesn’t …

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Desktop Operating Systems Don’t Belong on Tablets

Another quick one for tonight. Over the last decade and a bit, we have seen Microsoft attempt to get the tablet form factor to be a success in the marketplace but a Windows tablet just didn’t get any legs. I believe this is due to three reasons: Computing power at the time was insufficient for …

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