Here’s another quick tip. In many cases when I make or receive a phone call I am in front of a computer but also, for the life of me, I never seem to have a pen. One trick I have used for many years is to use the good old Windows Notepad application to jot …
February 2011 archive
Feb 18 2011
No Pen and Paper? Use Notepad!
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Feb 17 2011
Mount Your ISOs Quickly with MagicDisc
- By Boydo in BD-ROM, Blu-ray, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Optical, Storage, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
If you download a lot of software (legally, mind you) sometimes they will come in the form of an ISO file which is basically an image of an optical disc (be it a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc). Normally, these files had to be burnt to a physical disc before you could actually start installing …
Feb 16 2011
Capture a Disk Image Quickly with DriveImage XML
From time to time I help people undertake the often laborious task of doing a clean installation of Windows on a computer. The installation itself is fairly painless but there are other tasks involved that can take up a considerable amount of time, including: backing up the existing data (although I recommend people have regular …
Feb 15 2011
Adjust Text Brightness on Android with Screen Filter
- By Boydo in Android, Operating Systems, Technology
A tip for the Android users out there. Have you ever woken up during the night and needed to check your phone only to find your eyes burnt by the brightness of the screen even on the minimum or automatic brightness setting? It’s definitely not a pleasant experience but there is something you can do …
Feb 14 2011
Google Prevents Use of American Express Cards on Certain Cross-Currency Transactions
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, Financial, Google, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, Operating Systems, Technology
Up until yesterday I had only ever downloaded free application from the Android Market but yesterday I was looking to get some nice looking widgets courtesy of the “Beautiful Widgets” app. I thought for the cost of €1.45 (approximately AU$1.95 at the time of writing) it was a fair price for something that has received pretty good …
Feb 13 2011
Drive Extender Alternatives for Windows Home Server 2011
Last year, I covered the shock announcement that Microsoft was dropping the Drive Extender (DE) technology from its second version of Windows Home Server (formerly codenamed “Vail” but now dubbed Windows Home Server 2011). In a nutshell, DE provided some critical functionality including: storage pooling (the ability to combine multiple drives into one large storage …
Feb 12 2011
Did You Know About Triple Clicking?
Another quick tip for the night. It would be fair to say that most people know about the concept of the single click normally used for selecting objects on the screen, dragging objects to other places or clicking hyperlinks. Similarly, people know about double clicking to open applications or documents (although I find it annoying …
Feb 11 2011
Secure Online Transactions with VeriSign Identity Protection
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Operating Systems, Security, Technology, Tokens
These days we hear horror stories of accounts being hacked and unwanted activity occurring under those accounts. In the worst cases, this can involve finances which can really cause major problems depending on what happens. So really, prevention is the best cure as trying to pick up the pieces afterwards can be time consuming and …
Feb 10 2011
Keep Tabs on the Climate Conditions with Forecastfox Weather
- By Boydo in Browsers, Chrome, Firefox, Technology
Another quick tip for tonight. Not all of us are lucky to have desktop phones that show the weather at a glance but there is a way to get it in Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome without too much fuss. There’s a great little add-on called Forecastfox Weather which, as you might guess, add the …
Feb 09 2011
Nokia Wises Up to Their Shrinking Market
- By Boydo in Android, iOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Phone 7
For many years it has been widely acknowledged that Nokia, once the world leader in mobile phones and technology, has become nothing more than a random handset generator that uses a combination of numbers and letters to label its phones (possibly using a random alphanumeric value generator). Whilst there are Nokia handsets that are fit …
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