These days, nearly all of our portable devices like mobile phones, tablets, laptops and music players contain a lithium ion or lithium polymer battery which have largely superseded the old NiCad (nickel cadmium) or NiMH (nickel metal hydroxide) batteries. If you can remember back far enough, NiCad batteries suffered from “memory effect” which occurred as …
November 2011 archive
Nov 09 2011
Enable TLS 1.1 on Windows 7
Here’s another quick tip for the security conscious people out there. Windows 7 supports a security protocol called TLS (Transport Layer Security) which superseded SSL as the security protocol of choice. Specifically, Windows 7 supports up to TLS 1.1 but the support for this version is disabled by default which forces compatibility back down to …
Nov 08 2011
Google Plus Pages Now Available
Just a quick heads up that Google Plus (or Google+ depending upon your preference) now has made available the ability to create pages similar to how Facebook has pages for non-personal profiles. For instance, this blog’s Facebook page is located @ https://www.facebook.com/boydostechtalk which is where I aggregate information from the blog, photos from unboxings and all the …
Nov 07 2011
Panasonic Home Appliance Winners!
Well, the first competition on Boydo’s Tech Talk has come to a close and I am delighted to be able to announce the winners. In order to select the lucky three people I went to random.org to pick out three numbers for me at random. This website uses atmospheric noise to provide truly random number …
Nov 06 2011
Rip Live Audio Using Audacity
Here’s another quick tip for tonight. If you fancied grabbing the audio off something you come across online or maybe capturing the audio from a video without mucking around with conversion software then this might interest you. There’s a great tool called Audacity which is a pretty nifty audio editor with the built in ability …
Nov 05 2011
Screen Capturing for Windows Phone 7 Devices
Here’s a tip that has me a bit excited particularly as it will help me enrich my Windows Phone 7 entries with native screenshots! Thanks to Jerry Jiang over at XDA Developers there is a side loadable app called Screen Capturer to enable screenshots on a Windows Phone 7 device by half pressing the camera …
Nov 04 2011
Incoming Gadget – Optus MeTV
Just a heads up that I have received a new gadget in the form of an Optus MeTV box. MeTV is a partnership with IPTV startup FetchTV and includes a 1TB PVR (which I will be unboxing). I’ll cover this device in more factual detail in isolation of passing judgement on the service itself over …
Nov 03 2011
Bins for Windows 7
Ever since Windows 7 came out I have been a huge fan of the Superbar however it can get a bit cluttered with icons for several browsers, Microsoft Office Apps and a stack of other things that I need from time to time. Sure, I have real estate to spare but the Superbar does start …
Nov 02 2011
Opt Out of Google Interest-based Advertising
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you don’t fancy Google using its tracking cookies to work out what ads to show you (either for AdSense or DoubleClick based ads) in online searches and Google apps you can easily opt out of it with the click of a mouse button. All you need to do …
Nov 01 2011
The Legend of Zelda – Ocarina of Time 3D
Finally, my university semester drew to a close yesterday after a tough exam which meant I could finally play a Nintendo 3DS game I picked up two months ago, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. Whenever I restart my studies I put gaming on hold to minimise distractions and to provide myself some …
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