Jan 11 2012
I’ve shared this on Facebook and Google Plus already but I have to mention it here as well. Today, I had my first post published on the Panasonic Australia blog as Insider Guru and, to say the least, I’m quite stoked about it! It’s also my first post on a blog other than my own …
Jan 10 2012
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is always an exciting time of year on the geek calendar and this year has already unearthed a few things of interest. MySpace (for those of you who still remember it) had most of its users pulled over by the enormous gravity generated by Facebook. This left Myspace as a …
Jan 09 2012
Here’s a quick tip if you do a lot of copying and pasting of text riddled with unwanted formatting. All you need to do is copy the desired text and then paste it into Notepad. Once in Notepad, just copy the text once again and paste it into the desired location (be it a document, …
Jan 08 2012
Just a follow up to my blog from yesterday about problems getting my Tru SIM from Truphone to work. After second call after an initial attempt to fix it just after midnight this morning things were fixed up late this morning after doing another round of rebooting and SIM ejection and insertion. I even wiped my …
Jan 07 2012
Given that I am going on a holiday to Hawaii in a few weeks time I decided to get a Tru SIM for my own mobile after the good experience had by my wife when she was overseas (which I wrote about here). Anyway, my Tru SIM (from Tru and formerly known as Truphone) arrived …
Jan 06 2012
Here’s a tip that you might want to keep in mind next time you’re on a road trip and you rotate drivers between cars. If you happen to have your mobile phone paired to your car you might want to turn off Bluetooth on your phone if you are going to be driving another vehicle …
Jan 05 2012
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you are editing the registry sometimes you might like two registry editors open at the same time so you can compare the existing state with the updated state. However, attempting to do so will only allow you ever to open registry editor. The way around this is to …
Jan 04 2012
You might have seen in the news today an article about a Canadian man who used his iPad to gain entry to the USA after leaving his passport back at home which was two hours away from the border. In a nutshell, he was able to cross the border by providing a digital copy of …
Jan 03 2012
I got thinking about speech recognition and how it has developed over the years. My first experience with speech recognition was when my dad bought IBM ViaVoice back in the 90s for our computer (a Pentium 120MHz with 16MB RAM). The software needed a good amount of training to improve its “out of the box” …
Jan 02 2012
It’s been a game of cat and mouse between regional governments around the world and people wanting to keep information flowing and free from restrictions and censorship imposed by local authorities. The web is proving to be something that governments do not fully or properly understand as they seemingly bend to the will of large …
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