Mar 11 2012
Here’s a short and sharp tip for tonight. If you’ve ever used Norton Ghost (or Symantec Ghost as it might be called) to capture a disk image at some point in time but you’ve now lost the software there is a solution to help you out. You can still grab a copy of the Ghost …
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 …
Mar 09 2012
The title pretty much says it all but there are some solutions out there such as Start8 trying to recreate some form of a Start Menu in Windows 8 which eschewed this fundamental feature introduced in Windows 95. Eighteen years of the Start Menu can be long enough to have users rusted on to a …
Mar 08 2012
Here’s something for all of those Trekkies out there. The Star Trek Online MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game for those who are unfamiliar with the acronym) has been out for just over a month but a lot of people may not realise that it is “free to play” on Steam. If you’ve been …
Mar 07 2012
I have long been critical of Google’s fragmented approach to offering content with apps being offered separately from music and books however this seems to be addressed in a new platform going live today. Google Play now replaces the Android Market and is a step up from the its predecessor in that all of the …
Mar 06 2012
I’ve been using the Fitbit for over a year now and it’s a great way to keep track of your steps, general activity throughout the day as well as your diet. You can also track body measurements as well as your weight and percentage body fat (of which the last two will automatically be updated …
Mar 05 2012
Here’s a short and sharp tip tonight for those cutting their teeth on the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. While the full screen Metro interface looks pretty you could potentially find yourself overwhelmed when trying to find an app when you have many more installed as time progresses. You can group applications into logical groups but there will …
Mar 04 2012
Task Manager has been one of those handy things since Windows NT to kill off applications and processes that are consuming too much of a system’s resources and has evolved over the years to become more sophisticated. With that in mind, people may be shocked with what is initially presented to them under Windows 8. …
Mar 03 2012
A lot of people use Skype to stay in touch with friends and loved ones and sometimes the video quality can be let down by a number of things including: poor bandwidth (slower connections will only support lower resolution video), poor connectivity between you and the other party on the call, lower quality or less …
Mar 02 2012
Here’s a quick tip for tonight relating to the Windows 8 Consumer Preview which I have written up yesterday as well as the installation process. If you want to use the 64-bit version of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview you need to make sure that you computer can provide hardware virtualisation. This function allows a virtual …
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