I had to share this because it really spoke to my inner geek. There’s a new project on Kickstarter wanting to raise funds for light bulbs. Sounds pretty boring but these aren’t just normal light bulbs nor are these your run of the mill LED light bulbs. These are Wi-Fi enabled, remote controllable, colour changeable light …
September 2012 archive
Sep 19 2012
Enable Time Lapse Recording on Panasonic HC-X900M Camcorder
Here’s a quick tip if you want to muck around with the time lapse recording function on the Panasonic X900M camcorder. Out of the box, you can’t use time lapse recording as the option is greyed out in the record setup screen. This is because you need to change the zoom mode from the default …
Sep 18 2012
Old Printers and New Operating Systems
With Windows 8 almost upon us in terms of full public release and sale it’s worth giving a thought to printer compatibility. Simple tethered printers will usually be less susceptible to being left behind when operating systems are updated however multi-function and networked printers may not fare so well. For instance, I have an aging HP …
Sep 17 2012
Muting Windows 8 Metro Apps
Sometimes, my desktop computer needs to do a few things at the same time and most commonly this takes the form of playing a video on the television (connected by HDMI to my computer) and playing a game be it Team Fortress 2 or even a quick game of Minesweeper on my desktop monitor. One …
Sep 16 2012
Access the Control Panel Quickly Under Windows 8
Another Windows 8 tip for you out there. Since the move away from the Start Menu to the Start Screen some user may find the process of getting to a specific control panel applet a little more involved that it used to be back Windows 7. Unfortunately, in the Start Screen you can’t just start …
Sep 15 2012
How to Use Two Google Accounts Simultaneously
Sometimes you might want to use two separate Google accounts without how to log out and login or switch between them given that doing so may interrupt other services in use (like Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, etc). I have a persona Gmail account as well as another Gmail account for the strata in which I live plus …
Sep 14 2012
How to Double Check if a Website is Down
Here’s a quick tip. If you want to obtain a second opinion on whether or not a particular website is offline then you should give downforeveryoneorjustme.com a shot when required. When you can’t perform a ping test yourself (like when you are at work behind a proxy) this can be a handy little tool to use …
Sep 13 2012
Panasonic HC-X900M Camcorder and VW-CLT2 3D Lens Unboxing
A new first for the blog – a double unboxing! This time around I get to show you the Panasonic HC-X900M 3D camcorder which is Panasonic’s flagship consumer camcorder for 2012. Plus, I also show off the VW-CLT2 3D lens which teams up with the X900M to enable you to shoot video in 3D. The …
Sep 12 2012
The App Count Doesn’t Reset for Windows Phone 8
Outside of the technology media, I have seen mainstream media seriously misreport the app situation for Windows Phone 8 and potentially doing Microsoft’s latest mobile OS quite a disservice. In a nutshell, pretty much any app designed for Windows Phone 7 or 7.5 will work on Windows Phone 8 and with 100,000 apps there is …
Sep 11 2012
COM Surrogate Process and High CPU Usage
Just an observation on Windows 8 that I wanted to share which may also help others using Windows Vista and 7. Recently, I was seeing some graphical glitches occur under Windows 8 as well as CPU usage getting stuck at 25% for unusually long periods of time on my quad-core i7 desktop. This meant that …
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