September 2012 archive

Incoming Gadgets – Panasonic HC-X900M Camcorder and VW-CLT2 3D Lens

Just a quick update. I have managed to get my hands on a Panasonic HC-X900M camcorder as well as the special VW-CLT2 3D lens. Whilst the X900M cancorder is capable of doing 2D to 3D video conversion in order to capture 3D content in the best possible quality you really need to use a 3D …

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Switch Between 32-bit and 64-bit Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8

Update 22/09/2013: Looks like there is a bit more under the hood regarding Enhanced Protected Mode – read more here. Here’s another quick tip for Windows 8 users. In prior versions of 64-bit Windows there were two versions of Internet Explorer that came as part of the operating system. One was the regular 32-bit version …

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How to Perform a Nintendo 3DS System Transfer

Recently, I decided to upgrade to a Nintendo 3DS XL and trade in my original Nintendo 3DS but in order to keep all of my downloaded content I had to performance system transfer. In doing so, I thought I’d record a video to show others how to undertake the process. Before you start though, it’s worth …

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Mounting ISOs in Windows 8

Here’s another Windows 8 tip. With prior versions of Windows you would normally require third party software in order to mount ISO files as a native drive in Windows Explorer. This changes in Windows 8 with its ability to mount ISOs without additional software. All you need to do is the following: Locate the desired …

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Getting Internet Sharing to Work on Mountain Lion

My wife is over in Denmark by herself at the moment but wanted to share her in room internet connection (a cabled Ethernet connection) to her other devices over Wi-Fi. She had recently upgraded her MacBook Air to Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8) but had used internet sharing on that computer in the past on …

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The Many Ways to Shutdown or Restart Windows 8

Leading on from yesterday’s tip on how to unlock Windows 8 there are several ways to shutdown and restart Windows 8 as well. Alt + Ctrl + Del Hit Alt + Ctrl + Del on your keyboard, Click the power button in the bottom right corner and select your shutdown option.   Charms Bar Hit Window + …

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The Many Ways to Unlock Windows 8

With many things from Microsoft, there are a myriad of ways to do the same thing and this goes for unlocking a Windows 8 computer. Essentially, you have the following options from the lock screen: Hit the space bar on the keyboard, Hit Enter on the keyboard, Click the primary button on the mouse (the left …

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Middle Click – The Unknown Shortcuts

For those on Windows 7 and Windows 8 you may not have known about the special functionality provided by middle clicking (or pressing down on the scroll wheel). If you want to open a new instance of an application, then do the following: hover your mouse cursor over the application on the taskbar, middle click. …

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Life Without iTunes

Since doing a clean install of Windows 8 I did reinstall a lot of the software that I had under Windows 7 including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Office, Notepad++, Spotify and VLC just to name a few. However, I decided to draw the line when it came to iTunes. Since getting on board with …

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