Jan 21 2013
Here’s another quick tip for Windows Phone 8. If you know you’re going to be a while before you are anywhere near a charger you may want to preemptively put your Windows Phone 8 handset into battery saver mode. Normally, this kicks in automatically when battery charge drains to 20% which may be too late …
Jan 20 2013
Just a quick update. I’ve managed to get my hands on the Panasonic SC-HC57DB Micro Hi-Fi which includes some neat features including AirPlay, DAB+ radio and smartphone app operation. While it does have a now legacy thirty pin iPod dock connector it’ll still be compatible with the iPhone 4S in my wife’s possession. There’s also USB …
Jan 19 2013
My wife was trying to find an official dock solution for her iPad mini but surprisingly Apple has not brought out anything that will physically prop it up and provide charge at the same time. Look no further than Flybridge. It’s a new Kickstarter campaign to fill the void left by Apple allowing you to …
Jan 18 2013
Admittedly, this is perhaps a narrow topic but something I would share given power saving efforts at home. Given that I don’t want to leave a desktop and/or a laptop computer on for the off chance that I might walk past wearing my Fitbit I thought it’d be best to piggyback off the home server …
Jan 17 2013
This might sound obvious to some but others may just completely forget about it. Before you put documents into an ADF (automatic document feeder) you should make sure there aren’t any staples holding pages together. Best case, all the pages go through unscathed at the same time or the scanner refuses to load the paper. …
Jan 16 2013
Here’s a quick tip for Windows Phone 8 users. If you’re looking to mute your phone while you are in a meeting or at the movies then all you need to do is turn on your device and hit the volume up or volume down button. Up in the top right corner will be an …
Jan 15 2013
A more technical article for today based upon something that I encountered yesterday. The automated reporting software (Business Objects Enterprise XI 3.1) with which I work uses an SMTP server to send reports out via e-mail as attachments. However, this morning a good percentage of the reports failed to go out for now apparent reason. …
Jan 14 2013
Earlier in the week I wrote about the wind up of the Windows Live Messenger service but it appears that there is a bit more to this event. What will happen on 15th March, 2013 is that the Windows Live Messenger client software will be barred from authentication with the service which will force existing users to migrate …
Jan 12 2013
At some point in your life you might want to get serious with your finances and actually keep track of where that hard earned cash ends up going and put something in place to make sure you are living within your means. I’m not a finance expert by any means and the extent of my …
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