April 2013 archive

Paypal Australia Now Accepting American Express

Maybe I missed this a while ago but today I noticed that Paypal Australia is now accepting American Express cards again after removing the ability to add or edit AMEX cards several years ago. That’s really the long and the short of it apart from the fact that it really annoyed me that Paypal refused …

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Nokia Music Arrives on Windows 8 and Windows RT

Nokia Music App on Windows 8

Just a quick note for those into Nokia Music on Windows Phone 8 and also use Windows 8/RT. Nokia has seen fit to release a Nokia Music app for these additional platforms to get some further traction in the music market against the likes of Spotify (who are still yet to release an app for …

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Looking Up E-mail Headers in Outlook 2010 or 2013

Here’s a quick tip for Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 users out there. Love it or hate it, the Office ribbon was a big change from the traditional menus of old which made accessing some functions easier whilst others just seemed to disappear altogether. One such function that seemed to disappear was the ability to …

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Properly Dispose of Credit Cards

It’s not everyday that you have to dispose of a credit card for whatever reason (expiry, cancellation, fraud, etc) but knowing how to dispose of one properly is worth knowing. You used to be able to get away with chopping up a credit card with scissors and throwing it in the bin but it can’t hurt …

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Claim Your Free SimCity Nissan LEAF Charging Station

This might be a sign of things to come with big name companies having the opportunity to promote themselves within SimCity and the first such instance seems to be taken by Nissan in promoting its LEAF electric vehicle. In the game itself, the charging station will provide a place for Sims to recharge their LEAF …

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Push YouTube Videos to XBMC from Windows 8/RT

YouTube has become a staple website in terms of video streaming with it being very popular across smartphones, tablets and traditional computers alike. It’s handy to be able to share links with others via e-mail or social media but what if you’re in the same room with other people and you fancied pushing a video …

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Disable Flash in Internet Explorer on Windows RT

Since Microsoft has changed the way Adobe Flash operates on Windows RT by going from a whitelist approach to a blacklist approach it may be worthwhile knowing how to disable Flash on you Windows RT tablet. You need to make these changes via the desktop version of Internet Explorer (which will also make the changes …

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LogMeIn – Limiting Free Accounts to Ten Computers

Well, the gravy train wasn’t going to last forever but it was pretty good while it lasted. If you don’t already know, LogMeIn is placing a restriction on the number of computers you can access through you LogMeIn account. Essentially, you will only be able to access the first ten computers that have LogMeIn free …

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Importing Data From Oracle to MS SQL Server Databases Via SSIS

If you’ve been following the blog then you might remember that I have had a couple of failed attempts (first article and second article) at getting connectivity going between an Oracle database as a source and a Microsoft SQL Server database as a destination. Not to be dissuaded from finding a solution I have found something that I have …

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