Jul 31 2013
Well, as fate would have it, after my disappointment with my Nexus 7 and its declining flash memory performance the latest version of Jelly Bean in the form of Android 4.3 actually includes support for TRIM. This capability was lacking in prior versions of the operating system unless your rooted your device and used various …
Jul 30 2013
It’s nice to get away from it all and take a holiday every now and then but just because you’re clocking off doesn’t mean your power bill will do the same thing. If you have a home server that will continue to use power as will the fridge, hot water service (if you’ve got an …
Jul 29 2013
Just putting something out there for people to consider when it comes to their next laptop purchase. Touch screens are becoming more popular these days in computing with smartphones now having touch-enabled hardware as a staple but laptop and desktop computing hasn’t really bought into touch in a big way until the last year or …
Jul 28 2013
Not too long ago I picked up a Nexus 7 Android tablet so I could test out my Pebble smartwatch (although the Samsung Galaxy Express has primarily taken over that duty) but in the short time that I have had this tablet it has really started to slow down to woeful speeds. Booting up would …
Jul 27 2013
A while back I wrote about how I was looking at options to stream live television and my focus upon the Slingbox products but I never got around to purchasing one. Don’t get me wrong, I think the technology is fantastic but I’ve just not seen much in the way of innovation or the extension of …
Jul 26 2013
As you may know, I won a new smartphone at work when Samsung recently visited which of course was a great surprise! The smartphone I won was the Samsung Galaxy Express which is likened as being a mini Samsung Galaxy S III albeit with more modest specifications (smaller screen, dual core CPU and 8GB memory). …
Jul 24 2013
Here’s a quick tip. If you’re curious as to what makes a particular website work you might have been in a quandary just trying to work it out by looking at the source code. Otherwise, you could try using telnet but that can be a bit fiddly if you’re not comfortable with a command line …
Jul 23 2013
I am the absolute first to admit that I am not a bookworm. I am very picky about the books that I will read and usually they have some sort of a technology or mathematical angle to them. If the subject matter doesn’t really fit into my interests I can find it hard to stay …
Jul 21 2013
These days, when you’re browsing websites there can be a stack of cookies being downloaded to your computer by ad tracking sites in order to serve up targeted advertisements. Social network applets, whilst they can make it really convenient to share content with friends and see what friends have liked. can also do the same …
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