Well, as luck would have it on a day when I am working from home the ADSL router modem bites the dust but fortunately I had a couple of 3G connections as backup. The trusty old Dynalink RTA1025Wjust couldn’t manage to sync up to the exchange anymore and would have pushed at least a couple …
September 2013 archive
Sep 09 2013
Keep Track of Flights Carrying Family and Friends
Here’s a quick tip – this time in the form of an app recommendation. Maybe you need to collect family and friends from the airport quite a bit or perhaps only once every so often. Otherwise, if you’ve dropped someone at the airport you might want to keep tabs on their flight just so you …
Sep 08 2013
Using Twitter to Keep Tabs on Live Election Results
This is something you would need to keep until next election but the ABC in Australia ran Twitter bots allowing people to query and obtain live results for each seat with a direct link to more detailed results on the ABC website. I thought this was pretty cool even though I am at home with …
Sep 07 2013
Using an External Microphone on a Lenovo T520
Another quick tip for today. To put it simply, the built-in microphone on my Lenovo T520 is terrible to put it politely. Attempting to use the microphone on a Lync call was a fruitless exercise with the other party unable to hear me. Even with the levels cranked right up for the microphone it wouldn’t …
Sep 06 2013
Putting Downward Pressure on the Electricity Bill
if you’ve been reading regularly, you may know that I have been on a bit of a crusade to decrease our electricity bill after it tipped over $1000 about a year ago. This has been primarily in the form of replacing particular devices and next week sees another major step towards saving a bit of …
Sep 05 2013
Take the Surprise Out of Short URLs
Very quick tip for today. Short URLs are all over the place. They are supposed to be designed to be very small, some in order to be memorable or just to squeeze into a social media message. However, short URLs prevent you from really knowing what it is that you’re clicking on which is an …
Sep 04 2013
Microsoft Buys Nokia’s Devices and Services Business
This is already major news but if you’ve been under a rock then Microsoft is acquiring Nokia’s smartphone business and a ten year license arrangement to use the Nokia brand on mobile phone products. Perhaps the major kicker is access to Nokia’s intellectual property which is important as the smartphone wars heat up on both …
Sep 03 2013
Optus Voicemail Phone Numbers
A short and sweet tip. After wiping my Nokia Lumia 920 and flashing it to the latest firmware it didn’t fill in the voicemail number for Optus. Of course, the short dial number of 321 is very hard to forget but if you’re dialling from overseas you may want to use the full international number. …
Sep 02 2013
International Data Roaming on the Cheap with Prepaid Abroad
In a week my wife will be going on a trip to Denmark and of course she will be taking her iPhone and iPad both as a means to stay in touch and capture highlights along the way. However, Denmark doesn’t seem to have any great local deals for data packs and none of the …
Sep 01 2013
Finding the Nokia Pro Cam App on Windows Phone 8
A quick tip for those who have just upgraded to GDR2 + Amber on their Lumia handsets. One of the exciting apps that you can use with GDR2 + Amber is the Nokia Pro Cam app which gives you fantastic control over the white balance, ISO, manual focus and shutter speed amongst other things whilst …
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