Boyd Chan

My name is Boyd and I’m a Service Management Specialist with a knack for operational data gathering, transformation, analysis and reporting. In 2012, I obtained my Masters of Science in Information Technology through the University of New South Wales @ The Australia Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA). I was also part of an online community known as the Panasonic Insider Crew in the capacity of “Insider Guru” for Panasonic Australia where I interacted with other tech enthusiasts and find out more about Panasonic's latest gadgets. I love technology, gadgets, and the Internet and maintain a keen interest in these areas locally, nationally, and globally. I hope by sharing my views on these topics that people will receive an honest point of view from someone with a genuine interest in these topics. I have also written and edited articles for Neowin - you can check out my articles over @ https://www.neowin.net/news/poster/boyd_chan I hope you enjoy reading my blog!

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Author's posts

Dec 17 2013

Panasonic NH-P70G2 Heat Pump Tumble Dryer Unboxing

Off the back of yesterday’s washing machine unboxing I follow it up with the unboxing video of the matching clothes dryer. The Panasonic NH-P70G2 heat pump tumble dryer is the sole clothes dryer in the household appliance lineup in Australia which is a contrast against the four washing machines on offer (2 x 7kg washers …

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Dec 16 2013

Panasonic NA-140VX3 Washing Machine Unboxing

Maybe not something you’d expect to see in an unboxing video but I guess this makes it a little more unique compared to all of those smartphone and tablet videos 🙂 I had the opportunity to replace our aging ASKO One washing machine and dryer. This was opportune given the recent efforts in the household …

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Dec 15 2013

New Update for Windows Phone Update 3

Just a quick note. If you’ve upgraded your Windows Phone 8 handset to Update 3 ahead of its release then you might want to check for a couple new updates released this week. Not much is known about these updates other than providing general performance and stability improvements (which aren’t bad things). After installing the …

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Dec 14 2013

Valve Releases SteamOS

It’s taken a little while but the first public release of SteamOS is here. Valve has made available two downloads of SteamOS on its website here – a default installation and a custom installation. Be careful though as both will end up completely wiping the computer on which you end up installing SteamOS. The installation …

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Dec 13 2013

New Washer and Dryer Installed

Just a quick note for today. With the help from my brother-in-law we managed to install the new Panasonic washing machine and dryer in the laundry today. It was quite an effort to remove the old units from the laundry and lug them back upstairs the the garage. However, we managed to do it with …

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Dec 12 2013

Suss Out Street Parking Before Arriving

Here’s a quick tip. Many of us have faced situations where we have to drive out somewhere that we’ve not been to much or at all and we’ve got absolutely no idea about the parking options. Street parking could be very limited or altogether absent or you may have heaps of parking spaces from which …

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Dec 11 2013

Incoming Gadgets – Panasonic Washing Machine and Dryer

Just a quick update. Well, after replacing pretty much everything else in the house with Panasonic products the last frontier was the laundry which has been ruled by Asko appliances for the last decade. The Asko One washing machine has done an admirable job but has required a little more attention in recent years with …

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Dec 10 2013

Manage Distribution Groups in Office 365

Here’s a quick tip for users of Office 365 – not the subscription version of the productivity software but the version that includes Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint and Lync in the cloud. Distribution groups have long been staple functionality of Microsoft Exchange with tremendous flexibility in the way that they can be used. From simple lists …

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Dec 09 2013

The Temptation of the EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified Kingpin Edition

Not too long ago I wrote about my intended procurement of a new EVGA GTX 780 Ti Superclocked video card with ACX cooling. It’s one of the better video cards around at the moment particularly after some competition from AMD in the form of its 290X video card. However, doing some browsing around the web …

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Dec 08 2013

Convert an IPv4 to a 6to4 Address

Well, I’m still trying to work out how to get a 6to4 tunnel going on my home internet connection but I think I am slowly piecing things together. It seems you need to use the anycast address of 192.88.99.1 which is where IPv6 traffic will be forwarded over IPv4 but you need to covert your …

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