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!

Most commented posts

  1. How to Find a Missing Fitbit — 241 comments
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  4. Why is GainSpan on my Wi-Fi Network? — 54 comments
  5. There Was a Problem Installing Mac OS X (Lion) — 48 comments

Author's posts

Aug 25 2011

How to Repair Your Installation of Microsoft Office 2010

Sometimes, software gets corrupted during the daily grind and we need to undertake an exercise of repairing the affected software. In some cases you may need to resort to a full uninstall and reinstall (or maybe a reinstall over the top if you’re lazy but I would recommend against it) but in other situations you …

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Aug 24 2011

SSL Support Extended in Windows Live Hotmail

Here’s a quick tip for tonight. A while ago I noted that Windows Live Hotmail gained optional forced SSL connectivity but at the expense of being able to access your account through the Windows Live Mail client software on your desktop. This was certainly a deal breaker for me as I prefer to use the …

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Aug 23 2011

There Was a Problem Installing Mac OS X (Lion)

I had a couple of MacBook Pro laptops grace my desk and I have been upgrading them to Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). The first one (maybe eighteen months old) went through without a hitch but the second one (which is a few years old) had all manner of problems including reading my original DVD-RW …

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Aug 22 2011

Determine the Optimal Viewing Distance From Your Screen

Ever sat in front of your screen and have been disappointed by how blocky or pixelated things look but then find that other content looks fine? Not all content is created equal and is one factor that will impact an optimal viewing experience. To keep things simple, the viewing experience is influence by three factors, …

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Aug 21 2011

Recover Lost Firefox Performance with SpeedyFox

SpeedyFox

Leading on from yesterday’s article covering the release of Firefox 8 on the Aurora channel I mentioned a potential way for you to restore performance in existing installation of Firefox which has become sluggish. In the case where performance has been lost as a result of bloated and fragmented SQLITE database files (which is where …

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Aug 20 2011

Firefox 8 Hits the Aurora Channel

Just a quick update for tonight Well, Firefox 6 only just came out earlier this week and the Aurora channel has just ticked over from 7 to 8 in the last 24 hours. I am hoping to see improvements in the memory management of the browser at some point (particularly as it was supposed to …

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Aug 19 2011

Aim for “Centre Centre” With Your Television Mount

I don’t know how frequently people are buying a new television for their home these days but now that we have flat panel displays we now face a choice of either having it on a stand or mounted on a wall. Of course, when you have the television on a stand it affords you the …

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Aug 18 2011

Cleanup Your Hotmail Contacts

Windows Live Mail - Cleanup Contacts

Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you’ve had a Hotmail address for a while you might have accumulated a lot of addresses in the contacts list. Particularly as Hotmail has gained more features in the form of Exchange-like functionality (including Exchange ActiveSync) people can use the service in a way similar to how most …

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Aug 17 2011

Sometimes Firefox Needs a Manual Upgrade

Here’s a quick reminder for the Firefox users out there. Sometimes when you are using an instance of Firefox that is a couple of  versions off the pace you won’t receive the automatic prompts to upgrade to the latest version. Instead, you’ll receive notices to upgrade to the point updates for the major release you …

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Aug 16 2011

HTC Bootloader Unlocking Process Kicks Off

Here’s a heads up for those of you out there with HTC handsets with locked bootloaders – starting with the HTC Sensation you now have the opportunity to unlock the bootloader in order to load custom ROMs! However, there are a couple of things to note: Unlocking the bootloader of your phone does not remove …

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