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 18 2010

Sony PlayStation 3 Slim Unboxing

If you have been following the blog over the last couple of weeks you would have seen me unbox and preview the Panasonic Viera 50″ Plasma 3DTV (TH-P50VT20A) followed by an unboxing and preview of the Panasonic 3D Blu-ray Player (DMP-BDT300GN). Anyway, yesterday was my birthday and my wife has spoilt me rotten by getting me …

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Dec 17 2010

New Gadget Coming Up This Weekend!

A very brief post for tonight after a busy and eventful day (also being my birthday)! Last night, my wife got me a PlayStation 3 Slim with Call of Duty: Black Ops and Gran Turismo 5 as a brilliant present for my birthday and Christmas. It’s notably brilliant as not only the console itself is …

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Dec 16 2010

iOS 4.2.1 iPad Bug – Background Video Playback Broken

After coming back from a holiday in Cairns (where I had forgotten to pack my earphones and putting a dampener on my ability to listen to my podcasts) I updated my iPad to iOS 4.2.1 to finally access features that had been available on the iPhone for months – primarily the folders feature so I …

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Dec 15 2010

Sleep and Hibernation Modes – What’s the Difference?

Over the years the humble shut down menu in Windows has been home to a number of options since it appeared back in Windows 95. If you can cast your mind back fifteen years, the usual suspects in the menu were: Shut down the computer Restart the computer Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode Close …

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Dec 14 2010

Beware the Twitter Worm Spruiking Acai!

Just a general warning for those of you using Twitter. It seems that there is a worm that is compromising Twitter accounts by enticing people to click on a link regarding “acainews”. News about how the exploit itself is still fairly thin on the ground but it has been noted that accounts belonging to users …

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Dec 13 2010

Geek Toolkit Recommendation – CPU-Z

CPU-Z (SPD Screen)

Just a quick update for tonight. Sometimes the tech savvy amongst us are called upon to look at all sorts of computers belonging to friends, family, work colleagues and sometimes unwanted acquaintances. Trying to find out more about the computer with which you are dealing can be difficult especially for ancient hardware. Unless you know about the …

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Dec 12 2010

Panasonic 3D Blu-ray Player (DMP-BDT300GN) Preview

Yesterday, I showed off the video unboxing the Panasonic 3D Blu-ray Player (DMP-BDT300GN). Today, I managed to record the preview video to show you around the hardware itself  (primarily the various interfaces on the back and what you can expect to find on the front) and also touch upon a couple of the major features of …

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Dec 11 2010

Panasonic 3D Blu-ray Player (DMP-BDT300GN) Unboxing

Last weekend I unboxed and previewed the Panasonic Viera 50″ Plasma 3DTV (TH-P50VT20A) and so far the results in terms of traditional 2D performance have been pretty decent. Having said that the wife and I were keen to get into some Blu-ray movies. This meant I had to hook up the Blu-ray player Panasonic kindly …

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Dec 10 2010

R18+ Computer Games Classification – Its Time Will Come

The avid gamers amongst us would have been closely following the news today regarding the R18+ classification for computer games and the subsequent postponement of a decision until 2011. I can only imagine that many people are disappointed that there wasn’t a definitive result but by the same token it does mean that it is …

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Dec 09 2010

Upcoming Gadget Unboxings and Previews

Just a quick one tonight. This weekend, I will be unboxing and previewing the Panasonic DMP-BDT300GN 3D Blu-ray player. Of course, this will be hooked up to the Panasonic Viera television that I showed off last weekend to assist in the review process. There is a 3D Blu-ray demo disc included in the box to …

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