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
  2. Fitbit Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale and the Cold — 88 comments
  3. How to Fix Windows Activation Error 0x80072F8F — 71 comments
  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

Jul 17 2013

Receive Reminders About a Fitbit With Low Battery

If you’re like me and you forget to recharge your Fitbit you might need something to jog the old memory. Whilst the Android app does give you a reminder when the battery is getting a bit low it doesn’t help me too much given that my Android tablet plays second fiddle to my Windows Phone …

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Jul 16 2013

Incoming Gadget – Samsung Galaxy Express

Samsung Galaxy S III

Another quick update. I had an unexpected acquisition last week when Samsung visited my workplace and, to cut a long story short, I managed to score myself a Samsung Galaxy Express in a competition. It’s not from the top shelf of the Galaxy range where you would find the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy Note …

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Jul 14 2013

Keeping Track of Due Electronic Bills

Here’s a quick tip. I’m a big fan of paperless billing but one thing it did disrupt was my filing system where I would put bills in order on my desk and pay them as they fell due. Since these were in my e-mail (and printing them out sort of defeated the purposed of going …

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Jul 13 2013

NBN and the Private Cloud

These days we hear “cloud services” bandied around as the next big thing and there is no doubting their convenience in terms of accessibility and pricing (often free). However, there may not be much consideration given to the security of such services particularly if they are located in another country where you may have few …

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Jul 12 2013

Panasonic Insider Crew Wraps Up

As unfortunate as it is that all good things come to and end the Insider Crew is going offline as of today. Of course, I do feel a little sad about it as it has been a fantastic community where we’ve discussed products and technology as well as sharing our experiences with each other across …

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Jul 11 2013

Reduced Colour Depth When Using Remote Desktop

Here’s a quick tip if you happen to use remote desktop. If you’ve got a monitor of particularly high resolution (such as 2560 x 1440 in the case of my monitor at work) then modern desktop or laptop computers should have little problem driving the pixels necessary to make it work properly. However, if you …

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Jul 10 2013

Play Candy Crush Saga Without Waiting For Extra Lives

Here’s a quick tip if you’re addicted to Candy Crush Saga. It can be a pain using up all your lives on a particular level and then having to wait for your lives to replenish before having another crack. This can be frustrating given that these “lives” are essentially virtual goods that cost nothing to …

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Jul 09 2013

Microsoft Calls Time on TechNet

A lot of people out there will be disappointed to here that Microsoft will be wrapping up its TechNet program which allows users to evaluate full version software for an annual fee. It was a more affordable version compared to MSDN which remains the realm of  businesses or hardcore developers. It is a great way …

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Jul 08 2013

Playing MKV Videos Over DLNA

Just a quick update for today. I am looking at a solution to get MKV files to play on DLNA-compliant devices. Strictly speaking, DLNA players won’t play MKV videos as the MKV format wasn’t included as part of the DLNA specification so the only option here appears to be to use a transcoder such as …

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Jul 07 2013

Problem Backing Up New Windows 8 Computers to Windows Home Server 2011

After receiving my new Panasonic AX2 ultrabook it was prudent to setup automatic backups to prevent against data loss as a result of hardware failure or theft. Whilst I do save most important things in the cloud with my Office 365 subscriptions it is still handy to have the ability to restore the computer to …

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