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

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Author's posts

Aug 07 2012

Eighty Free Microsoft eBooks

I’m going to make this article short and sweet – thanks to Sarah Miller for sharing this with me! The MSDN blog has two great posts with links to a stack of free eBooks covering topics from development, deployment and operations guides through to training packs, introductory materials and capacity planning information. Anyway, here are …

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Aug 06 2012

Scramble With Friends No Longer Animates

Scramble With Friends is one of my favourite games on Android – I’ve always found some challenge and fun in trying to find patterns and meaning out of what seems to be a jumble of noise and data. Unfortunately, one day when I was playing the app glitched up and since that point the animations …

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Aug 05 2012

Speed Up Samsung Galaxy S III Home Button

The Samsung Galaxy S III is certainly one of the top shelf Android smartphones for 2012 and as such had high expectations from people looking to grab one of these as their next mobile phone. However, there is one niggle that has arisen with regard to a perceived delay when hitting the home button on …

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Aug 04 2012

iTunes Keeps Reopening After Being Closed

A quick tip for those out there who have problems closing iTunes and it just keeps reopening again and again. If this is happening to you and you have a Logitech gaming keyboard then you might want to update to Version 8.30 of the Logitech Gaming Software. Apparently, there was a bug in 8.20 that …

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Aug 03 2012

A Nifty Springboard in Windows 8

With the impending release of Windows 8 both power and regular users alike might be looking for ways to ease the transition to the new Start Screen. If this sounds like you then here’s something that you might find handy There’s a hidden menu that will provide you immediate access to a lot of commonly …

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Aug 02 2012

WP Super Cache and RSS

If you run your own blog and traffic starts to pick up a little bit then you may have been recommended to use something called WP Super Cache. I thought I might try it out to see if there was going to be much benefit for this blog given the increase in traffic it has …

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Aug 01 2012

How to Upgrade and Downgrade Between Hotmail to Outlook.com

Update 20/02/2013: Microsoft appears to be migrating users over and removing the option to revert to the Hotmail interface! This came out of nowhere and is a testament that Microsoft is really getting its stuff together ahead of the Windows 8 release and unify their software and services across the board. Hotmail started in humble …

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Jul 31 2012

Noise-Cancelling Headphones and a Lack of Audio Output

The obvious joke that you could take away from reading the title would be that your noise cancelling headphones might be working too well and are blocking everything including the audio you want to hear – trust me that this isn’t the case for this article 🙂 Noise-cancelling headphones and earphones do require power to …

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Jul 30 2012

Duplicate Events and Contacts in Android

Update: The below solution does not correct the problem and only addresses the symptoms. Please leave a comment if this bug is affecting you and when it first started happening. Update 2: I recall receiving an update for my Samsung Galaxy S III on 11/07/2012 weighing in at 22.6MB which was listed as a performance …

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Jul 29 2012

A Better Soft Keyboard for your Android Smartphone

It seems these days that every Android device comes with slightly different interfaces and soft keyboards which can be a selling point for some or plain annoying for others. If you do change between Android handsets from various manufacturers then you might like to standardise upon a soft keyboard so your transition between handsets is …

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