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

Mar 20 2012

Help Kickstart the Wasteland 2 RPG

These days we hear of a number of efforts getting off the ground thanks to overwhelming global interest from individuals when the big businesses don’t want to touch a concept with a fifty foot barge pole. Kickstarter has been instrumental in helping projects get not only the exposure but also the funding to get going. If you …

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Mar 19 2012

Internet Explorer 10 x 2 = ?

Here’s something else to bear in mind for people trying out Windows 8 and the two different versions of Internet Explorer 10. If you don’t know already there are two versions of Internet Explorer 10: the Metro-style app and the traditional desktop app. More confusingly, these two instances of Internet Explorer 10 are not named …

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Mar 18 2012

How to Check a Website’s Availability

Quick tip for tonight. Sometimes you might not be able to reach a particular website for one of many reasons, including: the website being down for maintenance, the website being flooded, a link between you and the website going down. It’s hard to tell unless you have another internet connection handy (like a mobile phone …

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Mar 17 2012

Tethering is Coming to Nokia Lumia Phones

Just a quick note for the people out there who have bought or are about to buy Nokia Lumia handets. At the moment, the Lumia 700 and 800 handsets running Windows Phone 7.5 do not include the ability to tether other devices (i.e. use your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot). It looks like that was …

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Mar 16 2012

Lytro Camera Unboxing

So, after many months of waiting it finally arrived – the Lytro camera! For those who don’t know what makes the Lytro camera so special check out this prior article I wrote up about it. I’m just getting used to it at the moment and working out its features and functions before I do my …

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Mar 15 2012

Incoming Gadget – Raspberry Pi

A quick heads up for tonight. I have had my eyes on an interesting credit card sized computer called the Raspberry Pi. It’s an ARM-based computer (similar to the CPUs found in phones and tablets these days) and is designed to run Linux. It’s also low cost as well with Model A costing around AU$30 …

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Mar 14 2012

Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes Out of Print

This has been widely publicised already today but I thought it was a noteworthy event to record. The Encyclopaedia Britannica will cease its printing the 32-volume encyclopeadia after nearly a quarter of a millennium (244 years to be exact). You could have called the Britannica the old school version of Wikipedia which was updated once in what would …

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Mar 13 2012

Open Recent Documents Quickly Under Mac OS X Lion

Another tip here for Mac OS X Lion users out there. The dock got a little bit smarter with the upgrade to Lion which now allows you to quickly access recently opened documents without having to browse the file system for them. All you need to do is right click (or tap with two fingers …

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Mar 12 2012

Search for Specific Document Types in Mac OS X

A quick tip for Mac OS X Lion users tonight. Previously, I have covered the way to search for specific document types using Windows Search which ended up being rather unintuitive and complex for a regular user (and to be honest, I forgot about the command as well). The good news is that under Mac OS …

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Mar 11 2012

Read Norton Ghost Images Without Shelling Out Your Cash

Here’s a short and sharp tip for tonight. If you’ve ever used Norton Ghost (or Symantec Ghost as it might be called) to capture a disk image at some point in time but you’ve now lost the software there is a solution to help you out. You can still grab a copy of the Ghost …

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