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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Feb 19 2012

Flickr and Facebook Authentication

By Boydo in Communications, Facebook, Social Networking, Technology

Here’s something I found out the hard way. I wanted to brush the dust off my old Flickr account and I noticed that it has the option of Facebook authentication. Given how rarely I use Yahoo services I thought it’d be a neat way to avoid remembering another username and password combination (not that it’d …

Feb 18 2012

Antivirus Software is a Potential Preventative Measure, Not a Cure

By Boydo in Anti-malware, Antivirus, Security, Technology

This might polarise the audience a bit but I just wanted to expand on my thoughts in this earlier article. In that article, I noted the only 100% effective solution to cure an infected computer is to format and reinstall or restore from a known good backup. Today, I tried and tried unsuccessfully to eradicate a trojan from …

anti-malware, Antivirus, malware, trojan, virus
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Feb 17 2012

Mozilla Creating Boot2Gecko But Why?

By Boydo in Android, Browsers, Firefox, iOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Phone 7

Seems like a slightly crowded field these days for mobile OS market share. Up front we have Android and iOS while BlackBerry OS and Symbian are slowly being sucked into a black hole. Meanwhile, Windows Phone is carving out a small niche for itself prior to Windows 8 hitting the scene as WebOS is stuck …

Android, Boot2Gecko, iOS, Mozilla, Windows Phone
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Feb 16 2012

Workaround Windows Terminating HDMI Audio Playback When Sleeping Monitors

By Boydo in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Power, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 8

A quick tip for tonight. One disappointing “feature” in Windows 7 is when you are playing back audio to a television over HDMI and the power saving feature kicks in to turn off connected screens it also stops audio from being transmitted over HDMI. This can be annoying when you are relaying sound to a …

Feb 15 2012

R18+ Classification for Video Games – Nearly There

By Boydo in Film & Literature Classification, Gaming, Legal

It’s been in the news today but I thought this topic was worth mentioning. I’ve also written about this in the past, specifically: R18+ Video Games – One Step Closer R18+ Computer Games Classification – Its Time Will Come Draft R18+ Guidelines for Computer Games Released Today, a bill was introduced into Federal Parliament to …

Feb 14 2012

MetroTwit – Get a Taste of Twitter, Metro Style

By Boydo in Microsoft, Social Networking, Technology, Twitter, Windows 7, Windows Vista

Here’s a software pick for those looking for a Twitter client for Windows other than TweetDeck. MetroTwit is a Metro styled Twitter client for Windows. For those that don’t know, Metro is the interface found on Windows Phone 7 and will also be the interface for Windows 8 tablets. The Metro design language basically gives …

.Net, metro, MetroTwit, Social Networking, Twitter
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Feb 13 2012

Converting Text Dates to Proper Dates in Excel the Easy Way

By Boydo in Technology

From time to time you might receive an Excel spreadsheet that has been created by an application but it has output the dates in its own text format instead of being stored as an actual date value. I’ve seen instances where the time has been placed before the date which would leave many to think …

Feb 12 2012

Everywhere You Go, Always Take the Weather With You

By Boydo in Technology

Here’s a quick tip for tonight. I’ve mentioned this in passing in prior blogs but it’s worth a mention by itself. Sometimes, you need to keep an eye on the weather if you have pets at home who don’t fancy thunderstorms or if there is a hailstorm warning and you want to track its trajectory. …

BOM, radar, weather
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Feb 11 2012

Windows on ARM Comes with Office 15 Baked In

By Boydo in Android, Apple, ARM, Cloud, CPU, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Processors, Storage, Technology, Windows 8

For people seriously considering a Windows 8 tablet as their next tablet OS here is something that might sweeten the deal a bit. While the iPad has built in viewing capabilities for Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint slidepacks the ability to edit them as part of the base operating system is absent. The …

Android, ARM, Excel, ipad, iPhone, metro, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Office 15, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, SkyDrive, Windows 8, Word
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Feb 10 2012

Visualise the Scale of the Universe

By Boydo in Technology

Thanks to John Tomic for sharing this with me 🙂 If you’ve ever wanted to get a visual idea of the scale of stuff in the universe then there’s a great Flash-based tool that shows you a variety of objects and scales all the way from the length of a planck through to the estimated size …

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