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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  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

Dec 21 2011

Quickly and Safely Recover Loose Screws and Headers

Here’s a tip that might come in handy if you disassemble and reassemble computers or other gadgets. Sometimes, despite your best care and efforts, you might drop a screw, a header or some other tiny object you can spend quite some time trying to find that object on the floor. It can be harder still …

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Dec 20 2011

XMPP Support Arriving for Windows Live Messenger

The instant messenger wars have been waged for a while now with ICQ and AOL instant messenger seemingly enjoying a bit of a honeymoon until the likes of MSN Messenger (now Windows Live Messenger) and other modern instant messengers quickly stole their thunder. However, one thing that has remained is the persistent incompatibility between them …

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Dec 19 2011

The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Hard Drive Warranties

This news may take a little while to trickle through to regular consumers but I wanted to draw attention to the fact that Western Digital and Seagate are going to alter the warranties offered with their hard drive around the end of this year. In short, Seagate will be slashing the five years warranty down …

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Dec 18 2011

OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Update

Thought I would provide an interim update on how I am going with the new OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive that I received in the last week. Windows 7 Ultimate is up and running after a minor wrestle to get Windows setup up and running. I had to revert all of the other …

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Dec 17 2011

Retail Feature Labels Don’t Tell All

Just a quick one for this evening. Today, I went browsing through David Jones to look at all of the audio visual products on display. It was a fairly standard sort of layout with those little signs next to each product with two to four features listed along with the price. Now whilst that sort …

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Dec 16 2011

OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Solid State Drive Unboxing & Preview

A little while ago I gave you all the heads up that I was getting a new solid state drive for my desktop computer to replace the Patriot Warp 128GB SSD that is currently my bootable OS and application drive. It has been running a bit slow given that I run it close to capacity …

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Dec 15 2011

Save on New and Renewed TechNet Subscriptions

For people looking for a promotional code or coupon code to cut the price of their TechNet subscription (either a brand new one or a renewal) then you might fancy treating yourself to a nice 30% discount. All you need to do is when you sign up or renew is provide the code AUONLY30 and this will …

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Dec 14 2011

Holy Hard Drive Prices!

While the tech heads out there would have seen this coming the regular user probably didn’t so I thought this was worth mentioning. It wasn’t long ago when you could buy a 2TB hard drive for around $100 which was pretty good. However, prices of all hard drives may soon rise due to widespread flooding …

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Dec 13 2011

Merge PDF Documents with Adolix Split and Merge PDF

Adolix Split & Merge PDF

Here’s a quick tip for tonight. Today, I had to find a tool to merge two PDF documents together without having to resort to using my work laptop with Adobe Acrobat on it (takes forever to boot up, getting the documents on there is time consuming and then when I get to work it’ll crash …

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Dec 12 2011

Some Anti-Piracy Measures Might Actually Encourage Piracy

You may or may not have seen mention of the “giant pink scorpion” in Serious Sam 3 but I thought the concept proposed an interesting point of discussion. In a nutshell, if you have pirated the game you’ll soon encounter the “giant pink scorpion” from the outset of the game which is seemingly invulnerable to …

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