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

Oct 22 2011

eBook Pick – In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives

This is my second eBook pick courtesy of my Kindle DX and sheds some light on the internal operations of Google covering things from its genesis in a university right through to significant products such as Google Mail, Android and, of course, search. “In The Plex” was written by Steven Levy who also wrote Hackers, …

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Oct 21 2011

Know the Insides of Your Car

Maybe straying a bit away from pure technology but a worthwhile tip nonetheless. Today, I took the Prius in for its 80,000km service which was also a major service (major ones are divisable by 40,000). Anyway, I was offered a number of additional recommended services for the car including a “power steering fluid flush” which …

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Oct 20 2011

Lytro Camera On Pre-Order

The title pretty much gives it away but I have pre-ordereed a Lytro camera which I have previously written about here. I went with the graphite 8GB model and it is expected to ship in early 2012 (whenever that ends up being). There has been a gripe or two about the lack of video capture …

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Oct 19 2011

Deleting Files and Folders with Very Long Path Names

Here’s a quick tip for tonight. On the rare occasion, you might create a file that has a combined folder and filename path that is too long for the file system to address. In these situations, when you attempt to delete such files you’ll get errors stating that the filename is too long without any …

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Oct 18 2011

Samsung “Now” App Update Broken on Windows Phone

I thought I would write about this after my experience over the last few days after resetting my Samsung Omnia 7 on the weekend. After getting my phone back up and running there appeared to be an update for the “Now” app on the phone. This app is specific to Samsung Windows Phone devices and …

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Oct 17 2011

Reopen Closed Tabs in Google Chrome

Here’s a quick tip tonight. If you use Google Chrome, you can reopen a tab that you closed (on purpose or accidentally) by right clicking on a tab up the top of the browser window and selecting “Reopen closed tab”. Chrome will then open the last tab that was closed hopefully getting you back to …

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Oct 16 2011

Check a Power Supply Unit’s Efficiency

Here’s a tip for people looking to build a new computer or upgrade their existing one. Most things inside the computer will require power measured in “watts”. To put it simply, this measures the rate at which electricity moves through a circuit. One watt (1W) is equal to one joule of energy consumed in one …

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Oct 15 2011

Current Cost EnviR Real-Time Home Electricity Monitor Unboxing

It’s a bit unusual to have back to back unboxings but I am not one to complain! Today, I unbox the Current Cost EnviR real-time home electricity monitor which I bought from SmartNow (fantastic customer service and highly recommended). I covered this device at a high level in a prior article. This device is designed to …

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Oct 14 2011

Apple iPhone 4S Unboxing

Here it is, the Apple iPhone 4S and another unboxing video. This phone replaces the iPhone 3GS my wife has had for two years which has been having regular heart attacks. Hopefully this phone will fare much better (as well as skipping the pain that was the iOS 5 upgrade). FYI – the video will …

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Oct 13 2011

Fix iOS 5 Upgrade and Error 1303 (Error -1303)

Well, I decided to upgrade my original iPad to iOS 5 this evening and received “Error -1303” (or “Error 1303” to help the search engines find it more easily) three times. I was offered the option to proceed without backing up my device but I didn’t think that was a good option. I ran another …

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