A friend and colleague of mine has been without her fixed line broadband at home for the best part of a week which has hindered her ability to work remotely as well as allowing her family to conduct their online activities (like checking personal and work e-mail accounts as an example). Today, it came to …
Category: Mobile
Nov 27 2010
Incoming Gadget Alert – Amazon Kindle
Just a brief note to let you all know that my wife has ordered an Amazon Kindle for her Christmas present this year which will mean another round of the unboxing, preview and review videos. Not being such a huge reader of books (or ebooks) myself, my wife may actually end up doing the guest …
Nov 18 2010
First Impressions – Google Navigation Arrives Down Under
If you have been watching either the Twitter feed or Facebook page for Boydo’s Tech Talk you would have seen that Google Navigation was officially released yesterday. This is good news for those of you who have had to hack their Android devices with Brut Google Maps to get turn-by-turn navigation as there is now …
Nov 04 2010
Know How to Block Your Mobile Phone Number
Another quick and simple tip for tonight (partially inspired by my love of working out to make phones do funny stuff in the past like loop someone’s voicemail back on itself many times over so it echoes). Every now and then there may be someone you want to call but you don’t necessarily want them …
Oct 21 2010
Common Treatments for Lack of Dataflow on Mobile Devices
Another quick one for tonight. For the techies amongst us this post should come as no surprise but for others who may struggle with these fancy mobile gizmos. Sometimes a smartphone or a tablet device will simply refuse to load webpages or send and receive e-mail. Try as you might, repeatedly refreshing the page doesn’t …
Sep 26 2010
Apple Peel – Turn Your iPod Touch into a Phone
On my travels across the interwebs, I came across something interesting called the Apple Peel. Basically, it gives the iPod Touch telephony and SMS capabilities but only once the device has undergone the jailbreak process and the appropriate applications have been installed. Bearing in mind that this is still a prototype there are still a …
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