Jul 15 2012
Okay, I have a confession. I have had an itch to pledge for another project on Kickstarter and I gave in far too easily but I reckon this is quite an exciting development for the gaming industry as a whole, if not, for gamers in general. Ouya will be a game console based upon Android …
Jun 15 2012
Here’s a quick tip. If your phone has an AMOLED screen (as opposed to an LCD screen) it’s worth knowing how these displays work. In a nutshell, LCD screens rely on a backlight and a liquid crystal matrix in front of it which blocks certain colours and allows other colours through. Power usage will be …
May 25 2012
A couple of days ago I found that my replacement Kindle DX which I had in my possession for just two weeks succumbed to the screen failure issue that the original Kindle DX suffered. Needless to say I was a bit annoyed by this turn of events as I had not even had the chance to start …
May 23 2012
This is already old news but I thought I’d write briefly about the arrival of Spotify in Australia yesterday. I did use this service myself a while ago by getting around the regional lockout but after some time it didn’t work properly. Now that the service is now available I am now turning off the …
May 02 2012
Well, just a few days out of warranty my Kindle DX went to heaven after suffering a fatal screen failure. Unfortunately, I was unable to get a free replacement unit (which is fair enough given that I am outside the warranty period) but my wife was able to get her Kindle replaced a few days …
Apr 29 2012
While we probably don’t sit around gazing at our desktop background everyday it’s nice to be able to be surprised by something that looks spectacular. Bing has become noted for having a new image everyday on its landing page and, while there has been the ability to get two new wallpapers a week via RSS from …
Apr 28 2012
This evening, it appears that our Foxtel IQ2 cable box died after exhibiting some strange behaviour in the form of: inability to time shift live television (the show on screen would pause but could not be unpaused), recorded content would not playback, restarting or resetting the unit would eventually result in the box going back …
Apr 09 2012
Here’s something for the database administrators out there that want to get cracking on building up their skills and knowledge regarding the latest version of Microsoft’s database server solution, MS SQL Server 2012. I know that paper books tend to lend themselves better for the reference book genre but of course there are costs involved …
Apr 07 2012
Thanks to John Tomic for this tip! Fallout. Yes, it’s an older game released back in 1997 but it is considered to be one of the classic role playing games (RPGs). However, I bet there are a stack of people out there harbouring some nostalgia for those vintage games that may not have had awesome …
Mar 14 2012
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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