This video is probably the longest one I have recorded so far for the YouTube channel (and hopefully I won’t record anything longer) but I managed to edit the video for the Optus MeTV preview. You’ll get a closer look at the device itself as well as how the initial setup works and some of …
Category: Google
Nov 28 2011
Google Analytics Now Featuring Real-Time Reporting
Here’s something interesting for those of you with your own websites that use Google Analytics to track visitors and content popularity. Having been rolled out recently, you can now track some basic information as people visit your site. In a nutshell, you can see where your visitors are from, what content they are viewing and, …
Nov 27 2011
Optus MeTV Unboxing
Took a little while to get around it due to other commitments but here is the unboxing video for the Optus MeTV. It is a rebranded Yuxing YX-6936U with access to online offerings from FetchTV as well as containing digital tuners to record content to the 1TB internal hard drive (so you can pause and rewind live …
Nov 26 2011
How to Guide – Replacing a Battery in a MacBook Pro Laptop
In some of the earlier models of the unibody MacBook Pro the battery was deemed to be a “non-user serviceable part” meaning that if something happened to the battery (its capacity deteriorated or stopped working) you would have to send it back to get the battery replaced or swing by an Apple store. This was …
Nov 21 2011
Update – Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) Port for Samsung Galaxy S
Hi folks, just wanted to give you an update on where I am at with testing the early alpha port of Ice Cream Sandwich (or ICS as it is now being abbreviated) to the Samsung Galaxy S. Initially, I was testing Galnet MIUI as I believed that was a proper implementation of ICS but it …
Nov 08 2011
Google Plus Pages Now Available
Just a quick heads up that Google Plus (or Google+ depending upon your preference) now has made available the ability to create pages similar to how Facebook has pages for non-personal profiles. For instance, this blog’s Facebook page is located @ https://www.facebook.com/boydostechtalk which is where I aggregate information from the blog, photos from unboxings and all the …
Nov 02 2011
Opt Out of Google Interest-based Advertising
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you don’t fancy Google using its tracking cookies to work out what ads to show you (either for AdSense or DoubleClick based ads) in online searches and Google apps you can easily opt out of it with the click of a mouse button. All you need to do …
Oct 29 2011
Zune Music Pass Finally Coming to Australia
I don’t know how I missed this but I am really excited that Microsoft is releasing its Zune Music Pass in Australia for $11.99 a month starting on Wednesday 16th November, 2011. At long last, this missing piece of the Windows Phone ecosystem is enabled for us users down under so that we can have …
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