Scramble With Friends is one of my favourite games on Android – I’ve always found some challenge and fun in trying to find patterns and meaning out of what seems to be a jumble of noise and data. Unfortunately, one day when I was playing the app glitched up and since that point the animations …
Category: Operating Systems
Aug 05 2012
Speed Up Samsung Galaxy S III Home Button
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, iPhone, Operating Systems, Technology
The Samsung Galaxy S III is certainly one of the top shelf Android smartphones for 2012 and as such had high expectations from people looking to grab one of these as their next mobile phone. However, there is one niggle that has arisen with regard to a perceived delay when hitting the home button on …
Aug 04 2012
iTunes Keeps Reopening After Being Closed
- By Boydo in Apple, iTunes, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology
A quick tip for those out there who have problems closing iTunes and it just keeps reopening again and again. If this is happening to you and you have a Logitech gaming keyboard then you might want to update to Version 8.30 of the Logitech Gaming Software. Apparently, there was a bug in 8.20 that …
Aug 03 2012
A Nifty Springboard in Windows 8
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows 8
With the impending release of Windows 8 both power and regular users alike might be looking for ways to ease the transition to the new Start Screen. If this sounds like you then here’s something that you might find handy There’s a hidden menu that will provide you immediate access to a lot of commonly …
Jul 30 2012
Duplicate Events and Contacts in Android
- By Boydo in Android, Operating Systems, Technology
Update: The below solution does not correct the problem and only addresses the symptoms. Please leave a comment if this bug is affecting you and when it first started happening. Update 2: I recall receiving an update for my Samsung Galaxy S III on 11/07/2012 weighing in at 22.6MB which was listed as a performance …
Jul 29 2012
A Better Soft Keyboard for your Android Smartphone
- By Boydo in Android, Operating Systems
It seems these days that every Android device comes with slightly different interfaces and soft keyboards which can be a selling point for some or plain annoying for others. If you do change between Android handsets from various manufacturers then you might like to standardise upon a soft keyboard so your transition between handsets is …
Jul 28 2012
Office 2013 – First Impressions
Last night I decided to try out Office 2013 – perhaps not the smartest thing to do just as the university semester is getting underway but I couldn’t help myself. Anyway, I just wanted to share my first impressions of it with you starting with the installation. First of all, the time between kicking off …
Jul 25 2012
Recent Drop in Samsung Galaxy S III Battery Life
- By Boydo in Android, Content & Search, Operating Systems, Steam, Technology
I just wanted to share an observation regarding my Samsung Galaxy S III. Normally, I don’t leave my phone on the charger overnight (and maybe I should start doing so) but recently I have noticed that battery life has taken a significant hit to the point that I am left with little or no battery …
Jul 24 2012
Quickly Apply Filters When Browsing Files
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology
Despite the lengths some of us go to organise our files and folders there can be times when we do end up with folders containing a huge amount of files. Sometimes these files will be all the same file type (like documents and spreadsheets) or they may be a mix of anything and everything. Anyway, …
Jul 19 2012
Microsoft SkyDrive Upgrade
- By Boydo in Cloud, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Storage, Technology, Windows 8
Just a quick note for the SkyDrive users out there. Microsoft SkyDrive application for Windows has received an update but unfortunately the client software doesn’t look like it will automatically update itself. That’s a little disappointing that other Microsoft products use Windows Update as the updating mechanism such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft Security Essentials …
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