Here’s something that I had observed today. When attempting to connect to my webhost today I found that it would accept my username and password however, when initiating TLS, it would timeout even though my website was up and I had seemingly reliable connectivity to my webhost. In order to resolve this problem I tried …
Category: Operating Systems
Feb 24 2012
Solving TLS Timeouts in FileZilla
- By Boydo in Connectivity, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Secure, SSL, Technology, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Feb 17 2012
Mozilla Creating Boot2Gecko But Why?
- By Boydo in Android, Browsers, Firefox, iOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Windows Phone 7
Seems like a slightly crowded field these days for mobile OS market share. Up front we have Android and iOS while BlackBerry OS and Symbian are slowly being sucked into a black hole. Meanwhile, Windows Phone is carving out a small niche for itself prior to Windows 8 hitting the scene as WebOS is stuck …
Feb 16 2012
Workaround Windows Terminating HDMI Audio Playback When Sleeping Monitors
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Power, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 8
A quick tip for tonight. One disappointing “feature” in Windows 7 is when you are playing back audio to a television over HDMI and the power saving feature kicks in to turn off connected screens it also stops audio from being transmitted over HDMI. This can be annoying when you are relaying sound to a …
Feb 14 2012
MetroTwit – Get a Taste of Twitter, Metro Style
Here’s a software pick for those looking for a Twitter client for Windows other than TweetDeck. MetroTwit is a Metro styled Twitter client for Windows. For those that don’t know, Metro is the interface found on Windows Phone 7 and will also be the interface for Windows 8 tablets. The Metro design language basically gives …
Feb 11 2012
Windows on ARM Comes with Office 15 Baked In
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, ARM, Cloud, CPU, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Processors, Storage, Technology, Windows 8
For people seriously considering a Windows 8 tablet as their next tablet OS here is something that might sweeten the deal a bit. While the iPad has built in viewing capabilities for Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint slidepacks the ability to edit them as part of the base operating system is absent. The …
Feb 07 2012
Google Talk Client for Windows Phone
- By Boydo in Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Social Networking, Talk, Technology, Windows Phone 7
Whilst Windows Phone has Windows Live Messenger and Facebook Chat built in it does leave you disconnected from another major IM network in the form of Google Talk. I think it’s realistic to say that we probably won’t see Google Plus let alone Google Talk functionality included natively in the Windows Phone OS but there …
Feb 05 2012
Another Way to Close Windows in Windows
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows Vista
Here’s a quick tip for tonight for Windows users. Back in Windows 3.1 there wasn’t a dedicated button to close a window so instead you had to double click the menu button in the top left corner. It wasn’t until Windows 95 that a dedicated close button made its appearance in the top right corner …
Feb 04 2012
CCleaner for Mac OS X
- By Boydo in Apple, Macintosh, MacOS, Operating Systems, Technology
Here’s a quick software pick for the Mac users out there. CCleaner, which I have covered in a prior post, has now been made available for Mac OS X. Windows users have been able to use this utility for quite some time to remove a lot of the built up cruft from their computers and …
Jan 30 2012
Retrieve Missing Task Manager Menus
Here’s a quick tip for today. On the rare occasion you might find yourself looking at Task Manager in Windows and it is completely devoid of the usual menu options and tabs at the top of the window, resulting in something like this: … or this: What’s the solution? Just double click on the blank …
Jan 28 2012
Stabilisation Tips for Your Gaming Rig
- By Boydo in Gaming, Interfaces, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, Video, Windows 7
For about a month now my desktop computer has been working fine after I had dropped in the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive but since then I have experienced some instability when playing games on it (particularly Team Fortress 2 or TF2 for short). The system wouldn’t crash but the screen would go blank …
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