Category: Operating Systems

Patience Required for Aussie Zune Music Pass on Windows Phone Devices

Here’s a quick update for those of you who have jumped in and subscribed to the Zune Music Pass service in Australia. Hopefully, you’ve enjoyed using the service through the Zune desktop client and via the Zune website (which I find handy at work to play some tunes while I work) however there is a …

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Zune Music Pass Now Available in Australia

It’s a day early but you can now activate your Zune Music Pass in Australia by visiting http://www.zune.net/en-us/products/zunepass/default.htm and logging in with your Australian-based Windows Live ID. You can sign up for the 14 day free trial after which your credit card will be debited $11.99 on a monthly basis (or you can switch to the annual …

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How to Guide – Performing an Over the Air Update of iOS & Multitasking Gestures

Given that the first update to iOS 5 came out and one of its much touted features was the ability to update the device without tethering it to iTunes on a computer I thought I would make a video showing you the execution of this process. I did cut quite a bit out of it …

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Minimise All But One Window in Windows 7

Quick tip for tonight. If your screen has become rather cluttered and want to quick minimise all windows bar a specific one under Windows 7 there is a simple solution. Just hover your mouse on the title bar of the window, hold down the left mouse button and then shake the mouse left and right. …

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Enable Multitasking Gestures on the Original Apple iPad

Just a heads up for those who were using developer versions of iOS 5 on the original iPad and had grown to like the multitasking gestures until they were disabled in the final build. The iOS 5.0.1 update re-enables these gestures for the original iPad. The missing gestures allowed your to do a four fingered …

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Screen Capturing for Windows Phone 7 Devices

Screen Capture (Start Screen)

Here’s a tip that has me a bit excited particularly as it will help me enrich my Windows Phone 7 entries with native screenshots! Thanks to Jerry Jiang over at XDA Developers there is a side loadable app called Screen Capturer to enable screenshots on a Windows Phone 7 device by half pressing the camera …

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Bins for Windows 7

My Windows 7 Taskbar with Bins

Ever since Windows 7 came out I have been a huge fan of the Superbar however it can get a bit cluttered with icons for several browsers, Microsoft Office Apps and a stack of other things that I need from time to time. Sure, I have real estate to spare but the Superbar does start …

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Why Voice is a Peril for Google

Since the iPhone 4S came out Siri, the enhanced voice control functionality found only on the iPhone 4S (for the time being), has become a a focal point for the state of the art of speech recognition. With smartphones packing quite a punch in terms of CPU power and access to the cloud becoming ubiquitous …

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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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Windows Phone 7 Gets Internet Sharing

Just a quick update for tonight. For owners of the Samsung Omnia 7 on Optus (at least) an update has been released today that enabled internet sharing on your Mango upgraded phone. It works as well as other wireless hotspot solutions on mobile phones. Once you have upgraded you will find the setting to enable internet …

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