Once in a blue moon, you might find yourself in the situation where you need to slice up that huge hard drive (or maybe a smaller solid state drive) into multiple partitions. Partitions can make your data easier to manage by keeping logical types of data separate. For example, my computer is setup as follows: …
Category: Operating Systems
May 25 2010
Keep Track of Courier Deliveries with Junecloud
- By Boydo in Apple, Google, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Macintosh, MacOS, Operating Systems, Technology
After recently ordering a number of items which will be couriered, I have found myself having to login to various websites to try and keep track of what is going on. Sure, I can get e-mail notifications but in most cases but I’d have to sign up for the notifications for each and every package. …
May 23 2010
AirVideo – Media Streaming for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad
- By Boydo in Apple, Connectivity, iPad, iPhone, iPod, MacOS, Microsoft, Mobile, Operating Systems, Technology, Wi-Fi, Windows Home Server, Wireless
In anticipation of our iPads arriving on Friday (although I am predicting a Thursday release so Apple gets the hop on the media), I have been looking for a media streaming solution to counteract the 16GB capacity of our purchased iPads. If we are at home, having to sync media for an impulse viewing is …
May 19 2010
Download Device Drivers, Don’t Use the Disc
- By Boydo in Google, Microsoft, Mouse, Operating Systems, Peripherals, Technology, Windows 7
At some point, most of us will go out and buy a new peripheral for our computers most of which may require drivers or additional software to enable enhanced functionality. Of course, the device manufacturer will usually be generous enough to include both drivers and software on a disc in the box for you. What …
May 16 2010
Skype Beta – Five-Way Video Calling Released
- By Boydo in Apple, Communications, iPad, iPhone, Linux, MacOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Skype, Technology, VoIP
A little while back, I wrote about Skype and how it is great for free, high quality voice and video calls to other people that also use the Skype service. This week, Skype released a beta version of Skype into the wild that is capable of five-way video calling which is up from the usual …
May 12 2010
Handy Tip – No Dataflow and Pings Respond with “oy”
Bit of a strange one today (perhaps a bit dry) but I was out fixing a problem with a computer at For Dogs’ Sake this evening fixing a computer that had been infected with some malware. The computer had no dataflow through a web browser (which would promptly crash) but ping tests would work albeit …
May 07 2010
100th Blog – Roll the Highlights Reel!
- By Boydo in Apple, Copyright, Film & Literature Classification, General, Hard Drive, iPad, Legal, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Power, Privacy, Storage, Technology, UPS, Windows Home Server
Today marks the 100th post on my blog and of course, no significant celebration of a milestone would not be complete without looking over some of highlights since the beginning. I’ve written some informative pieces looking at ways to improve the accessibility and reliability of the technology that we use in our everyday lives. In …
- AFACT, Apple, censorship, filtering, Hard Drive, Hewlett Packard, HP, iiNet, ipad, Microsoft, Palm, R18+
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May 06 2010
SUPER – A Great Audio & Video Conversion Utility
- By Boydo in Connectivity, DVD-ROM, Fixed, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Optical, Storage, Technology, Windows Home Server
Have you ever been caught in a situation where you need to have an audio or video file in a specific file? It could be one of those “just in case” things as you never know when you might need it. Anyway, I was caught in a situation this week where the CIO wanted to …
May 02 2010
MS Courier & HP Slate – iPad Killers Being Killed Off Themselves
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, iPad, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Technology, WebOS
Over the course of this week, there have been some shock announcements regarding potential competitors to the Apple iPad, specifically the Microsoft Courier and the HP Slate. On Thursday, Gizmodo reported that Microsoft had summarily pulled the Courier out of the incubator and tossed it in the bin. Certainly, in my opinion, the Courier looked …
May 01 2010
TPG Unlimited 24×7 – One Month On
- By Boydo in Communications, Connectivity, Content & Search, Fixed, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Steam, Technology, Windows Home Server, xDSL
A month ago, I wrote a blog entry regarding TPG’s introduction of their new ADSL2+ Unlimited 24×7 plan at selected exchanges. TPG is still rolling out the availability of this plan at exchanges as it requires the provisioning for suitable backhaul (presumably using the recently acquired PIPE as the, umm, pipe). So how did the …
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