This might be an obscure combination but thought I’d share it anyway. If you happen to use a Bitcoin client for sending and receiving payments in this digital currency you might find that it can affect your ability to play online games that heavily rely on low ping times. The Bitcoin client maintains numerous network …
Category: Technology
Mar 26 2013
Free Windows 8 Tablet Avatar Prop – US Only
A quick tip for those into obtaining props for their Xbox avatars. If you fancy getting a Microsoft Surface looking prop for your avatar and you live in the USA then you might want to head on over here to collect your free prop. It is a bit odd that it is not available to …
Mar 25 2013
Digital Radio – More Music, Less Chatter
Digital Audio Broadcasting or DAB/DAB+ is still attempting to get a foothold and supplant traditional analogue radio but here is something worth knowing if you love your music and prefer less of the inane chatter. It seems that at least some of the digital audio stations that are currently broadcasting are for the most part …
Mar 23 2013
Free Pandora Finally Comes to Windows Phone 8
Just a quick update. It looks like that Pandora app has appeared in the last twenty four hours and with it comes free streaming music for Windows Phone 8 users in USA, Australia and Canada. Mind you, the standard free service is ad-supported but not so for Windows Phone 8 for the remainder of 2013. I’ll be …
Mar 22 2013
Using Wi-Fi on Intial Boot with Raspbmc for Raspberry Pi
You might think that when setting up Raspbmc for the first time on a Raspberry Pi that you would be restricted to using a cabled Ethernet connection to kick off the initial setup. This could be problematic if your Raspberry Pi is located far from an Ethernet socket or you simply don’t have any cabled …
Mar 21 2013
Fitbit – My Experience Two Years On
This review has been over two years in the making since I received it back in December 2010 just before Christmas as part of providing some motivation to get myself back into shape. At the time, the only way to get at Fitbit was to get it mail forwarded from the USA but these days …
Mar 20 2013
XBMC Remote Solutions
Well, it looks like Raspbmc is a winner at home and it interfaces just fine with our home server with the convenience of being controlled through our standard television remote over HDMI. Once setup it is a cinch to navigate and get your favorite content going on the big screen. However, we only have one television remote …
Mar 19 2013
Package Tracker for Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 and Windows RT
Some of us receive more packages than others and for those that do then you probably like to know where they are whilst in transit. There are numerous apps for iOS and Android but I have found one that works really well across Windows Phone 8, Windows 8 and Windows RT. It’s called Package Tracker funnily …
Mar 18 2013
Flash Enabled Now Enabled by Default on Windows RT
As part of the March patch Tuesday update for Windows RT, Microsoft has seen fit to change the way Flash works on tablets. Originally, Flash would only work on websites prescribed by a whitelist controlled by Microsoft unless you patched that functionality and managed the whitelist yourself. However, with the change from Microsoft it seems …
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