Category: Technology

Amazon Saves Heartache Over a Broken Kindle

A few nights ago my wife turned on her Kindle only to find that the top half of the screen would remain stuck on what had been on the screensaver while the lower half would refresh (apart from some minor glitches). We both didn’t have a good feeling about it and numerous attempts to switch …

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Refining File Searching Under Windows 7

The Humble Search Box

As more of us start using Windows 7 you’ll need to get to grips with the various features built into it. One of the prominent features carried forward from Windows Vista is search. Now, you’d think that you could find stuff by clicking in the box and typing the words of the file you are …

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Boydo Blogs for Panasonic

I’ve shared this on Facebook and Google Plus already but I have to mention it here as well. Today, I had my first post published on the Panasonic Australia blog as Insider Guru and, to say the least, I’m quite stoked about it! It’s also my first post on a blog other than my own …

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Myspace TV – The Social Game Changer of 2012

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is always an exciting time of year on the geek calendar and this year has already unearthed a few things of interest. MySpace (for those of you who still remember it) had most of its users pulled over by the enormous gravity generated by Facebook. This left Myspace as a …

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Strip Formatting When Copying and Pasting in Windows

Here’s a quick tip if you do a lot of copying and pasting of text riddled with unwanted formatting. All you need to do is copy the desired text and then paste it into Notepad. Once in Notepad, just copy the text once again and paste it into the desired location (be it a document, …

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Support Rings Tru

Just a follow up to my blog from yesterday about problems getting my Tru SIM from Truphone to work. After second call after an initial attempt to fix it just after midnight this morning things were fixed up late this morning after doing another round of rebooting and SIM ejection and insertion. I even wiped my …

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Activate Your Tru SIM Before Going Overseas

Given that I am going on a holiday to Hawaii in a few weeks time I decided to get a Tru SIM for my own mobile after the good experience had by my wife when she was overseas (which I wrote about here). Anyway, my Tru SIM (from Tru and formerly known as Truphone) arrived …

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Bluetooth and Swapping Cars

Here’s a tip that you might want to keep in mind next time you’re on a road trip and you rotate drivers between cars. If you happen to have your mobile phone paired to your car you might want to turn off Bluetooth on your phone if you are going to be driving another vehicle …

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Open Multiple Regedit Windows

Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you are editing the registry sometimes you might like two registry editors open at the same time so you can compare the existing state with the updated state. However, attempting to do so will only allow you ever to open registry editor. The way around this is to …

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Making Digital Copies of Legal Documents

You might have seen in the news today an article about a Canadian man who used his iPad to gain entry to the USA after leaving his passport back at home which was two hours away from the border. In a nutshell, he was able to cross the border by providing a digital copy of …

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