Category: Technology

Panasonic Lumix FT3 Unboxing

For those of you who have been following the blog you might have read that I joined the Panasonic Insider Crew late last year and, more recently, became an Insider Guru. From time to time, I’ll get my hands on some Panasonic gadgets and I’ll also share my thoughts and experiences with you so you …

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Playing it Safe on the Roads at Christmas

The end up the year is creeping up with Christmas and New Year celebrations just waiting to get into full swing. For many, this can involve a lot of driving and attention to pay on the roads. These days, we have GPS to help us get from A to B and other tools that warn …

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Restart a Stuck Samsung Galaxy Tab

Today I was helping someone officially upgrade the firmware on a couple of devices (specifically a Samsung Galaxy S and the original Samsung Galaxy Tab) and unfortunately the Galaxy Tab had seized up and would not respond to any inputs. Even holding in the power button wouldn’t wake the device up from its seemingly infinite …

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Quickly and Safely Recover Loose Screws and Headers

Here’s a tip that might come in handy if you disassemble and reassemble computers or other gadgets. Sometimes, despite your best care and efforts, you might drop a screw, a header or some other tiny object you can spend quite some time trying to find that object on the floor. It can be harder still …

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The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of Hard Drive Warranties

This news may take a little while to trickle through to regular consumers but I wanted to draw attention to the fact that Western Digital and Seagate are going to alter the warranties offered with their hard drive around the end of this year. In short, Seagate will be slashing the five years warranty down …

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OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Update

Thought I would provide an interim update on how I am going with the new OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive that I received in the last week. Windows 7 Ultimate is up and running after a minor wrestle to get Windows setup up and running. I had to revert all of the other …

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Retail Feature Labels Don’t Tell All

Just a quick one for this evening. Today, I went browsing through David Jones to look at all of the audio visual products on display. It was a fairly standard sort of layout with those little signs next to each product with two to four features listed along with the price. Now whilst that sort …

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OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 Solid State Drive Unboxing & Preview

A little while ago I gave you all the heads up that I was getting a new solid state drive for my desktop computer to replace the Patriot Warp 128GB SSD that is currently my bootable OS and application drive. It has been running a bit slow given that I run it close to capacity …

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Save on New and Renewed TechNet Subscriptions

For people looking for a promotional code or coupon code to cut the price of their TechNet subscription (either a brand new one or a renewal) then you might fancy treating yourself to a nice 30% discount. All you need to do is when you sign up or renew is provide the code AUONLY30 and this will …

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Holy Hard Drive Prices!

While the tech heads out there would have seen this coming the regular user probably didn’t so I thought this was worth mentioning. It wasn’t long ago when you could buy a 2TB hard drive for around $100 which was pretty good. However, prices of all hard drives may soon rise due to widespread flooding …

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