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Apple iPhone 5 Unboxing

The weekend just gone past I had the opportunity to unbox the Apple iPhone 5 prior to getting it setup and activated for my mother-in-law to replace her iPhone 4. As per usual, you’ll get to see what is in the box as well as a quick look at the phone itself, a comparison of …

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How to Upgrade and Downgrade Between Hotmail to Outlook.com

Update 20/02/2013: Microsoft appears to be migrating users over and removing the option to revert to the Hotmail interface! This came out of nowhere and is a testament that Microsoft is really getting its stuff together ahead of the Windows 8 release and unify their software and services across the board. Hotmail started in humble …

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Panasonic 2012 Home Entertainment Launch – Smart Viera Highlights

Last night, I got along to check out the new range of Panasonic televisions, recorders, players and Hi-Fi out at Dunbar House in Watson’s Bay, NSW. The venue was very swish with some tasty food on offer and it presented a setting similar to what you’d expect to experience when you’d be using home entertainment …

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Demysti-Fi Wi-Fi

  Wi-Fi has been one of those conveniences that has been around for a little while now but with an increasing number of Wi-Fi standards you could be forgiven for not understanding some of the key differences (including speed and connection requirements) between them all. Currently, we have four Wi-Fi standards with another one on …

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XMPP Support Arriving for Windows Live Messenger

The instant messenger wars have been waged for a while now with ICQ and AOL instant messenger seemingly enjoying a bit of a honeymoon until the likes of MSN Messenger (now Windows Live Messenger) and other modern instant messengers quickly stole their thunder. However, one thing that has remained is the persistent incompatibility between them …

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Get the Most Out of Your PVR

Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) are becoming more common these days in the form of things like the TiVo, Optus MeTV and the Foxtel IQ and IQ2 devices just to name a few. The ability to record and timeshift content is a great convenience when there are regular programming clashes involving the shows you really want …

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Autocorrect and Spellcheck Coming to Internet Explorer 10

We might have come to expect that Microsoft can be a little slow in catching up to the competition (perhaps to avoid antitrust suits by innovating too quickly) but it appears that Microsoft will finally add two major features to IE10 when it ships with Windows 8 as well as being released for Windows 7. …

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Android 4.0 (Icecream Sandwich) for Samsung Galaxy S

Just a quick note tonight. I have found an Icecream Sandwich (ICS) ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S today courtesy of Galnet MIUI. Hopefully, I will have time to flash my phone tomorrow and give it a bit of a test drive. I will post the link later on if you are keen to give …

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Know the Insides of Your Car

Maybe straying a bit away from pure technology but a worthwhile tip nonetheless. Today, I took the Prius in for its 80,000km service which was also a major service (major ones are divisable by 40,000). Anyway, I was offered a number of additional recommended services for the car including a “power steering fluid flush” which …

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Print Natively From Office Web Apps

Here’s a quick tip for tonight. Apparently, this has been missing for a while but it seems that you can now print natively from the Office Web Apps to a local printer. Previously, you had to wrestle with your browser and its ability to print what was on screen instead of being nicely formatted. Quite …

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