Apr 27 2011
It took nine days but my new Amazon Kindle DX (Second Generation – Global 3G) arrived in the mail today (which was faster than the six weeks it took for my wife to receive her Amazon Kindle (Third Generation). I did manage to hold in my excitement and urge to rip open the box at …
Apr 26 2011
Today, I went out to Officeworks to pick up a few things (printer cartridges, paper and some plastic sleeves but I could have easily have come back with half the st0re). For a while now, Officeworks has stopped offering plastic bags as part of the corporate social responsibility initiatives which is fine when you only pick up …
Apr 25 2011
Windows 7 comes with all sorts of built in troubleshooters that fix a variety of issues such as network connectivity problems and enabling the transparent glass effect on your desktop when it is not working. One major issue that people may come across is Windows Update not working properly or offering you updates which you …
Apr 22 2011
Here’s a quick tip for those of you who regularly interact with people in other timezones. If you want to get a quick glance at one or two timezones other than the one you’re in then you can add this fairly easily to the “Date and Time” section in Windows. Just click on the time …
Apr 21 2011
There will always be people who want to live right on the bleeding edge when it comes to trying out the latest software and seeing how it performs on their system. Of course, there are people who are not as adventurous as they worry about bugs disrupting their daily routine or breaking some of the …
Apr 20 2011
In an announcement today, Oracle announced that it would be discontinuing the well known OpenOffice suite which has been well known for being an open source alternative to Microsoft Office. This comes after a number of the more prominent members of the OpenOffice team forked the project in the form of LibreOffice with some major …
Apr 19 2011
A quick tip for tonight. Over the years, many of us would have invested in iPod and iPhone compatible accessories of which some of the most expensive would be speaker docks. In a pre-iPad world things would just plug and play and there would be limited concerns about compatibility and interoperability of your favourite Apple …
Apr 18 2011
Just a quick note for tonight. My amazing wife has spoilt me (yet again) by ordering an Amazon Kindle DX (second generation model). This is the bigger brother to the third generation Kindle which has been unboxed and previewed previously on the blog. I’m planning on using it for my various reference materials that come …
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