Apr 06 2011
Leading on from yesterday’s blog entry regarding the practice of emptying the Recycle Bin (or Trash in Mac OS X) I thought it was worth covering how to set the maximum size of the Recycle Bin in Windows to prevent it from growing too large. This is of particular importance on smaller drives in netbooks or more …
Apr 04 2011
Last week when I was uploading the unboxing video for the Nintendo 3DS to YouTube I noticed the following message up the top of my browser window: “Congratulations! Your account is now enabled for uploads longer than 15 minutes. Click the Upload button below to select a video.” In the past, I have run up …
Apr 03 2011
Earlier this week, I showed off the video unboxing the Nintendo 3DS. Today, I am releasing the preview video to show you around the Nintendo 3DS itself as well as a look at some of the basic functionality, the included AR cards and the recharging dock. You’ll also get a peak at Super Street Fighter 4! …
Apr 02 2011
Another quick tip for tonight. For those of us with desktop computers a good deal of us probably don’t open it up once the unit itself has been removed from the box (or once it has been put together in the first instance for the system builders out there). You might open it up quickly …
Apr 01 2011
Here’s a quick tip for this evening. A lesser known feature of Windows 7 is an included wizard that will help you adjust the settings on your screen to obtain the most accurate colour reproduction possible. Not all screens are made identically and there are differences between display technologies which means that images can look …
Mar 31 2011
For those of you following the blog you would have read about my first impressions of the Nintendo 3DS and my decision to purchase an Australian model given the news of region locking for this handheld console. Well, launch day has arrived and I have gotten my hands on one of these devices for myself …
Mar 29 2011
Leading on from yesterday’s post about how to do a ping test we move on to another test which might uncover more information about where dataflow problems may be occurring. In a nutshell, a traceroute shows you all of the various entities (also known as “hops”) on the Internet that sit between you and a …
Mar 28 2011
Some time yesterday evening, the ADSL connection at home started playing up. Usually, our connection is quite solid save for a few hiccups back in the TPG network so my first thought was that this was just another one of those hiccups. However, this was not the case in this instance. Anyway, there are some …
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