Not too long ago I picked up a Nexus 7 Android tablet so I could test out my Pebble smartwatch (although the Samsung Galaxy Express has primarily taken over that duty) but in the short time that I have had this tablet it has really started to slow down to woeful speeds. Booting up would …
Jul 27 2013
Live Streaming Television with Vulkano
A while back I wrote about how I was looking at options to stream live television and my focus upon the Slingbox products but I never got around to purchasing one. Don’t get me wrong, I think the technology is fantastic but I’ve just not seen much in the way of innovation or the extension of …
Jul 24 2013
Find Out What Makes a Website Tick
Here’s a quick tip. If you’re curious as to what makes a particular website work you might have been in a quandary just trying to work it out by looking at the source code. Otherwise, you could try using telnet but that can be a bit fiddly if you’re not comfortable with a command line …
Jul 23 2013
Kindle Pick – 10 Billion by Stephen Emmott
I am the absolute first to admit that I am not a bookworm. I am very picky about the books that I will read and usually they have some sort of a technology or mathematical angle to them. If the subject matter doesn’t really fit into my interests I can find it hard to stay …
Jul 21 2013
Improve Your Web Browsing Security
These days, when you’re browsing websites there can be a stack of cookies being downloaded to your computer by ad tracking sites in order to serve up targeted advertisements. Social network applets, whilst they can make it really convenient to share content with friends and see what friends have liked. can also do the same …
Jul 20 2013
Read More Free Articles at SMH
If you read a lot of articles at SMH then you may find that you’ve already hit the limit of thirty free articles per month before being stopped and forced to sign up and pay in order to read more articles. No doubt, news organisations are having to find ways to monetise their business as …
Jul 19 2013
Copy Your Music off an iPod Without iTunes
iTunes can certainly present a challenge when syncing content to your iPod but can be unforgiving if you need to get content off an iPod which has not been associated with a given computer. Most people would give up thinking their music is unable to be retrieved and proceed to wipe their iPod and start …
Jul 18 2013
Petition Microsoft to Maintain TechNet Subscriptions
Just a quick note. If you’ve signed up to a Microsoft TechNet subscription or were looking to signup you may no doubt be disappointed by the recent news of its phased cancellation leaving the only real alternative to be rather expensive MSDN subscriptions. This is hardly ideal for anyone other than developers associated with larger …
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