If you’re like me and you forget to recharge your Fitbit you might need something to jog the old memory. Whilst the Android app does give you a reminder when the battery is getting a bit low it doesn’t help me too much given that my Android tablet plays second fiddle to my Windows Phone …
Jul 16 2013
Incoming Gadget – Samsung Galaxy Express
Another quick update. I had an unexpected acquisition last week when Samsung visited my workplace and, to cut a long story short, I managed to score myself a Samsung Galaxy Express in a competition. It’s not from the top shelf of the Galaxy range where you would find the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy Note …
Jul 14 2013
Keeping Track of Due Electronic Bills
Here’s a quick tip. I’m a big fan of paperless billing but one thing it did disrupt was my filing system where I would put bills in order on my desk and pay them as they fell due. Since these were in my e-mail (and printing them out sort of defeated the purposed of going …
Jul 13 2013
NBN and the Private Cloud
These days we hear “cloud services” bandied around as the next big thing and there is no doubting their convenience in terms of accessibility and pricing (often free). However, there may not be much consideration given to the security of such services particularly if they are located in another country where you may have few …
Jul 12 2013
Panasonic Insider Crew Wraps Up
As unfortunate as it is that all good things come to and end the Insider Crew is going offline as of today. Of course, I do feel a little sad about it as it has been a fantastic community where we’ve discussed products and technology as well as sharing our experiences with each other across …
Jul 11 2013
Reduced Colour Depth When Using Remote Desktop
Here’s a quick tip if you happen to use remote desktop. If you’ve got a monitor of particularly high resolution (such as 2560 x 1440 in the case of my monitor at work) then modern desktop or laptop computers should have little problem driving the pixels necessary to make it work properly. However, if you …
Jul 09 2013
Microsoft Calls Time on TechNet
A lot of people out there will be disappointed to here that Microsoft will be wrapping up its TechNet program which allows users to evaluate full version software for an annual fee. It was a more affordable version compared to MSDN which remains the realm of businesses or hardcore developers. It is a great way …
Jul 08 2013
Playing MKV Videos Over DLNA
Just a quick update for today. I am looking at a solution to get MKV files to play on DLNA-compliant devices. Strictly speaking, DLNA players won’t play MKV videos as the MKV format wasn’t included as part of the DLNA specification so the only option here appears to be to use a transcoder such as …
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