Has Firefox Cured its Memory Bloat?

For a while now I have used Google Chrome as my primary browser after growing tired of Firefox consuming gigabytes of memory per session and doing little to free memory apart from when you closed and reopened it. Apparently, Mozilla has made great strides to get memory management under control so I am doing to …

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Office 365 Finally Gets Upgraded

Just a short note today. I’ve been using Office 365 for a while now after some issues trying to manage an explosion of e-mail with my webhost and, after some anticipation, I’ve finally had my account upgraded to the equivalent of Office 2013, Exchange 2013 and Sharepoint 2013 overnight. I did have to manually upgrade …

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Download Razer Surround for Free

Here’s a quick tip. If you’re looking to improve your headphone experience on your PC without shelling out for a new set of cans then you might want to give this a shot. Razer is offering its Razer Surround product for free (normally US$19.99) which emulates 7.1 channel audio using standard stereo headphones. Of course, …

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Another Fitbit App for Windows Phone 8

A while ago I recommended Fitbit Companion as my app of choice on Windows Phone 8 if you’re a Fitbit user and, at the time, it was the best app available for the platform in the absence of an official app. Unfortunately, the lack of official app has not been addressed by Fitbit but there …

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Fitbit – Lost and Found

Well, somewhere at work, I believed I had dropped my Fitbit One. Certainly not the first time I had lost a Fitbit – I had lost my first Fitbit in the gym but managed to find it lodged in the gap between the treadmill belt and its sidestep. On this occasion I hadn’t made it …

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Panasonic Viera TH-P55VT60A Plasma 3D Television Unboxing

A while ago I decided it was time to upgrade from the Panasonic VT20A plasma television which I reviewed here and recently it arrived. However, I had to wait until last weekend to unbox it given that the process does end up taking up a lot of room and needed some help in filming it (I …

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MobileIron for Windows Phone 8

if you work for a larger company and you need to access your corporate e-mail then you may be required to install MobileIron on your device in order to enforce specific security policies. Whilst MobileIron is available for iOS and Android devices you may be wondering what about Windows Phone 8 if you’ve got yourself …

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Beware of Micropayments

Having a connection to the internet on mobile devices has enabled an explosion of data accessibility and applications over the last decade. I remember when you needed to load applications via USB or SD card but now you can do it over Wi-Fi or 3G/4G connections without plugging in a cable. Of course, this ease …

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Unlock Developer Mode in Android 4.2

Another quick tip if you’ve upgraded your Android device to version 4.2.x. Google saw fit to hide the developer menu under Settings – I can only presume this was because everyday users were getting themselves in a pickle by mucking around with the options in there without understanding what they meant. This is perhaps not …

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Check the Compatibility of 3D Glasses

Another quick tip for today. It’s worth remembering that not all 3D televisions use the same sort of glasses to enable 3D viewing, There have been competing solutions out in the market and revisions of those solutions over the years. The main types of 3D glasses you will come across are: active 3D glasses (i.e. …

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