It’s not everyday that you have to dispose of a credit card for whatever reason (expiry, cancellation, fraud, etc) but knowing how to dispose of one properly is worth knowing. You used to be able to get away with chopping up a credit card with scissors and throwing it in the bin but it can’t hurt …
Apr 06 2013
Claim Your Free SimCity Nissan LEAF Charging Station
This might be a sign of things to come with big name companies having the opportunity to promote themselves within SimCity and the first such instance seems to be taken by Nissan in promoting its LEAF electric vehicle. In the game itself, the charging station will provide a place for Sims to recharge their LEAF …
Apr 04 2013
Push YouTube Videos to XBMC from Windows 8/RT
YouTube has become a staple website in terms of video streaming with it being very popular across smartphones, tablets and traditional computers alike. It’s handy to be able to share links with others via e-mail or social media but what if you’re in the same room with other people and you fancied pushing a video …
Apr 03 2013
Disable Flash in Internet Explorer on Windows RT
Since Microsoft has changed the way Adobe Flash operates on Windows RT by going from a whitelist approach to a blacklist approach it may be worthwhile knowing how to disable Flash on you Windows RT tablet. You need to make these changes via the desktop version of Internet Explorer (which will also make the changes …
Apr 02 2013
LogMeIn – Limiting Free Accounts to Ten Computers
Well, the gravy train wasn’t going to last forever but it was pretty good while it lasted. If you don’t already know, LogMeIn is placing a restriction on the number of computers you can access through you LogMeIn account. Essentially, you will only be able to access the first ten computers that have LogMeIn free …
Apr 01 2013
Importing Data From Oracle to MS SQL Server Databases Via SSIS
If you’ve been following the blog then you might remember that I have had a couple of failed attempts (first article and second article) at getting connectivity going between an Oracle database as a source and a Microsoft SQL Server database as a destination. Not to be dissuaded from finding a solution I have found something that I have …
Mar 31 2013
Network Drives on Raspbmc Inaccessible After March 2013 Update
Just a quick note for those of you running Raspbmc on your Raspberry Pi. An update has been released which should bump the version up to XBMC 12.1 bring a slew of various improvements and bug fixes. As with any updates for Raspbmc all you need to do is reboot your Raspberry Pi and the …
Mar 30 2013
Find an App in Windows 8
Another quick tip. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 we’ve had the handy ability to hit the Start button and type in the name of the applications we want to run. This is useful for applications that you might not have pinned to your taskbar or access all that often. For others, it might be …
Mar 29 2013
SLI Requires Full Screen Mode
Another quick tip and the title pretty much says it all. If you’ve got two nVidia video cards in your computer and have them set to run in SLI you obviously want to ensure that those cards are being used to their full potential. For whatever reason, you might like to run your games in …
Mar 28 2013
Restore a Closed Tab in Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome
Here’s a quick tip. Most of us have accidentally closed a browser tab by accident at one time or another and lamented trying to get back to the page contained within (as typically you would forget which page it was as well). Fortunately, you can retrieve a closed tab fairly easily in the later versions …
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