I managed to get some time today to record the preview video for the Panasonic RP-HC700 noise cancelling headphones that I previously unboxed here. In the video, I show you the physical characteristics of the headphones including where the battery is installed and cover off some more of the technical specifications (in which the audiophiles …
Jan 30 2012
Retrieve Missing Task Manager Menus
Here’s a quick tip for today. On the rare occasion you might find yourself looking at Task Manager in Windows and it is completely devoid of the usual menu options and tabs at the top of the window, resulting in something like this: … or this: What’s the solution? Just double click on the blank …
Jan 29 2012
OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 and Sleep Modes
Here’s an observation that I have come across when using the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive and my experiences with putting my computer into sleep mode. There have been numerous reports that the solid state drive doesn’t like to be put into the S3 sleep mode which can result in a blue screen …
Jan 28 2012
Stabilisation Tips for Your Gaming Rig
For about a month now my desktop computer has been working fine after I had dropped in the OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive but since then I have experienced some instability when playing games on it (particularly Team Fortress 2 or TF2 for short). The system wouldn’t crash but the screen would go blank …
Jan 27 2012
Browse More Efficiently on Your iPad or iPhone Using the Reading List
Browsers these days are blessed with the ability to have many webpages open across a number of tabs and mobile devices are no different. However, in the case of iOS devices you’re not going to be able to open perhaps the twenty or thirty tabs you might do on your desktop or laptop computer. Furthermore, …
Jan 26 2012
Open Regularly Updated Documents Quickly in Windows 7
Here’s a tip for the Windows 7 users out there with Office 2010. Hopefully, you will be familiar with the concept of pinning applications to the redeveloped taskbar in Windows 7 so you can launch them straight away without having to go through the Start Menu. What you might not have realised is that you can also …
Jan 24 2012
Panasonic RP-HC55 Noise Cancelling Earphones Unboxing
This week I received a pair of noise cancelling headphones but I also received a pair of Panasonic RP-HC55 noise cancelling earphones (which also seem to go by the model number RP-HC55E-S with the S seemingly pertaining to the silver colour). These canal earphones are rated at 88% noise reduction compared to the RP-HC700 headphones …
Jan 23 2012
Get Your Bitcasa Invite Here!
Here’s something that might interest those cloud storage enthusiasts out there or people wanting to check things out before migrating their data. If you want to try out Bitcasa which touts as being able to provide “infinite storage on your desktop” then here’s you chance to get an account. Just click here to signup and check …
Jan 22 2012
Panasonic RP-HC700 Noise Cancelling Headphones Unboxing
This week I received a pair of Panasonic RP-HC700 noise cancelling headphones (as well as a pair of noise cancelling earphones which I’ll show you in a later post). I have used noise cancelling headphones in the past on airplanes which have worked really well but wanted to see how they performed in other environments …
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