Here’s a tip that might help you prevent your computer become suddenly slow and groggy. If you leave your computer (be it a desktop or laptop with a depleted battery) unplugged for too long it can forget about the current time and date. Usually, there is a tiny battery inside the computer that keeps this …
Nov 10 2011
Look After Your Lithium Ion Batteries
These days, nearly all of our portable devices like mobile phones, tablets, laptops and music players contain a lithium ion or lithium polymer battery which have largely superseded the old NiCad (nickel cadmium) or NiMH (nickel metal hydroxide) batteries. If you can remember back far enough, NiCad batteries suffered from “memory effect” which occurred as …
Nov 09 2011
Enable TLS 1.1 on Windows 7
Here’s another quick tip for the security conscious people out there. Windows 7 supports a security protocol called TLS (Transport Layer Security) which superseded SSL as the security protocol of choice. Specifically, Windows 7 supports up to TLS 1.1 but the support for this version is disabled by default which forces compatibility back down to …
Nov 08 2011
Google Plus Pages Now Available
Just a quick heads up that Google Plus (or Google+ depending upon your preference) now has made available the ability to create pages similar to how Facebook has pages for non-personal profiles. For instance, this blog’s Facebook page is located @ https://www.facebook.com/boydostechtalk which is where I aggregate information from the blog, photos from unboxings and all the …
Nov 07 2011
Panasonic Home Appliance Winners!
Well, the first competition on Boydo’s Tech Talk has come to a close and I am delighted to be able to announce the winners. In order to select the lucky three people I went to random.org to pick out three numbers for me at random. This website uses atmospheric noise to provide truly random number …
Nov 06 2011
Rip Live Audio Using Audacity
Here’s another quick tip for tonight. If you fancied grabbing the audio off something you come across online or maybe capturing the audio from a video without mucking around with conversion software then this might interest you. There’s a great tool called Audacity which is a pretty nifty audio editor with the built in ability …
Nov 05 2011
Screen Capturing for Windows Phone 7 Devices
Here’s a tip that has me a bit excited particularly as it will help me enrich my Windows Phone 7 entries with native screenshots! Thanks to Jerry Jiang over at XDA Developers there is a side loadable app called Screen Capturer to enable screenshots on a Windows Phone 7 device by half pressing the camera …
Nov 04 2011
Incoming Gadget – Optus MeTV
Just a heads up that I have received a new gadget in the form of an Optus MeTV box. MeTV is a partnership with IPTV startup FetchTV and includes a 1TB PVR (which I will be unboxing). I’ll cover this device in more factual detail in isolation of passing judgement on the service itself over …
Nov 03 2011
Bins for Windows 7
Ever since Windows 7 came out I have been a huge fan of the Superbar however it can get a bit cluttered with icons for several browsers, Microsoft Office Apps and a stack of other things that I need from time to time. Sure, I have real estate to spare but the Superbar does start …
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