Here is a quick and simple tip for tonight. For people who have been using Windows a while (particularly from Windows NT onwards in corporate environments) you might be used to locking your computer by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del and hitting Enter to lock your computer. While that still works on Windows 7 you can cut that …
Aug 03 2011
Spotify Now Available and Free in the USA (and Down Under Just Quietly)
It seems that cloud music is gaining some popularity with the Spotify music service now becoming available in the USA after a successful run in Europe. Unlike Google and Amazon’s cloud services, Spotify provides streaming music without you initially having to own a copy of a track or album. As usual, us users in Australia …
Aug 01 2011
Signup for eCensus 2011
Over the next few days, Australians across the country will come home to find a stack of Census material in their letterboxes or jammed under their doors (where hopefully your pet hasn’t lovingly gnawed on it). This Census, as was the case with the previous Census in 2006, “eCensus” is available as a submission method …
Jul 31 2011
Learning About Application Compatibility Mode in Windows
Yesterday, I wrote about an old game that was a favourite of mine back in school, WinTrek as well as some nostalgia from that time of my life. Anyway, with games written for really old operating systems like Windows 3.11 or Windows 95 you might need to tweak things a little bit to get these …
Jul 30 2011
Classic Windows Gaming: WinTrek
Just a quick one for tonight (and a bit of nostalgia for me too). Back in school I remember the time when we moved away from our fleet of Apple IIe computers (and a sole Macintosh which the school had won in a Coles shopping docket collection competition) and upgraded to IBM compatible machines (can’t …
Jul 29 2011
Warning – Nintendo Cuts 3DS Price and Compensates “Ambassadors”
Early adopters shouldn’t be so surprised by a price drop on new gear after it has been out for a while but the Nintendo 3DS will have it’s price cut by just under 30% after a mere four months after its release in Australia (a saving of $100 for new buyers). It’s not the first …
Jul 27 2011
Apple Forces eBook Apps to Stop “In App” Purchases
Just a heads up for those of you using iPads and iPhones for eBook reading through apps such as the Kindle, Kobo and Nook apps. If you remember, Apple drew the ire from the user community for wanting to claim 30% of the revenue for in app purchases for media publications including newspaper subscriptions and …
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