Here’s a quick tip for tonight. Sometimes, you need to format a hard drive to FAT32 so it will be read on devices that can’t read the superior NTFS format such as the PS3. However, under Windows XP and later, you can’t format a drive beyond 32GB with FAT32 due to artificial limitation put in …
Jul 14 2011
Indirect Twitter Integration in Mango Update for Windows Phone
One of the great features of Windows Phone 7 is its ability to integrate with social networking services such as Facebook directly through the phone and other services such as YouTube, WordPress LinkedIn through your Windows Live account to your Windows Phone. Of course, the most glaring omission at the moment is Twitter. Sure, you …
Jul 13 2011
How to Report Telemarketers Ignoring the Do Not Call Register
In Australia, we’ve been lucky enough to have a Do Not Call Register legislated to hep reduce the number of telemarketing calls received on personal landlines, fax numbers and mobile numbers. People have experienced varying effectiveness from a remarkable reduction in the number of telemarketing calls to little effect at all. At home, our single …
Jul 11 2011
Bolster Your DOS USB Boot Disk – Part 1
Yesterday, I walked through how to make your own DOS USB boot disk with the final result being a bootable USB stick that won’t do much more than let you browse the USB stick itself and other internal FAT and FAT32 drives. Today, we’ll make that USB stick a bit more useful. The first and …
Jul 10 2011
Dell XPS 8300 Unboxing
This was an unexpected gadget but a colleague of mine recently bought a new computer to replace an aging laptop that gave up the ghost earlier in the year. Anyway, he’s handed over his Dell XPS 8300 to me to do some basic tweaking for him. So, of course, I had to unbox it. I …
Jul 09 2011
Windows Phone 7 and Google’s Artificial Limitation of Multiple Calendars
If you happen to use more than one calendar in Google Mail or your corporate e-mail then you might have realised that Windows Phone 7 only seems to support the primary calendar for some reason over Exchange ActiveSync. This is despite other EAS compatible devices such as the iPhone and iPad having worked with multiple …
Jul 08 2011
Don’t pay Full Price for LastPass and Xmarks Premium
Here’s another quick tip for this evening. For those of you who use either LastPass Premium or Xmarks Premium by themselves but have fancied picking up the other service after LastPass acquired Xmarks last year you should probably remember that these services are available in a bundle. Normally, these premium services by themselves cost $12 …
Jul 07 2011
Shoot Now and Focus Later with a Lytro Camera
You could be forgiven for thinking I had mistyped the title of this blog post. Many people would know that cameras rely upon the user focusing upon a subject or a particular field in a shot prior to capturing a picture (most notably with SLR cameras). Otherwise, you end up with a blurred photo with …
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