Nov 08 2012
Another Windows RT tip which might be handy for those with a Microsoft Surface which annoying omits a hardware rotation lock switch. All you need to do is the following: Slide in the charms bar from the right of screen and choose Settings (or hit Window + I), Tap the Screen icon, Above the screen brightness …
Nov 07 2012
Here’s another Windows RT tip. When you are typing in a password into a Metro style app it will be masked with dots as per usual. However, you might make the odd typo while getting used to the touch cover, type cover or on screen keyboards so if you want to quickly check what you’ve …
Nov 04 2012
Here’s a quick tip for those of you with brand new Windows RT tablets with keyboards including the Microsoft Surface. By default, Windows RT has sounds enabled for keystrokes which can be handy for when you are trying to get used to a new keyboard but it can become rather annoying once you get the …
Nov 03 2012
Here it is, potentially one of the most anticipated tablets to hit the market – Microsoft Surface! I ordered this back on 17/10/2012 @ 0930 hours and despite the heavy traffic on the Microsoft Store website I managed to get my order through the gate. I ended up ordering the standard 32GB Surface with black …
Nov 02 2012
If you’re using removable drives to transfer very large files such as videos then you may find that particularly large files will be unable to copy over if your drive is formatted with FAT32. FAT32 formatted drives have a maximum file size of 4GB as an inherent limitation of its design as well as a …
Oct 26 2012
Here’s another quick tip for those moving up to Windows 8 Pro. If you fancy getting Windows Media Centre for free and you’ve got Windows 8 Pro then click here and scroll down to the section titled Add Windows Media Center to Windows 8 Pro. This offer is valid until 30/01/2013 and is limited to one product …
Oct 25 2012
Depending upon who you ask, the seven month period between the “new iPad” and the fourth generation iPad (i.e. the new “new iPad”) may be a point of severe contention or an example of Apple iterating more quickly to keep pace with the market. I actually believe it is a bit of Column A and …
Oct 18 2012
In a nutshell, I caved. Yesterday, I pulled the trigger on a pre-order of the Microsoft Surface which is a Windows RT tablet (an ARM only version of Windows 8). The thing that was really irking me about getting one was the lack of cellular radio in the device which meant that on the go …
Oct 04 2012
While this probably applies more to a significant part of my line of work and others that do coding and/or scripting this can be applied generally to any other sort of data, content or programmatic creation. SQL or Server Query Language is what I use to import, manipulate, interpret and extract data from databases almost every day …
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