Category: Technology

19 February 2014

Linked-in Collec…Connecting

Connecting to people on social media has its place, and I have been using a number of social platforms over recent times for rapid viewing of up-to-the-second information and keeping in touch with more people that it would otherwise humanly be possible. Facebook over the past few years has improved their privacy settings (enough that I will actually use it...

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28 November 2013

Bitcoin…. it’s not magic

Bitcoin has been mentioned in the mainstream media recently as a ‘new form of electronic money’.  It sounds impressive, but the way it works as a system of ‘money’ is actually not that impressive and easy to explain if you take the ‘tech’ side away.  

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14 November 2013

Zoomy taxi app is a game changer

I don’t often have a need to get a taxi these days as I am less out and about than I used to be, but when I needed to drop my Holden in for a service, I jumped at the chance to call a taxi via the new Zoomy app taxi service.

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14 November 2013

Should I buy a Chromebook for my child’s schoolwork?

This question gets asked of me a lot in the local area where I live. Most of the local schools ‘require’ some form of personal computing device for each child now (beyond about the age of 10+) and Chromebooks are an often recommended solution with the alternative being the iPad or a full laptop. I’m sometimes not even sure if...

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18 July 2012

My Favourite Android Applications

These are all the apps I use right now (not all of them though, that would take quite a while)…some I use more on the tablet, some are not free, and some are widgets only. I’ve tried to note in the detail all this information.

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11 July 2012

Cheap APad WonderMedia Tablet firmware upgrade

A cheap APad WonderMedia Tablet firmware upgrade. It is marked on back as APad Starter, WonderMedia WM8650. Installed Universal Uberoid WM8650 firmware.

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4 November 2011

Sony XPeria X10i Notes

Android 2.1 flashing and upgrading a Sony Ericsson X10i

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3 November 2010

Network Bridging in an Ubuntu desktop/server

Requirement is have two or more network cards on a server that do the same job as a network switch.

1000base switches are more expensive than a few NICs and spare PCI slots (although the bus may not be up to all that traffic). The Desktop is running LTSP so Gigabit Ethernet is a much better experience for the clients.

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