Category Archives: Computer

Cyberlink PowerDVD irritations

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

A few minutes ago I was about to prepare a post, and this involved grabbing a couple of screen shots from websites to illustrate my points. But the Windows PrtScn and Alt-PrtScn snapshot facility wouldn’t work, or at least wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Exciting New Product from Kogan!

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve reviewed a few products over the years from direct to consumer importer, Kogan Technologies, and while it tends to attract derision from some of the more obnoxious home entertainment enthusiasts, I reckon it does a decent job providing so-so … Continue reading →

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Computers – then and now (kind of)

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I just found this table, which was an accompaniment to a piece I wrote for a magazine back in 2004. Obviously seven years later the ‘Now’ computer has improved even more, although not that much in raw clock speed. Year … Continue reading →

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XKCD and the Weird Ways of Windows

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

My weekly visit to Yet Another Weird Science Fiction Fan brought me to a link reminding me of the cartoon XKCD, which I haven’t looked at in quite a while. Naturally I flicked through ninety or a hundred of them. As … Continue reading →

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DOS

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

When I’m preparing Blu-ray vs DVD comparisons, my process these days is to rip most or all of the ‘I’ frames from the Blu-ray first, organise them, then select the comparison frames and rip DVD frames to match those. That’s … Continue reading →

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Time to stop using ZoneAlarm for my protection, it seems

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Well, that’s irritating. For quite a few years I’ve been using ZoneAlarm Pro for my computer security needs. I’ve currently got three licences for three computers. It provides a firewall, antivirus, and a few odds and sods to keep my … Continue reading →

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The death of the paper publishing

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Amazon has announced the ‘Kindle DX‘ portable document reader. Much larger screen and native PDF support. Starting to look very impressive, and makes electronic books and magazines a real possibility. To seal the deal, it needs to be thinner still, … Continue reading →

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Back up, and thanks!

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

I’m back. An excellent Telsta/Bigpond tech guy came around first thing this morning and got me going. Something was definitely wrong at the other end. He provided a new Bigpond two wire gateway for my ADSL connection. My old Alcatel … Continue reading →

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Speed demon

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

One word describes why I felt I needed a new computer: Blu-ray. My old computer would not play Blu-ray discs in any watchable way. Not that I watch them on a computer, but when checking things out, half the time … Continue reading →

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Windows Vulnerabilities

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

A number of years ago I wrote a review of Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0 in which I concluded it has a significant list of problems, making it a lousy word processor. Except for all the other word processors on … Continue reading →

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