Amazon has brought its cloud based service to the UK. Amazon are still adding features and lowering prices, and agfter you see the prices you will probably agree, they are going to have to! An important thing to note though, is that the Cloud player and Cloud Drive are two separate services. Music that was uploaded to your Cloud Player or Cloud …
Google launches Handwriting
Google have made their handwriting service available to UK users, if you open up Google on your iPad/ Android Tablet of smart phone chances are you will now also see the “Try Handwriting” feature that our friends over the pond have had since July… You can view more on the official Google Handwrite page – http://www.google.co.uk/insidesearch/features/search/handwritinginput/mobile.html To get started you …
Yahoo has 450,000 Usernames and Passwords stolen
Yahoo has admitted that around 450,000 plain text user names and passwords were stolen by attackers identifying themselves as ‘D333Ds’ Yahoo’s statement – ‘We confirm that an older file from Yahoo! Contributor Network, previously Associated Content, containing approximately 450,000 Yahoo! and other company usernames and passwords was compromised yesterday, July 11,’ This reminds me of a conversation I had yesterday with …
Facebook Account temporarily unavailable – How to solve
Every now and then you may find you are unable to access Facebook. Believe it or not they too need to upgrade and make changes to the hardware that runs “Facebook” So if you come across a message when you are trying to log on that goes something like this. Or the Firefox version The solution Wait… theres is nothing …
How to solve the Alan Turing Google Doodle
If you are stuck trying to solve today’s six puzzles in the Google Doodle for Alan Turing then here is a quick simple guide for you. Solution 1: 01011 Change both orange circles from 0 to 1, press the play button. Solution 2: 00011 Make the only available orange circle blank. Solution 3: 00011 Click the orange circle twice! no more. the orange button should have four …
Samsung Galaxy S3 and Microsoft Office 365 connection problem
Recently we have been seeing issues with the Samsung Galaxy S3 connecting to Office 365 and in certain cases, On premise Exchange 2010. Problem: Samsung Galaxy S3 cannot connect to Mail using WiFi but can connect using 3G: The first time you set-up the email, it seems to work fine but minutes later all communications cease. In some cases all HTTPS (secure) …
Open other users Mailbox in Outlook
How do I open another users mailbox from within Outlook? Before you start please make sure you have the appropriate permissions assigned. If you are not sure or need to know how to do this please refer to this article. https://www.opsactive.com/office-365-give-permission-on-a-mailbox/ In the left had side of your outlook pane, look for your username/email address, this is the very top level of your …
IOS 6 No Google Maps but what Else is new
After what was a rather painful start to installing IOS 6 SDK Beta I have managed to have a quick look at some of the major changes. The first thing I check on the home screen is the “Weather” Luckily its still 23 degrees! In reality its about 10 degrees and pouring with rain but the weather on the phone …
IOS6 SDK Beta – unable to complete your activation
IOS 8 – If you are installing IOS 8 and your device is not registered on the Developer portal, restore to IOS 7. Again…. It seems to be a reoccurring pattern that once new IOS SDK’s are available, we cannot activate our Dev phones for some time… So instead of getting down with the nitty gritty with the iPhone / iPad IOS …
Where are your Contacts Stored – IOS
I have spoken to several people who have lost all their contacts on their iPhones/ iPads and it seems to all be the same problem. Nobody knows where their contacts are actually stored. If you setup your phone and only ever had one contact source, then you are probably ok (check anyway). But if you have several mail addresses all …