After upgrading to Outlook 2013 I noticed that the performance was incredibly slow when switching between Mail, Contacts and Calendar, there would often be a several second delay before the screen changed. When searching for Contacts it could take 15 seconds to return the results. Now I’m not one to complain (too much) but if my local PC a quad …
Setup Outlook or Hotmail email on Nexus
Struggling to set-up Hotmail or Outlook on your Nexus? The other day I tried to set-up my Outlook / Hotmail email on the Nexus tablet and found that this is probably not as straight forward as it should be. This may well be intentional but that’s a whole new topic. For now I am just going to run through the settings with you so …
Apple quietly change from UDID to two new Identifiers and start tracking you
In IOS 6 Apple have quietly changed from the old UDID to two new identifiers. Before I go into any detail its important to understand what the old and new acronyms are or you may as well be reciting the alphabet in a random order. Old Identifier UDID – Unique Device Identifier New Identifiers IDFA – Identifier For Advertising IDFV …
Amazon Cloud Drive vs Google Drive vs Dropbox vs SkyDrive vs iCloud
Wow only a year or so ago Clouds were just that, today however we seem to encountering a thunderstorm of Cloud options. As they have come out I have been trialing each one. I cannot remember if I signed up to Microsoft’s LIVE Skydrive as it was formerly know or Dropbox first but those two kind of set the benchmark. …
Amazon Cloud Player comes to the UK
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 …
How to change Windows 8 key to complete activation
After installing Windows 8 you may be wanting to customize it a bit. Unlike previous versions of Windows where you had a grace period for activation and had access to all features, Windows 8 limits certain things until activation has been completed. Of course you will still need to activate within the grace period but I think they are trying to get you to …
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 …
Where is the Hash Key on a Mac
Where is the Hash # key on my Mac? Its this easy?
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 …
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 …