Over the last few days I have noticed OSX Mountain Lion crashing a bit. If your Mountain Lion crashes do not fear, you dont need to turn the whole thing on and off again. Simply press these three keys together CMD + ALT + ESC and a “Force Quit Applications” window will open up. Now just find the application that is not …
Windows 8 Upgrade to cost the same in pounds as dollars
Back in July Microsoft announced the upgrade cost for Windows 8 from any version of windows since XP would be $39.00 and if you convert that at today’s exchange rate, it would be £25. We know Microsoft take in to account localized costs and taxes so we expected the cost to be a little higher in the UK. However, …
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. …
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 …
Windows 8 installation time
After installing Windows 8 a few times over the last few days I thought I would time it this time. We have been discussing this in the office quite a lot and compared to installing Win 3.11 via a million disks this is incredible. Including installing a new hard drive, booting up and then logging in with a Live Id …
Windows 8 Metro apps cannot connect
I recently noticed I was having a problem with Windows 8 Metro apps. Some of them worked and some just refused to connect to the internet for updates. All I kept getting was an error – “There was a problem. Please try again.” This is because I have two network cards in my machine, one ethernet and one wireless. The …
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 …
Windows 8 RTM has landed
16 August 2012 – Why do I start off with the date? Well today is the day that the highly anticipated Windows 8 RTM has been released to MSDN subscribers. From tomorrow Volume License users will also be able to download and install Windows 8. As an early adopter of almost all new tech the very first thing I did …
TechRadar site compromised
This should come as no surprise as everyone is vulnerable now days. But TechRadar has announced that all registrations, commenting and log-ins have been disabled whilst they investigate a security compromise. if you have an account over there please keep your eyes open for further news. Of course you don’t need to go rushing off changing your password everywhere because you don’t use the …
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 …