Further to my previous post, DNS Speed Testing on Telstra nbn in Melbourne, I've used the Traceroute command to measure how far away (or how many hops away) the fastest DNS servers are. Of course, my router's DNS server is...
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How Apple Dethroned Intel As the World’s Most Innovative Chipmaker
There's a very interesting article over on The Motley Fool today comparing Apple and Intel in an area where people wouldn't usually think they compete - that of designing the processors that power all of our devices today. Intel have...
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How did manufacturers manage to make space storage (SSD, HDD) so dense? – Quora
By continually refining methods and technology, by constantly evolving and pushing and exploring new areas of technology. One of the earlier breakthroughs was using perpendicular recording - this aligned the magnetic domains vertically (perpendicular to the platter) rather than having...
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Getting a Fluke CableIQ to work in VMware Fusion on Mac OS X
I just got a new Fluke CableIQ qualification tester and, of course, the software and all supporting materials are Windows only. I'm currently running Windows 7, 8 & 10 in VMware Fusion - yet Fusion wouldn't see the USB device...
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Move files by date range – particularly useful for filing large amounts of email
I wanted to clean up my Sent Items folder in my email - I don't have time to go through and manually sort them, nor do I have time to delete some and keep others. My main aim was to...
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How To Enable 2 Factor Authentication on your iCloud Account
Apple now have enabled 2 factor verification for iCloud - 2 factor means you need two things, such as a password and a code sent to your phone, to access your account. Enabling 2 factor authentication also means that your...
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Revisiting converting videos for Apple TV
Further to my earlier post on converting videos to MP4 for Apple TV and easy playback from iTunes, I've recently been using another app for adding metadata, and this one makes life easy as it can search for, and retrieve,...
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WP-eCommerce Downloads and bypassing the checkout process
I'm doing a site for a client using WP e-Commerce and they are using it as a catalogue site, not a e-commerce site. One thing they wanted to be able to do was to use the Product Downloads for hosting...
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Putting my money where my mouth is…
I've always thought that there is a place and a time to use the cloud, and to be honest, Automatica has been using Google Apps for the past two years to host email and calendars. Overall the experience hasn't been...
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How to get a real IP address on Telstra Next G
The Telstra Next G 3G internet service is fast, works well in a lot of areas around Australia and can be sorted out fairly cheaply these days. One big downside to the service however is that by default you receive...
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