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Final dates in place for switch to Digital TV

Are you watching digital TV yet?  Chances are you already have access to digital free to air TV with around 82 percent of households across Australia already converted. While many regional areas have successfully made the switch to digital with the old analog broadcast no longer operating, it’s the more densely populated areas that will among the last to convert.[Read More…]

Video Games news for June 29 – Watch the video

In this edition of my ‘Weekly Update video for Bigpond Games I share my loss at media FIFA competition, take a look at the newly announced Nintendo 3DS XL and the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot. Also a quick look at SimCity Social – the Facebook version of the popular city management game!

Anti-Tamper protection for your Notebook

Worried that you can’t walk away from your notebook computer without someone tampering or perhaps even trying to take it?  Well here’s a couple of programs that might help. LAlarm is a simple program that triggers a high-pitched alarm if someone touches your computer and the siren can’t be turned off withouth logging into the computer which would draw plenty[Read More…]

File sharing service YouSendit seems to be broken

File sharing service YouSendit seems to be broken

Popular file sharing service YouSendit is currenly unavailable. The company’s official Twitter feed states that the service is ‘mostly not working’  with no time given for when it will be up and running again.  The current issue appears to have plagued the service for at least 10 hours. See http://support.yousendit.com/ for more information.

No Windows Installation Disk? No Problem

Many new PCs have the Windows Installation file stored on a hidden partition which can normally be accessed if needed…but what if something happens to that copy and you don’t have the installation disk? Well the good news is that you can simply download the full installation file for windows 7, legally, as long as you still have the product[Read More…]