Monthly Archives: April 2012

Dropbox

I can highly recommend Dropbox having been signed up to it for about a month.
Wasn’t quite sure how it worked when I signed up to it, but now use it a lot, as I’m often moving between using a laptop PC, iMac and mobile devices.
Using Dropbox I can store documents either on laptop or iMac and then access them across all devices, including iPhone, and there’s also web access via the Dropbox website (which I only just realised was available)
One big plus also is that its free, with more than enough storage to start off with – 2 Gb.

If you’re moving between different computers and devices as most people are nowadays, its the ideal way to have documents available across all your devices.

The link to sign up is:   http://db.tt/2jVedovf

By |April 5th, 2012|Cloud, Other Tech, Storage|0 Comments
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April 4, TV Signal – Digital Switch Over, Stage 1

Updated April 18: – Second stage of Digital Switch Over – Repeated what I did on April 4 and all worked fine again.

Original: As today is first stage of digital signal switchover, thought there might be a few problems with the TV. For this day its only supposed to be BBC2 thats affected as it switches from Analogue to Digital. However, turned on the TV and none of the digital channels worked at all. The TV is a Sony with built in Digital Freeview tuner.

Tried a ‘Digital Auto Tune’ from the remote but that didnt work, still no channels.

Then remembered that the Sony hard disk recorder is hooked up to the aerial and then connects to the TV. So retuned that first from the remote, auto-retune and that worked well.

Tried another ‘Digital Auto Tune’ on the TV from remote but that didn’t work. So next option – which worked perfectly – was to reset to Factory Settings and let the TV do all the setups again. This worked fine.

Will probably need to do the same thing on 18 April, stage 2.

 

By |April 4th, 2012|Other Tech, Sony|0 Comments
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