Month: January 2016
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Old and new audio-video gear [2]: Sony
Last time I talked about some JVC gear I have owned. This time I will briefly look at a couple of pieces of Sony gear, one of which I did own. First up we have the TC-330 cassette and reel to reel tape player. When I went to high school in the late 1970s the…
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Old and new audio-video gear [1]: JVC
So we dealt with Dick Smiths (just before they went into receivership) to buy some TVs for the school. And I understand that JVC have pretty much dipped out of making consumer gear under their own name, it tends to be rebranded product from somewhere else. As I understand it JVC TVs are rebranded Amtran…
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MS wants to push Windows 10 onto computers automatically by sending it as a Windows update
A couple of days ago I wrote about how Windows 10 automatically installs updates by default and automatically restarts your computer at a time it dictates – ignoring whether that time is convenient for you or not. It so happens that at the end of October, MS announced that the free update of Windows 10,…
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Windows 10 Virtual Desktops
One of the great new features MS has added in Windows 10 is virtual desktops. This has been supported in other OSs for a long time so it is good to see that MS has caught up to this. In fact it was available with addons as far back as XP but now it is…
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Presentations on Windows 10
If you are familiar with Windows 10 you will be aware of a number of issues that are material to computers that are used mainly for presentations of content onto a projector. Microsoft has changed these operating systems to be more pushy and intrusive in the areas of Updates Notifications Firstly updates, since Windows 8…