Category: Reviews and Tutorials

Denon AVR-X2800H is a 2-zone AVR. This allows you to independently play and control sound in two different rooms/zones. Unfortunately, this feature has some limitations.

Issue Samsung Smart TV (UE40H6400) with Google TV Chromecast (2020) connected. When the TV is switched off and then switched back on, it shows No Signal on the HDMI port to which Google TV Chromecast is connected (I tried different HDMI ports). No SignalHDMI3(1) Check the cable connections and the settings of your source device.(2) Press Source…

It’s not a secret that many websites and organisations will send you marketing / special offers regardless of how carefully you select correct checkboxes telling them that you don’t want any marketing emails. In some cases the only difference selecting right boxes makes is that you will start to receive these emails not immediately, but a…

Microsoft have been changing Windows built-in Family Protection in recent Windows 8 and 10 quite a bit. The latest one – Windows 10 version has been renamed to Microsoft Family and moved to the Cloud. All configuration and reporting is now done online on Microsoft Family website. In addition, in order to use Microsoft Family you have…

I have an old trusted no-brand 4GB USB Flash drive with a hardware write protection switch that is with untrusted PCs. While 4GB is not much, it is more than sufficient for this particular purpose. However, recently I started noticing that write speeds on this thing are getting more and more sluggish. A quick test…

This morning I tried to connect to some devices on my home network remotely only to find that they appeared to be offline. My first thought was that there was an issue with my home Internet connection, but after quick troubleshooting it appeared that all of my no-ip.org subdomains were not resolving. I logged on…

  Hardware: Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H Audio: Realtek ALC899 Video: Intel HD 4600 (will not be used) Ethernet: Intel I217V Graphics: Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX660 TI 2 x 128GB Crucial M4 SSD drives 1 x 2TB WD mechanical HDD CH-528T media dashboard (image below) Software: Windows 8.1 installed on 128GB SSD Windows 7 installed on 2TB…

With BT Infinity service you normally have two devices provided by BT: OpenReach VDSL modem and BT Home Hub Wireless Router.

By default VMware ESXi 5.0 (VMware vSphere Hypervisor) installs in 60 days Evaluations mode. Licence key can be obtained for free from www.vmware.com. To update the license key perform following: Login to your host unsung VMware vSphare client Change to Configuration tab click on Licensed Features and click Edit Select Assign a new license key…

VMware ESXi 5.0 is now called VMware vSphere Hypervisor, but as before is free to download and use. Upgrading from VMware ESXi 4.0 to VMware ESXi 5.0 is pretty easy and straight forward: As always, before you proceed with an upgrade, make sure you have up to date backups Go to www.vmware.com login to your…

Apple finally released long awaited iOS 5.0 upgrade. This upgrade available for following devices: iPhone 4S iPhone 4 iPhone 3GS iPad 2 iPad iPod touch (4th generation) iPod touch (3rd generation) Apple boasts that there are over 200 new features in this release. Lets look into most important ones. Email and MS Exchange sync improvements…

On 13 September 2011 Microsoft released Windows 8 Developer Preview version. You can install it and have a play yourself. Read this article to find out how.Be aware that this release is very early pre-beta version which is not really intended to be used by general public. A lot of things inside Windows 8 may…