Comments for The PC Report

Comment on Minimize Windows Live Messenger to System Tray in Windows 7 by Charles

Charles — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:02:49 +0000

YES!
Thanks!

Comment on Take the 1080p vs 720p test by Christian Banks

Christian Banks — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:07:46 +0000

wow.. flipping back and forth made me have much respect for the S-Spline XL algorithm.

Still though, can’t beat the original, obviously.

Comment on The hard drive “Freezer Trick” by Simon

Simon — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:46:07 +0000

I took a failing Macbook HDD, attached it to the PCB of an external HDD enclosure. Placed it into an antistatic bag, wrapped that in kitchen towel roll and placed all into a ziplock bag (removing as much air as possible with a straw).

Froze for 8 hours.

Removed and connected whilst rotating (just holding HDD connected to circuit board, not placing in enclosure). It took many attempts at removing USB and reconnecting USB to mac. Eventually worked and let me pull off data for nearly an hour (was still working when I shutdown the mac).

Freakin miracle.

Comment on Is your network’s security up to scratch? by Is your network?s security up to scratch? | SSID Blog

Is your network?s security up to scratch? | SSID Blog — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:57:59 +0000

[...] I was just looking through the network security part of an IT Textbook that high schools are currently using and noticed the dodgy security information it was giving. The textbook recommends using WEP encryption to “secure the network” , hiding the network’s name (SSID) and filtering MAC addresses; and goes on to explain why you should use these multiple methods of “security” together. [...]

Comment on Best Music Player #1: Windows Media Player by Dave

Dave — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:17:35 +0000

Windows Media Player 12 is great at first glance BUT they took away advanced features like the tag editor. I have also been forced to rebuild my library several times. I find I use a combo of Zune, Windows Media Player, MP3 Tag and Media Center to interact with my MP3s. I would perfer it was only two – a player with a good tag editor and a Media Center.

Comment on Disable the Open File Security Warning prompt by Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:20:37 +0000

Thank you for this. The annoying UAC is one thing… but this.. I did not think it was possible to disable this prompt at all. This is great.

Comment on Minimize Windows Live Messenger to System Tray in Windows 7 by me

me — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:51:58 +0000

nice one, thx

Comment on Teclast W900 Wireless Webcam Review by Tim Schiesser

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:19:33 +0000

Ah, I knew there was something else I had to do before posting this review.

Thanks.

Comment on Teclast W900 Wireless Webcam Review by Christian Banks

Christian Banks — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:50:51 +0000

Private videos??

Comment on Intel grabs McAfee for a cool US$7.68 billion by Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:40:09 +0000

They must be thinking they can get a pretty decent profit. Otherwise, I don’t see why they would make this purchase.