MyAnswers: When I type a quote on my Windows 7 computer it doesn't appear on the screen.

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When I type a quote on my Windows 7 computer it doesn't appear on the screen until I press another key. How do I fix this?

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Kelvin Eldridge
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Samsung Galaxy S4 8 core processor.

I was reading up on the Samsung Galaxy S4 8 core processor and I found two quite interesting pieces of information. The new Samsung Galaxy S4 will come with two difference processors. One for the US market (including Canada) not using the 8 core processor, and that only 4 cores are used at a time.

I thought that was very interesting. People will be focused on the speed delivered by an eight core processor but in reality if the information I've read is true, they're only really getting the performance of a four core processor. It appears there are four high performance (requiring higher power) and four lower performance cores. If only lower performance is required the lower performance core is used by if higher performance is required the core is switched to the higher performance. So in effect only one of the two cores are used at a time.

If you're looking at a mobile phone and performance is important to you be careful with the marketing of the number of cores. It is best to find some form of benchmark comparison testing to give you a better guide. I was certainly surprised to find the eight cores were actually being used as four+four cores running in pairs which to me means the highest performance is really the higher performing four cores and not eight.

 

The second interesting item was the international version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 will contain the 8 core processor but the US market (plus a few other countries) will receive the Snapdragon processor. From what I've read this is because it integrates better with LTE. If this is correct those looking to use LTE should try to determine if the processor matters to them.

This is the first time I've seen a single device marketed to different regions with different processors and to me that is quite unusual and not something that I as a consumer would have expected.

Kelvin Eldridge
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Apple iPhone iOS 6.1.3.now available in Australia.

Apple have released the iPhone software update iOS 6.1.3 and it is now available for installation.




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OzEfilter has now been moved under the Online Connections site.

The OzEfilter domain is being retired today and OzEfilter will now be available the Online Connections site www.OnlineConnections.com.au/ozefilter. You can also find OzEfilter on JustLocal at www.JustLocal.com.au.

OzEfilter is provided to clients to assist them with handling unwanted emails. OzEfilter shows a list of emails from people not in their contact list. The emails are on the mail server and can then be deleted directly from the mail server before the emails reach their computer, largely eliminating the risk malware, scam and spam safely away from their computer.

OzEfilter is designed to work with standard POP3 mail boxes.

 

Kelvin Eldridge

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MyAnswers: Windows 8 Excel xls files now try to open in Internet Explorer 10.

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After installing Windows 8 my Excel xls files now try to open in Internet Explorer 10.

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Google Reader to be closed down on July 1st 2012

Each day I use Google Reader on an iPhone to check the daily news feeds I’m interested. I don’t particularly like Google Reader because I have to log in each time. On a Windows computer I was previously able to subscribe to the feed and that was it. No ads, no Google sitting in between.

The problem is that RSS feeds or News feeds is very good technology, but most people wouldn’t even know it exists. I subscribe to about half a dozen sites and that helps me to keep informed across a number of areas such as technology and current affairs quite quickly each day.

It isn’t a really big deal because once I heard Google Reader was being discontinued I decided to move my newsfeed back to my notebook computer running Windows. Whilst it isn’t as convenient as using my iPhone, it works pretty well and there’s no ads. One of the problems with the iPhone is if I want to go to certain sites the site doesn’t display correctly. Everything just works under Windows.

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MyAnswers: Stop spam using a simple and free method.

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A simple and effective way to reduce spam and it is also free. I reduced my spam from 30-50 per day plus also reducing malware infected spam emails to less than 1-2 a day and some days none.

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