14th
September
2009
Have you seen the latest T-Mobile lifes for sharing advert ? – well meet the person who had the daunting task of making 161 channels of radio microphones work, now you can have an insight to the serious technical challenges I faced and how it all worked out……. (more…)
Tags: 160 channels, advert, karaoke, lifes for sharing, partizan, Pink, Radio-Microphones, Sennheiser, Shure, t-mobile, trafalgar square, UHFR
10th
March
2009
Geo-tagging new buzz thing but trying to do it on a Nikon DSLR proved hard – so I made my own. Welcome to my take on the Ultimate GPS Solution for Nikon cameras.
Read how and what I did……. (more…)
Tags: Camera, D200, D3, D300, D3x, D700, dslr, Fastrax, Geo-tagging, GPS, mapping, microchip, Nikon
13th
January
2009
Amongst the modding audiophile community there is a small band of people who are after the best possible sound from their portable audio players. The concept is simple, bypass all the poor quality SMD components and feed the DAC (Digital to Analog Convertor) output directly in to an external high quality headphone amp.
This is a guest article written by one those people….. (more…)
Tags: 32gb, 5g, Audiophile, Black Gate, Capacitors, compact-flash, diyMOD, iFlash, ipod
6th
July
2008
Compact Flash finally installed , tested and prodded inside Apple’s latest iPod Classic. Now in its 6th generation it was time to see if the iFlash could improve the user experience and bullet-proof the hardware. (more…)
Tags: 5g, 6g, apple, cf, Classic, compact-flash, iFlash, ipod, video
2nd
July
2008
New builds of Rockbox can throw up ATA -1 error with slower Compact Flash cards. I have built and compiled a modified version of r18673 fixing these issues. This is the newly launched version 3 of Rockbox.
I am so nice to you lot
…… (more…)
Tags: A-Data, cf, compact-flash, iFlash, ipod, Rockbox, Sandisk, Transcend, video
30th
May
2008
I have updated my Multipage Toolkit to version 2.6
It is now easier to use and better integrated in to the wordpress experience….
New options to view multipage posts on a single page – great new feature to add custom seperator for advertising code or just pretty graphics between pages. (more…)
Tags: 2.5, 2.6, heading, link_pages, multi-page, navigation, pages, paginate, pagination, plugin, posts, quick jump, quicktag, titles, Wordpress
6th
May
2008
As my iFlash iPod Compact Flash adapter has grown in popularity – so has the problem of Compact Flash card compatibility.
I have decided to put together a list of known working and non-working CF cards and I need your help…. (more…)
Tags: adata, card, cf, compact-flash, compatibility, iFlash, ipod, kingston, Lexar, Peak Technology, Samsung, Sandisk, Topram, Transcend
22nd
April
2008
I have always wanted to own the Nikon AF-S 70-200 f/2.8 VR lens, which is one serious piece of kit. It is legendary for its handling and sharpness. Not able to afford a new one, I opted for a cheaper slightly damaged secondhand model – read how I restored it to factory new condition …. (more…)
Tags: 70-200, afs, lens, lense, nikkor, Nikon, repair, vr
13th
April
2008
Finally, found some time to update the back-end of my website to Wordpress 2.5. Update was pretty painless, except I used this opportunity to update and change the theme and some of the plugins used.
Probably broken something, so please let me know if something is not working…. (more…)
Tags: 2.5, blogging, updated, Wordpress
17th
February
2008
Vista SP1 install can sometimes fail with the following error codes 0×8007000D or 0×80070005. Searching on the internet found several solutions which all did not work for me.
I finally solved the problem. Read how I fixed the problem and got SP1 installed ….. (more…)
Tags: 80070005, 8007000D, Error, Failure, Install, microsoft, Service Pack, SP1, tips, Vista