Geek toys
After many years of struggling with trying to get my AppleTV (mk1) to a state where the surround sound actually works, I finally have it solved. The answer was, buy a new surround decoder box. So now I have a nice, shiny Yahama A/V amp that decodes AC3 and DTS from the optical output of […]
This was driving me crazy! Whenever I unplugged the device from usb and then pressed the power button to turn off the screen, the thing would turn itself off! What I found was, me using SetCPU to clock the Tab down to 100MHz when screen off, was actually causing the problem. so the solution was […]
So recently I bought myself a Samsung Galaxy Tab as it’s “not an iPad”, holdable in one hand and runs the same version of Android as my HTC Desire Z. Slightly more recently than that, I went a bit crazy and bought a number of the accessories, including the keyboard dock. Today I discovered that […]
Was installing quicktime after reinstalling my Tosh laptop with XP so it could run with the BCD2000 (new drivers, runs well now 😉 ) and it came up with an unpacking error, with a suggestion to reboot my computer. Though ok, best to try it again cleanly, then spent the next hour or so figuring […]
The Alesis Picoverb I bought off of Ebay a couple of weeks ago is now velcro’ed underneath my little Behringer UB502. At the moment it’s connected via the tape out/in (using those connections like an fx send/return) which seems to work ok as long as the input on the Picoverb isn’t turned up too much […]