Over the last two hours I’ve been trying to get my 5th Gen iPod Nano to sync with Apple iTunes on my 2009 model MacBook Pro, but all I got was the dreaded error message ‘iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPod’. iTunes tells me to restore, but as the iPod won’t appears under [...]
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The Day ‘City Homicide’ Was Filmed In My House
We’ve all watched TV or movies at some stage and most of us are fascinated by how these shows are made if the popularity of ‘Behind the scenes’ specials are anything to go by.
Yet few people get a chance to see a TV show being filmed and even fewer get the opportunity to have a [...]
Towboat Passes Beneath A Bridge … By Rolling Underwater!
In this amazing set of photographs, a towboat hits a bridge, rolls underneath it and emerges on the other side – intact and functional! The event occured on April 19, 1979 at Rooster Bridge on the Tombigbee River in western Alabama and was captured by amateur photographer Charles Barger.
iPhone 3G – Wifi and LEAP authentication tip
Well I jumped on the bandwagon and replaced my aging Motorola Razr mobile phone with an Apple iPhone 3G. One of the first things I tried to do was connect it to the wireless network at work which took me a while to do. Here is the tip that may save you some time:
The network [...]
Nivmedia Reloaded
To cut a long story short, I’ve moved nivmedia.com back to the first web hosting firm I used years ago - Westhost – and taken the opportunity to rebuild this site from the ground up. So new themes, new purpose and hopefully more frequency in posts. Unfortunately in the move, I was unable to migrate [...]
Photos of Foot Binding – An Ancient Chinese Custom
Foot binding was an ancient Chinese custom and considered a status symbol. The act of foot binding involved wrapping the feet in tight bandages at a young age such that they would break and become highly deformed resulting in feet that were not larger than 4-6 inches!
You can read a more in-depth explanation of the [...]
How to make a “Ball and Chain” for a Bachelor Party
Bored with the idea of forcing a soon-be-married Bachelor to wear a ‘funny’ t-shirt or phallic symbol on his Buck’s Night (aka Bachelor Party or Stag Party), I decided to make my own ‘Ball and Chain’ and attach it to him for the entire night.
Marriage (for the guy) is often compared to being attached to [...]
Vista and slow torrent downloads using uTorrent – a solution!
I ‘upgraded’ to Vista a few weeks ago and unhappily discovered that utorrent ran like an absolute dog. I would try to download the same torrent on two identically configured utorrent clients on the same connnection – one running on my Vista desktop and one running on my XP laptop. What I would see on [...]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Plot Spoiler
There has been much discussion on the final book in the Harry Potter series – much of it focussed on ‘Will he die? Will he kill Voldemort?’ This is too narrow a focus, and the bigger focus should be on the total destruction of magic. Here is the plot for Harry Potter and the Deathly [...]
Secret volume control in Quicktime
If you have ever watched media on media players such as Quicktime or Windows Media Player, you will probably have come across the situation where the volume is too low (even with the volume slider at max). Sure, you can adjust the volume controls in your OS or on the speakers, but sometimes this is [...]