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  • Open letter to Canon Inc – faulty Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens

    Dear Canon Inc On two occasions I have purchased the Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens, and on both occasions there were serious faults causing the lens to not work and perform useless. On the first occasion I got the familiar stuck/locked zoom, and this was repaired by myself. Read the comments left by…

  • ANZ Inportant information about ANZ Home Loan Offset accounts 2012

    I received an interesting letter from ANZ a while back headed “Important information about ANZ Home Loan Offset accounts”, whilst I don’t think it affects me I thought I would explain the significance of “Allow up to 5 days for your new account to be linked to your loan”. Lets so you are switching to…

  • Tehran, Iran – Visa extension, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan visas

    After experiencing the whole nightmare of Visas in Tehran, Iran, here is a little guide on getting these key items completed as stress-free as possible; Visa extension We extended our 10 day visa an extra 20 days, obviously when getting the Letter of Invitation (LOI) it is better to add additional days just in case…

  • Free GPS maps for Garmin MapSource

    I discovered this amazing service the other day, I was aware of the OpenStreetMap project, user contributed global street maps, but I was unaware of the additional service garmin.openstreetmap.nl which allowed you to download maps to be used on Garmin devices, including MapSource. Whilst Garmin produces some very comprehensive country maps, they miss some of…

  • Remove blank PDF pages with A-PDF Scan Optimizer

    Recently I posted about A-PDF Page Cut, which was able to split PDF pages in half, it turns out that once you do this you get a lot of blank pages (not nice for your Kindle). Conveniently, produced by the same company is A-PDF Scan Optimizer which removes these blank pages. A-PDF Scan Optimizer does…

  • Roundcube installation on shared hosting with Firefox Webmail Notifier

    This tutorial is going to explain how to install the webmail IMAP client Roundcube on shared hosting and then integrate it with the Firefox plugin Webmail Notifier. Firstly, why the need to install Roundcube in the first place, don’t many hosting companies already provide it built into cPanel? Yes, they do, but the benefit to…

  • Review of USB Safely Remove – the device cannot be stopped right now

    Sick of constantly experiencing the Window’s “The device ‘Generic volume’ cannot be stopped because a program is still accessing it.” message, I decided to give the program USB Safely Remove a test. The first time trying to stop my USB hard-disk-drive I get the following “Could not find any processes locking USB device!”, great, the…

  • How to dye fabric with Procion dye

    Procion is a brand of reactive dyes, meaning the dye reacts with the cellulose fibres (plant-based fibres including cotton and linen) of fabric. A cellulose fibre will not work on protein fibre (animal-based fibres including silk and wool), it which case Acid Dye will need to be used. I chose Procion over Acid Dye due…

  • Blacklisting all yahoo.com email addresses

    For some reason, I am getting a large amount of spam form yahoo.com email address, previously, I blacklisted these email address, but this became too time consuming, so I have now created a catch-all and blacklisted ALL yahoo.com email addresses. Only .com are affected, .com.au, .co.uk and all variants are unaffected. I have whitelisted those…

  • The Cool Cube featured in 10 Years of Mini-ITX eBook

    To celebrate 10 years of the VIA Mini-ITX motherboard, VIA had released a anniversary eBook titled Small is Beautiful: Ten Years of Mini-ITX, which features one my case modding projects, The Cool Cube. Head over to viamini-itxebook.com to read about it and many other cool mods.