Fixing my SEAT Ibiza 2012 power Steering
The power steering (PAS) on my 2012 SEAT Ibiza 1.4 FR suddenly became intermittent. After a 30 mile trip and fortunately only a few miles from home I stopped to refuel but on restarting the car there was no PAS whatsoever. Testing it out on the driveway, it came and...
Apple Mail on El Capitan like treacle?
Apple Mail was becoming a total pain in the arse but downloading and re-installing Xcode with the most recent version for El Capitan has completely solved the issue!
Sugru – some ideas for making use of this cool stuff.
Made a 90° bend jack plug for a guitar lead. I just removed the barrel from a normal jack plug, re-soldered the lead and moulded Sugru around the whole thing with the cable coming out of the side. The brown coloured Sugru gives a nice retro look and I pressed an old...
Stop the foam pads falling off your Grado headphones
The original foam pads on my Grados disintegrated and I was never comfortable with them anyway so I bought some cheap replacements off Amazon. The trouble with these is that they don't stay on very well. The rim around the speaker is very shallow and doesn't provide...
Hotpoint Induction Hob Controls
Our Hotpoint CID740B Induction Hob got a good review from me last year but it's now becoming impossible to work with. The touch controls have slowly become less and less responsive to the point where we now have to use a metal spoon to operate it. Sometimes a finger...
Whirlpool Maytag Admiral fridge flashing panel
This is a problem that we had been living with for a while now: when using the ice dispenser a solenoid bangs away all the time the delivery motor is running. The front panel and the light also flash at about 10 times a second. It does eventually dispense ice but VERY...
High Sierra search on ExFAT or NTFS is useless
searching in the Finder on ExFAT formatted SD cards – it finds files but they cannot be manipulated at all from the search results.
Repair the Logitech Force Feedback Steering Wheel G25
An extensive guide and comment thread to help repair the Logitech G25 Force Feedback steering wheel. Essential reading if your wheel doesn’t calibrate.
Install Windows 10 using old OEM Windows 7 COA
For anyone who's interested, I've just managed to get my spare Mac Mini dual booting Windows 10 and OS X. The Mac was purchased a while back on eBay for £99*, I upgraded it with an SSD and 8GB RAM and kept it as a backup for my iMac should anything go wrong. In...
Samsung Wireless Link security hole
(Or wtf is SEC_Linkshare?) Samsung Smart TVs have the ability to connect to other devices using wifi - you can turn this feature on in the Network settings on the TV. This could, for instance allow you to use an iPhone app as a remote control for the TV or play a...
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