So you have decided to do a lovely underfloor heating install and have chosen Heatmiser! £1000, two manifolds, two RF wiring centers and 10 thermostats later, your heating doesn’t work properly. Congrats. Here’s a few things to help you along the (confusing) way. I’ll add to this as I find more stupid things with the…
Stopping Windows 10 Update from installing your drivers
So, you have just found a driver that works with your device…. Woohooo! Then Windows Update is here to the rescue…. well… it’s here to update it to the latest version… which no longer works… To stop it, do this! Hit the Windows key and type Control Panel, click on the top result…
Samsung Galaxy S8 – Close to stock/AOSP as possible. Now in 5 easy steps! (kinda)
So the big question. Without a Lineage OS rom, how do you get your shiny new Samsung Galaxy S8 as close to stock as possible? Here’s what I did. 1. Launcher I personally like to use the Google Now Launcher but of course there are many more launchers to suit everyone’s taste eg Nova…
Linx 10 – Windows 10 Install
You WILL need a USB keyboard for this. Update your Windows 8 install First, use the windows update to update to windows 10. or download this https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and run it to upgrade. I had problems with the install sticking at 85%, restarted it and it went through fine. It is recommended that you remove any SD…
BT4500 Answerphone Beeping… STOP IT!
So, I got fed up with the incessant beeping that my answerphone was making and figured that the setting to turn it off was quite tucked away in the menus. Here’s how to turn it off. 1. Hit the MENU button 2. Select ANSWER PHONE and hit OK 3. Select ANSWER SETTINGS and hit…
50fps/60fps GoPro looks like 25fps/30fps
I have just received my first GoPro! Yaaaay meee!….. anyway. I started recording at 50fps (UK) and it looked OK for a while… until it didn’t. The footage seemed to get less smooth and “clock down” to 25fps. But I set it at 50fps? When I was watching the footage back it it seemed to…
Diskpart: Error formatting/Error Parameter is Incorrect
After messing about with Chrome OS on a USB stick, I found that I could not “clean” the disk with diskpart. I tried deleting volumes, forcing formatting options with /recommended etc but nothing would work. I was getting the following errors: Error Parameter is Incorrect Format error DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not…
AKAI EIE PRO audio tearing/problem in Windows
I have been having a problem for a LONG time now. The audio in windows would be fine for maybe 5-10 mins and then start tearing. It would sound very very bad indeed and would be very distorted. Initially I thought that the EIE PRO was on the out, but then I tried updating…
GoPro Language options?
GoPro, Why English-German, English-French, English-Spanish? When ordering a GoPro on Amazon or similar, what the hell does it mean English-German, English-French, English-Spanish etc? Basically it’s just the instructions. That’s it. ¬.¬ If this has helped you in any way please let me know. Tweet @_BenjaminPeters or buy me a beer!
Galaxy Note 2 + ZeroLemon 9300mAh battery
I have been wondering just how good these ZeroLemon battery cases actually are. They add a huge slab to the back of your “extremely thin” phone… not that I’m really bothered about having a 8mm thick phone instead of 6mm…….. but obviously at 9000+mAh it will be a huge difference over your standard 3000mAh battery, but…