Things that make ya go hmmmm

OK so to close off the Three saga previously posted. It proved to be quite a useful search around the service providers to see who actually offered the best value for my needs. Without a doubt the most important thing to me is data. I'm month on month using over 5GB but I do a lot of traveling so it's hardly surprising. I hardly make any old school voice calls and if I do they are normally for work (and I have a phone dedicated to work not play) Most providers now offer all you can eat or fat data usage but all bar Three also charge royally for it. You do get lots of minutes etc with this greater cost but that's a waste on me. So I spoke to a customer service rep at Three and discussed my issue with their contract and thoughts about moving. They walked through some options for me and I've tailored a new subscription to exactly what I wanted at less cost so all round, it's a win. Sticking with Three then and bought another One Plus Two.

So you have probably all seen the recent marketing with a Muppet and an old East 17 song that has a chorus of 'Alright Alright everything's going to be Alright' Three happily tell you the mobile industry sucks. I generally thought my time with three has been ace. They also tell you it's time to take a stand. HELL YES IT'S TIME. Today I got a letter from three. I've been with them for a decade. Working in AV and with some mobile hardware companies, I signed up back in the day in a London three store for a new contract and just gave the HTC wildfire phone I got to my wife, as I already had a phone. Over the years I kept my contact running paid on time and used it mostly for data.. I never upgraded handsets and just had a SIM free contract. About a year ago this contract was changed after someone from three called me and said I could change to a One Month rolling contract called the One Plan AND save money. Happy days, what's the catch... £17 all y...

REPOST from last season, ready for this season: OK, another quick one for you SWFC fans out there. It's here again with fixtures released this morning. Something to think about other than the World Cup! If you were already subscribed to my calendar for the previous seasons, you need to do absolutely nothing :D We've stayed safe last season and following a takeover from The Land Of Fire crew we are hopefully well on the way to hit the Premiership in the next few years. We've been taken over by one of the worlds richest fishermen! Premiership here we come. Kicking off at home against newly promoted Bristol City should be a good test straight away and hopefully by then Carlos Carvalhal  will have been announced, I've updated my shared calendar again. Hosted on google calendars and available to you and your Android/Nokia/iPhone/pc/mac whatever device nice and simply and without cost. Woohoo! Again, if you were already subscribed to this calendar back when I ...

So as many people will know, Audi are Apple fan boys. I....am not. So although Audi have an MMI cable available for 3.5mm and iOS devices, I wanted something easier and quicker plus I don't want my phone stuck in the glove box when its attached to music... that would be ridiculous. So I set about looking for ways to get the audio streaming to my Audi and my 3G MMI via bluetooth from any device. I currently have a One Plus One (edit, now a One Plus Tw0) handset and an iPhone 5 (edit iPhone 6) but as I have Google All Access and a Three all you can eat data plan, the One plus is the go to device. The iPhone is works. All in all it was fairly easy once I'd been given pointers from a guy at work (and as I work in AV these were fairly accurate and explicit instructions). I couldn't find anything online worth whilst except for a stupidly expensive visioo thing that basically does what this hack does for shed loads more cash from what I can see. So I wanted to share this...

So my phone got dropped/Sat on/ cracked on the back cover and I was very Grrrrrrr about it. I decided to just buy a replacement cover and remove the old one. They are really simple to remove with a hair dryer and a spudger basically. One thing I learnt tho is that you can't just chuck the broken back away as that's got the NFC chip stuck to it. Now if you are here because like me you needed to find a replacement NFC chip for your Xperia Z2 then you are in the right place. World of Mobiles in Germany has an eBay store that has the only replacement panel I could find with the NFC chip on it. I did buy 2 other panels for about 15 quid each but wish I'd just bought this more expensive but the only one that could do the job. This is eBay user powerseller_nr who has this item you need. If you want to know how to remove the panel have a look at this video: Back Cover and NFC for Sony Xperia Z2 Replacement: http://youtu.be/_Jf9QhmMQcQ

Hi So I was looking for some info on replacing the bulb in an Audi fog light. There seemed to be only one static image video on YouTube so I thought last minute, I'd put one together. Hope it helps someone. I replaced standard fog light bulbs with LED ones (via ebay/China)  There are no error codes thrown up with these, so all good. youtube.com/y5X4N9Eu_To (Had to do a bit of clipping on the video, sorry) Anyway, finished result: