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Andy’s new gadget courtesy of VMware – A Kindle Fire

Monday, April 9th, 2012

On April 2nd, I blogged here about a mysterious parcel from VMware that arrived by FedEx.

The parcel contained an Amazon Kindle Fire, not available in the UK. To be released later this year. I’ve not done the Android experience, being strictly an Apple iOS, Microsoft Windows CE/Mobile, and Nokia nerd. So it will be interesting to checkout what Android 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’ has to offer, compared to Apple iOS 5.1.

The Amazon Kindle Fire is a Full Colour 7 inch, multi-touch display, tablet, with WiFi, web, movies, music, apps, games, reading & more, and it runs Android 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’.

VMware sent me the gift, as a Thank You for providing feedback in the My VMware Beta program.

Thank You VMware!

Tags: iPad, Kindle Fire, My VMware, VMware
Posted in All, VMware, Virtualisation, Virtualization, internet, kindle |

Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 - Restored! - Only took 6 hours!

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Finally, the upgrade and restore has completed, I started the upgrade at 23:00, and it finished at 5.00am. 6 Hours to complete an iOS 5.0.1 upgrade, and I also upgraded and moved to iCLOUD as well.

not checked my iPad fully yet, but I knew something would be weird….

The upgrade has reduced the overall capacity by approx 1GB, compared to iOS 4.3.3, and now I have something strange going on because it thinks it’s Over Capacity by 30.1GB.

Tags: iOS 4.3.3, iOS 5.0.1, iPad
Posted in All, iPad |

Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 - Restoring Apps!

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Maybe there’s hope!

Tags: iOS 4.3.3, iOS 5.0.1, iPad
Posted in All, iPad |

Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 - Crapped Out!

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 - Crapped Out!

What does Error No.2 mean?

I need to take a shit!

and this is the help from the Link:-

it might as well also read

6. Check Under Crackers

7. Get Credit Card

8. Place order for iPad 3

oh sh1t!

It will never be the same again……

Lets see if Restore Works!

Tags: iOS 4.3.3, iOS 5.0.1, iPad
Posted in All, iPad |

Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 - is this any good?

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Because of this:-

The time has come to upgrade my iPad to iOS 5.0.1, I’m not happy about this, I would much rather stay on iOS 4.3.3 Jailbroken, but in June 2012, Apple are migrating from Apple MobileMe to iCLOUD, and I will no longer be able to use the features of Mobile Me, with my iPad.

I’ve read many reports that the iOS 5.0.1 upgrade makes the iPAD1 slower, so I’ve saved my SHSH blobs, so I can rollback to 4.3.3, if it’s a pile of doodoo! To save my SHSH blobs I use TinyUmbrella for Windows, download here

So Goodbye iPad iOS 4.3.3…………….

Okay, I’ve download the 716.6MB Upgrade and Hit Update

Waiting…………………..

Tags: iOS 5.0.1, iPad
Posted in All, iPad |

25 Billion App Download Day approaches

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Download the 25 billionth app and you could win a US$10,000 App Store Gift Card.

Apple have setup a counter here

Tags: App Store, Apple
Posted in All, gadgets |

This week, I’ll be mostly playing …

Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Duke Nukem Forever

My Mummy, said “I’m allowed to play it, now I’m old enough!”

Duke Nukem was first released in 1991 for MS-DOS, it’s a first-person shooter video game similar to Ids Doom and Quake!

Lock ‘n’ Load …

Tags: Duke Nukem, Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360
Posted in All, xbox360 |

Andy goes for a long walk, and finds his Local Mobile Phone Masts!

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Never a boring day, today I went searching for my nearest mobile phone masts. The only trouble was I could see them, but had a few difficulties, in finding the access road leading to the actual base transmitter mast sites. I left my car, and went walking up a hill, across fields, and found the base transmitter mast sites, took some photographs below of the sites, and then walked back down the access road from the site, only to find, it was miles from where I left my car. A lovely warm day, and fantastic views, across the Vale of York.

The O2 and T-Mobile transmitter sites, are just inside the Kilnwick Percy Golf Course, as you can see in the photographs, graffiti artists, have already “tagged” the site, it wasn’t me!

In one of the pictures below, I highlight with a red circle, where I live in the distance.

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I found evidence of an O2 and T-Mobile transmitter mast, and a Vodafone transmitter but could not see any visible documentation, for mobile company 3. (Three). I suspect one of the antenna on the transmitter mast must belong to 3 (Three).

The reason for my visit, was to check, if I could “beam” a 2.4GHz WiFi signal back to my house, to check line of sight. I could, so I have clear line of sight to errect a new 16 dbi Yagi antenna, to improve my 3G UMTS/HSPDA signal, and improve and hopefully get a better download speed using wireless technology.

Tags: 3, O2, T-Mobile, three, vodafone
Posted in All, gadgets, mobile |

Andy’s XBOX 360 Fix!

Saturday, February 18th, 2012

A few months ago, my father had complained that his Xbox 360 was over heating, caused by possible fans failure. He had confirmed that his Xbox 360 was still functioning correctly by using additional cooling using a small desktop cooling fan, when he had removed all the Xbox 360 covers, and directed the fan across the CPU and GPU heatsinks, the Xbox 360 ran perfectly.

He purchased a new fan assembly from eBay, connected it to the 3 pin connector on the motherboard, but the two fans still did not function.

This is how Andy fixed it, if you remove the circuit board from the Xbox 360, there are plenty of articles on the internet that show how to do this. On the underside of the circuit board, near the 3 pin connector is a transistor marked MJD210, this is a D-PAK surface mount device. The datasheet can be found here. I believe this is on the “Falcon” Xbox 360 circuit boards.

You can either replace this transitor which drives the fans, you can purchase here from Farnell.

or use Andy’s Hack and Bodge fix! which is just bridging the pins of the transistor!

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Lindsey said “you fixed that quickly” - I had to remind her that once upon a time, I studied Electronic Communication Engineering…..(although do not practice it anymore, but still retain the k-nowledge! and that’s a flash back to being in form ‘N’ at school for nowledge!)

Tags: fans, Microsoft Xbox, MJD210, Xbox, Xbox 360
Posted in All, computing, xbox360 |

Andysworld! Advent Calendar - Dec 22 - I wonder how large their electric bill is?

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

(not my house, I could not afford the electric bill!)

Tags: Merry Christmas
Posted in All, gadgets, photographs |

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Andy’s new gadget courtesy of VMware – A Kindle Fire

Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 - Restored! - Only took 6 hours!

Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 - Restoring Apps!

Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 - Crapped Out!

Andy’s iPad Upgrade from iOS 4.3.3 to iOS 5.0.1 - is this any good?

25 Billion App Download Day approaches

This week, I’ll be mostly playing …

Andy goes for a long walk, and finds his Local Mobile Phone Masts!

Andy’s XBOX 360 Fix!

Andysworld! Advent Calendar - Dec 22 - I wonder how large their electric bill is?

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