Caleb's Blog

I finally got a virus on my IPhone. It's jailbroken so my friends would say 'told you so'. I hit update all in Cydia and assumed one of the tweaks I was using had the virus so I removed them all and still didn't get rid of it. Finally I found the issue was an app I downloaded with App cake. There are lots of them which have evil adware in them.

I've been ordering IPhone 5 batteries over the last few weeks but haven't had much luck. Any battery claiming to have a higher capacity is a scam and may even be a recycled battery with a sticker over it. I was sent IPhone 5c batteries with stickers saying they were for the IPhone Iphone 5. Many EBay sellers are oblivious scams and they all cross ship from the same supplier here in Australia. Pictures below show the difference in ribbon length between the 5 and 5s

Here it is https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Ind/Downloading-and-installing-e-tax/ or a direct link to ETax 2015 Here

I'm in in the city now and have always crossed the road when the traffic light was green irrespective of the colour of the little man. I started to think, maybe this is against the law, so I did some research. I know that when I was a boy there were no little green men so you crossed when the light was green and cars, just like today must give way unless they have a green arrow. http://www.lawhandbook.sa.gov.au/ch10s09s07.php http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_reg/arr210/s231.html Yep.... They made it a law. If you have at least one protruding limb that could press the button then it is against the law not to wait for the little green man. If you want to see a copy of the traffic act, here it is http://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/A/ROAD%20TRAFFIC%20ACT%201961.aspx and the Road rules http://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/LZ/C/R/AUSTRALIAN%20ROAD%20RULES/CURRENT/1999.219.UN.PDF

Super 8 conversion to DVD I am currently trying to convert my families Super 8 home movies to DVD and have had limited success. To begin with I thought I would just pay to have a professional do the work for me. I started by getting DVD Transfer in Adelaide city to do one, 3 minute tape first. I got it back and was very disappoint as he told me the film had degraded very badly and the footage was very purple. I decided to get my Super 8 projector working so I could see the quality of the rest before paying the $3,500 to convert the other 20 I had. After getting the projector fixed I played the tape and was surprised at how clear it was. Here is a side by side comparison of what DVD transfer gave me and a simple “Cam” job by me, against the wall. As you can see they are very different. For starters mine has more in the frame and is no where near as dark and purple. By the way, the picture that is projected on my home wall is much, much better that what I can show here. DVD Transfer is a...

Over the past few weeks I have been converting Super 8 videos to my computer as well as scanning old pictures. During the process I have had a few hiccups and have had to explain encoding and quality degradation to a few people without success. I decided to do a little experiment and blog my results. If I take a jpg picture and save it, without editing anything, 100 times will I lose any quality. Here is my starting picture. (640 * 480 @ 43.9kb) (please note this blog may change the size on upload) Here is the same picture after saving 10 times Here is the same picture after 20 saves. It's quite obvious we are losing quality somewhere (no need to do the 100). The reason for this is that jpg is a lossy compression format. Even when saving a JPG at the highest quality it is still compressed and has a slight quality loss. On the other hand TIFF and BMP are lossless formats saving each and every pixel of information. This is great but the file size can be cumbersome for the web.

In 2005 I decided to purchase a car I had been looking at for a few years. It seemed to have all the mod cones that you would expect in a luxury car. After purchasing it my friends asked why I would ever by a Mitsubishi. They are terrible, unreliable, poor quality and won't go the distance they would say. In 2011 I decided to purchase one of the most popular cars in the country. This one my friends would approve of and sing my praise for purchasing. The Mazda 3. Admittedly the Mazda is more attractive than the Verada but after driving it for a few months I decides to write the following comparison between this car and the old one. Here we go. Mazda Cons Speaker vibration No power (2L compared to 3.6) Changes to overdrive gear in low revs fault Slow gear change when slowing then accelerating No sensor in rear-view mirror for auto dim No trip computer Poorly designed cavities to catch debris in body work No boot release on keys No immobiliser No alarm Annoying unnec...