Caleb's Blog

Purchasing a car from interstate to S.A South Australia I recently found I could save $5000 on a can which costs $20,000 here in Adelaide by purchasing it from W.A. Here is my process with a used 2015 Mitsubishi ASX at $15000 in June 2017 Call the dealer and have him take more pictures of the vehicle and email them to me. Tires, carpet etc, lots of close ups. Email me the purchase documents which I signed scanned and emailed back. EFT the full value of the vehicle to them. They ship the car the next day unlicensed. This means they cancel the registration and remove the number plates. The day it arrived in S.A. I got a call to pick it up from Gawler?? Miles away. Get online to Eyzreg and get a day permit for the vehicle $45.  Print out the temp rego. http://www.sa.gov.au/topics/driving-and-transport/ezyreg Go pick it up and drive to Regency park or Lonsdale to have them check it out. No appointment necessary just wait in line. Drive to the motor registration office ”Servi...

Unfortunately I have noting good to say about this camera. After using it for two weeks I have failed to achieve even the simplest of tasks a point and shoot super zoom camera should do. I was unable to get a zoomed shot of a monkey in full light,10 meters from me, not moving. Every single one was out of focus. This same task with the equivalent Olympus was achieved the first time I picked it up. Using the selfie function causes the camera to crash (unless there is no detail in the picture or you turn the mp down) The only photos it can do well are in the middle of the day with a lot of sun, not zoomed. Non standard charging port! Pathetic Panasonic. You can and have done so much better. Back to Costco you go.

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...