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Low voltage LED Christmas lights extension
So you want to setup some outdoor Christmas LED lights around your home and garden, and you tried solar for a while, but realized they really aren’t very powerful, and don’t last very long, so you figured you need to use “low voltage” lights. Low voltage lights have a mini power adapter and a long… read more…
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Spark Cricket League 2020: Inventory Busters vs CRM & Crick Baazingers
[show_slider name=”spark-cricket-league-2020-inventory-busters-vs-crm-crick-baaz”] What a shame that we only got to the quarters before Covid-19 stopped play. In the qualifiers The Inventory Busters(89/4) won over CRM(88/9) and P2P Tigers(114/6) won over Data Mafia(87/7) so it would have been an interesting paring in the finals of Inventory Busters against P2P Tigers. This would have been a good… read more…
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Spark Cricket League 2020
Friday 14th the Inventory Busters first match with P2P Tigers in Victoria Park Auckland [show_slider name=”spark-cricket-league-2020″] read more…
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A block of a good time
We hadn’t really watched earlier seasons of TV3’s “The Block NZ” but when Josh was captivated by Australia’s “House Rules” I suggested he watch The Block NZ — as they say the rest is history. When the time came for the open home on October 25th 2014 we were in. We caught an early train… read more…
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Reduce audio noise without video loss
I have a Nikon Coolpix S7000 compact camera that I use for most things. Its showing it’s age and it would be nice to replace it – one day. The other day I learned a painful lesson, this camera has terrible audio, specifically it adds a lot of hiss to recordings. I was using it… read more…
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Scanning a booklet without an ugly crease
When you try to scan a thick booklet or a book you can often get the above ugly crease around the staples when you try to lay the booklet flat. Less than desirable, the question is how to remove the crease mark. While you can remove the crease after scanning this may not work so… read more…
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Getting your YouTube videos in full HD
Have you noticed that you can upload a full HD video to YouTube and it’s great quality but when you watch it on YouTube the quality is rubbish. The likely problem is that YouTube is not displaying it in the resolution you uploaded, sometimes quite a low resolution. Google: Low video quality after upload https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/71674?hl=en… read more…
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SonicWall VLAN to private physical interface
I had a Windows 10 VM, running inside VMware ESXi 6.0, which I needed to connect to the laptop as shown in the above diagram. In addition I needed both the laptop and VM to be on an isolated LAN which meant neither the VM nor laptop to should be able to access the internet… read more…
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Cleaning the Epson 3170 scanner’s glass
You will notice as time goes by that the inside of the scanner glass gets dirty. The good news is that for this scanner at least, cleaning the glass is really easy. Firstly remove the scanner lid by unplugging the power cable for the light and then sliding the scanner lid off. Inside each of… read more…
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Auto-post to Facebook
Zoyinc is my “brand” and this is my site so when I decided to auto-post to Facebook I thought it would be straight forward, but it did quite work out that way. These are some of the tips I found out along the way, yes the info will date because Facebook is a constantly evolving… read more…