Listen to BBC Radio 1 live stream using VLC

If you want to listen to BBC Radio 1 Live stream you can do so by going to their website and clicking “Listen Now” but that will load the HTML player and if like me you keep accidentally closing your web browser it will stop the stream. I much prefer using VLC (free) to listen [...]

Uploaded YouTube video corrupt, starts off grey and pixelated [Fix]

Some YouTube users, myself included, are having issues when they upload a video to YouTube. Once the video has been processed the first few seconds are just grey/pixelated. Fortunately there is a simple solution…just add audio! I only get this problem with videos I upload to YouTube with no audio so I tried just adding [...]

iPad 2 gaps start appearing. Apple suffering quality control issues?

Something has been bugging me with my 2 week old white iPad 2 64GB 3G, there’s a small gap along the top edge of the iPad where the glass meets the aluminium back. Just above the camera and below the black plastic 3G antenna strip there is a thin light grey stip of plastic/bezel that [...]

MailChimp issues with image slices from Photoshop file? [FIX]

Create HTML newsletter in PS without body text. Slice this up using Photoshop’s slice tool. Right click to promote any autocreated (grey) slices to user (blue) slices. File->Save for web and devices. Select gif or jpg depending if graphics or photo based (respectively). Saves images and html file. Open html file in Dreamweaver, even though [...]

iTunes Home Share not showing up? Check the advanced settings [FIX]

Home Sharing not working? Make sure you have turned Home Sharing ON in the iTunes Advanced Menu! It caught me out.