Monday, February 26, 2024
Experience with Navman MiVue Pro 4K dashcam from the Qantas store.
Monday, January 16, 2023
Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device
How many times do you try to eject a USB memory stick/drive and get the message, "Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device". This pop up also includes the statement, "This device is currently in use. Close any programs or windows that might be using the device and then try again."
It doesn't matter what you close, with everything closed, but you still end up with the message, "Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device".
One way around this is to close down your computer. That's a bit inconvenient so I decided to work out if there was an easier way. It turns out that logging out and then logging back in then allows for the device to be ejected. Still not ideal but quicker than shutting down and starting up the computer again.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Channel 7 app on Google Chromecast with TV picks up the wrong location. Sydney instead of Melbourne.
Go to the bottom of the page and select the link GeoIP Data Correction (Submit GeoIP Data Corrections | MaxMind).
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Chromecast iPhone to TV
Let's say you have pictures on you iPhone from a recent holiday and want to share them with everyone in the room on the big screen TV. The TV has a Google Chromecast.
Whilst it is possible to use an app what I've heard is the free apps start charging. So what's the easiest way to do it for free.
It's actually quite easy.
Plug your iPhone into a Windows computer and use the iPhone effectively as a disk and you can access the photos (and videos) in the DCIM folder.
Now cast your Windows computer to the big screen TV.
Open the files on the iPhone which then display on your computer and are cast to the big screen TV. You can step through the photos easily one by one or look at the thumbnails and only show the photos you want. Videos may take longer to transfer over the cable but still, you should be able to view and cast short videos relatively easily.
Kelvin Eldridge
www.OnlineConnections.com.au
Monday, October 3, 2022
What does ρгό𝔪σŞm mean? (Hint: promosm)
I received a comment on a YouTube video recently with just the text "ρгό𝔪σŞm". I received no notification. I had no clue what it meant. I thought it was using another language so put the text into Google Translate which came up with nonsense.
I searched Google for "ρгό𝔪σŞm" and found others also didn't know what it meant either. I then searched using Bing and found a video that helped.
Once you sit back and realise they've used Greek letters which look like English letters it starts to make sense. I thought this was quite funny that I didn't see it earlier.
ρгό𝔪σŞm = promosm or PromoSM
That is Social Media Promotion.
Now if you type in promosm into Google or YouTube you'll quickly see what the comment spam is about.
It does appear this is comment spam is generated by a bot. I decided the best thing to do was to click on Report for the comment in YouTube, so basically from my point of view it's gone.
I would be very wary of these companies. Getting subscribers on YouTube can be hard so it's easy to start looking for easy options. Taking easy options often has unexpected consequences. Some being scams but most probably being a waste of time and money.
Hope this information helps others.
Kelvin
Feel free to subscribe to my YouTube channel if this information helps.
https://www.youtube.com/user/kelvineldridge?sub_confirmation=1
Monday, August 8, 2022
Scam on Jimmy Tries World (jimmytriesworld) on YouTube in response to a reply I wrote.
Sunday, August 7, 2022
Seagate external hard drive failure with bad block, format drive message.
Ever get that sinking feeling your hard drive has failed. Yep. Happened to me. Now usually I have a backup of my files but this time I was using a new hard drive as a backup to my dashcam memory card to copy files before they got overwritten. There in lies my failure. I only have a single copy of the dashcam file and now they're gone. About a month and a half of dashcam files. Not a huge problem losing the files but it is very disappointing.
I tried quite a few programs to recover the files and quite a few didn't do anything and so far haven't recovered the files. I thought I'd share the outcome of each program I tried.
Easeus (trial version)
The trial version of Easeus doesn't allow you to save files but can in theory show you what the program can recover. I didn't let the program complete as it was reporting bad sectors and was taking an extremely long time. What it did show however was interesting. There were many files on the external drive I didn't put there. That was a reminder that Windows uses the external drive as temporary storage which increases the risk of the disk failing. Note to self for future. Unplug external drives when not in use. I think that was my main mistake and may have led to the external disk failing.
Recuva
Nothing
Disk Drill
Nothing
DiskGenius
Nothing
TestDisk/Photorec
Nothing from Photorec. Nothing so far from TeskDisk but hopeful something might be returned.
Remo Recover
Nothing
In other words so far everything I have tried has failed. I'll update this post if I have any success.
Kelvin