Changing the battery in a 30gig ipod video

Decided I wanted a higher capacity battery for my ipod video, managed to find a 650mah one for a reasonable price.

Next step is how to fit it

get some non marring tools to open your ipod with and its pretty simple and will easily take less than 15 minutes

first of all put your ipod on hold, so that it doesnt come on whilst you are changing the battery, then using your tools, starting at the top use a prying motion and open the ipod




When you have pryed round the entire top and sides on the ipod, there are two clips at the bottom once these are free the back of the ipod is nearly free, next disconnect the battery connector





The ipod case can not be opened and placed next to the bulk of the ipod, the battery is stuck down at the top of the case, gently remove it being careful not to rip any of the ribbon cables, push the new battery onto the adhesive pads, reconnect the battery ribbon cable and clip the ipod back together, charge the ipod up for four hours and you have a ipod with a new battery!

Top 10 ways to mess with your flat mates head

1) Talk back to your Rice Krispies. All of a sudden, act offended,
throw the bowl on the floor and kick it. Refuse to clean it up, explaining, 'No, I want to watch them suffer.'

2) Every time your flatmate walks in yell, 'Hooray! You're back!'
as loud as you can and dance around the room for five minutes.
Afterwards, keep looking at your watch and saying, 'Shouldn't
you be going somewhere?'

3) Make a sandwich. Don't eat it, leave it on the floor. Ignore
the sandwich. Wait until your flatmate gets rid of it, and then
say, 'Hey, where the f**k is my sandwich!?' Complain loudly that
you are hungry.

4) While your flatmate is out, glue your shoes to the ceiling.
When your flatmate walks in, sit on the floor, hold your head,
and moan.

5) Tell your flatmate, 'I've got an important message for you.'
Then pretend to faint. When you recover, say you can't remember
what the message was. Later on, say, 'Oh, yeah, I remember!'
Pretend to faint again. Keep this up for several weeks.


6) Collect hundreds of pens and pile them on one side of the room.
Keep one pencil on the other side of the room. Laugh at the pencil.

7) Buy some knives. Sharpen them every night. While you're doing
so, look at your flatmate and mutter, 'Soon, soon...'

Draw a tiny black line on your nose. Make it bigger every day.
Look at it and say, 'the hair, it's growing. Growing!'

9) Move everything to one side of the room. Ask your flatmate
if he knows how much an elephant weighs, and look at the floor
on the empty side of the room with concern.

10) Collect potatoes. Paint faces on them and give them names.
Name one after your flatmate. Separate your flatmate's potato
from the others. Wait a few days, and then bake your flatmate's
potato and eat it. Explain to your flatmate, saying 'He just
didn't belong'

Gizmo SMS to offer free worldwide SMS

Looks like the guys over at gizmosms.com are going to offer free worldwide sms, also fairly impressive as they dont require you to know the country code for the country you are texting into or select the receipents carrier, most impressive. Certainly is a lot better than the rest of the competition I have seen(or not as the case may be) such as Google SMS

The 100 oldest .com Domains currently registered Clickable links

Found this interesting link earlier http://www.jottings.com/100-oldest-dot-com-domains.htm

Decided to make all the links clickable so that you can see if anything is on the domain a bit more quickly!
1 15-Mar-85 SYMBOLICS.COM
2 24-Apr-85 BBN.COM
3 24-May-85 THINK.COM
4 11-Jul-85 MCC.COM
5 30-Sep-85 DEC.COM
6 07-Nov-85 NORTHROP.COM
7 09-Jan-86 XEROX.COM
8 17-Jan-86 SRI.COM
9 03-Mar-86 HP.COM
10 05-Mar-86 BELLCORE.COM
11= 19-Mar-86 IBM.COM
11= 19-Mar-86 SUN.COM
13= 25-Mar-86 INTEL.COM
13= 25-Mar-86 TI.COM
15 25-Apr-86 ATT.COM
16= 08-May-86 GMR.COM
16= 08-May-86 TEK.COM
18= 10-Jul-86 FMC.COM
18= 10-Jul-86 UB.COM
20= 05-Aug-86 BELL-ATL.COM
20= 05-Aug-86 GE.COM
20= 05-Aug-86 GREBYN.COM
20= 05-Aug-86 ISC.COM
20= 05-Aug-86 NSC.COM
20= 05-Aug-86 STARGATE.COM
26 02-Sep-86 BOEING.COM
27 18-Sep-86 ITCORP.COM
28 29-Sep-86 SIEMENS.COM
29 18-Oct-86 PYRAMID.COM
30= 27-Oct-86 ALPHACDC.COM
30= 27-Oct-86 BDM.COM
30= 27-Oct-86 FLUKE.COM
30= 27-Oct-86 INMET.COM
30= 27-Oct-86 KESMAI.COM
30= 27-Oct-86 MENTOR.COM
30= 27-Oct-86 NEC.COM
30= 27-Oct-86 RAY.COM
30= 27-Oct-86 ROSEMOUNT.COM
30= 27-Oct-86 VORTEX.COM
40= 05-Nov-86 ALCOA.COM
40= 05-Nov-86 GTE.COM
42= 17-Nov-86 ADOBE.COM
42= 17-Nov-86 AMD.COM
42= 17-Nov-86 DAS.COM
42= 17-Nov-86 DATA-IO.COM
42= 17-Nov-86 OCTOPUS.COM
42= 17-Nov-86 PORTAL.COM
42= 17-Nov-86 TELTONE.COM
42= 11-Dec-86 3COM.COM
50= 11-Dec-86 AMDAHL.COM
50= 11-Dec-86 CCUR.COM
50= 11-Dec-86 CI.COM
50= 11-Dec-86 CONVERGENT.COM
50= 11-Dec-86 DG.COM
50= 11-Dec-86 PEREGRINE.COM
50= 11-Dec-86 QUAD.COM
50= 11-Dec-86 SQ.COM
50= 11-Dec-86 TANDY.COM
50= 11-Dec-86 TTI.COM
50= 11-Dec-86 UNISYS.COM
61= 19-Jan-87 CGI.COM
61= 19-Jan-87 CTS.COM
61= 19-Jan-87 SPDCC.COM
64 19-Feb-87 APPLE.COM
65= 04-Mar-87 NMA.COM
65= 04-Mar-87 PRIME.COM
67 04-Apr-87 PHILIPS.COM
68= 23-Apr-87 DATACUBE.COM
68= 23-Apr-87 KAI.COM
68= 23-Apr-87 TIC.COM
68= 23-Apr-87 VINE.COM
72 30-Apr-87 NCR.COM
73= 14-May-87 CISCO.COM
73= 14-May-87 RDL.COM
75 20-May-87 SLB.COM
76= 27-May-87 PARCPLACE.COM
76= 27-May-87 UTC.COM
78 26-Jun-87 IDE.COM
79 09-Jul-87 TRW.COM
80 13-Jul-87 UNIPRESS.COM
81= 27-Jul-87 DUPONT.COM
81= 27-Jul-87 LOCKHEED.COM
83 28-Jul-87 ROSETTA.COM
84 18-Aug-87 TOAD.COM
85 31-Aug-87 QUICK.COM
86= 03-Sep-87 ALLIED.COM
86= 03-Sep-87 DSC.COM
86= 03-Sep-87 SCO.COM
89= 22-Sep-87 GENE.COM
89= 22-Sep-87 KCCS.COM
89= 22-Sep-87 SPECTRA.COM
89= 22-Sep-87 WLK.COM
93 30-Sep-87 MENTAT.COM
94 14-Oct-87 WYSE.COM
95 02-Nov-87 CFG.COM
96 09-Nov-87 MARBLE.COM
97= 16-Nov-87 CAYMAN.COM
97= 16-Nov-87 ENTITY.COM
99 24-Nov-87 KSR.COM
100 30-Nov-87 NYNEXST.COM

Free J2ME mobile phone mortgage or loan calculator

Ever wondered exactly what the mortgage you are about to take out actually costs you, how would it be effected by just a 0.25% increase in interest rates, well I was and decided to write an application for my phone!

This is a simple j2me app, that should run on any phone that has Java and MIDP2, if theres enough people who would like it to run on MIDP1 I will port the application, just let me know, in the comments section!
Anyway the application, after you have inputted the amount you wish to borrow, how long you wish to borrow the amount over in years and the interest rate being offered will tell you the following

How much the monthly amounts would be for a repayment mortgage
How much a 0.25% increase in interest rates would add to the monthly payment of a repayment mortgage
How much the monthly amounts would be for an interest only mortgage
How much a 0.25% increase in interest rates would add to the monthly payment of a interest only mortgage
How much you would pay in total for a repayment mortgage
How much of the total amount was interest for the repayment mortgage
How much you would pay total for an interest only mortgage over the term


Hope someone else finds it useful, if you do please let me know, also if you have problems or suggestions for improvements do let me know

I have set up two links
if you have an xhtml compatiable phone you should just be able to goto

http://www.htpcme.com/tap/index.php

for a direct link to the jad please go here(shortened the url with some php to make it easier to type in, on your phone)

http://www.htpcme.com/tap/i.php

If anyone wishes to help pay off my mortgage all donations accepted via paypal haha