I went to play music on my iPod but discovered it needed charging. I’m at work so I don’t have iTunes installed but I do have my cable. I wanted to charge my iPod and listen to music from it. So here is what I had to do.
Connect the iPod to the PC via the cable
Go to Explorer and find the iPod. It was listed as removable storeage device
Right-click on the drive icon and select ‘Eject’
The iPod should shortly stop displaying the ‘Do not disconnect’ warning and return to the main menu.
If you simply select ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ from the tooltray icon you’ll get the iPod menu back but it’ll not continue charging.
I did this with my Mac formatted iPod on a Windows XP machine. I expect that PC formatted iPods will behave the same way.
Yet another How To guide for your MX-5. Just showing that doing stuff yourself is not that hard. First posted back in September 2009, this article takes you through the process of fitting front fog lamps to a Mk3 MX-5. Although I use the standard Mazda lamps, there is nothing stopping you from using other brand lamps with a suitable fitting. Let’s get to work » Read more: How To: Fit foglamps to an MX-5
With some nicer weather at the weekends recently I’ve been tempted to detail my car again. Detailing is just a fancy way of saying ‘clear really well’. =) Traditionally people have polished cars but the modern thinking is to avoid abrasives and use more effective, deep cleaning products followed by some high tech protection. I say ‘deep cleaning products’ but we start with Fairy Liquid. Enjoy. » Read more: How To: Detail your MX-5
Removing the door cards on your car is always a hassle. I did it to fit some nice speaker rings so I documented the process to help others. It’s another forum post saved from oblivion.
Hi All,
I fitted the silver speaker bezels this weekend so I thought I’d do a post on how to remove the door cards and fit these rings.
I’ve always thought the standard look of the doors on the MX-5 was a bit bland. The Sport and some special edition models have the satin silver speaker bezels and door handle caps to brighten things up. Time for me to add the same bits to my 2.0 Option Pack. » Read more: How To: Remove the door cards and fit speaker bezels on an MX-5
Swapping the style bar covers (the trim over the rollover bars) from stock black to something less drab is a cheap and easy way to give your car a lift. Here’s my ‘How to..’ guide from September 2009. » Read more: How To: Fit style bar covers on an MX-5
Hey, this blog isn’t suppose to be about all the boring stuff I do all the time. You do enough boring stuff yourself for you to be not the slightest bit interested in my stuff. So, disclaimer out of the way. I’d like to share with you this video of Florence and the Machine performing their song ‘Between two lungs’.
More forum rescues. This time a guide on making a professional looking stainless steel mesh grille for my car.
Hi All,
Time for another Sunday How-To
This time I was getting bored with the standard plastic grille on mt car. I quite fancied a Zunsport grille or something similar. However, I wasn’t impressed at the price. £70-90 for some wire mesh seemed a lot. So, me being me, I decided to explore the DIY route. » Read more: How To: Custom stainless steel grille
This is a forum entry first posted in on Sep 11 2009 on the http://www.mx5.com forum. As is the nature of forum posts, it began to disappear into the depths of the forum. The search feature had been reasonable so posts could be found if need be. However, a poor ‘upgrade’ of the forum software left old postings almost unretrievable. So, here it is again in the hope it’ll save someone a few quid.
It’s taken me a while to get this How To guide written but there is a good reason, which will become clear towards the end.
So hopefully this will give you an idea of how to cheaply do repairs to your alloy wheels without having to resort to Chips Away, Halfords or even a full refurb. Using this method you can repair your first scuff for under half the cost. Subsequent repairs are then effectively free! » Read more: How To: Repair a scuffed alloy wheel
I’ve gone and done it. I’ve registered a domain and I’ve set up a WordPress page. The strange thing is that one of these tasks I’ve wanted to do for years, the other I thought I’d never want to do. Let me explain. » Read more: Day 1
Listening to: Bagpipe Style Live by Orbital -|- Working on: My new dot com site in Silicon Valley -|- Wishing for: More sun so I can sit out on the balcony
How To: Fit foglamps to an MX-5
How To: Detail your MX-5
How To: Remove the door cards and fit speaker bezels on an MX-5
How To: Turn a 6-speed Sport gear knob into a 5-speed on an MX-5
Between two lungs
How To: Custom stainless steel grille
How To: Repair a scuffed alloy wheel
