How To Category
How to use Flash in 2021
Posted on January 12, 2021 42 Comments

How to bypass the ‘kill switch’ in Adobe flash so that it can continue to be used for legacy apps after 12th Jan 2021.
Selective Routing Using DD-WRT & OpenVPN
Posted on May 14, 2016 27 Comments
Routing specific ports and IPs over VPN using DD-WRT
Simple Solenoid Driver
Posted on April 27, 2016 1 Comment
A simple and efficient way to drive a solenoid using a micro-controller like an Arduino.
Intended for use in a DIY aquarium CO2 system.
ISTA Max Mix CO2 Reactor Review
Posted on April 27, 2016 2 Comments
A review of the ISTA Max Mix CO2 reactor.
How to install it and how to stop it leaking.
Sky Fibre Broadband with DD-WRT
Posted on October 27, 2014 96 Comments
Guide to get DD-WRT working with Sky fibre (FTTC) broadband.
FunctionFlip on OSX Yosemite
Posted on October 25, 2014 18 Comments
Video tutorial on how to get FunctionFlip working on OSX Yosemite
Adding a SIM card to the Photon Q 4G LTE
Posted on December 2, 2013 21 Comments
Context: Let’s face it, the people want candy-bars. The European and North American smartphone markets are all about thin, lightweight glossy monoliths to fawn over and gently caress in a way that would sicken Charles Babbage. “But Charlie! I yearn for the days of old, when men were men and keyboards were king. Touch screens […]
Using External SD Card with Google Play Music App
Posted on July 24, 2013 3 Comments
Update 5th Dec 2013: Today an update to the Google Play Music app has added a new feature in the app’s settings, allowing you to choose to store files on the external sd card instead which solves this problem. Context: I use Google Play Music as my main media player because I like having my […]
Google Music & Hype Machine keyboard controls on Mac OSX
Posted on April 1, 2013 21 Comments
Update 9th March 2016: Fixed the workflows to work with new changes to both Google Play Music and Hype Machine Music, music everywhere… For some time now I have been using Google Music and Hypem as my main source of music. These services are great – Hypem always has a great selection of fresh music […]
DD-WRT and PPPOA BT ADSL using a ST510 v6
Posted on January 2, 2013 16 Comments
This is something I did a while ago, but I thought I should write it up properly. The problem: DD-WRT does not support PPPoA ADSL. For my old PPPOE ADSL internet connection I had a WRT610n v2 running DD-WRT and a separate simple ADSL2+ modem (ST510 v6) which I have running in bridged mode to […]