rare hip hop / r & b / funk / house vinyl records for sale - latest listings

Rob Natrule - A night on the Tiles
Blackalicious - Melodica
Notorious B.I.G / Biggie - Juicy b/w Unbelievable
The Rize & Tarkee - Let Yourself be Yourself b/w Called to Add Mind
Beastie Boys - She's On It b/w Slow and Low

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Feel free to contact me with a list of any hip hop vinyl you're after. If I have it available for sale I will make an ebay listing for you: benhare at gmail dot com

Connecting a Motorola Motorazr V8 to a Macbook Pro AKA mounting your phone as an external hard disk drive

The main title of this post "Connecting a Motorola Motorazr V8 to a Macbook Pro" may in fact be misleading. It describes what you want to do but usually you will find it easier to actually do this the other way around - connect your Macbook Pro to your phone.

Bluetooth is nothing new but I've only recently started using it and I must say I'm converted. Forget the USB cable and Motorola "Phone Tools" software. I don't want to buy that ( it should be free with the phone IMO ). I don't want any of it's features so don't want to install it and clutter my PC with software I don't want and don't need. All I want to do is connect my phone to my laptop as an external drive and browse it. I used to do this via USB and you can do it that way. But bluetooth means you don't need the cable ( which you haven't got with you, you forgot, or has the "other" type of micro-USB connector on it ), is easier and around about the same speed wise; file transfer rate is about 90Kbps for me.

Connect your Macbook to your phone:

1. Turn your phone on
2. Turn bluetooth on on your phone in "Settings / Connections"
3. Set "Discoverable for 3 minutes" or similar option on in Bluetooth settings
4. Click: Apple / System Preferences... / Bluetooth
5. Check the "On" checkbox to turn Bluetooth on on your Macbook if it's not already
6. Click the "+" icon to add a new bluetooth device. This will start your Macbook searching for a device.
7. Once your phone appears select it and save. Ignore all the dial up / modem stuff unless you want that as well just get your phone in the list.

Done. Your phone is now saved as a bluetooth device in your Macbook and next time it will just appear in the list.

Browse your phone from your Macbook:

1. Click: Apple / System Preferences... / Bluetooth
2. Select your phone from the list
3. Click the Apple options icon below the list ( the cog thing ) and select "Browse device" from the drop down menu that appears
4. Click "Accept" on your phone which is prompting you to accept a file transfer connection from your Macbook
5. Joy. There is your phone disk. You can now "Get" and "Send" anything to anywhere

persistent log in problems? getting continually bounced back to log in page for gmail, ebay etc?

The problem of a site you regularly use and remain logged into suddenly "bumping" your login and refusing to let you log back in is something that's happened to most people at one time or another. Yet no matter how many times it happens, it's easy, if you're like me at least, even if you are quite a competent computer user, to forget the most likely cause of the problem and jump straight to the usually incorrect conclusion that there's a problem with the site.

For large sites such as gmail / google and ebay this will almost never be the case and when it is they will usually notify you that there's a problem on screen.

If a site you remain logged into suddenly bumps you out, requests you to log back in again and then refuses your login the causes can vary but the fix is almost definitely to:

1. Clear your browser cache
2. Clear all cookies related to the site in question

In Firefox 3.6.17 on Mac OS X I would do this as follows:

1. Clear your browser cache:
   
   1. Go to: Tools / Clear Recent History...
   2. Leave "Time range to clear" set to "Everything"
   3. Ensure only "Cache" is selected in the checkbox list
   4. Click "Clear Now"
2. Clear all cookies related to the site in question:
   
   1. Go to: Firefox / Preferences...
   2. Click "Privacy tab"
   3. Click "remove individual cookies link"
   4. Type "<site_name>" into search box ( replacing "<site_name>" with the site you are having a problem with ). NOTE: Ensure you do this in a manner that will find all cookies related to the site. For example if the problem site is "www.ebay.com.au" type "ebay" into the search box.
   5. Select all search results
   6. Click "Remove all cookies"

9 times out of 10 your login problem will now be solved and you won't have altered your browsing experience for any other sites you visit by removing their cookies.

rare hip hop / r & b / funk / house vinyl records for sale

I'm currently selling selected records from my collection. You can check out my current listing here and follow my ebay account or check back here for future items. If you have any requests, leave a note here. I may have it.

sometimes good things do come to those who wait - rear parcel shelf

After persistent searching on ebay and calling and visiting various wreckers i've finally found the long saught after rear parcel shelf for my new Toyota Starlet. I've also found a great wreckers - good quality stuff at reasonable prices. I picked this parcel shelf up today for $70. It was in good nick, no speaker holes etc, and after a high pressure clean for the underside and carpet clean for the top it's like new. hoorah!

This is my new favourite part of the car! It just never felt right to drive without that parcel shelf there in place!