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Started using scivation xtend almost a year ago, noticed I could work out harder for longer, and also noticed a boost in recovery. I sip it on the way to the gym and during the workout. Id recommend it and am convinced about BCAAs, and would be keen to try out humapro.

Mine used to do it really bad. Ford said they couldn't see anything wrong with it so I got the sh*ts and had a look myself one weekend. Fixed it in 10 seconds with a shifter by taking a bit of slack out of the handbrake cable. My fix is HERE with a pic. One year on now and the noise is still permanantly gone!!

Just one fault doesn't make it a lemon. My ute used to do the exact same thing. Ford said there was nothing wrong with it so I got underneath and had a look around and managed to fix it myself in 3 minutes. There's a thread here somewhere about the dreaded rattle and I think I had put pics up of my fix. The rattle/vibration is permanently gone now.

Actually I think that's for ringtones not for message tones like sms etc. Give it a bash anyway, it might work if you have an iPhone 4. I believe the only way to put custom text message tones on previous models was to jailbreak it.

Haha, I just got that email of the dog... it's probably the only planking pic that made me laugh.

A guy at work sussed this out for his wife's iphone. You need to convert the MP3 to an ACC file in itunes, which should give it the file extension .M4A then you rename the file extension to .M4R in windows then you should be able to upload it back to your iphone and use it as a ringtone. Something like that anyway, don't remember the full steps. Google should fill in the blanks

The way I see it, if you want a phone that is simple to use and "just works" the the iPhone is for you. If you want something that does more than "just works", that you can customize and make it work the way you want it to (eg do something as simple as put your own custom message tone on it, not just the half dozen that Apple picked out for you) then look at Android. I guess this is mainly the case if you want to keep the phone stock and not jailbreak it. That's not meant to sound like an iPhone bagging, I think they're great at what they do. I've played with other iphones and iopd touches and they're pretty nifty to use, but I'd never give up my Android phone for one. I think iTunes appstore is better than the Android Market, plus you can buy stuff with paypal on it, whereas the market is only googles crappy checkout thing which I've never bothered with. Personally I only really care about free apps as I'm a tigharse so no biggie for me. I like the free turn by turn voice navigation with Android too as it saved me buying a TomTom etc, not sure if iPhones have that? Another good thing about HTC for example (and most other brands other than apple) is you're not stuck with a proprietry connection for charging and data transfer!! You don't need to have the special iphone cable or special chargers that are excessively priced. Battery life is much of a muchness, on the android you can do a lot of stuff to manage battery usage. You can turn 3G data on and off easily which is handy if roaming, while with iPhones I am under the impression this is not so easy? Anyway, go to the shop and play with both types, or 3 types if you are open to Windows Mobile 7 which from the bit I played with seems very quick and smooth.

"When they swapped to the Late model camira V8 Supercar, Lowndes was six seconds faster than Button: 2min 11sec versus 2min 17sec."

Go to www.video2mp3.net paste the YouTube link and press the button. As dags said don't expect earth shattering quality but it's better than nothing.

It's not so much the fact that NBN Co is legally exempt from FOI by default, it's more that Gillard was pushing to keep it that way. It's an incorporated that was set up solely to fullfil a Government policy (probably the most expensive ever), therefore should rightly be subject to scrutiny.

My mate got us whiskey glasses engraved with "Best Man" or "Groosman" and our names and the wedding etc, they were nice... a bit of single malt to go with it would've been good hehe

I love how NBN Co is going to be exempt from freedom of information laws. What a load of sh*te. Sure the NBN will have its positives, but I reckon it's still overkill bringing fibre to the home. I always thought it would be cool having a T1 connection directly to my PC (probably to facilitate the faster viewing of nudity), but surely it would be enough having fibre to the node and then copper from there. It was one thing with Julia's leadership when the flooding was just affecting QLD, but now the flooding is becoming a more national issue so is Julia's (lack of) leadership. "There's a lawwwt of waarter aroouuund isn't theeere.... I better kiss a bayyby or somethiiiing..."

The current level of Wivenhoe as of 9am today is 2,049,705ML and rising, up from 1,728,590ML same time yesterday ... pretty scary when the absolute full capacity including flood mitigation is around 2,600,000 ML And the rain just keeps dumping its guts along the same path from the Sunny Coast all the way southwest to Inglewood/Texas.

Haha insane. I think the whole internet is reading the thread now

About farking time some of these numbnuts saw the light...

Oh yeah, no static IP. If you set up the dyndns account you'll also need an update utility to keep the host name up to date with your current IP address. I don't think you'd need port forwarding if it's just a laptop with a 3G modem, should just need to open the ports in your firewall. This all probably sounds more complicated than it really is though. So if you are going to always connect one way from your laptop to the other laptop and you don't normally have anyone at the other laptop to help you connect at the time, the easiest way I'd go about it is: 1. install a VNC host/server on the other laptop and set it up with the password of your choice. 2. install a VNC viewer/client on your laptop. 3. register an account at dyndns. 4. install an update utility on the other laptop (can download one from the dyndns website) and set it up with the hostname you registered on that site. 5. make sure that VNC port 5900 is open on the other laptop's firewall. If you just have windows firewall then it's easy to just add an exception and add TCP port 5900 to that list. 6. on your laptop when it asks for IP address or hostname, use the hostname you created and it will look something like rusty's example. 7. voila! I'd probably recommend using a different port to 5900 as that is probably going to get hammered by nasty people looking for ways in, but that just requires a few little changes.

I'd forget PCAnywhere and use UltraVNC instead as it's totally free, and the host is a lot more stable. We do most of our remote support for customers using either of the 2, usually on dial-up modems. PCAnyhere username and password are whatever you want them to be.

"3G Watchdog" is great for monitoring 3G data usage, and "Handcent" for SMS management including SMS reminders etc. Just downloaded Google Goggles, that's awesome!

To be fair, the Coalition hadn't exactly done farmers any big favours when they were in either. Their big free trade agreement with the US led to elimination of many import tariffs which disadvantaged aussie farmers as the sepo farmers are subsidised to the ball bag. This also led to Biosecurity Australia being encouraged to water down quarantine restrictions on importing of fruit and veges. Goldie would probably know already living in Stanthorpe, but just look at fire blight in apples for example, the pressure to allow them to be imported by the US, NZ, China and our ever so farmer-friendly chain stores will mean our tough restrictions will soon be eased and we'll soon be importing apples from coutries where fire blight is prevalent, risking it coming here and if it does it will wipe out the industry altogether. All a result of typical government f*cktards who care more about the almighty dollar than its own people. Now that I think about it, I'm actually excited that Ronald McDonald got back the Prime Ministership. Now I can look forward to broadband internet so fast that I'll be able to perform open heart surgery in my own lounge room while watching how it's done live in a hospital in Bumf*ck Idaho despite the connection costing a sh*tload more than my current ADSL2+, I'll get to see the Government paid for all the resources that "every Australian owns" that all the mining companies which my super is invested in are digging up and currently making my retirement fund with, and I'll be so lucky enough to pay more for pretty much everything from electricity to McMighty McAngus burgers to frozen cokes at the movies through the climate change taxes so that the weather all over the world will instantly go back on command to the way it was before Al Gore decided to make a crapload of money out of some mockumentary. It's a brave new world, and I'm so glad my fellow Australians had more foresight than I did to vote these cheesedicks back in.

Ahhh nothing like jumping back in the uterus after spending a week driving an SV6 hire car to put a smile on the dial.

Well said xr_velocity! That pretty much sums up my sentiments. As for Work Choices, WTF was the problem with it exactly anyway? Other than it made the Unions a bit scared? In my industry there's no Unions to be a member, not that I can see a way that they'd help me out anyway and Work Choices would have made my life better, but nooooooo... the union hacks had to make a big scare campaign over it cos they'd be losing power. What the Union loving State Labor governement is doing to the QLD Police pay at the moment is worse than anyone would have felt with Work Choices anyway.

FNQers have it made for winter. Was up in Cairns for a week and the minimum never went below 18. Following weekend down at Stanthorpe and was waking up to -3 and a frost, with my cajones shrivelling up like raisins. And to think we used to go to school in shorts in that weather cos no one wanted to wear the gay grey pants.

I think the Ginger Ninja will end up too much like Anna the Spanner, so would prefer to not give her the chance. Would be no real change to the Rudd Government as it's still the same Labor party with the same people and she was behind half the failed crap for the last 3 years anyway. On another note, I bought a GPS the other day that has Julia Gillard's voice doing the navigation. Trouble is it keeps telling me to "move forward...... keep moving forward..... in 300 metres, move forward" and I never actually get anywhere. If anything, I could swear it's veering a little to the right.

Decided to put the ute up on the "hoist" at dad's place and have a look at the rattle over the weekend. From what we could tell, looks like there's just enough movement in the plastic grommet things that hold the 2 cables on the bracket for them to rattle when the handbrake isn't pulled. Pull the handbrake and it tightens against the bracket and noise goes away. I've noticed the noise is mainly when it's warm, idling in D. Guess that once it's warm it idles a little lower, and when it's labouring in D a bit the exhaust is vibrating/resonating at the ideal frequency. As the 2 handbrake cables are clipped onto the centre muffler hanger back further, they shake too and the little plastic grommet things on the sleeve rattle in the bracket. Tightened up the nut a turn on the main cable, just to take a tiny bit of the slack out of those other 2 cables to see how it went, and so far it seems the noise has disappeared (touch wood). Not sure if it's the full cause and solution, but so far looks good. In the pic you can see there's a little bit of a gap in that white sleeve/collar/spacer bit where it mounts on the bracket (especially on the bottom cable) and since it's hard plastic it doesn't absorb the vibration well.

Got this pic emailed to me. Was apparently taken last week on Old Northern Road at Albany Creek. It has about 2 tonnes of concrete blend and 200kg bags of cement in the back. I guess you could say the ute is good for Expensive Daewoo stuff, but not much good for movin' stuff.... (that's gotta be good for "Dad Joke of the Year" right?)