Monday 22 February 2010

Renewing Car Tax in Cyprus

Unlike most things in Cyprus renewing you car tax is relatively straight forward when you know how.  Car tax expires at the end of December or June regardless of when you first taxed your vehicle.  First go to:-

https://www.jccsmart.com/index.aspx?ci=en-GB

Click on car tax, you may need to create an account.

Then enter you vehicle registration and the last 3 numbers of your vehicle registration number, this can be found on you vehicle registration document (all in Greek, on mine it was C.9 and was the last three numbers of my service number but might be your passport number).  Then enter your payment details and print out the tax disc.

Easy

Saturday 20 February 2010

IPod Touch Recovered after accidental hard reset

Today I stupidly did a hard reset on my IPod Touch, after just completing a half marathon.  I desperately wanted the run data in Nike + IPod to sync but my itunes wanted to restore my ipod (clearing all data).  Using the blackra1n jail breaking software I managed to re-jailbreak it and it restarted as if I had never accidentally done a hard reset, result!!

Monday 1 February 2010

Sony Vaio VGN-AW21XY Laptop Dies and Comes back to live

Yesterday my Sony  suddenly took a nose dive in to the laptop grave, I have only had about 10 months so was less than impressed.  The stupid thing just died, power failed and every time I tried to power it back up it would just power off again a few seconds later.  If I left it for an hour it would last a couple of minutes before powering off so I assumed it was something to do with the battery or charger.  Tried running it with no battery, same result, tried running it just on battery, same result.