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Nitro Circus Live – Belfast, Windsor Park – 10th June 2016

October 21, 2017June 13, 2016 by TomBoyNI

UPDATE : Just for the info of the readers Nitro Circus filed a copyright infringement against me for this video, with YouTube… Way to go Nitro Circus. I’m pretty sure an copyright infringement can’t be set on a sporting event in an open air stadium, but you know what, the little guy has no chance in taking on someone like you. So well done, you horrid, money motivated, soul-less corporation. It just goes to show everyone eventually forgets their roots. I’m disgusted, and no longer a fan. I am not childish enough to remove this posting or the video, enjoy the couple of cents you will make from it, but instead I will leave this here so you and everyone else can see how you like to dump on your own patrons. Oh and I can be an ass too.

The stunt where they call ‘members of the crowd’ out for the stunt involving the 3 people doing the backflip on the motorcycle – is fake. They are members of the Nitro Circus Team. All fake. Good night.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Z0EK5D9M8]

A brief history of the show from television to Live Shows and 3D movies can be found on Wikipedia at : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro_Circus

Nitro Circus is an “action sport collective” led by Travis Pastrana, featuring his friends and him traveling around the world riding dirtbikes, base jumping, and performing stunts. It has spawned a tour, a second television series based on the tour, and a 3D feature film.

The collective began by releasing about 10 DVDs during the early 2000s. Good sales led to the creation of the television show.

Originally run as a 2006 miniseries on Fuel TV, it began running as an episodic reality television show on MTV that featured people performing various dangerous stunts. Nitro Circus officially debuted on February 8, 2009; Season 2 premiered on August 27, 2009.

Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D was released August 8, 2012 in the United States and November 15, 2012 in Australia and New Zealand for one week.^[1] Release dates for other countries are to be announced.^[2][3]

Jim DeChamp suffered a serious back injury on June 29, 2011, while shooting for the 3D film. After undergoing surgery, his doctors indicated there was no spinal damage and that they expect him to make a full recovery.^[4]

Damien Starkey and Paul Phillips both ex-Puddle of Mudd members scored the movie and provided the majority of the music. This was done through Starkey’s company Give 2 Get Music.

Nitro Circus Live is a reality television show. It follows Travis Pastrana and the Nitro Circus crew as they perform live all around the world

Nitro Circus visited Belfast for the first time ever on Friday 10th June 2016.

Motorcycle Live 2015 – Gallery

June 8, 2016 by TomBoyNI

With the imminent release of ticket sales for Motorcycle Live 2016 at the NEC Birmingham I thought I would upload my Gallery from 2015.

MCL 2016 will run from Saturday 19 November 2016 – Sunday 27 November 2016 at the NEC, Birmingham so get those dates in your diary now, and if you are travelling by air, get the tickets booked sooner rather than later to make use of the cheapest fares!

MCL is a show that I make an annual trip to from Northern Ireland, personally I think it is a great show with loads to see and do, which is hopefully reflected in the photos. In 2015 there was a demo from ArenaCross, which was outstanding given the space these guys were working with, enough that I came straight out of the show and booked tickets for the Belfast show.

Enjoy the Gallery…

Trouble Installing Kodi on the Amazon Fire Stick?

June 3, 2016 by TomBoyNI

If you are one of the many peolple experiencing issues installing Kodi on the Fire Stick at the moment when using ES File Explorer, I am here to sort your woes out straight away, and quickly.

(This seems to be happening when people are upgrading their Kodi to the new 16.1 – it is nothing to do with the upgrade so don’t be worrying about that, it is just how ES File Explorer or Amazon (more likely) are now dealing with the requests to download via their software).

I am presuming that you have got as far as the Kodi Download page, but when you are clicking on the ARM link nothing is happening, right?

So here’s what you do to get going back on your merry way…

Click on the link once, it doesn’t matter if you click more than once, all you will notice is a spinning arrow in the top right corner of the screen for a spilt second.
Now move your cursor down to the bottom right of the screen where you will see three vertical dots. Select them and click.
Trouble Clicking ARM Link for Downloading Kodi to Amazon Fire Stick – The Solution
Now you will have an option to ‘Open’ or something very similar.
Click that and continue on installing Kodi!
Sit back, watch and enjoy!

Be Absolutely Certain Mark Zuckerberg is NOT giving Away Millions to Facebook Users…

December 9, 2015 by TomBoyNI

You may have seen a post similar to this floating about Facebook today…

THANK YOU, MARK ZUCKERBERG, for your forward-thinking generosity! And congrats on becoming a dad!

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he is giving away $45 billion of Facebook stock. What you may not have heard is that he plans to give 10% of it away to people like YOU and ME! All you have to do is copy and paste this message into a post IMMEDIATELY. At midnight PST, Facebook will search through the day’s posts and award 1000 people with $4.5 million EACH as a way of saying thank you for making Facebook such a powerful vehicle for connection and philanthropy. ?

It is an absolute load of rubbish, a hoax, untrue, lies. Whatever you want to call it, $4.5 Million will not be given away at midnight. Not a single cent will.

Don’t feed the trolls and don’t share such nonsense on your Wall News Feed.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/12/08/facebook-hoax-alert-no-mark-zuckerberg-is-not-giving-4-5m-to-people-like-you-and-me/
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/hoax-alert-no-zuckerberg-isnt-giving-millions-facebook-users-n476551
In fact pretty much all news sources online are covering this in case you need any further proof.

Happy Back to the Future Day – 21st October 2015!

October 21, 2015 by TomBoyNI

What a momentous day to be alive. 21st October 2015. The day Marty McFly, Doc and Jennifer visited in Back to the Future 2.

The precise time being 4:29pm. PT.

Anyway, it’s here. Although commerially viable hover-boards and self tying shoes aren’t!

Happy #backtothefutureday

#delorean #belfast

It’s also a great time to be from Nortern Ireland after all the most famous time machine in the world was built in #Belfast

Have a great #BackToTheFutureDay and here is just a couple of interesting links to browse. If you live in the US and want to get me a bottle of Pepsi Perfect it would be massively appreciated. Of course I will reimburse you.

Pepsi releasing 6500 bottles of Pepsi Perfect

Happy Back to the Future Day - 21 October 2015 - Pepsi Perfect — Happy Back to the Future Day – 21 October 2015 – Pepsi Perfect

Ford actually offering a Flux Capacitor Addon for Fiesta Focus models order this week!

Happy Back to the Future Day - 21 October 2015 - Flux Capacitor — Happy Back to the Future Day – 21 October 2015 – Flux Capacitor

Lyft offering some lucky New Yorkers a ride in a DeLorean

Happy Back to the Future Day - 21 October 2015 - DeLorean — Happy Back to the Future Day – 21 October 2015 – DeLorean

2015 Airwaves Portrush : NI International Air Show – Gallery

September 13, 2015 by TomBoyNI

2015 marks the second year of Air Waves, the rebranded Northern Ireland International Air Show. 2014 was an excellent year for this show with quality aircraft and outstanding displays so this year has a lot to live up to. With in my opinion even more pressure on its shoulders because of a rather disappointing airshow earlier this year in Newcastle, Co. Down.

So Airwaves 2015 can you do it?

Yes you can. Everything was in favour of the airshow this year most importantly the weather, over the weekend we experienced a little wind on the Saturday but it settled itself, Sunday started off a little wet and grey but as you will see from the gallery as the day went on, the weather also started to thankfully behave itself!

Casio G-Shock Bluetooth GBA400-1AER UnBoxing

June 10, 2015 by TomBoyNI

With Smart Watches taking over the world, is there a place for a non smart watch?

Absolutely! Of course there is, many people have no interest in a Smart Watch, many people would rather speed £500 on a wrist watch over a smart watch. Others need the functions of a standard watch more than a Smart Watch. Me, for example I wear G-Shocks, for their rugged strength, and I like how they look. I can wear it to work and not even slightly worry about it, same goes for being out on the bike, no weather will phase it, nor me, and if pulling a long a long weekend, or a full day I don’t need to worry about my watch’s battery. I don’t need to worry about damaging it, because let’s be honest if the watch breaks, there’s a good chance my arm is broken with it!

However when browsing I noticed the G-Shock ‘Smart’ Watch at a bargain price of £90 GBP, when the RRP is £180, that was easily enough to tempt me, so it was ordered and arrived the next day.

Basically it is a G-Shock with everything you expect in the rugged strength and chunky looks, with the added bonus of Bluetooth 4.0. There is an app for iOS (and Android) which pairs to the watch, which when you activate and from there the app can control the time settings and the music on your smart device, whether that be song selection or volume.

So its smart settings are basic, time setting and music control. that’s all there will ever be, but that’s fine, not too many people will need or want more from a G-Shock, but it is a nice feature set, it adds to the G-Shock experience, and at a reasonable price it is a bargain.

The battery is touted as lasting for 2 years when using the Bluetooth Features for 2 hours a day, obviously the more or less you use the more or less the battery will be affected. Also it doesn’t remain parked indefinitely. In an attempt to preserve battery the BT connection will disconnect after 2 hours of non use. Some people like this, others hate it, for me I am reasonably indifferent, pairing the watch and a phone back up is very easy and quick, so it doesn’t bother me at all.

All I would say in summary is that this is a G-Shock with a Smart features, it isn’t a smart watch. Don’t expect text, email notifications, for some reason Casio have dropped this feature which they do have on other watches, this is a watch to control your music, if that is something you would benefit from then this is definitely the G-Shock for you. If not the RRP of £180 opens up a massive range of other G-Shock watches for you so have a good browse around. Oh and at £90 this is an absolute bargain!

G-Shock GBA400-1AER Bluetooth 4.0 UnBoxing Gallery :

PlayStation Mobile Store Set to Close July 2015 :

March 20, 2015 by TomBoyNI

PlayStation Mobile is/was a store for the PS Vita certain Android smartphones, which enabled the purchase and download of indie games and some PlayStation classics. Unfortunately in July 2015, Sony will completely close this service down. Playstation Mobile came to being in October 2012.

Sony has stated that as of September 10th, previously purchased games won’t be able to be downloaded again.

You will however still be able to play games you have downloaded as long as you activate your device. Details on how to Activate can be found on the Sony Website here : PlayStation website.

It’s believed that the shutdown is due to a poor adoption rate, and comes as no real shock as Sony dropped support for Android phones running 4.4.3 or newer in 2014.

The good news is Remote Play will be unaffected and PS Vita owners will still be able to mirror PS4 games when connected to the same network.

Looking further into this is seems this only affects the Playstation Mobile Stores – the store focused on Indie Games and PS Classics, so hopefully the full PS Store will continue to support new PS Vita games and the downloading of them! Hopefully?!?

2015 Adelaide Motorcycle Festival – Belfast

February 6, 2015 by TomBoyNI

It has been a year or two (2013 actually) since I have went near this show, but I ventured back today for a look with huge hopes that it had improved since my last visit.

Thankfully it has. I will address the 2 bad points firstly that I came away with today – firstly £12 entrance fee is just crazy. That is only slightly cheaper that the NEC’s Motorcycle Live which was simply outstanding. This show is more like a gathering of dealers, with a range of their bikes that they want to sell you. Nothing new, nothing revealed, just a load of nice and shiny bikes all in one place to tempt you out of a few hundred quid for the next 36 – 48 months, therefore I think it is a bit cheeky to be expected to pay such a high entrance fee to essentially enter a huge multi-manufacturer’s show room.

Secondly, on your way in you will pass by the ‘Jumble.’ Make sure you go in because there is simply some stunning vintage bikes and cars in here and a few interesting vendors. However Bad point 2 is also in here. Some of the vendors are just selling junk, and they genuinely don’t seem bothered.

My eye was taken by two quaint little signs, neither of which held any real world value, I just thought they would look rather cool in my garage. Heres’ how the conversation went….

Sony / Game / Playstation Make a Right Balls Up of UK PS4 20th Anniversary ‘Competition’

December 24, 2014 by TomBoyNI

If you follow my twitter feed or Sony / Playstation or Game UK you will no doubt have seen the fury spread across the internet of foul play, cheating, link sharing and as Sony as so very prone too, hacking! #4thePlayers #notfortheplayers #forthecheats

On 15-19 December 2014 Playstation UK and Game UK ran a competition that meant the first 100 correct entries to this competition got a opportunity to purchase – at full price (£399) – a 20th Anniversary Edition of the console. One of only 13,500 globally, so a very rare item indeed. Well at least that was their plan until link sharing, web site crashing, cheating and hacking took over and left the genuine gamer with no chance whatsoever of bagging one of these much sought after machines.

Allegations flew but facts remain, users (cheaters) ended up with multiple consoles…

User Cheats to Win Multiple PS4 20th Anniversary Editions

You will see from the screen grabs above that this user even claims to be a genuine gamer, but is so very kindly prepared to accepted £3000 for a console (but yet they mean so much to him and he is so blessed) yet towards the end of his posting he is getting rather abusive and showing his true colours!

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