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Title: James May's Man Lab
Post by: Sprintex on April 18, 2013, 08:39:00 PM
Anyone else watching this?

They just devised a remote mail-sorting contraption that deposited genuine and junk mail into two purpose built wagons (big scale, N gauge too small ;) ), then dropped the junk mail into a shredder to become pizza-oven kindling, whilst the proper mail continued via an automatic lifting section to eventually arrive at his desk on the first floor! :D

James did his own quite funny version of "The Night Mail" to go with it  ;D


Paul
Title: Re: James May's Man Lab
Post by: Newportnobby on April 18, 2013, 09:38:24 PM
Just watched it. Quite ingenious, really, providing the letter box is situated such that the system could be used :D
Title: Re: James May's Man Lab
Post by: keerout on April 23, 2013, 01:42:59 AM
bother! missed it! any repeats?
Gerard
Title: Re: James May's Man Lab
Post by: Sprintex on April 23, 2013, 04:18:36 AM
No repeats scheduled on the BBC site but it should be available on iPlayer for the next 10 days :thumbsup:


Paul
Title: Re: James May's Man Lab
Post by: keerout on April 23, 2013, 10:22:03 PM
alas, not in Amsterdam I'm afraid  :(
G.
Title: Re: James May's Man Lab
Post by: Sprintex on April 23, 2013, 10:35:01 PM
There was a discussion on here not so long back about ways to get around viewing iPlayer in other countries, something about a program that fools the iPlayer into thinking you're in the UK - can't remember where I saw it?  :hmmm:


Paul
Title: Re: James May's Man Lab
Post by: Caz on April 24, 2013, 10:35:39 AM
Quote from: Sprintex on April 23, 2013, 10:35:01 PM
There was a discussion on here not so long back about ways to get around viewing iPlayer in other countries, something about a program that fools the iPlayer into thinking you're in the UK - can't remember where I saw it?  :hmmm:

Paul

Can't find my original posting but here's the link, there are 2 versions of the program "Ex Pat Shield" for spoofing the UK and "Hotspot Shield" for US spoofing.  http://www.expatshield.com/ (http://www.expatshield.com/)

If you want to download iplayer stuff permanently to your PC then you need "getIplayer", do a google search as it's available for various platforms but here's a link to a Windows version, scroll down to the Download links. http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html (http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html)

Managed to find the original thread http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=9359.msg102653#msg102653 (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=9359.msg102653#msg102653)