Hi. My name is Rick Bull, and I'm from Middlesex in England. I have two big interests: music and computers. This site contains some of my music, a few tutorials on various subjects, and some other drivel. I won't bore you with an essay about myself… that's available on the biography page!
I've recently removed a lot of the fluff from my site, and changed the design in favour of something more simplistic (thanks to Sasha Opeiko for providing some of the artwork), but there is still some interesting stuff lurking about on the site. To find it, please explore my site via the links at the top of the page.
Uploaded another new song, Slowly, It's a song that I've been writing since October 2007, but have never been completely happy with the music or words. Finally came up with something that I'm very happy with. The lyrics are about close friends of mine who have left to move abroad. More information will shortly follow on the music page.
Posted 2008-03-16T22:06:31Z, by Rick Bull.
Just uploaded a new song, Words, which has been finished for about a month, but I've been too lazy to upload it. They words in Words [sorry!] are about struggling to write lyrics. Anyway, you might like it, you might not. I hope it's the former!
Posted 2008-01-31T21:34:42Z, by Rick Bull.
I recently had a friend ask me for some help regarding iTunes and her iPod. She bought one of the latest video iPods, but found her old version of iTunes wouldn't work with it, as it required at least version 7.4. She tried to install the latest version (7.5), but the installer kept crashing.
At first I ran a ChkDsk, which found literally thousands of problems with the hard disc. But this didn't fix the problem (although it did help the system in general). Next I suspected the anti-virus and firewall, so disabled them but still to no avail. I even tried entering in safe mode to install the program.
Finally I decided to search the Internet for reports of similar problems. Someone reported that they were having a problem with 7.5 too, and that they could get 6.x to work. This made me think that it was a problem with 7.5, so I did a little more digging and it seems a few people have found the same thing.
I then found iTunes 7.4.3 in Apple's archives, and — hallelujah — it worked! So again, another tip for anyone having problems with iTunes 7.5: Use iTunes 7.4.3 instead! Hope this helps.
Posted 2007-12-30T15:05:24Z, by Rick Bull.