Kitchen Sink

A phone's life In my hands

Brick – verb To strip a smartphone of all its useful features. To make it as useful as – I performed my first open case surgery on the iPhone to replace its failing battery last weekend. Pop quiz: Do you spend $15 to do it yourself or give $80+ to Apple, plus suffer through a week without your phone while it ships back and forth to God knows where? What do you do? WHAT DO YOU…
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Computer

The cash stampede

I didn’t even know it had a name. I’d never seen it before my Beth’s PowerBook started having problems last month. Apparently there is a screen of death on a Mac, the dread blue-screen equivalent: the GSOD, or grayed-out screen of death. I can’t blame you if you’ve never heard of it. It’s rarely seen in the wild, confined mostly to secret labs, under highly…
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Kitchen Sink

Software hopping

Why do I even need to blog from my phone? Isn’t it bad enough I spend a chunk of my PC time writting? Now I’ve got to encourage a repetitive motion injury in my thumbs typing on my phone? You should know that I don’t like to use the “PC” acronym here, which implies Windows, and all the evil associated with that label. Yes, I do. I did some blogging lite before, when I…
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