My iPhone 6 plus was going slow, so I got a battery from ebay and followed the ifixit iPhone battery replacement tutorial – my phone is now much faster (it feels like a new phone again) starting – all my tools ready screen open screen detatched battery removed new battery Read more…
My brother got me a BBC micro:bit for my birthday. I decided to have a play around with it to see what it can do – its a pretty good ecosystem – you can edit code in python, load it to the device using bluetooth from your mobile and its Read more…
How to replace macbook air battery. I have a macbook air, its a 2012 13″ – the battery was awesome in the beginning, but after 4 years it was time to replace the battery. I ordered a flueron replacement from amazon prime and it arrived next day. On opening the Read more…
West Highland Way Day 2 – Drymen to Rowardennan (almost). Today we got up early, packed the tent and walked along the West Highland Way into drymen. We got breakfast (croissants with cheese and ham) and coffee in a wee shop, then headed off on our walk. Through a forrest Read more…
So, I watched wwdc on my apple tv. here are my first impressions: osx Maverick. adds a few things that are needed. tabs on finder. cant wait. the multi monitor thing is a good improvement on the current support in mountain lion. there are lots of improvements to ical. and Read more…
How to disable sleepsafe hibernate mode on your mac. Your mac has a few cool features to let it wake form hibernation quickly. one is called sleepsafe. sleepsafe works by creating a file in your harddrive that contains all of the contents of your ram inside it so that it Read more…
I upgraded from lion to mountain lion on my Macbook air 2012. This is how I fixed my mountain lion battery issues on a 2012 macbook air. As soon as I installed mountain lion I instantly noticed that the battery life was terrible. Instead of 8-9 hours I was getting Read more…
I have an iphone 4s. the battery life is awful. I have found a way (that works for me) to increase the battery life by at least double. it has to do with location services. go to settings > location services > system turn them all off. this will prevent Read more…
I dont usually write posts about this kind of thing, but ive had all my maltops stolen, so im in the market for some new gadgets. id like the rumours of the new macbook air / pro to be true. id like a 13″ macbook air with a retina screen Read more…
This is a cool program, it will allow you to change the device that your macbook pro uses for display on the fly. it comes in handy if, for example, you want to have your dedicated graphics card when you are plugged in for better graphics processing, but want to Read more…
Show iphone battery percentage: This will show you how to show the battery charge as a percentage on an iphone 3gs or newer and an ipad Goto settings > general > usage Enable ‘show battery percentage’ done =)
Well, everyone is talking about the ipad. noone has yet said that its crap. I dont want a big ipod touch, running iphone os. I want a macbook pro that is only its screen, with multi touch, running snow leopard. sure, a 1ghz cpu is fast for a phone, but Read more…
So, by the time you are reading this songbird 1.0 will have been released. http://getsongbird.com Its actually the 27th November just now, and I have received an email from Ethan Bauman at songbirdsnest.com telling me that they are going to release the 1.0 build and asking me if I would Read more…