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The smartphone killed so much tech creativity
Lately I have been into vintage Sony devices. Just looking through the vast number of Walkman, digital cameras, Clie and Vaio product lines that Sony used to produce, made me realize how much creativity and variety has been lost thanks to the smartphone. Devices, high quality ones, like cameras, camcorders, portable audio devices, radios, disc…
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How to factory reset Sony Internet TV?
If you have an old Sony Internet TV, one of the very first collaborations between a TV manufacturer and Google, and you want to factory reset it – follow the steps below. I decided to resent mine, because the apps on it stopped working long time ago and it stopped syncing with my Google account…
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So long Surface 3 … for now
My Surface 3 LTE tablet stopped working. In particular – the storage chip appears to have failed. It will be hard to fix this problem.
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Troubleshoot Surface pen tip and button not working, but Bluetooth and eraser work.
One of my Microsoft Surface pens (model 1710) started to exabit a strange behavior recently. It would connect fine to my Surface Book, and both the eraser and eraser button would work as intended, but both the tip and the side button would not provide any interactions. After doing some research, I was able to…
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New batteries for my laptops
This week I had to replace the batteries in two of my laptops. My MacBook battery was 8 years old, and my Surface Book battery was 7 years old. Both of them were swollen, especially the MacBook one. I bought the batteries from iFixit. Removing the MacBook battery was not too much trouble, because the…
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How to fix Microsoft Surface 3 pen?
If you have Microsoft Surface pen for Surface 3 / Pro 3 and it stops work, there are several reasons this might be happening. Here I am going to talk about the batteries. That is right, plural – batteries. This particular pen has three batteries in it – one AAAA battery, and two 319 button…
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What is Aperture
I have been hearing the term aperture for years now. I knew it was something to do with a camera’s lens and in particular its iris. But that is as far as my knowledge on the subject extended. With the daily use of a smartphones’ camera, which has a fixed aperture, I was not interested in finding…
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Apple, AirPort Network Devices, and WiFi Mesh Networking
Wi-Fi mesh routers are the “new” hottest set of tech gadgets to have. Wi-Fi mesh networks allow for multiple access point in the same structure, e.g. your house, to provide proper Wi-Fi network coverage, eliminating low signal or dead zones. What really captured my attention was the Google Wi-Fi mesh routers. They are beautiful and…
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SNOOZ: Sound. Sleep.
I was on the Snooz Kickstarter page today, revisiting the project’s details and timeline progress. The device, which is a white noise generating machine, recently became available for pre-order. Snooz is meant to be an alternative to having a TV or a stationary fan running at bedtime. In my case, I bought it for my wife so we can…
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iOS 9.0 Mail fix for Google Mail
Using iOS 9.0.1 and the native Mail app, downloading mail from Google mail stops working after about a week. The message the system displays is that it is not able to connect to imap.google.com server, and to check the password. Turning off and then on mail for the account does not resolve the problem. Neither…