Laptop won’t boot? Maybe you should try drilling some holes & cook it in the oven

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Worked for Stirling Hirsh (kinda).

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http://ifixit.org/blog/6882/why-i-drilled-holes-in-my-macbook-pro-and-put-it-in-the-oven/ / Apple iMac computer laptop MacBook Pro reflowed solder logic board drilled 60 holes bottom case heat issues my model of MacBook Pro run runs running too hot programmer tech iFixit game gamer electronic music laptop hovered between 80ºC 90º C simple fixes blow blew out inside of my laptop compressed air laptop stand lap top lap enabled smcFanControl program run fans max speed 6200 rpm still ran hot died screen suddenly went black powered it off and on again power light lit boot chime glitchy logic board temperatures board flex knocking solder loose ball grid arrays reflow reflowed professional reflow outfit reapplied re-applied thermal paste boot booted reboot died again disassembled scrape thermal pads Thunderbolt controller system hub heat spreader chip oven treatment heat gun infrared thermometer aluminum foil drill 1/16” bit drilled holes under fans blades dust pattern increased airflow /

Macro photos of snowflakes show impossibly perfect designs

Credit: Alexey Kljatov/TreeHugger/Flickr

“No two snowflakes are identical." – not among these:

http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/macro-photos-snowflakes-show-impossibly-perfect-designs.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/chaoticmind75/with/10823897423/ / true wonders of the world snow flake snowflakes tiny designs ice unique detailed spectacular Alexey Kljatov photographer photograph photography special talent capture capturing beautiful ice creations snowflake photos photographs Flickr capture snowflakes open balcony glass surface lit lighting lighted LED flashlight opposite side of glass sometimes natural light dark woolen fabrics background impressive work crystal growth freeze freezing frozen temperature melt cold freezing /

Free media for your new mobile device

Did you receive a new mobile device, such as an ereader, tablet or smartphone, during the recent festivities? Alternatively, if you are still using whatever device you had before, you may none-the-less find the articles linked below useful to provide you with sources of free ebooks, movies, audio books & other media:

http://www.openculture.com/2014/12/fill-your-new-kindle-ipad-iphone-ereader-with-free-ebooks-movies-audio-books-online-courses-more.html

http://gizmodo.com/thousands-of-free-ebooks-movies-and-more-for-your-kin-1675277847

http://bgr.com/2014/12/26/free-movies-for-iphone-ipad-android/ / fill new Kindle iPad iPhone ereader ebook movie film video audio books online courses Kindle Fire read great works collection classic writersDickens Dostoevsky Shakespeare Tolstoy contemporary writers F. Scott Fitzgerald Philip K. Dick Isaac Asimov Kurt Vonnegut collection 51 volume Harvard Classics iPad iPhone iOS Android Apple Google Gutenberg Project Kindle Nook users click Other Formats links link download ebook files watch watching instructional videos listening listen greatest books ever written free audio books texts Arthur Conan Doyle James Joyce Jane Austen Edgar Allan Poe George Orwell contemporary more recent writers Italo Calvino Vladimir Nabokov Raymond Carver download classic books gadgets Audible.com free online courses leading universities Stanford Yale MIT UC Berkeley Oxford University of California textbooks audio books /

Which is the fastest Android browser?

What is most important to you in a browser? High on everyone’s list is speed. MakeUseOF benchmarks some of the most popular:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fastest-android-browser/

Joy of Andorid:
http://joyofandroid.com/fastest-browsers-for-android/

It would be interesting to see Dolphin benchmarked with Jetpack enabled.

Phone Arena looks at other performance criteria too:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/The-best-Android-browsers-2014-edition-design-features-and-performance_id58350 / Firefox mobile 29 Gecko 29 performed perform perfroming noticeably slower slow slowest fast faster fastest WebKit-based WebKit based browsers browser Gecko rendering engine Android quite slow first introduced improved falls behind other Android browsers performance Mobile Opera Next 21 Webkit 537 result margin of error based some differences under the hood affect performance Google Chrome 30 Webkit 537 not representative run ran test Dolphin Jetpack disabled enabled browser benchmark failed encountered same problem each time Jetpack should help Dolphin perform faster Dolphin its own rendering engine built into Android faster in real use performed in this test slow performance version number Dolphin performed similarly modern WebKit engine Google Chrome fastest browser tested stock Android browser last upgrade interface features work faster desktop work workflow work flow same bookmarks open tabs extensions /

Apple to return to 4 inch screen?

Credit: Macworld

Much discussion has been generated over the base-line-trend towards larger screen sizes in smartphones. At 5.3 inches, the original Samsung Galaxy Note, & more recently, the new, bigger iPhones have generated a furore.

If you find the new iPhones too big, you may just be in luck. Predictions of a new, 4 inch iPhone are all over the ‘Net:

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/21559/20141205/apple-iphone-mini-4-inch-display-set-replace-5c-rumor.htm

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/23019/20141225/iphone-6s-mini-launch-rumored-apple-following-samsungs-steps.htm

http://www.macworld.com/article/2863067/if-the-iphone-6-is-too-big-for-you-just-wait-an-iphone-mini-may-be-coming-in-2015.html / Apple finally caved in gave customers bigger screen launch iPhone 6 rumor mill buzzing backtrack re-introducing new phone return to a 4-inch display rumor originated Taiwanese site smart phone smart-phone smartphone target women find bigger phones too cumbersome little small petite hands announcement Electronic Times designed design easy use one hand sale second half of 2015 iPhone 6 6s 5 bigger screen size smaller screen rumor 5c retain budget market re-releasing smaller screens 4-inch displays cheaper iPhone 6c iPhone 6 mini redesign iPhone 5c launch new line of phones Apple Watch iOS screen size /

Hotels at it again – application to FCC to start jamming personal WiFi – update

You may remember a post in October of this year about the Marriot chain being fined $600,000 after its hotel in Nashville, Tennessee was found guilty of blocking guests' mobile WiFi. Apparently the purpose was to encourage use of the Marriot’s own WiFi at between $250 & $1,000.

Now a group of hoteliers, including Hilton & Marriott, are asking the US Federal Communications Commission to grant permission for them to recommence disruption of guests personal WiFi. Claims include that personal Wifi can, “cause degraded service, insidious cyber-attacks & identity theft."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/23/us_hotel_chains_and_tech_firms_square_off_with_fcc_over_wifi_hotspots/

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-wi-fi-problem-for-hotels-1419812931?mod=LS1 / hotel sells dedicated wireless services custom networks convention prices access point Gaylord Opryland hotel Nashville Tennessee block guests' personal hotspots Marriott Hotel Services $600,000 agreement penalty Federal Communications Commission settle allegations hotel chain interfered disabled Wi-Fi networks consumer consumers conference facilities Nashville hotel March 2013 nine-page jamming mobile hotspots convention space FCC employees containment features WiFi monitoring system prevent consumers connecting to the Internet personal WiFi networks personal portable Wi-Fi WiFi device data leakage violation advisories forbids blocking jamming interference authorized radio communications Jeff Flaherty Marriott spokesman hotel chains want permission disrupt guests guest personal Wi-Fi hotspots force people use expensive hotel wireless hoteliers including Hilton Marriott watchdog FCC cripple mobile hotspots devices interfere wireless networks on-site security risk Wi-Fi ncreasingly popular connecting Internet Commission rules network operators petition network operators manage networks secure reliable Wi-Fi service de-authentication packets /

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