Broken Laptop Hinge – Not Any More!
I seem to be getting more and more experience with fixing Laptop and iPhone screens. My latest fix was my sisters Dell Inspiron 1525. The hinge had broken which stopped her from closing the hid, and in time it had also broken the screens front bezel. It was a simple fix but I didn’t think to take a pictures, so I can’t do a how to, but it was pretty simple and I just skimmed over a couple of repair the keyboard/ replace the screen type tutorials of that/similar models. It took less than an hour and the total cost was less than £20 with parts from eBay! So if you’re thinking about it, go for it, it’s a quick and simple job!
I did take a couple of pictures on my iPhone of the result however.
June
I don’t like to say I’ve not posted for a while but I haven’t really updated the site on my ongoings lately just my new gadgets and tech which actually reminds me I’ve not reviewed or posted about my new quite awesome laptop.
We’ve had some new tech at work too. I’ve had my hands on a HTC Desire this week, I’ve been quite impressed with Android and the HTC phone but its not something I’ve got used too but then I’ve not had my sim in and my iPhone as always been in reach. I could though see myself hopping over to Android in the future. Looking at the iPhone 4 details nothing really shouts awesome which is good as it won’t make my iPhone 3gs to obsolete. I can however see future Android phones having some quite epic features and being able to root it and unlock more sounds pretty cool add-ons like tethering for free just seals the deal!
Last week marked a slight milestone for me on placement last week as well, firstly I kicked off my report for University but also I started the hand over period with my replacement. Although its 3 months of hand over it marks the time where I start taking a step back and sharing my knowledge.
I’ve also started preparing for going back to Staffs. I’ve got my moving date in the bag which is quite soon so I’ll be commuting for the final part of placement but I’d also been brushing up on my programming skills as I’ve had a tip off with regards to next years assignments and reading up on IPV6 as its likly that’ll be the subject of my final year project. I’m getting quite excited really it’ll be great to get back to work and
TOSHIBA Drivers
Finding the right driver for my laptop network card has been a nightmare. The Toshiba website, when you finally get to the driver page was useless. I downloaded the driver for the right model and did it work? Nope… but I had success surprisingly to me that the recovery CD for the laptop, reinstalled windows as well as the network driver however it also installed Norton and which I quickly got rid of.
The moral of this post is: If the drivers you download of the Toshiba website don’t work, use your recovery CD!
