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A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards

Freezing it?"Popping it into a sealed plastic bag and freezing it for a few hours."Pardon my ignorance - what does this do to help?Except in this case, the problem is almostcertainly fried electronics because of the method in which the drive failed.Strange. Hu?I can't say how it works, but I...

Tags: logic board, hard drive, hard-disk recovery, Cooling

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Inside Apple's blue logic boards

Inside Apple's blue logic boardsIts called solder maskThe color of the PCB is determined by a thin layer of polymer that is put on the outer layers of the PCB keep solder bridges from forming between the exposed traces. The color has absolutely nothing to do with performance, they...

Tags: Corporate governance, board, logic board, blue logic board, circuit board, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-11-02

Inside Apple's blue logic boards

If you've opened a Mac to upgrade a hard drive or RAM recently you may have noticed that Apple is now using blue circuit board material as opposed to the more traditional green G10-FR4 epoxy circuit boards. G10-FR4 (FR4) is a fire rated electrical-grade, dielectric fiberglass laminate epoxy resin system...

Tags: board, logic board, FR4, G10-FR4

Blog posts 2006-11-02

New MacBook Pro logic board

Over at MacInTouch, reader Rickard Almqvist reports that Apple has updated the MacBook Pro logic board and that it "got rid of all whine."Last week I received a new revision of the logic board that actually got rid of all whine! According to my service provider that did the repair...

Tags: board, logic board

Blog posts 2006-07-06

MacBook Pro issues addressed with 'Rev. D' logic board

MacBook Pro issues addressed with 'Rev. D' logic boardSo much for those low power Intel chips.Hot keys and hot palm rest, hmmm. Guess Intel still makes the incandescent lightbulb chip.Beta-testers for new Apples are wanted. Entry fee is as little as 2K. NTNTWill not awake after sleep at timesI...

Tags: Notebooks, Network technology, entry fee, Apple MacBook Pro, Apple MacBook, logic board, serial number, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-04

Additional Resources

Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL?

ProbablyA microsoft programmer probably used code he found in the net(IE code-plex...) instead of developping his own code...At school the programmer would have failed his course, here MS will face, once aggain, the wrath of Stallman's little cultists.if true they should get penalize ntnt It was a CodePlex project?Well...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows 7, tool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., GPL

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

More Apple teardowns: Fall 2009 iMac & Magic Mouse

The crack engineers at iFixIt are at it again. Yesterday I posted their teardown of the new "unibody" (a.k.a. poly) MacBook which revealed a relocated Bluetooth antenna and a larger 60 watt-hour battery. Today's installment includes teardowns of the new Fall 2009 iMac and the mysterious Magic...

Tags: Mouse, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-10-22

A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards

I've noticed that over in the TalkBack section of Zack Whittaker's post on his hard drive going belly up that a few readers have suggested a possible fix involving swapping the logic board of the dead drive with one from a working drive. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Hard Drive, Recovery, Board, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-10-21

PegIt 1.2.1 (Windows)

PegIt is a unique and challenging level-based logic puzzle game. Originally inspired by the classic board game 'Peg Solitaire'. The object of the Peg Solitaire game is to remove all the Pegs by jumping one peg over another. In this game, the Pegs are replaced with little yellow-haired people known...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Paul Burkey, PegIt, Games, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-10-12

Life In The Vast Plane...

Why is it that laptops and the internet have been around for a generation and yet the infrastructure we live in still doesn't support them? I'm talking primarily about travel. A vast portion of the working population are regularly on the move, particularly flying, for face...

Tags: Professional Services, Jet, Laptop Computer, Economy Class, Corporate Governance, Internet, Wireless LANs, TVs, Aerospace & Defense, Tv & Home Theater, Notebooks, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Manufacturing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-08

PegIt 1.2.1 (Mac)

PegIt is a unique and challenging level-based logic puzzle game. Originally inspired by the classic board game 'Peg Solitaire'. The object of the Peg Solitaire game is to remove all the Pegs by jumping one peg over another. In this game, the Pegs are replaced with little yellow-haired people known...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Paul Burkey, PegIt, Games, Corporate Governance, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law

Software downloads 2009-10-08

FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless

Grats on being closed mindedWell done for putting someone down, your price point argument is fair but doesn't negate the number of possible uses of the surface device, which frankly are only limited by imagination, something that seems to be questionable for you.How do you define genuine uses? That sentence...

Tags: Tablets, FOWA 2009, Microsoft Surface, proof of concept, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Gone in 31 seconds - 31 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones and 9 iPods

HahaThat's not counting apple's new feature: exploding ipods! I guess these boys are in for a surprise very soon.Too bad for them that they stole iPhones. They may want to return them. :Dhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/companies/03att.html?_r=1&hp$29 and an hour fixes thatBuy Snow Leopard disc, erase the HDD and reinstall the OS. Who...

Tags: Smart phones, iPODS, Apple iPhone, charger, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Has Steve Jobs banned Apple staff from social media?

Nothing wrong with thatApple does rely on secrecy, especially in their R&D, to get more bang for their buck when the product is finally announced. I could see why Apple would want their employees not talking about their jobs in the social media. I can see why a lot of...

Tags: Blogging, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., blog, social media

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards

Never mindI was going to put something here, but I felt that I would simply be attacked for pointing out that Bush and Obama are more alike than they are dissimilar with regards to personal freedoms.It might just be possible...... that after Obama was sworn in he was shown classified...

Tags: Obama, Bush, new safeguard, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

Leaked iPod touch 3G photos?

Don't you love the run up to an Apple announcement? As Apple goes into quiet mode in advance of a an event (like the rumored music event on September 8) the rumor mill goes into high gear and pictures of new hardware begin to leak out. ...

Tags: Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Photograph, Digital Music, Digital Media, 3G, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Cellular Phones, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Apple's not-so-secret tablet: Flawed from the start

Apple's not-so-secret tablet: Flawed from the startMisconceived?I think your basic assumptions are wrong. The Tablet is likely to be a large format iPhone/iPod Touch rather than a small flat Mac.The two devices would be very different beasts!It might help if you knew something about what you were writing about.... Apple...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Apple Inc., not-so-secret tablet

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without content

The Apple tablet is a non-starter in Ed without contentEVDO Internet connectivity??EV-DO really?With that only it's a pretty restricted market...there are not many countries were it will work...Better GSM+EDGE+HSPA&HSPA+ /WCDMA (2G -> 2.5G -> 3G -> 3.5G etc. support).CDMA has no longer term future on this planet... RE: The Apple...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Cellular phones, Apple Tablet, tablet, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux drivers

Pigs are flying low: Why Microsoft open-sourced its Linux driversgpl2 forced them to free the source code In my opinion they need to kill virtualbox, vmware or kvm (redhat/ubuntu) so it's doesn't matter to throw some lines of code to the linux kernel via the novell proxy programmers Here is...

Tags: Federal government, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., FCC, Linux Drivers, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

Time to dump Schmidt from Apple board (Updated)

Since the announcement of its Chrome OS on Tuesday there has been a growing drumbeat calling for Eric Schmidt to step down from Apple's Board of Directors, and I agree. Schmidt has got to go. A day after the announcement that Google would battle Microsoft and Apple...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Board, Apple Inc., Krazit, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-07-10