It's not a good sign when one's laptop begins to overheat. What's worse is when it overheated under a light load. This was a problem when I worked on Photoshop. I installed a program to monitor the internal temperature, and was shocked to see how fast it climbed under certain conditions. After overriding the fan to max rpm, built a simple stand to ( Read more... )

I was repairing my GPS for the upcoming Otakon trip. The speaker went from going off here and there, and recently stopped working completely. I opened the GSP, pushed the speaker down, and voila, it works! All it took was some duct tape and a penny.

( Duct tape + penny = Fixed GPS )