A customer got his vaio all wet. Keyboards are like water magnets. Sooner or later they end up wet.
In this case the water didn’t penetrate further into the motherboard, so the computer worked. It was just a matter of repairing/replacing the keyboard.

Most of the times, if you dry it and remove any residues the laptop works again. The trick is to use alcohol. It dissipates water, and cleans it at the same time.

I took this approach to begin with. So, onwards with the disassembly.

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I recently saved a discarded laser printer from the trash. Its problem was that it wouldn’t print an 8cm vertical segment. No other problem whatsoever.

This hinted that there was a problem with the fuser sleeve.
In good faith of my diagnostic skills I ordered a replacement sleeve and started the surgery.

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I was looking to buy one of those things that cats climb on and chill or play with. (AKA cat perch, cat condo, cat tree, cat furniture)
I had no idea how much they cost! Turns out you can pay up to 250€ depending on the model.
It’s crazy, considering it’s nothing more than wood and carpet. I decided to build my own.

I didn’t do any planning, just looked at some popular models, took some mental pictures, and went to a home depot store to buy all the needed materials.

The wooden panels and beams were offcuts and cheap as chips. I also bought a small sized carpet for 8 euros. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any carpet offcuts to reduce the cost even further. I chose black color to match my cat gata…

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After 5 years of daily usage my seat gave-in. It ripped a seam on the right side.

Now I had the following options:

• Get it professionally re-upholstered for 60 € and fabric of my choice.
• Re-construct it professionally to be anatomically correct for 120 €
• Anatomical + gel foam for 160 €
• Buy the original seat from Aprilia for 150 €
• Buy an aftermarket taller one for 120 €

I didn’t like those options much because I had to cough-up 60€ at best, so I decided to fix it my self.

First I tried to “fix it” with the

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ZTE Blade Review
A short review and comparison to the Nokia E72

Back-story:
When I bought the Nokia E72 two years ago, I though that was going to be my final phone. It did everything. I was happy. But, as time went by, I found out that symbian was getting old. No new apps were written for it, and the ones that existed were most of the times buggy. Secondly the screen was too small to display maps and information. I wanted to upgrade to an android phone, but the price-tag was too steep. When the ZTE blade came along with that amazingly low price I thought I had to give it a chance. And here we are.

I’ll start with the GOOD parts.

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Instruction on how to disassemble the Asus A52J laptop in order to replace the hard-disk.
I uploaded a video on youtube to demonstrate the procedure.

It boils-down to 5 steps:

1. Remove the Battery
2. Unscrew and remove the back-plate
3. Unscrew and remove the hard-disk caddie
4. Remove the hard-disk from the caddie
5. Replace with fresh hard-disk and reverse the procedure.

If anyone is interested, this is how the GeekGreek logo came to be.

I’ve always liked the ThinkGeek logo, and since my domain has a similar sound to it, It made sense that I tried a similar approach to the logo.

I started by making the brain. I followed this tutorial to make the pink brain

I then found some geeky-looking glasses and added them

It didn’t looked quite right so I added a little bit of tint on the lenses

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