An Overheating Toshiba
In the heatwave of a few weeks back, laptops had to work even harder than normal to keep cool. I had a Toshiba Satellite L300D come into the surgery, suffering […]
Beware the E-Mail Hacker
Yesterday, a couple of my clients had the unpleasant experience of having their email account hacked. Both happened to be customers of BT internet. BT’s email service is currently being […]
New Life for an old PC
I’ve just finished sorting out an ageing Carrera Desktop PC running Windows XP. This was brought into the clinic a few days ago suffering from all the usual symptoms of […]
Replacing a Dell Pavilion G6 Fan
If you are ever faced with this message when you come to fire up your laptop, chances are that you’re cooling fan is in need of replacement. If you don’t […]
Removing the Hard Drive from a Mac Mini
I was recently asked to remove the hard drive from a failed Apple Mac Mini in order to remove valuable data and then securely erase the drive. Now the Mac […]
Finding Hidden Wallpaper in OSX Mountain Lion
Apple’s latest operating system, OS X Mountain Lion comes with 35 great desktop wallpapers pre-installed. That’s probably ample for most people, but what if that’s not enough to satisfy your […]
Replacing a Kindle 3G Screen
I had a Kindle 3G brought into the Surgery the other week with a broken screen. Kindle’s are great pieces of kit but they can get damaged quite easily just […]
Multiple Dropbox Accounts
I love Dropbox for storing my important files out there in the cloud, being able to access them from anywhere and sharing them between all my devices. In fact, I […]
Power Supply for 17″ iMac
I’ve had a 2006 17″ iMac Core Duo in the Surgery this week. This machine had inherited the annoying habit of cutting out and switching itself off unexpectedly after a […]
Secure Password Authentication – Error Message 0x800CCC18
If you get this error message popping up whenever you check your emails using a program such as Windows Mail, the chances are that you’ve got ‘Secure Password Authentication’ set […]
Rejuventating an Asus X53E
Last week I had An Asus X53E laptop arrive in the Surgery which, for a relatively new machine, had certainly been in the wars. The hard disk had been removed […]
Turbocharge your Macbook
I’ve recently completed a hard drive upgrade on a 2010 Macbook Pro which has revolutionised its performance, replacing the traditional hard drive with a Samsung solid state drive (SSD). SSD’s […]