Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.

'Sleeper'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

Got a question about technology? Ask it here. Discussion of hardware, software, TiVos, multi-region DVDs, Windows, Macs, LINUX, hand-helds, iPods, anything tech related. Better than any helpdesk!


megan walker - Jun 10, 2011 7:48:15 am PDT #16948 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Has anyone done their own iPod battery replacement? It seems much cheaper to get a kit online than go to the Apple store.


tommyrot - Jun 10, 2011 7:55:30 am PDT #16949 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yeah, on an older, plastic-body iPod. I had to pry it apart but the battery kit included a special tool to do this, so it was pretty easy.

Don't know how hard it is to replace the battery on a modern iPod, or other iPod models like the Touch.

The place I bought my kit from (don't remember the name) had how-to videos. I'd recommend finding a video for your iPod model and seeing how hard it would be.


megan walker - Jun 10, 2011 8:00:31 am PDT #16950 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

My iPod is 5th generation, just over 5 years old.


tommyrot - Jun 10, 2011 8:03:45 am PDT #16951 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

This might be the company I ordered from: [link]

If you click on your model there's a video of the installation you can watch.


megan walker - Jun 10, 2011 8:11:01 am PDT #16952 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

It's also easy for me to got to the Apple store, but that's the site that got me thinking I might do it myself. Of course, it might just be my first digital download from the library that's causing the battery-dying problem, I'll test tonight.


Tom Scola - Jun 10, 2011 9:22:02 am PDT #16953 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Matt Groening's 1989 Macintosh ad.


Strix - Jun 10, 2011 9:25:27 am PDT #16954 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I ended up putting it in a table and then adding line numbers.

Woo! New Word skills acquired.


DCJensen - Jun 11, 2011 4:21:53 pm PDT #16955 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Matt Groening's 1989 Macintosh ad.

I may have a copy of that at my mom's house


Consuela - Jun 12, 2011 2:56:05 pm PDT #16956 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

So I'm teaming up with my folks to get my niece a new laptop for her college graduation gift. She's going to Spain for the next year, so I think a smaller laptop would be best. I was looking at something in the $600 range, like one of the larger netbooks maybe. I don't think she needs anything high-powered, she's not going to be gaming, but she will want to run Skype and stream video and so forth, as well as email and probably do grad-school applications on it.

Anyone have any recommendations? Any particular issues I should be aware of? She mentioned wanting a dual-core processor so she would be able to stream video.


Jon B. - Jun 12, 2011 4:25:27 pm PDT #16957 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Matt Groening's 1989 Macintosh ad.

Aren't those just re-purposed Life in Hell cartoons?