Argh. The charging port on my kindle is loose or something, and will only charge/transfer things when I hold it juuuuuust so. Just went and checked--it's 14 months old. Hrmph, Amazon. Not impressed.

If it's not the grit that ND suggested, it sounds like a loose solder connection.

Is it a Kindle Fire? It seems to be mentioned as a common repair.

the repair vids don't seem too intimidating, so repair is possible.

Have any of you heard about this Apple ID issue? [link]

Nope, it's a plain not-even-paper white kindle. I tried blowing anything out of the port space, but may have to find a can of air and try again. Luckily it's fairly fully charged at the moment--I depend on the thing!

When I choose "add to existing contact" for an email address within an email in OS X, what's the logic behind what contact it chooses? Because it's giving me a choice of five apparently unrelated contacts, none with any contact info similar to the one in questions (he's changing nothing but from hotmail to gmail, so if you were going to apply intelligence to it...).

Does anyone have a recommendation for an Android video viewer that supports mp4 and mkz and subtitle files. I'd go to VLC with open arms, but their Android app is not the same.

I was also disappointed with Android VLC. I found MX Player [link] to work for everything so far.

I have not tried Matroska video due to the age of my device.

I have watched mkv files with mxplayer. Bsplayer is fine too. I keep both just in case.

Oh, thanks! Subtitles are right there in the screencaps. I found it's easier for me to watch video on the tablet with the TV's sound bar than on the laptop with same. But then kept switching back to laptop to check and see what the Korean was communicating.

I have no idea what all that Android VLC shit is about. I don't need to remote control video on my laptop from my tablet. I want the superior cross-platform does everything video player that dominates Mac and PC. I ended up using the Joe VLC with the sideways traffic cone (which drives my slightly OCD VLC-loving sister bananas in a way I can laugh at).

Is that too much to ask for? I think I deserve it.

I swear I owned Infinite Design paid (vector art program, only decent one I see out there), but the version I can find doesn't have my old pictures and doesn't export to infinite size. Did they gut my free version? Or did I lose my paid version? Now I have to run through all my Android accounts to see if the price disappears on all of them.

I'm not deft with stylus vector drawing, and the developer appears spread very thin--the featuresets look marvellous but both the vector and raster products are laggy as hell--Infinite Painter enough to be useless for me, sadly--I love how it blended colour on colour. But that one I didn't/couldn't return. Iz confuse.

I picked up (for free) a dead Viewsonic VX2245WM 22 inch LCD monitor on Craigslist today, took it home and pulled it apart. It had one bulging capacitor on the power supply. I rummaged around in my basement, found an old power supply, and scavenged the exact replacement using my soldering iron. Bob's your uncle, I replaced it in the monitor and closed it up.

Working now. Not bad for $8 gas.

You saved whoever you got it from the trouble of dragging it to the nearest place that accepts dead electronics. So I'm sure they were happy with the deal too.