Reader tking says his laptop started out with a bad power jack — but has slowly escalated in brokenness with each Dell intervention. tking says: My problems started when my Dell Vostro 1510 laptop wouldn't keep the power cord plugged in without extra effort. The first tech support person was m...

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If you have some vintage plastic items that are yellowed with age, they're not always destined for the curb. Retro-obsessed geeks have created a cheap, homemade solution for restoring old plastic. Manufacturers add various chemicals to the ABS plastic used in most electronics to act as flame retarda...

With the economy being as it is, one thing that people want to know is how to get a super-fast for very little money. Over the past few weeks I've put together a number of posts over on Hardware 2.0 to help people with that. Monster PC upgrades - Without the monster price tag! Here I looked at two d...

HP is known for its incompetent repair process, but what makes Aaron's case special is that at the end they decide to kick it up a notch. When he sends his computer in and gets it back from the repair center, HP has so ever so graciously filled it with free spyware and viruses. Aaron writes: The ver...

Hi there! Wondering where we've been? Sorry for the long absence. I don't usually talk a lot about myself in this blog, sticking with humor, but this once, I should try to explain where I've been. One of the things you never see behind a blog like this is the life of the person behind the blog. I've...

I'm restoring an upright piano and need a good online source for parts. I've googled for some piano part suppliers and the sites that I've found so far set off my "Don't deal with this business" alarms. I really don't want to trust a site that looks like this with my credit card informatio...

Shady auto body shop in Toronto. Help me prepare myself... My gf was driving my car this weekend (we live in Toronto) and slid into the back of a stopped streetcar. Thankfully she and her friends are alright, but the car sustained some damage in the front. At the time of the accident, some tow drive...