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Fixing ONKYO RC-710m Remote volume issues

01/21/2015 Hardware How To Thoughts & Rants Tinkering 126 Comments

I’ve got an ONKYO 7.1 surround sound home theater system, and in the past 6 months the volume buttons stopped working, well not stopped… they would periodically work if you mashed/held the buttons (up or down) but generally they stopped being responsive. After searching online, I almost bought a new…

Fixing a Nexus7 if it is not Charging and only emits static noise

06/10/2014 Android Tinkering 2 Comments

If you’ve got a Nexus7 and one day discover that it will not turn on, refuses to charge and also emits a strange static burst of noise. Well you my friend have found what some people discovered is the Nexus7’s battery protection phase. The battery protection phase seems to stop…

Updating ASUS TF101 from stock to Android KitKat (4.4.2)

02/02/2014 Android Hardware How To Tinkering 111 Comments

So I’ve had the ASUS EeePad Transformer TF101 for almost 2 years now, and have been pretty happy with it, but it has gotten quite laggy and the input is always delayed. It could be a cause of the number of apps installed over that period of time, or simply…

Mounting remote SFTP/SSH shares on Mac OSX 10.9

01/13/2014 Apple How To Linux Tinkering 4 Comments

If you’ve always wanted a way to mount a remote SFTP/SSH accessible folder on your Mac OSX 10.9, well now there is a way to get you there! Basically you will have access to the remote share to access files. It will be SFTP over the SSH protocol and fully…

Replacing battery on a Syma S107 RC Helicopter

01/03/2014 Hardware How To Tinkering No Comments

I got this little Syma S107 RC Heli 2 years ago for Christmas, and a couple months back I picked it up and turned it on to see if it still worked. It turned on, lights flashed, but I noticed there was no lift

Samsung Epic 4G (Nexus S) running on Ting.com

05/18/2013 How To Thoughts & Rants Tinkering No Comments

So my dear brother down in Knoxville, is all psyched up about ting.com a branded reseller for the Sprint network. The beauty behind ting.com is that they charge you for ‘what you eat’, not some stupid package from AT&T / T-Mobile / Verizon that barelly starts at ~$50. My brothers…