My “How To” guides on various things
Some time ago, I detailed how to replace the hard drive in a mid-2012 Macbook Pro and, now, after 4.5 years of use, it’s time for the battery to be replaced.
Apart from the battery you’ll need 2 screwdrivers to do this – A Phillips #00 Screwdriver and a Y1 Tri-wing Screwdriver. Some kind of plastic “spudger” will be needed as well.
The battery I purchased from Amazon came with both the required screwdrivers and I had a spudger from a phone repair kit.
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A few years since purchase, the battery in my daughter’s Nexus 5 was, shall we say, ready for replacement (it was fully draining within a couple of hours). Although without an officially replaceable battery, replacing it isn’t too difficult.
In preparation, I purchased 2 things – a new battery and a phone repair kit, the total costing less than £14.
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For the theme I’m currently using, the field descriptions on the Jetpack contact form appear really, really small.
After some fiddling (and Googling, which although yielded answers, I didn’t find any that worked) I found a solution.
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For some time I’ve been using LastPass to manage my passwords (other password managers are available!) but have never fully moved over to using it full-time, because of the ease of just getting Chrome to remember my password instead.
Well, I’ve decided, and there are very good security reasons for doing so, to move full-time to LastPass. But how to do it?
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Almost 2 years ago I posted about replacing the PS4’s hard drive with a roomier 2TB version. I also mentioned that SSHD drives are available, although these were only available in 1TB capacities and, to be honest, they added little benefit as the PS4 only supports SATA 2.
Now, though, things have changed.
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