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Just did a battery swap on my iPhone 3GS using parts and guides from iFixit. I recommend buying their recommended #00 screwdriver, spudger, suction cup in ADDITION to the screwdriver and spudger that come with the battery- found them useful. Here’s a stop motion video.

3GS Battery Swap Video

I wanted to know what was inside…

(Note: You can’t test this out from here because of the XSS filter, just doing its job. See http://pastebin.com/k5eePA7R for the source and the same explanation.)

The following link: ctr35login

…is a bookmarklet that will login to your Cradlepoint CTR35 router. I found that I can save it as a bookmark, and then access it from my iPhone via synced bookmarks. Easier than typing in the password everytime. Note, that you will need to replace YOURPASSWORD with your password, unless of course your password is ‘YOURPASSWORD’ in which case, it shouldn’t be.

If you have trouble, view the source of this post, save the relevant HTML off to a file, and modify the password there. One could replace ‘cp’ with the router’s IP, for example.

Thanks to StackOverflow for the initial idea of using a dynamic form.

Problem: bottom of Bosch blender won’t open.

Solution: hardware tape and bolts.

Problem: card table lower than main table. Extra seats needed for Christmas feast.

Solution: 4×4 cut to length, with hole drilled several inches depth to provide a sturdy base, and rubber foot at bottom to prevent skid.

Briefly powered up the magiccap datarover- hoped it would make a callerid speakerphone. Ended up not supporting callerid and not working great as a speaker phone. Maybe it will come back as a desk phone in the future.

Before:

Blue Lines
After:

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Folks have asked how we did our wedding stream. Well, I’ll tell you.

(More pictures on Flickr)

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I rebuilt my sister-in-law’s Canon EFS 18-55mm autofocus lens which had a bad run-in with a tree. I suspect the tree was OK, but the lens wasn’t quite as happy. It was ‘bent’ to one side, and couldn’t zoom or focus at all. It turned out that it was off the plastic ‘tracks’ inside. The surgery was a success and it is back in use today. The only casualty (besides some hair-raising moments) was that the manual focus component stopped working- I damaged or didn’t reassemble the “clutch” correctly.

See the entire set on Flickr

Looks like I deleted some of the photos from previous posts. I’ll try to recover those, sorry.

Look for a few more posts on this site.

Also, our family blog has some more tech-related posts.