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Every year millions of old cell phones and tablets are either recycled, sold for scrap or simply thrown in the trash.
While recycling is certainly a lot better than clogging up our landfills with toxic materials, I have an even better option to tell you about.
It’s no secret that Apple has always opposed allowing third-party repair shops to service Apple products.
As a result, third-party shops weren’t allowed to use genuine Apple parts, which meant they either had to use often inferior after-market replacement parts or buy genuine Apple OEM parts from the gray market.
As you might expect, a third-party repair would also void the device’s warranty.
And to top it all off, just last month Apple released a firmware update for iOS devices that refused to show new batteries that had been installed by third-party techs as “healthy” even when they were brand new genuine Apple batteries that had been obtained on the gray market.
After taking an incredible amount of heat over the new battery policy, Apple has now reversed course by announcing a new program under which authorized third-party repair shops can now fix Apple products using genuine Apple parts that are provided directly by Apple.
Do you have a blog that’s powered by WordPress?
If so, you probably know that WordPress is the most powerful and most customizable blogging platform there is.
By selecting a quality theme and customizing it to your liking you can give your blog its own distinctive look and feel – in other words, give it its own personality.
The thing is, to really customize all the various aspects of your blog’s theme you’ll need to make changes to its style.css file.
In a nutshell, the style.css file contains the Cascading Style Sheet (aka CSS) code that controls virtually every aspect of how your blog will look and respond to visitors when they arrive at one of the pages on your blog.
The following short snippet from this blog’s style.css file will give you an idea of what I’m talking about: [Read more…]
Question from Debbie: Rick, I edited a photo today and then I tried to save it, but Windows won’t let me save the edited file.
Every time I try to save the photo I get the following error message:
“You don’t have permission to save in this location.
Contact the administrator to obtain permission.
Would you like to save in the Pictures folder instead?”
Here’s a screenshot of the actual error message: [Read more…]
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You probably already know that Amazon
Did you also know you can also buy your textbooks from Amazon just like any other book?
You’ll find most any textbook you need at Amazon, and you can probably snag it for a lot less than your own school will charge you for it.
All you have to do is search for the book’s Title, Author or ISBN number and you’ll be presented with a list of both new and used copies along with their prices. [Read more…]