Wed: Jul 02, 2014

Google Nexus 4 (LG E960) Screen replacement.DIY tutorial. This is one of the better videos I've found (and one that gets to the point - there's another video on YouTube that is 28 minutes long! I don't think it took me 28 minutes to do the whole replacement and it was my first time...) Two weeks ago my phone fell off the patio table and in spite of having a bumper case hit just right to shatter the digitizer (screen). The LCD was ok, I just couldn't get the phone to respond to any screen presses that happened below the top 1/3. So I ordered a replacement LCD/Digitizer combo from Repairs Universe and a solid set of phone tools from Amazon. Both items came fairly quickly, today was just the first time I felt I had the time to devote to it.

The dis-assembly went fine, the biggest trouble I had was getting some of the old glass out of the corner where it had fractured the worst (and where there was the most surface area for glue to hold all the little pieces.) Fortunately also I have an industrial heat gun, so being able to heat the thing up without using something slow like a hair drier was nice. Put it all back together and everything is working as it should be. Since I'd bought a replacement Nexus 4 off Craigslist in the interim I am now taking the time to do a full phone backup and flash an updated CM11 ROM. Then I'll have my old phone back and have a nice upgrade for Jenn...     #>


Striking Adventure Sports Photography: An Interview with Garrett Grove. Beautiful images.     #>


GAMER Eats - Pizza Leias. Made these last week with the 13 year old, did some with pesto and goat cheese and some with pepperoni and tomato sauce. And of course we used a pizza dough recipe that I had, none of that store-bought crap for us. Came out pretty good though we have some ideas on making it better (chiefly doing them on a cookie sheet rather than packed into a 9x13 baking dish...)     #>


Giant Bubble Net. Very impressive, and you can make your own from: How to Make Giant Bubbles.     #>


Eclipse Chewy Mints. Oh why can't we have these in the US? I brought a pack from Australia home with me and then realized how much I liked them...     #>


Tutorial: How to Quickly Fix Skin Redness Using the HSL Sliders in Photoshop. Red creeps into quite a lot of portraits and affects the perception of skin tones, it's worth taking some time to see if it's there and get rid of it.     #>


CHDK Elph 330 HS. Hooray! Downloaded and installed great via ACID     #>


Sleep as a Competitive Advantage     #>


Apple to cease development of Aperture. Bummer for those users, hope someone creates an "Export to Lightroom" tool...     #>


What Your Cell Phone Can’t Tell the Police. Location data, unless you specifically have it turned on, isn't as accurate as they might think. Not that it will stop them from claiming 100% accuracy and using it in convictions...     #>


Here’s What the Future of Reading Looks Like. That sucks, I really like the e-ink screen and being able to go a month between charges. My Nook gets daily use, especially when I travel (even though I have a phone and a tablet...)     #>


Sandstorm Personal Cloud Server. Looks interesting, it's an ISO to install your own server with "apps" that will download and install automatically.     #>


Universal Nexus Linux Toolkit. Awesome, the drivers under Windows are hit and miss (they'll load one time and not the next), hopefully this is more stable.     #>


Netflix Could Be Classified As a 'Cybersecurity Threat' Under New CISPA Rules. Assholes in the government are at it again.     #>


World map of natural hazards. Interesting.     #>


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