Month: October 2012

So as you may remember from the post in November last year, my sister’s laptop screen stopped working. I decided to try to fix my sister’s laptop LCD screen again because I found out I could replace the CCFL that light up the screen. Two 2mm lamps cost about $30. When they arrived, I was excited to open up the screen to replace the thin fragile lights so that my sister could have a real working laptop again.

I was able to take out the old lamps, I hooked on the wires for the new lamps, then I was applying some force for the lamps to get into position at the bottom of the screen, and SNAP, I broke both of the new lamps. There goes $30 down the drain. I just put back the original 2 lamps and I’m going to forget about trying to fix this screen. My sister will just have to use her laptop on her desk with an external monitor, until she gets a new laptop.

I bought this 3.5mm male to male stereo cable to use in my car for $1.13 on Amazon from the seller Amamax. This seller is from Texas and it took only 3 days to receive my item. There are 3 other sellers who are selling this for $1.09-$1.11, but they are from Hong Kong and it’ll take 10-20 days for the item to arrive! So you need to look carefully at the sellers’ location and pay only a few cents more if you want much faster shipping.

Now that I have a 16GB Android phone, I have put all my music in it so I have no use for my old iPod touch anymore that I got on November 30, 2009, which I recently sold for $110 on Craigslist. However, I have no way to play the music from my phone through the car speakers. My car doesn’t have bluetooth, and it doesn’t have an aux input. So on September 20th, I ordered a “1.0″ LCD Car MP3 Player FM Transmitter with IR Remote Controller” from DealExtreme for only $5.50. Finally, after 22 days, it arrived today! I will be connecting my phone via USB to this gadget and playing my music through an unused radio frequency like 88.1 FM.

EDIT: This FM transmitter isn’t detecting my phone as a USB mass storage device… so it doesn’t see my mp3’s. 🙁

EDIT 2: Actually, in USB mode, it can detect songs from my phone’s internal memory, but not from the microSD card. However, it takes about 20 seconds to load each song before it can be played… so I’m just using an aux cable now because it’s a lot faster. The downside is that my phone doesn’t get charged now while playing the music.

   

So my micro SIM card cutter came today and I used it to cut my mini SIM card. It does the job good enough; it works but doesn’t make clean enough cuts. I had to scratch off some edges of the cut SIM card to make it more smooth.

The reason I got this was because I bought a cheap used Samsung Galaxy S3 with a bad IMEI and I just wanted to pop my SIM in it to see what would happen, and see if I could make it work. Sadly, I didn’t have any luck so I’m going to resell the phone on craigslist for a little more than what I paid for. 🙂

Just bought a Micro Sim Card Cutter+4 Sim Adapter from eForCity on Amazon for $4.16. I can’t believe people on craigslist are charging $5-$10 do one cut! Anyway, I need this to cut my standard mini sim card to a micro sim card, for something secret. 🙂