Category Archives: Electronics

Fixing the digitizer on a Samsung Rogue

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 18, 2010

My touch screen on my wife’s Samsung Rogue U960 recently stopped working. There were no cracks or other visible damage, but it didn’t recognize touches on the left third of the screen. Because the phone was designed to be used almost exclusively by touching the screen, this made the phone pretty much useless for anything [...]

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Ooooo…. Big hard drive….

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 26, 2006

Yay! I finally ordered a new hard drive! It is a 320GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA. I got it for $109 – $36 GC – $25 GC + $0 S/H = $48. Yeah, 500GB drives are available, but they cost like $200 to $300. The 320GB model has a much better price/GB ratio. I’m going [...]

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My new keyboard arrived!

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 26, 2006

Hurray! A new keyboard! And I almost entirely like it! It has a few quirks that I don’t entirely enjoy, but overall it is pretty good. Again, this is the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. Things I like: The black and silver and very sharp looking. Even the “Do Not Remove – Safety Information” tag is [...]

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Verizon XV6700

By Jacob Allred | Published: March 24, 2006

Last week I got a brand spanking new Verizon XV6700 cell phone. Yes, it is expensive. I ended up paying something like $300 ($100 IR) for the phone, and it comes out to like $96 a month for service (that includes unlimited EVDO broadband internet, and also slow internet for those in non-EVDO areas…). I [...]

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