Monthly Archives: June 2015
The Next Video
This is the next video in the series, with possibly 1 more to come.
The Video Day 1 Part 2
This video is a lot shorter and the effects are a tad better too.
MacBook Pro: From Broken to ‘Like New’
After the Queens birthday weekend I pulled the laptop out of the 4×4 and went to turn it on. I got a nasty shock when the screen went all white, so as I do I got on google for an answer. I had many different answers which I tried (repeatedly) with no luck. After a week of trying and hoping it would work, I took it to apple to have a look at. They gave me the same answer before I walked in the store which was the “white screen of death”, which could be fixed for a small sum of $800. Considering that it is a 2011 model I was not going to spend that kind of money on a 4 year old laptop. The white screen of death means you have a dodgy logic board or for those living in the windows world a dodgy motherboard. Once again I took to google to see if there was a solution to fix a logic board, and to my surprise there was … and not a solution that I would have even considered. The solution was to pull apart the macbook and take out the logic board and then put it on a baking tray and put it in the oven for a mere 7 1/2 mins at 200 C. What the !?!?!? Yep, and that is exactly what I did. I figured that I had nothing to lose. I have macbook that doesn’t work, so if it didn’t work I would have lost nothing other than a little to much time in the kitchen ( I tell you that was 7 1/2 minutes to long in my opinion). Anyway if you have read this far you are wishing that I would just get to the point, and yes it did work. I now have a functioning macbook once more.
Logic board has been taken out.
All ready for the oven
The Video
I have started playing around with Final Cut Pro and am a newbie at it. In saying that this is part 1 of my trip away.
High Country Trip
Finally after 2 years of no four wheel driving, it finally happened. I met up with a couple of mates at Woods Point after work Friday night. That part of the trip took a little longer than I thought it would (like 3 1/2 hours). Any how we got set up and had the fire going with a couple of drinks at hand, and discussed what the plan was for the morning. The next morning we didn’t have to hike to far for our first challenge. The last time I tried this I had the Hilux and it just wasn’t up it. I was feeling quite nervous when tempting this, but that was not the case, put the front and rear lockers on and just cruised up in no time at all. From there we drove past Crows Hut and down to the cascades, which we found to be a popular destination, and also made our job of finding a camp site more difficult. Once again we got settled with a fire and drinks were soon in hand. The next day we had some sore heads and didn’t break camp until 12:00 pm. This days journey to the Jamison valley was awesome, we had all the seasons and conditions. It was a full on day. I even got bogged and Mr Mods got me out. With journey taking us up to Bluff hut were there was plenty of snow and couple of snow ball fights, and then down into the valley to another awesome camp site. This is where I farewelled the boys and headed home to a nice hot shower and my own bed. This was definitely one of the best trips I have done.
