A vital piece of advice: when finished charging a techy gadgety gizmo, don’t just take out the cable and flick it aside. It might land in a mug of recently finished coffee or something. Which is precisely what happened to my Macbook Magsafe charger, it started to elecroplate itself with coffee grinds I think. After drying and cleaning it still powered the laptop but wouldn’t charge it. But to be sure I stopped using it as I don’t want to risk knackering the Macbook itself.
60 quid and a trip to KRCS a few days later, I am finally able to use my laptop again. And I’ve ordered a spare charger to which should be here in the next few days (cheaper off ebay), just in case.
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Posted by: Nik in Weblog, tags: Apple, charger, Coventry, Facebook, iPod, lightning, Logic3, Mac, Macbook, RSS, speakers, Windows
and I can’t think of a better title, sorry!
It occurred to me recently that I would struggle to charge my iPod when away. It would be awkward to rely on the Macbook to do it (if it worked, the iPod is Windows formatted so data won’t work with Mac, but charging might do, and no I’m not faffing about reformatting it). I know Apple do a USB to mains adaptor for twenty quid which I considered (I guess there are cheaper nasty ones available!) but decided on spending an extra tenner on a Logic3 i-Station 3, which is a dock with basic-but-decent speakers and is also good for charging. It does data transfer too but I’ll probably not need to use it for that.
Also ordered a sleeve for the Macbook too, something I’ve needed for a while but not got round to getting. But I don’t want it getting scratched in my flight bag or rucksack. My work bag is fine as it has a perfectly sized compartment, that’s probably why I waited. So that’s 2 things sorted.
Just enjoyed a relaxing 3 days off work, back in on a late one this evening (later than usual as the schools are off so don’t need to do Guilsborough). Hope the weekend is good, quiet and not rainy will be very welcome. Been fairly pleasant so far today, although we had a cracking storm last night. Apparently a man in Coventry was hit by lightning, but luckily he lived (his shoe disintegrated and clothes went black). Walking through a grassy area I think, not so wise.
And finally… I’ve been importing these entries into Facebook, now they don’t seem to be working! Any ideas? My RSS feed is fine.
Take care.
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