Who owns google.com? Well, the answer to that second one is easy: Google does! But when you go to your favorite domain registrar looking to purchase the perfect new domain for your England-based, Tapas-inspired spinach pie business, spanishkopita.uk (obviously), how does the registrar know if it’s available? Is there some kind of list somewhere? Yes, in fact, there is!
If you’re an Apple (not the fruit) addict like me, you probably have a dozen USB-A charging cubes and 4-5 different charging cables. You might also have AirPods, iPhone, an Apple Watch, and other various Apple products.
Well, that is also me. While I’ve always carried an iPhone, I acquired a set of AirPods a few years ago. And a few months ago, I got an Apple watch to replace my Fitbit. All three devices require a USB-C port, but I only have one charging cube, so I use my laptop to charge all this junk. As you can imagine, I am changing the cables around for the devices that need charging. What a very dumb, minute issue!
It’s coming, and it can’t come soon enough.
I’m rockin’ the iPhone 11, which I seemed to have stopped caring for approximately four months ago. That timing coincides with its first detrimental drop, the drop that created a hairline crack in my display. “No biggie, I can manage until September,” I told myself. I had been planning on a new mobile this year anyway, and the crack only accelerated that want.
A client recently brought in a laptop that had stopped booting into Windows. A common occurrence; computer parts are fallible and will always give across a long enough timescale. I immediately noticed pressure on the bottom of the keyboard and trackpad. I popped the bottom cover off the laptop and found the battery had doubled in thickness, putting so much pressure on the hard drive that it was unseated from its plug. While those two together are an unprecedented scenario for me, laptop battery swelling is common enough to deserve its own write-up. It indicates imminent or immediate battery failure and, more importantly, is a hazard that can catch fire or explode.
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Trust me for a minute; this might get weird, but let’s think back to 2007: iPhone, Nancy Pelosi, the bald eagle, Lindsay Lohan, the Spice Girls, people thinking this is okay. You’re there now, mentally? You just signed up for Tumblr and are getting the hang of “hashtags?” Cool, so you understand that 2007 was a very long time ago, and the world has changed a TON since then. One thing that’s remained the same, though? The default font in Microsoft Office: Calibri. Until now.
