It has been reported today that Intel acknowledges a flaw in the Sandy Bridge CPU Chipsets called “Cougar Point” found on the motherboards for the newest quad Core i5 and i7 CPU chips that were just released Jan 5th. The problem is that after continued use the SATA port performance starts to degrade leading to slow access times on hard drives and optical drives. Read more

Well the folks at Apple are at it again, making products that are harder to service. The newest issue is happening on new Iphone4s and the latest Macbook Air models. If you purchase a new Iphone4 or even send your phone in for service the nice people at Apple will send you back a phone with the new pentalobe screws. Read more

Last year Google release an app called Google Translate. This app allows you to type a phrase and it would translate it into any one of 53 different languages, it also has voice input of 15 languages. You can also translate SMS messages with just one click.
On Jan 12 2011 they made it better!

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In this repair guide article we will be repairing a Visco VSC-37V1 37″ LCD monitor that has a power light but no picture, but it could also have no power or a blinking power light caused by the same issue. This model uses the MLT070AX power supply that is also used in the following Polaroid models: 3700, FLM-323B , FLM-373B , FLM-3732 and in some Element TVs such as the FLX3711B Read more

We want to let our readers know about this issue with Xbox Kinect systems. There have been many reports over the past few weeks of Xbox systems with Kinect scratching discs. Xbox systems have been know in the past to damage disks while playing games but the problem is getting much worst now. Read more

Are you running out of battery power on your cell phone or Ipod before the day is over? How would you like to have an additional 6 hours of talk time? The Energizer XP1000 is a small light weight external battery pack that will give you up to 6 hours of additional talk time on your smart phone. Read more