Monthly Archives: June 2011

Google +1 Button has a flaw

Posted by on June 25, 2011 1 comment

I was playing around with Google’s new +1 Button and while reading the documents about the API one thing interested me is the <link> attribute. According to the documentation you can tell the API to use the current URI or the main URL of the website. Then I was thinking, what if you mask the URL, let’s say use the google.com URL on your site? You guessed right, your site will show that it has been +1 around 4,000 times as of today.

Google +1 Button

Google +1 Button

Here’s the code for this,

<!– Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag –><link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.google.com”><script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js”></script><!– Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render –><g:plusone></g:plusone>

Here’s a live view of the code:

Note: When clicking it, you are still giving a +1 to Google.com, you’re only spoofing your site to look like it’s popular.

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Laptop Power Jack Replacement

Posted by on June 10, 2011 No comments

We receive a lot of calls in the shop for broken power jacks on laptops.  While many jacks can stand up to a lot of abuse, when you trip over your power cord, drop your laptop from the bed or sofa, or otherwise subject it to forces or angles it wasn’t designed for, you could end up breaking the power jack.  In most cases, this can be a death sentence for your computer, as replacing the power jack will involve an intricate and risky procedure that involves dismantling the entire computer, desoldering the broken jack, and re-soldering a new jack.

These repairs fall under our “advanced” flat-rate bench fee of $150.00, and we have a very good success rate.  However, we will only recommend this option if the computer is worth saving to begin with.

Some laptop manufacturers have noticed that power jacks are the most vulnerable part of their hardware (with the screen coming in a close second – we can fix those too!), and started putting the jack on its own separate daughterboard.  This makes replacing them much less time consuming and risky.  The picture you see here was from a Dell Inspiron that we repaired for a happy customer last week.  The parts can take a few days to arrive, but the repair itself is done same-day.

If a broken power jack has your laptop out of commission, we can get it fixed quickly and you can get back to work!  Contact us for more information.

 

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