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I had 45 minutes to kill this evening, so I modified a wireless charger and installed it in my car to create a hidden inductive charging station for my iPhone 8 Plus. My car’s a 2017 Ford Fusion, and it has a recessed area underneath the infotainment system (in the center console) which fits an...

I recently spilled water on my 15in MBP and now the motherboard is dead. I do have a 13in MBP that was replaced when I got my 15in. Is it possible I could do a straight motherboard swap? I know I would be loosing performance power but its hard to go back to the 13 after having the 1

Hello everyone, I am new here on the forum and hope that I am posting this question in the right category since its mostly a terminal prompt/OS X question. I have a 2011 i7 Macbook Pro with a data doubler/HDD installed in the optical drive slot. My main drive in the original slot is an SSD. My...

Actually laundry room to be more precise. We had a very old exhaust fan with two lights that helped to vent our laundry room that died recently. I bought a fan at the local hardware, brought it home, and discovered that the old fan vented vertically, while the new fan vented off the side. The...

I have a dual-CPU Mac Pro 4,1 w/ 5,1 firmware. I am planning on upgrading the CPUs. What tips/tricks/information should I know before doing this? I have looked at a couple of sites explaining the process, but I'm still looking to gather information. If I screw up, a replacement tray/new CPUs may...

This is somewhat unusual of a request and I'm curious if there are any thoughts from this community. I have a project where I need to mount an iPhone to pole or sign and protect it from mild tampering attempts. The iPhone is going to run an app that uses the camera to capture vehicle...

Hi, as I see a lot of people trying to achieve the same thing on his old imac 27'', and searching the net trying to see if someone has already done this, we end up here thinking it's not possible to swap the mini pci-e wifi card, I'll update with my experience: it works, you can have usb 3.0 on...

Our family bought a 27" iMac 11,1 in 2009 for my wife's graduate studies. It's a quad core i5 with 8GB of RAM and a 1TB 7200 RPM HDD. It's now a family computer/hub for photos, videos, music, word processing, email, bills, etc. We don't have a viable laptop (2-3 iPads and 2-3 iPhones). The iMac...

I was having problems, with a very slow hard drive. I looked up the prices to get replacement done, for a very standard 500 GB hard drive, with work included, it was 265. That was the cheapest option. So then I look at price for the original hard drive that I had on my Imac already, it was 50...

Hey, so I just made a video showcasing how to replace an iPhone 6 LCD and digitizer. I was wondering what this forum thought and how I could improve my future repair tutorials. Also, I'm new to this community and I would like to say hello to everyone! I hope I will present value to you guys...