Tag: laptops

  • Sony Vaio keyboard help needed!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have a Sony Vaio laptop (model VGN- SZ3VWP). Unfortunately our 2yr old decided a while back that most of the keys on the keyboard were superfluous and he pried them off (see above). He was so proud!!! There doesn’t appear to be a Sony repair center in Seville – well the only ones I…

  • Blame it on the Twitter!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have been very quiet on this blog for the last few weeks – apologies for that but I can’t promise on the pace returning to the two or three posts a day I was averaging at times last year. Why? I have been spending a lot of time on the micro-blogging site, Twitter. Twitter…

  • Battery that can go 30 years between re-charges?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I read an interesting article the other day about a new type of laptop battery which should be able to go 30 years between re-charges! The batteries are constructed from semiconductors and use radioisotopes as the energy source. As the radioactive material decays it emits beta particles that transform into electric power capable of fueling…