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Want To Learn How to Fix Laptops? Check out these Videos

Bryce Whitty — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:19:06 +0000

Laptop repair can be tricky. There are hidden screws all over the place, a certain order you have to pull it apart and sometimes the spare parts are hard to find. Laptops are also prone to damage that a desktop wouldnt normally have such as being dropped or having a damaged DC jack.

Steve Cherubino, who was computer technician until he went full time podcasting has worked on thousands of laptop computers in his shop and would now like to share his laptop repair knowledge with you in the form of high definition, narrated, downloadable videos.

He covers everything you would want to know about repairing laptops such as:

How to replace a motherboard
How to replace an LCD Screen
What to do when the laptop keeps shutting down
How to fix DC power jacks
The crucial difference between a bad screen and a bad inverter board
How to replace hinges
Where Steve buys all his parts
The best way to go about taking a laptop apart
How to solder
The art of fixing AC adapters
How to handle a laptop that has had liquid spilled in it
What to do when a laptop overheats
How to replace CD/DVD drives, RAM, processors, hard Drives and wireless cards
and much, much more!

This master course in laptop repair sells for $54.95 and Steve is so confident that you will find value in his product that he has a 60 day money back guarantee if you arent satisfied with the videos.
Seriously, it would only take only one laptop repair job for you to recoup your investment. The videos pay for itself.

As part of his launch, Steve is also giving away a Samsung Q1 to one of the next 100 people to buy the videos.

Go to the site, check out his sample videos and I am sure you’ll find that what he is offering is well worth the investment.

Link: Laptop Repair Videos

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To get started with your own computer business, check out our Computer Business Kit. If you want to learn how to repair laptops, check out these narrated, high definition videos. These would pay for themselves in 1 repair job.

Want To Learn How to Fix Laptops? Check out these Videos

SUPERAntiSpyware Professional LIFETIME License Winners & Something Nice for Those Who Didnt Win!

Bryce Whitty — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:11:51 +0000

The SUPERAntiSpyware Professional Lifetime License Competition has come to an end and I would like to announce the winners.

To make sure the drawing is truly random. I used Random.org to generate 4 random numbers between and including 1 and 387 which is the total amount of comment entrants. I then matched the final numbers with the comment number here on Technibble.

I did the similar with the Twitter entrants and the newsletter entrants are here are the winners:

Winning Comment Entrants:
Comment #250 – Kevin
Comment #23 – SH Castro
Comment #4 – Jory
Comment #298 – Graystar

Winning Twitter Entrants:
@PCServant
@Cornboy3
@Joshuamotto

Winning Newsletter Entrants:
michael.andrews@**********.com
dsobr@*****.com
wavylady@******.net

Congratulations to the Winners!

Now Something For Those Of You Who Didn’t Win
The guys at SuperAntiSpyware have offered all Technibble readers a huge 50%-off discount for SuperAntiSpyware Professional taking it from $29.95 USD, down to $14.95. For so little money its totally worth going professional. I am not sure how long they are going to continue this offer so get it while you can.

To take advantage of this offer, just click the SuperAntiSpyware logo below:

© Technibble - A Resource for Computer Technicians to start or improve their computer business
To get started with your own computer business, check out our Computer Business Kit. If you want to learn how to repair laptops, check out these narrated, high definition videos. These would pay for themselves in 1 repair job.

SUPERAntiSpyware Professional LIFETIME License Winners & Something Nice for Those Who Didnt Win!

Google Apps Grow Up, Exclaims “Look at me, no more Beta!”

Ryan Meray — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:53:29 +0000

Someone should check the thermostat in Hades, because I never thought I’d see this day. Google announced this morning that Google Apps, the corporate and public versions of its popular mail, calendar, chat and document software, no longer wear the beta tag.

Since its launch on April 1st, 2004, Gmail has worn the ‘beta’ tag, even after adoption by millions of home and business users and over 5 years of development.

Speculation has been rampant as to when it would finally leave beta status. A five-year development cycle isn’t the norm for almost any software, unless you’re developing ground-breaking, world-changing games, and many mocked Google for using ‘beta’ as a crutch for so long.

It’s about time. Welcome to Release Candidate land, Google. Now, can we talk about integrating custom signatures and mail templates? Love, Ryan.

© Technibble - A Resource for Computer Technicians to start or improve their computer business
To get started with your own computer business, check out our Computer Business Kit. If you want to learn how to repair laptops, check out these narrated, high definition videos. These would pay for themselves in 1 repair job.

Google Apps Grow Up, Exclaims “Look at me, no more Beta!”

10 SUPERAntiSpyware Professional LIFETIME Licenses to Give Away

Bryce Whitty — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:20:50 +0000

The makers of SUPERAntiSpyware (which is a great malware removal product that many technicians use) have provided me with 10 SUPERAntiSpyware Professional LIFETIME licenses to give away.

If you have not heard of SUPERAntiSpyware, SUPERAntiSpyware can detect and remove Spyware, Adware and Remove Malware, Trojans, Dialers, Worms, KeyLoggers, HiJackers, Parasites, Rootkits, Rogue Security Products and many other types of threats. It is light on system resources and has the ability to block threats in real-time. From personal experience I have found it to be one of the few anti-spyware suites (excluding specialised tools) that can remove some of the tougher malware like Antivirus2009. Many other technicians hereon Technibble say the same thing.
SUPERAntiSpyware Professional usually sells for $29.95 and costs $14.95 per year to renew it. These are LIFETIME licenses of the Professional version that I am giving away so you will never need to renew it.

There are three ways to enter this license give away competition:

1. Leave a comment on this post here are Technibble.com. You don’t need to register here in order to leave a comment. Just enter your name, email and comment leave a comment. I will be giving 4 licenses away to 4 randomly chosen commentors.

2. Sign up to receive Technibbles articles via email and confirm your subscription (we’ll never spam you or resell your email, its just the front page articles and the blog articles). If you are already signed up then you have already entered but you can increase your chances by entering one of the other ways. I will be giving 3 licenses to 3 randomly chosen subscribers.

3. Follow me @technibble on Twitter and tweet the following message to your followers:

Just entered the SUPERAntiSpyware Pro License giveaway. http://bit.ly/tnsas You can win by following @Technibble and retweet.

I will be giving away 3 licenses to 3 randomly chosen people who have followed me and tweeted the message. If you are already following me, just tweet the message and you are in.

Best of all, you can enter the competition via all three methods and be three times more likely to win.

Winners will be chosen on Friday the 3rd of July (week and a half from now) and will be contacted via email or Twitter direct message depending how you entered.

Good Luck!

COMPETITION CLOSED. I will be announcing the winners soon.

© Technibble - A Resource for Computer Technicians to start or improve their computer business
To get started with your own computer business, check out our Computer Business Kit. If you want to learn how to repair laptops, check out these narrated, high definition videos. These would pay for themselves in 1 repair job.

10 SUPERAntiSpyware Professional LIFETIME Licenses to Give Away

Technibbles Twitter

Bryce Whitty — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:15:31 +0000

Technibble is on Twitter. Actually, we have been on Twitter for some time except we just havent announced it. If you dont know, Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service and allows you to send short text messages called “tweets” to your friends and followers. Some people use it to announce what they are doing right now to their friends and businesses often use it to send out small updates. I use it to send out things that I believe a technician would find interesting, but isnt worthy of a full blown Technibble post. I also use it to keep in contact with other technicians that read Technibble.

The last few things I posted to Technibbles Twitter was:

Creepiest casemod ever? http://is.gd/nd8x
A technician just posted a clients attempt at replacing a laptop power jack. Wont charge afterwards for some reason: http://sn.vc/89Hu
In response to my Mac post. After some of the Techs got into a PC vs Mac fight, one tech finished it off nicely. “I, for one, am in this business to make a living… not to pick sides.”
Following my Mac post. I’m surprised that some techies refuse to work on them. It’s not a lack of technical knowlege, they just refuse. I think that’s crazy. What better client to have than a cashed up Mac user thats a computer novice? Most of the work is really easy.
Someone taking 24 x 256gb SSD drives and RAIDing them (2gb a second transfers): http://tinyurl.com/9lnrld
Silly Microsoft: http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/7922/funny.jpg
China’s Electronic Waste Village slideshow. Lots of computer parts in there: http://tinyurl.com/7g6uab

Unless you already have a Twitter account you may not care that I am on Twitter, this post is more for the people who are so they can follow and chat with me @technibble. However, in the few months I have been using Twitter I have found it an invaluable resource to talk to big guys in the industry, fellow technicians and get new information about the tech world very quickly, long before it ends up on any websites.

You can use the Twitter on its main website, you can use a Firefox plugin like Twitterfox or you can use your mobile device as most of them have an application for it.

So, if you are a Tweeter already, follow me as 555 other Tweeters have at @technibble

If not, you can check out this site for more information about what it is, why you would want to use it and how to get started.

Hows Our Driving?

Bryce Whitty — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:38:04 +0000

Its been almost a year and a half since I last asked what you think of the site and where I can improve. As a webmaster, I love hearing any feedback from our readers so that I can keep on doing what I am doing right, implement any suggestions you guys have and stop doing the stuff you hate.

So, Hows our driving? What do you love about the site? What do you hate about the site? Got an idea or a suggestion?. Comments are open as always, you don’t need to sign up to make a comment and you can even post anonymously if you like.

Becoming a Computer Technician

Bryce Whitty — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:54:48 +0000

For those of you who downloaded Technibble’s Computer Repair Utility Kit, you may have noticed a link called “Become a PC Technician” under the useful sites section. This section is designed for people who are visiting Technibble for the first time and give them a great overview of the content we have in a ordered format.

I believe this page will useful to any Technibble regulars as they may have missed something that was written long before they joined. You can check out the page here:

http://www.technibble.com/become-a-computer-technician/

2008 in Review

Bryce Whitty — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:54:35 +0000

The year 2008 has nearly come to an end and it has been an interesting year for Technibble. The site has grown in both readers on the main pages and activity in the forums. We’ve raised our profile having been interviewed in a handful of podcasts and mentioned in countless ones. I have heard stories of many young computer enthusiasts starting their own businesses after reading Technibble which is really rewarding for me personally.

I have compiled a list of some of Technibbles articles this year including a list of the most discussed, useful business articles and useful technicial articles in case you missed a few:

Most Discussed:
What was the biggest mistake you made as a computer technician? – 41 comments
Reimage Review – 41 comments
The problem with the computer repair industry – 40 comments
How you look is more important that your certifications – 30 comments
The “no fix, no fee” guarantee – 30 comments
Reimage Revisted – Testing the boot CD – 28 comments
What would you do in these situations – 26 comments
How to brand Windows – 26 comments
Computer Killers: Pet hair, dust and cigarette smoke – 24 comments
Should phone support be our most expensive service? – 24 comments

Useful Business Articles:
Dealing with failure
Tip for setting prices – How much do you need to earn to survive?
Third year boom, Fourth year bust
How to increase your potential client base by hundreds in one day
When is it time to throw in the towel?
Here is a method to help you sell more computers
How I would do it all again
Always provide value
Are you charging enough
Are you the right kind of person to start a business
Misdiagnosing a computer problem
How well should you fix a computer?
My onsite technician gear
How you look is more important that your certifications
Why you need the computer business kit now more than ever
Turn price checks into service calls

Useful Technical Articles:
How to brand Windows
Computer Technician resource sites
12 useful websites for computer technicians
How to disable automatic restart for BSOD if you are unable to get into Windows
How to fix the Windows Registry Hive Problem
Make your job easier with a Tech Station for your test PC
An easy way to break into a Windows user account
Computer Technicians quick reference guide

I’d like to thank you, the readers, for helping us create a great community for computer technicians. Without your comments, opinions and experience Technibble wouldnt be the place it is now.

Computer Technicians Quick Reference Guide

Bryce Whitty — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:57:41 +0000

As a computer technician, there is a lot of information that we need to remember. DOS commands, BSOD STOP messages, Router passwords, IP addresses etc… and thats just to name a few. This is why I have created the Computer Technicians Quick Reference Guide. Its a PDF file with information we frequently have to keep looking up.

The Computer Technicians Quick Reference Guide Contains:

Useful DOS Commands
Common STOP Messages and their meanings
Important Data Locations
Common Router/Modem Login Details (D-Link, Netgear, Linksys)
OpenDNS.com DNS Servers
Useful IP Addresses
BIOS Beep Codes
RJ-45 Color Code Pinout
Useful Links
Freeware Alternatives

Best of all, I’m giving it away for FREE to anyone who signs up to our RSS feed via email (we already have 2400+ people who have chosen to recieve it). For those of you who dont know what our email subscription is, Technibble sends an email to you every few days with all of Technibbles most recent news and articles. Here is an example of what one of our news emails looks like:

To sign up and get the Computer Technicians Quick Reference Guide, just enter your email address in the form below. To those who were already signed up, the download link will appear in the next mailout.

We will never use your email for anything other than you receiving Technibbles news (we hate spam too).

Signup Here!

The download link is in the confirmation email when you sign up

Technibble Launches a Buy, Sell & Trade Forum

Bryce Whitty — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:57:46 +0000

After demand from our forum members, Technibble has launched a Buy Sell & Trade forum on the Technibble forums.

If you have some parts or software you want to get rid of or looking for something hard to find, this is the place to do it.

Together, we can make the Buy, Sell and Trade a great place for Technicians to move some hardware and software. If you have something to sell right now, post it in the forum. You’ve got nothing to lose, its free to make a listing.

You can check out the forum here.