May 11th, 2010

http://www.stevenjohal.com/replacing-a-loud-speaker-in-an-iphone-3g/

Changing the iPhone 3G loudspeaker is a major pain! This speaker is the one opposite to the microphone with the charging port in between. Not to be confused with the handset speaker that’s normally used in telephone calls.
To change the speaker first you have to split the phone to pieces. You start by sticking a [...]

April 23rd, 2010

Right now, my Blackberry Bold 9000 after going through a hailstorm, is not working properly. I removed the battery right away and dried it out, however it still didn’t work properly. Initially the trackball had issues, and then I noticed very small salt residue at the trackball system’s output pins. So I drenched it in [...]

April 21st, 2010

While working on a ASP.NET site, I needed to change the code in the codebehind pages in C# to convert \n to <br /> tags. I was working on a product review system for an ecommerce site, and when a user types in a review and presses enter, the line break didn’t convert once the [...]

April 21st, 2010

http://www.stevenjohal.com/black-and-white-watermark-removal-trick/

I figured out a quick trick to remove a watermark. Lets say you have a black and white image such as this one from iStockphoto, while I recommend just buying the image for a few bucks, there is quick trick to remove the watermark.

First put the image into a photo editing tool such as Adobe [...]

April 20th, 2010

http://www.stevenjohal.com/european-airspace-reopens-in-certain-parts/

According to Business week, some parts of the European Airspace has reopened thanks to thinner areas of ash that the pilots can fly through.

Business Week on the Iceland Volcanic Eruption

Here’s a map showing Iceland in relation to Europe, the eruption was so large it affected a massive area.

Map showing Iceland in relation to Europe.

March 23rd, 2010

http://www.stevenjohal.com/lexar_memory_stick_pro_duo_data_recovery/

The Issue
A little over a year back, I had over 200 pictures stored on Lexar Memory Stick Pro Duo 4GB (MagicGate) card. After a while the card stopped working. It gave an error C:13:01 on the Sony Cybershot I tried it on (Reinsert the Memory Stick). I even tried it on another camera and that [...]

February 21st, 2010

I got URL rewrite to work. I got managed fusion rewriter to work since it seems like a better solution and uses the same syntax as you would use mod_rewrite on Apache.
Here’s what I did. Make a “bin” folder under IIS settings under hosting settings in godaddy. Setup the folder with non of the checkboxes [...]

December 30th, 2009

http://www.stevenjohal.com/uniqsearch8_akon_virus/

I recently got a virus from a filesharing site. After a while, my browser became hijacked, the wallpaper changed and I started getting loads of popups. One popup was a window made to look like firefox, but wasn’t even firefox. It was somehow created by the explorer.exe process. CTRL + ALT + DEL would not [...]

December 3rd, 2008

http://www.stevenjohal.com/casio_exilim_lens_repair_piggy/

Piggy is a Casio Exilim camera that fell on the ground while the lens was protruded. The camera lens would not retract causing it not to function properly. Basically the camera was fixed by getting the lens back on its tracks.

I removed the cover to the gear train which moves the lens up and down. [...]