Chemical Shift

A few weeks ago I repaired Melissa’s LCD Monitor. It was the first time I attempted to fix one, but I’ve worked inside a couple notebooks and computers for a while, and I figured that I could always try to sell the parts if I what I thought was wrong with it wasn’t. One day out of the blue, her screen turned off on its own. I switched out power cables, plugged it into another power strip, and then did an internet search for resolution. (Resolution, for a monitor problem… ) The most likely culprit was the inverter-power board.

I found a place that sells inverters and power boards for a variety of LCDs, including hers, a Dell 1707FPc 17″ with built-in USB 2.0 hub. I had to pry open the plastic case of the monitor very carefully, so that it would look nice after I put it back together in the end. I also had to remove the metal shielding around the boards. so that I could identify the type of inverter/power board that I needed. The vendor had the wrong image up for the board, but they had the best price and were helpful in responding back to me when I emailed them a picture of the board I had for confirmation.

I’ve seen a lot a products and projects recently that involve using a computer to design objects in 3D and creating a physical object in the real world from it. Eventually, I would like to incorporate some of these into a future design business with Melissa.
The first is a really neat program called ZBrush [...]

Of course, when I finally decide to upgrade WordPress, they put out a new one the next day to fix some bugs and improve security, so yet again, I’ve upgraded this time to 2.0.6.
I’ve decided to put back up the link to the showcase of the contents of our home library in the sidebar on [...]

As my faithful, non-existant readers may have noticed, Chemical Shift was down the past couple of days.
Apparently, WordPress was causing excessive usage of the MySQL database in which nearly everything on this site is contained. I think it was because it was bombarded with spam comments between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Every [...]

I started entering the books and movies that we have into a program that I bought recently called, Delicious Library. There are a few free add-ons that expand its abilities, such as DeliciTunes, which enables you to import your music from iTunes, and DeliciWeb, with which you can export your library into a web [...]