There is a very common failure on the APC Back-UPS 500 RS (BR500I). The UPS does not turn on and there are dark burn spots on the side and top of the UPS case as shown on the picture. We can fix this condition in about 30 minutes in our office; the price is 800 baht.
BR500I failure
The best way to watch the World Cup with English commentary is the Malaysian Astro TV satellite provider with their SuperSport HD channel. Reception is very good in Phuket and the subscription is cheap. Please contact us if you want to know the installation details.
Recently a friend of mine asked me for help preparing his iPhone for long travels. He bought the Lonely Planet PDFs for the countries he planned to visit. But in these PDFs the facing pages were joined together, and it was not convenient to read them via Air Sharing iPhone App. We searched for an application capable of splitting the facing pages into the separate ones. Finally we stumbled upon A-PDF Page Cut, which did split the document like we wanted in a few clicks. You just need to add a vertical separating line to the first sheet, click “apply” once for the rest of the pages and save the result as a new file. Moreover, the program even has the batch mode allowing you to convert many files at once.
There was one caveat: A-PDF Page Cut did not keep the proper page numbers from the original file, and there are references to the certain page numbers in the text. You will need to use some other application to set a proper starting page number in the resulting PDF.
The customer brought an Acer Aspire 7720G which was unable to power up (no lights on) after the BIOS flashing from Windows went wrong. The customer used the original BIOS updater from Acer web site. In this state the notebook appears as completely dead, pressing the power button simply does not work. There is a certain procedure to recover the notebook from this state without disassembling it. Took about 30 minutes including the preparation.
