Short, practical notes. What to do after a spill, which updates matter this month, how to back up before you drop off.
10 September 2026
In August, researchers found three bugs in Zoom’s annotation feature that could let someone in your meeting run code on your machine. The fix is a version number. Check yours.
10 September 2026
Liquid damage is our most common repair. What you do before the machine reaches us matters more than anything we do after.
10 September 2026
Chargers and batteries are the parts that get recalled. Australia keeps one official list. Here is how to check yours, and what a recalled charger looks like in practice.
10 September 2026
A low battery figure on a Mac or a Windows laptop is not always a reason to replace anything, and here is how we read that number at the bench.
10 September 2026
Every repair notice in Australia says the same thing: repairs can lose data. Here is how to back up a Mac or a Windows laptop before you drop it off, even one that barely turns on.