Keep Oral-B always in full power

If you are an Oral-B user, you should have noticed that the brush becomes not so powerful if it is fully charged - after the green light is off.

So I use a timer to charge it only before and after the time I use it. For example, I brush around one o'clock at night so I set it to start charging at 10PM and turn it off at 2AM. About 4 hours. Similar for the morning, for another 4 hours.

Then I simply leave it in the charger all the time after each use. This way, the brush is still being charged when I use it and it is always in its full wings.

Depending on how many minutes you brush every time, you may set the total charging time anywhere from 5 to 10 hours. The key is to give it enough time to charge but never be fully charged before you use it. I brush for about 5 minutes each time and 4 hours (8 hours per day) is about perfect.

Battery replacement for Japanese rice cookers

The battery in some Japanese rice cookers will run out in about 10 years. Unfortunately this battery is solder-on and thus not replaceable by the user. Therefore I had to desolder the old battery and mount a 2-AAA battery holder. From now on, the two AAA batteries should last forever. If they somehow will run out again, it is very easy to replace.

Updated K88 to 7.1.1

Have not used much since the update, so don't know good or bad.

How to force a manual update on K88

Final fix for water in canister

If your Toyota or Scion car has check-engine light on after driving in heavy rain, you may watch this videos for diagnosis (ignore the condom part, no need to do that, because water did not get in from there, see the correct fix at the bottom of this page):



And this video for purging water out of the canister pump module:



For the permanent fix, block the small holes under the gas-feed inlet (take off the rear tire at the driver side and look up):

Piaggio/Vespa scooter regulator test and replacement

The battery on my Piaggio LT150 is no longer charged while riding. It took me quite a while to figure out how to access the charging unit, turned out to be quite easy as showing in this video:


This video also shows how to test the regulator, replace it and mount everything back.

How to make headphones comfortable

It is summer time, your headphones become hot and sweaty. Here comes the fix:

The best version of Yandex

17.1.2.339.  Older versions cannot block some sites' pop up ads, such as 6park.com, and no option to save passwords for many sites. Newer versions have the tableau totally messed up.

Yandex

[in Chinese]

老的版本不能阻挡一些网站的恶性弹出广告，比如6park.com，很多的网站也不提示密
码保存。新的版本呢，常去网站的标签一塌糊涂，名不相符。

我衷心感谢Yandex终于做了一个在手机和平板上真正能替代桌面电脑的浏览器。从用PDA那
时候开始，我就一直梦想这么个浏览器。我现在很少带电脑出门了，因为这下手机上都可以做了。

• 能无极缩放，又能自动满行，还有阅读模式。
• 能记住所有网站的密码。当然你也可以选择不记。
• 支持所有的电脑上的Chrome和Opera的插件，也就是这个浏览器无所不能。
• 页面整洁，不像Chrome和UCWEB里的有些字太大、有些字又太小。
• 看Youtube没有广告（不需要安装任何插件），自动全屏。
• 不像UCWEB和Chrome那样发热耗电。
• 写了一半的帖，reboot后都还在，一字不漏。
• 地址栏在下面，很贴心（平板时还是在上面）。