Toyota Camry Heater Fan Speed

My 1999 Toyota Camry lost all by the high and medium-high fan speeds a few years back, then one day I had only the “high” fan speed. A little bit annoying, but something you get used to. I ignored it because I figured it would be expensive and time consuming to get fixed… however the solution turned out to be very easy. (click on the photos to enlarge)

Toyota Camry fan control resistor JA1334

The simple part below (from Amazon) is all that is needed to fix the problem. It took me about 20 minutes to replace, mostly just because the part is a little hard to get to.

If you look under the glove box area, there is a black cover that you carefully remove, this will expose all the wires and controls underneath. Then on the side toward the steering wheel in the far upper corner you will see the JA1334 resistor. Remove the 2 screws holding it in and it will slide right out. Unplug the connector, and plug the new part in and screw it back in (easier said than done). But once it is in, you should now have ALL your fan speeds back!

Here is a look at the old one I removed, you can see how worn and corroded it had become!

**disclaimer: I am no auto technician, replace at your own risk**

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Microsoft Removing Chrome as Virus

Microsoft is detecting Google Chrome as PWS: Win32/ Zbot virus and removing it. Even trying to re-install Google Chrome is stopped by Microsoft Security Essentials.

zbot google chrome

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Sprint Update USB Charging Issue

Sprint just rolled out 2.3.3 Gingerbread android. While the update ran without obvious errors or problems.

Many customers soon realized their phones won’t charge! I personally noticed this when I arrived at work and plugged my phone into a USB charging port and saw the battery would not charge. Then plugging into a “live” PC USB port would usually trigger the “USB Storage” message on the phone, did not trigger this, instead the PC tried to install drivers for the phone.

Now the only way the phone will charge is with a wall charger, so no car charging or PC charging any longer. From what I hear some people are unable to charge their phones at all, even using the wall charger. Serious issue!

I was able to get the phone to charge on the PC port only by going to LG mobile website and having to install the phone drivers manually.

Sprint, please release an update ASAP to fix this charging issue!

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timthumb

If you run WordPress, you may find out the hard way what timthumb.php is…

This was/is a vulerable zero-day exploitable file that is right now sitting on probably thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of websites…

This is going to wreck havoc across the web.

If you are using a wordpress theme other than a default there, run right now to find out if you are using timthumb, it might be timthumb.php or thumb.php, if you do, I suggest you delete it NOW, and then go find the updated version.

http://timthumb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/timthumb.php

Just look at the google trend for timthumb and the trend for timthumb.php

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What is the WWF format?

wwf formatThe WWF format is a PDF that cannot be printed out. The WWF format was developed by the World Wildlife Fund to help prevent unnecessary printing of paper, and to raise awareness about wasting paper.

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Debug.log on Desktop

delete debug.log errorI have noticed a file appearing on my desktop called debug.log. Sometimes I could just deleted it, other times I would get an error saying: Cannot delete debug: It is being used by another person or program.

The file was always just an empty file (0 bytes).

I wanted to know what application was creating this log, so I opened up process monitor and watched for access to this file.

Internet Explorer 8 is creating this log. You can see the proof below.

debug.log

What does this mean and why is it doing this? Not sure! Once you close Internet Explorer you can delete the file without error.

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Airport Weather Application

Simple and easy to use temperature application.

Display the current temperature by entering the airport code.

airport weather application

List of Airport Codes

Download the Airport Weather Application

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Convert Tif to Gif Command Line

Free command line image converter from tif to gif.

tconvertUse this simple tif to gif command line image conversion tool to convert a single file or a batch of files.

Use like: tconvert.exe somefile.tif or to convert all the files in the directory use: tconvert.exe -all

Tif to Gif Download

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