Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Question of the Day #224

Somehow, N's iPhone ended up in the cat's water dish. Completely submerged. Zapped. So after some searching online, he put the phone in a bag of rice in hopes that the rice would draw the water out of the phone and restore it. It had worked for a blogger, so why not?

And it worked for N too! After a 24 hour rice bath, the iPhone is up and running.

What crazy solution to a problem have you found online?

xoxo,
Suzanne

10 comments:

  1. A fellow blogger told me about those little flaps on the end of the aluminum foil box that keeps the foil from popping out. I never knew they were there.

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  2. Wow!!! I can't believe that worked! That's awesome! I look up how to get stains out of clothes on the internet and water marks on the wood table (mayo!).

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  3. My Blackberry keyboard suddenly stopped working yesterday so I googled how to repair the Pearl 8100 keyboard and it worked... for about 20 minutes. :-(

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  4. On the third day, it'll ``rice'' again!

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  5. I find all kinds of solutions on the net! even for problems I don't have.
    Yesterday, I identified a new "visitor" to our garden. A milksnake or two or three! Haven't seen mommy yet. They aparently are harmless and eat VOLES!!! yeah!! because the voles have eaten all my bulbs!
    Nature taking its own course :) very cool.

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  6. Wow, I'm amazed that it works! The only solution I have searched for on the Web was some natural remedials for my sinusitis, but they seemed not so crazy ;)

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  7. Impressive! I'm sure I'll need that one in the future.

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  8. We've done the rice bath too--it didn't work on an ipod though:(

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  9. No way! I'll have to remember that one!

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  10. My last crazy internet solution is this very same one. I dropped my cell phone into the bath tub with my children. Funny, screaming didn't protect it but like you found, rice cured it.

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