Information & Tips

Times are tough. By helping families and businesses repair, rather than replace their belongings, the FixYa community is ensuring that members save money. So before we talk about anything, please accept a heartfelt thank you from FixYa’s staff members. Your contributions as experts and community members are helping improve the quality of life for millions. Really. Millions.

According to VentureBeat, Microsoft is about to get served with a class action lawsuit because they’ve allegedly made efforts to cover up the XBox 360 gaming console defects. The popular tech site also references past instances of XBox issues. Being the experts that you are, I was wondering about your experiences with this console.

My dad would think it was hilarious if someone told him he was living a green lifestyle. He’s the guy who’d come to the dinner table in a mechanic smock covered in grease and steer the conversation towards sports and muscle cars. Still, he’s been rebuilding motorcycles, rewiring the kitchen, dredging yards, and slapping up drywall for over 45 years. While I’d never tell him, I know my dad is an accidental environmentalist because, just like our community of folks who fix, repair and mod their belongings, he’s keeping broken products out of landfills.

As a kid I remember passing my father wrenches and soldering tools as he lay in coveralls beneath his fixer-upper car of the month. He’d rebuilt an old Mustang convertible, a Thunderbird, and a black 1959 El Camino. The year I turned 16-years-old, he had enough foresight to find me the slowest 1986 Chevette hatchback to ever grace the road – it was like driving a gigantic hamster-powered potato.

That being said, the great thing about having a hideous car is that you are not afraid to attempt to resuscitate it. There’s the old saying, “Give a man a fish; you’ve fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish; and you’ve fed him for a lifetime.”

FixYa is a wonderful place for those of you owning a gadget looking for ways to operate it. But FixYa is also a great service for ones with intention of purchasing a new product.
Using the information in the site it’s easy to find how prone the product is to cause problems and what difficulties you may encounter when operating it.

Let’s take Digital cameras as an example.