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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Interesting Netbook Mods

Posted by Chris Gohlke in "Digital Home Hardware & Accessories" @ 05:00 PM

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/...ok-hackery.html

"Thanks to their utilitarian design and low prices, netbooks are inspiring a booming subculture of hackers souping up their liliputers with touchscreens, GPS and unauthorized operating systems like Apple's Mac OS X. As netbook sales continue to soar, more and more tech-savvy grease monkeys are dismantling netbooks to add fancy features including back-lit keyboards, GPS and longer-lasting batteries."

Other than upgrading the OS to Ubuntu, I have not modified my Eee at all. That said, I'm tempted to add Bluetooth and GPS after reading this article. Any of you with netbooks done any interesting mods?

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Take The Internet With You When You Go!

Posted by Chris Gohlke in "Digital Home Hardware & Accessories" @ 06:00 AM

http://jonwestfall.com/blog/2008/05...ou-when-you-go/

"About a year ago, I switched from Direcway Broadband Satellite internet to a Sprint EVDO Rev A card for my home internet service. The choice was easy – the Sprint card was cheaper and had better speeds overall than the satellite. For awhile, I put my broadband card into a spare computer and had it share the connection via Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) in Windows XP. Then I found a router online (The WRT54G3G-ST) that would let me pop the card right into my router and avoid the ICS hassle. The best part about using a broadband card for your internet service is that when you leave, you can simply take the internet with you when you go. However unless you want to install the broadband card drivers on every laptop in the family, there is no easy way to share (Unless you think setting up an adhoc network in Vista and sharing the internet – reliably – is easy!). My Solution? A cheap and easy rig that will let you pack “The Internet” with you when you go!"

Jon has hacked together a pretty neat solution for using his EVDO card to provide internet access anywhere although I question his use of the Avon box. :) I'd be interested to see what happened if he tried to put that in a carry-on.