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Written By: James Rintamaki on June 8, 2012 7 Comments
How to take a screenshot with the Samsung Galaxy S3

This is a pretty straight forward post – how to take a screenshot with the Samsung Galaxy S3.  There are two out of the box ways to do it, and for both, the screenshots are saved to the /mnt/sdcard/Pictures/Screenshots directory and also copied to the clipboard. Screenshots on the Galaxy S3     1)  Power [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on May 16, 2012 7 Comments
How to easily sign PDFs for free

In an effort to go completely paperless, I was presented with the problem of needing to sign a document that was emailed to me and send it back. Without having to print out the form to sign it nor needing access to a scanner or fax machine to send it back, you can simply take [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on February 2, 2012 11 Comments
How to upgrade a Dell Inspiron 1121 (11z)

Just bought a Dell Inspiron 1121 (11z / M101z) and want to know how to upgrade the memory or hard drive?  Unlike a few netbooks from the Dell Mini line, it’s quite simple on the 1121 and all you need are a couple of screw drivers and about 10 minutes – keep on reading to [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on December 12, 2011 5 Comments
How to flash the bios on a Foxconn nT-330i

I recently bought two Foxconn nT-330i machines (dual core, atom n330, mini desktops) and found myself needing to flash the bios.  However, I installed Windows 7 64bit and Linux on them and unfortunately there’s no easy utility to flash the bios from within either of those operating systems (the Foxconn bios utility only works in [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on June 1, 2011 9 Comments
How to enable voice calling on AT&T Galaxy Tab

Enable voice calling from your AT&T Samsung Galaxy Tab by downloading a few files and making a few clicks.

Written By: James Rintamaki on April 20, 2011 11 Comments
How to take a screenshot on the Eee Pad Transformer

Learn how to take screenshots / screen grabs on the Eee Pad Transformer (without any additional software or apps)

Written By: James Rintamaki on October 30, 2010 33 Comments
How to upgrade and dismantle the Dell Mini 1018

Learn how to upgrade, dismantle, and reassemble the Dell Mini 10v 1018 (upgrade memory, hard drive, replace screen, etc)

Written By: James Rintamaki on September 27, 2010 One Comment
How to unlock the Dell Streak – UPDATED

I recently wrote a post about how to unlock the Dell Streak using a Rebel Simcard II – however – there ended up being a few issues where it would regularly loose connection, not be able to work on 3G, and a few other problems.   However, there have been some recent updates and new solutions [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on September 4, 2010 2 Comments
Use Google Voice and Gizmo5 for free US calls – updated

Since the original post on how to use Gizmo5 for free calls with Google Voice, many things have changed so I figured that guide could use a bit of an update. When the integration of Google Voice and Gizmo first came about, Google Voice was still in beta and invite only, you could openly register [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on July 29, 2010 One Comment
Make cheaper calls from your cell phone using RebelSim Call Through

Would you like to call internationally from your mobile phone without having to pay the high per minute rates from your cell carrier or manually having to use a calling card and remembering to actually use the card in the first place?  Using the RebelSim Dialer Call through SIM, you can have your phone automatically [...]

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