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Written By: James Rintamaki on February 6, 2010 10 Comments
How to dismantle and upgrade Dell Mini 1012

Follow the HD video or picture guide to learn how to dismantle and upgrade the Dell Mini 1012 netbook

Written By: James Rintamaki on August 30, 2009 4 Comments
How to add your signature to PDFs for free

Have a PDF you need to sign and send back but don’t want to print, scan, and/or fax? Learn how to add your signature to a PDF using your camera phone and free tools!

Written By: James Rintamaki on July 26, 2009 127 Comments
Use Gizmo5 for free calls with Google Voice

Learn how to use Gizmo 5 and Google Voice to easily make and receive free calls (pair with an ATA device, and be able to call using your home’s land line!)

Written By: James Rintamaki on July 23, 2009 119 Comments
How to upgrade Dell Mini 10v memory

A video and picture guide to upgrading the memory in the Dell Mini 10v from 1GB to 2GB. Basically, there is no easy access memory door, so you have to dismantle the entire laptop to get to the underside of the mother board. All you need are some mini screw drivers and patience!

Written By: James Rintamaki on May 16, 2009 7 Comments
How to hide wall mounted speaker wires in your apartment for under $3

Do you live in an apartment and have speakers hanging on the wall with wires dangling down from them?  Try this trick – use plain, off white masking tape to hide them (or at least mask them).
 
Of the four different apartments I’ve lived in, every one of them has had off white walls.  A while [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on March 16, 2009 13 Comments
How to fix a bulging keyboard on the Dell Studio 15 (1535/1536)

Just like the keyboard bulge on the Dell XPS M1330, I recently bought a (refurbished) Dell Studio 15 to find that it suffers from the same bulge/flex issue.  Just like the M1330, it has to do with the WiFi cable not sitting in it’s ‘designated groove’ in the chassis.  What you need to do [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on September 26, 2008 79 Comments
Lenovo IdeaPad U330 Initial Hands On Review

 
After a long wait, ordering on 8/27/08 and finally receiving it 9/25/08 (wow, almost as bad as the Dell XPS M1330!), I finally have the wonderful machine that is the Lenovo IdeaPad U330.  Preliminary thoughts after using it for about 2 hours?  Neat features, very responsive, I hate the placement of the Fn key, and [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on February 1, 2008 14 Comments

(image above was distorted for effect — the bulge is NOT like this, haha)
So, you just spent probably more than $1000 on your fancy new Dell XPS m1330 and expected perfection!  I know I did.  However, you open the box to find that you have a bulging keyboard!  Needless to say you are quite [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on October 26, 2007 2 Comments

Did you know that if you have a smartphone (windows mobile, some symbian, or palm) and a data plan, you can make $15 for signing up and $5/month to install a simple, unobtrusive usage statistics program?  I’m sure you may be a bit skeptical, as was I, but I recently got my $15 check!

Written By: James Rintamaki on September 18, 2007 No Comment
HowTo – Civic headlights removal

need to replace the parking/turn signal bulbs?  got some new fancy headlights?  here’s how to take out the old ones! (from a 96-00 civic)

Prerequisite steps:

Remove the front bumper

Time to complete:

remove bumper = ~15 min
remove headlight = ~5 min

Tools needed:

10mm wrench / socket

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