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Written By: James Rintamaki on February 2, 2012 No Comment
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 2 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 4 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 8 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 25 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 [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on July 19, 2010 3 Comments
How to bypass iPhone activation screen

Have a locked iPhone but don’t have a SIM card that is associated with the carrier it is locked to to activate?  Using a RebelSimCard iPhone Activation SIM, you can use it to simply bypass the activation screen and in turn be able to access the phone’s features and potentially move on to perform a [...]

Written By: James Rintamaki on June 11, 2010 51 Comments
How to unlock the Dell Streak using a RebelSim

Update — 1 July 2010: after a few days using this, and from other people’s reports, it looks like there are issues with the RebelSim II being able to receive/make calls while connected to 3G/HSDPA (as well as connecting to the network in general). However, tt appears to work alright if you keep the phone [...]

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