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 [...]
Follow the HD video or picture guide to learn how to dismantle and upgrade the Dell Mini 1012 netbook
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!
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!)
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!
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. [...]
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 to [...]
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, [...]
A couple years ago, I posted how to fix your Dell XPS m1210 keyboard if it had a bulge in the keyboard. A few months after that, I changed webhosts and managed to loose all the pictures, and today when searching through www.archive.org, I was able to find the thumbnails of all those pictures! http://www.jrin.net/2006_06_06/why-the-dell-xps-m1210-has-a-flexablebulging-keyboard [...]
(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 [...]
