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During my daily browsing of eBay today, I found several lots of older tablet PC’s, most notable ones under 200mhz. While these could never be used for most of the day-to-day tasks we require from the average tablet PC, I was still thinking of some interesting uses for them.
Here’s a couple I came up with

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SIM cards are used by carriers to identify a phone, store its contact information, and allow the consumer to use the phone of their choice. But in the U.S. there are unfortunately only a few prepaid carriers that use the GSM network that SIM cards are compatible with.
The carriers with significant coverage I know of [...]

Nowadays many WiFi hotspots are blocking or filtering port 25 traffic, leaving most email users with a problem: How do I send my mail?
If your lucky enough to be running your own postfix server that already is set up for SASL authentication, than give this a shot by adding it to your postfix master.cf file [...]

These KA08’s are popping up like whack-o-moles on eBay  lately. Their quite often mistaken for a miniature iPhone at the first sight, but in reality they aren’t even a U.S. product. Their a Chinese close of the iPhone, and a rather nice one too.
As you can see in the picture, they follow the exact same [...]

Hmm. This doesn’t look good. According to this cnet news posting, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is planning to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products in return for freebies or payments. This would basically put bloggers who do not provide full 100% idiot-proof discloser in hot water.
“But some bloggers, the AP article [...]

Turns out there’s an even better way to attach your Nike+ sensor to a non-nike shoe than described in my last Nike+ sensor post. It basically involves using a specialised pouch designed specifically for this purpose, which would prevent the sensor from disappearing while you run. This is a Genuine Good Thing, especially since the [...]

My previous post about the Xplore Genesys II gathered a plethora of comments (Not to mention page-views!), many of which described the troubles of this tablet. While I have not made very much progress with the tablet so far, those commentors have, and described how they achieved it.
Now for my contribution: A few pictures of the battery & motherboard of [...]

Good news: I found my local Apple store! So I was finally able to purchase a Nike+ sensor to help keep track of my running.
Bad news: Sensor is built for a specific Nike shoe. D’oh.
Luckily I’m skilled enough with hacking simple things like this.
Of course, you could simply tape/velcro the sensor or embed it in the [...]