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Laptop Hack – How to install 3G on an Asus Eee PC

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With a lot of recent buzz about the addition of 3G to some popular Mini Netbooks, bot the Dell and HP, I thought I’d show you a hack I found a while back on how to add 3G to an Asus Eee PC. It’s actually pretty easy and it gives you even more freedom with one of the best netbooks out there.

Adding 3G can have a lot of benefits, and pretty much every netbook should be thinking about how to access the 3G network. But, as companies are still figuring it out, you can hack you Eee PC to do it right now.

Here’s how:

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HP Mini 100 Hack – How to Access 3G with your Mini 1000

The folks over at Engadget are reporting that the new HP Mini 1000 netbook will be sporting 3G network support come December. The 3G network, made famous as the network behind AT&T’s Apple iPhone, has been rumored for laptops for some time

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Friday Laptop News Roundup and How To Stream to an XBox

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Sad day! It’s official, Apple has added a new form of copy protection to it’s MacBooks. That means no fun TV nights for most everyone. Sorry gang. Looks like Apple users and copyright advocates are getting up and saying something, more news as that all unfolds.

It seems this w

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MacBook Hack: the old four-finger discount

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Want to know haw to make your old-school Mac more like a new MacBook with four-finger touchpad sensitivity? Well, you don’t need to spend a bundle on a new machine, as the old MacBooks can offer the same functionality with one simple hack.

Breaking out in the

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MacBook Nano Review and Specs

Source: Gizmodo.com

Source: Gizmodo.com

The folks over at Gizmodo have posted on this interesting and, absolutely illegal, new MacBook Nano. That’s right, it’s not a apple product, but it sure looks like one. I’m sure these won’t be on the market long at all, not if Steve Jobs has anything to say about it.

The MSI U100 MacBook Nano is a lovely little knock off, with a

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Netbook Hack – How to Make your Acer Aspire or Eee PC into a Touchscreen Device!

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Well, it looks like you can now easily turn your Acer Aspire or Eee PC 900/901 into a touchscreen device simply buying this DIY touchscreen kit on eBay and stuff it into your netbook.

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Eee PC Hack – How to Install Eee PC on your Car Dashboard!

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Some Russian modder has installed his Eee PC on his dashboard, replacing the car navigation/stereo system altogether.

You can take a look at the pics here and also some instructions here.

Russian Eee PC 701 owner decided that his netbook would look better in his car’s dashboard than on h

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Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Hack – How to install a seamless GPS unit!

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If you got a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 and you want to use your netbook as a GPS navigation system, you can do so easily by installing a GPS unit right by your bluetooth internals.

I started by tearing the Mini down and seeing if it was even possible. Luckily, there’s a bit of space around where the Bluetooth adapter is located. It wasn’t much, but it looked like enough, so I ordered

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How to get 20% off HP Laptops and any Laptops bought on eBay!

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By making use of Microsoft’s Live Search cashback program, you can easily get 20% off HP laptops and stuff bought on eBay.

One you enter your e-mail address, you will get the following:

There, now you can buy stuff for 20% less.  This should be great for any major purchases you make online.

I started my search at Live.com and searched for “cheap” along with some product name; I tried a few variations such as “cheap wii”

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Eee PC Hack – How to Make Windows XP get along with SSD (Solid State Drives)!

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Here’s a good Eee PC hack that will allow you to run your Windows XP faster with SSDs.  This could probably apply to any netbook with SSDs.

Cheaper SSD drives like our Core V1 and Core V2 series have limitations with random writes filling up the write buffer on the drive and causing the SATA controller to pause while this is flushed. The reason for this is Nand MLC drives at present have to erase before they write…hence you get added latency. So every bit written to the drive has to be preceded by a bit erased, the drive can not write

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