30 Cool Acer Aspire One Hacks!

by Laptop Pimp on Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Here’s a cool list of hacks for the Acer Aspire One netbooks:

Software Hacks

  1. Linpus Advanced Mode
  2. Minimise Color Banding in X11
  3. Quieter Fan
  4. Speed up SSD Access
  5. Flash Latest BIOS (note: be careful wih this one, as you’ll lose the lower brightness settings)
  6. Upgrade to OpenOffice 2.4
  7. Install F-Spot Photo Manager
  8. Upgrade to Firefox 3
  9. Flash Player 10RC2 Installation
  10. Upgrading Acer OpenJDK Runtime to Sun Java
  11. Upgrading Acer Mail to Thunderbird
  12. Changing Linpus Desktop Icons
  13. Ten More Tweaks for a new Acer Aspire One
  14. Deselecting Forced Acer Updates
  15. Switch between Acer and XFCE Desktops

Hardware Hacks

  1. Install Internal Bluetooth
  2. Ram Upgrade
  3. Replace SSD with 1.8” PATA HD
  4. A Selection of Additional Disk Space Enhancements
  5. Touchscreen Hack
  • USB Hub and TV Tuner (badly translated from Swedish by google)
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    2 Responses to “30 Cool Acer Aspire One Hacks!”

    1. linda Says:

      Oh, so cool,IT looks like very powerful.Maybe you need some good battery.

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    2. Klez Says:

      Another cool ‘hack’ is to make /tmp a ramdrive (way faster IO) and then move anything that uses disk cache to /tmp.

      fstab entry:
      tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=512M,mode=1777 0 0

      Make firefox’s cache live in /tmp:
      about:config
      -> browser.cache.disk.parent_directory (string) /tmp/firefox_cache

      http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.disk.parent_directory

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