You know one of the number one reasons why laptops don’t last more than a year is because you don’t use a laptop stand, especially if the laptop CPU fans are located at the bottom of the laptop. Most of the older laptops have fans on the bottom (God knows WHY they designed it that way) and if yours does, you might want to consider making yourself one of these laptop stands out of a tray with full air-flow to the bottom of your laptop. (so your laptop lasts
While Microsoft is still working on their new version of Courier tablet that rumored to feature two touchscreens, someone has just hacked their Dell Mini with touchscreens and an extra LCD display to get a “hacked” Courier.
This might be a good example to follow but one thing for sure, do you really want to carry this around?
My Dell Mini forum member pakkei decided he couldn’t wait for Microsoft to release the Courier and thought he’d make one hi
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This cool Dell Mini 9 Hack involves adding an accelerometer to an existing touchscreen so you can move it sideways and let the screen auto rotate. We think it’s definitely a good hack worth mentioning on Laptop Pimp, what do you think?
iRotate enables you to use a key-combination to
Installing/replacing laptop memory is actually simpler than most people (who don’t know how) think. Usually it involves couple screws, back cover, and voila! You can easily install/replace laptop memory.
Here’s a video on how to install/replace laptop memory for those of you who don’t know how:
Since netbooks these days come with 5 to 10+ hours of battery life, they can be a great source for charging your USB devices. Of course, if you don’t want to turn on your netbook and charge your USB gadgets, there’s a hack that shows you how to add USB charging ports on an MSI Wind netbook battery.
This hack should be pretty safe as most USB gadgets run on 5VDC, which is practically harmless.
DJ Josef Průša, the author of the
Here’s a great How To video for using Adeona, which helps you track a stolen laptop. And, with laptops being prime theft gadgets, it’s great to have a tool like this out there.
If you have a Macbook, you can even snap a picture of the perp for the police.
Check it out, I’m going to install it right now:
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There are lots of different laptop cases out there, but sometimes you just want something simple you can do yourself.
Well, the LaptopPimp found this great How To video for making your own laptop case from an old pair of pants.
Plus, it has a good looking girl in it. So, worth watching even if you don’t need a case.
