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How to install Windows 7 on Netbooks

How to install Windows 7 on Netbooks
October 22nd marks another day in the history of Windows Operating Systems. Windows 7, which I honestly haven’t tried yet, is officially released for everyone and available for purchase for as low as $199.99 for Windows 7 Home Premium Edition – the cheapest and most commendable version f...

Elantech Touchpad Annoyances [Solved]

Elantech Touchpad Annoyances [Solved]
One of the good things about the Eee PC 1000HE is having a touchpad which is pretty wide and is multi-touch. It supports two-finger scrolling, two-finger zoom in/out and two-finger rotating among others. When I got my 1000HE two months ago, I immediately noticed two problems with its ‘very sen...

HowTo Sync Files between a Mini Note and your Home Computer? Use Syncables

HowTo Sync Files between a Mini Note and your Home Computer? Use Syncables
It has happened to me lots of times before, looking for files on my netbook which is actually not in there but on my home computer or the other way around. I’m sure you experienced it too, and one way we do about it is have a portable storage to copy files we need and [...]...

128GB SSD Hack for Dell Mini 9

128GB SSD Hack for Dell Mini 9
JKK has another crazy presentation for us to see on his collection of hack-videos. The latest I saw was this hack for Dell Mini 9, adding a larger SSD. And when I say larger, it’s larger in capacity and in size, physically. The hack, according to him, is easy. It only involves removing the som...

HP Mini 1000 ‘Hidden’ 3G module

HP Mini 1000 ‘Hidden’ 3G module
The HP Mini 1000 is the 2nd netbook from HP which replaces the VIA processor from the previous 2133 and uses Intel Atom. It has SSD storage of 8GB/16GB, and 60GB HDD options. RAM is reduced to 512MB compared to previous 1GB. Lots of differences from the 2133 brother. Some are now surprised because i...

How To install Ubuntu 8.10 on Eee PC

How To install Ubuntu 8.10 on Eee PC
Ubuntu 8.10 has been released recently, and if you feel you want to install it on your netbook already, Tombuntu has got you a very detailed instructions of how to install Ubuntu 8.10. In his case, an Eee PC 901, But it should basically work on other model as well. The instruction includes: Creatin...

HowTo Fix Fn-F5 toggle on Eee PC running Windows XP

HowTo Fix Fn-F5 toggle on Eee PC running Windows XP
Since I now have a Live Ubuntu Eee on my 8GB SDHC, I headed and installed Windows XP on Eee 701 that I own. I was able to grab a USB to IDE cable from Brando and installing the XP with an external DVD drive was a breeze. After installing all required drivers and the [...]...

What are the ingredients of One Day Computing?

What are the ingredients of One Day Computing?
One Day Computing is literally composed of 3 words, describing a whole day (8 hrs) of mobility using your netbook. And by mobility it means that you should be able to move from one place to another, without plugging a charger or turning off your netbook. One Day Computing largely depends on battery ...

How to deal Eee PC Right-Shift key without hacks

How to deal Eee PC Right-Shift key without hacks
Warning: This is an old topic, I just thought it might still be helpful. Despite all the good things about the Eee PC, there’s also annoyances we’ve been hearing as well. The least I should say is the Right-Shift key, which most user thinks it was misplaced (and small as well). Seems to ...

How to not configure your Eee PC to get internet connection?

How to not configure your Eee PC to get internet connection?
There’s a company in Germany (Nova Media) that offers a helpful software called “launch2net for Linux ...