It worked great after rooting it, don't get me wrong. The battery drained a little too fast for reasons unknown even though I did strip everything I could get away with stripping out of it - still lasted a really long time. I also realized even though I could read my Kindle and Google books from their native readers only the Kindle books wouldn't ( Read more... )

I was given a $50 Barnes and Noble gift card for Christmas, so I decided to use it on something I could hack.

I went to Barnes and Noble on Monday and plopped down my gift card and an extra $35 for a Nook Simple Touch. I chose this device because it's rather cheap, is notoriously easy to pwn and actually has good reasons to be pwned ( Read more... )

So you've setup ZSNES, Mednafen, or any other number of emulators and you want to use that really convenient, readily available Bluetooth PS3 game control with it. You go to all the forums, do a little research and you find it's actually quite easy to setup with QtSixA or some other method and you think you're ready to go. You start up your Joy ( Read more... )

Even though DesertRat beat me to it:

UPDATE - it was a false positive!

false positive story here, but I'm still leaving the rest up since they need to be ripped on for it.

I've been meaning to find a good reason to rip on Samsung for a while, and I just got one!My reason for wanting to rip on them wasn't quite this bad though. You see, I ( Read more... )

I'm also going to link to it and post it elsewhere. (Go hit the "+" on this for my would you? href="http://slashdot.org/submission/1428768/Are-Sprints-preinstalled-spware-apps-criminalRead more... )

My speaker problem from a few months back, fixed. I found a set of speakers at Fry's for $25 last week I was seriously about to get, so I decided to take a really close look at my old bad speaker first. I was going to see if there was any saving it up to destroying the housing - I found a black screw that blended into the housing and the ( Read more... )

I'm going to put up a request on the JSC Swap Shop and maybe Craigs list, but it looks like it's going to have to be a new speaker set.

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Usually I rant about companies I don't like and are stepping on the little guy or are pulling some other, usually legal/patent/copywrite asshattery. This rants going to be different, in this case I'm going to rant about a company I really do like and I think is one of the best in the industry.

( Logitech )

So I looked on the swap shop at work, someone was selling a G model Airport Express for only $25, this isn't a bad deal. I already had 1 G model and 1 B model - the B was free to me and the other G I bought off of Amazon. As it stands I can play music at low and reasonable volumes and hear it well everywhere in my apartment, except for the ( Read more... )