Hot on the heels of our post about reading passwords from EEPROM, [n0th1n6] tipped us off about a similar hack used to resurrect an Eee PC from a bad bios flash. After discovering that a factory repair for a dead bios costs about $200, [CutenaCute_7] took on the challenge herself. She disassembled the computer and desoldered the bios chip from the board. After writing a program to flash the chip using C#, she temporarily soldered jumpers to make sure the flash worked. Looks like this is a zero cost hack, plus the time savings from not having to ship…
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Eee PC bios resurrection
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Apple gives c64 emulator the boot
After making it to the top 20 in most regions, Apple has removed the c64 emulator for the iPhone from the App Store. Apparently the thorough app review process didn’t discover that the BASIC system had not been removed from the app, but was instead merely hidden.
Another revision of the emulator has been submitted for review but how long will that take? What is the review process for if they’re not looking deep enough to find specific functions they don’t want an app to have? Approving apps and pulling them a few days later is another Hot Coffee…
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Rotating iPhone dock from Legos
Hot on the heels of the aluminum dock and the Lego camera mount, [Steve] sent in his iPhone/iPod Touch dock made out of Lego bricks. It’s very stylish with a black and grey theme but we think the function makes this DIY spectacular. In the design [Steve] has included the ability to rotate the cradle so that the iPhone can be presented either vertically or horizontally. A step-by-step guide is not yet available but resourceful Lego lovers should be able to build this using his flickr set.
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Slide Announces $500,000+ Sponsorship From Hot Pockets
Today Slide is announcing the launch of season two of KatalystHQ within their FunSpace Facebook application and with it, a $500,000+ sponsorship by NESTLÉ® HOT POCKETS®. Recently the company claimed that they has laid off a large portion of their sales staff in order to focus “its attention on building a team that will focus on higher-end campaigns, ones in the $500,000 category range.” (Source: GigaOm) Many large developers that I spoke with laughed at the concept, asking “Are there really that many $500,000 plus sponsorships?” Apparently so.
This is the first big sponsorship deal that we’ve heard of from…
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Hot News About Life Insurance
This is a hot news from life insurance. According from insure4usa.com that they say that annualized life insurance premium sales fell 23% in the first half of the year, the steepest slump in 67 years, but the rate of decline in the second quarter slowed from the quarter before, an industry association said Monday. Life insurers have been battered the past year by billions of dollars in investment losses and write-downs amid the slumping stock market. Last month, the largest U.S. life insurer, MetLife Inc., swung to a loss on big investment losses linked to derivatives. Industrywide premium sales…
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How To Create A Hot Selling Internet Product That’s Guaranteed
We all know that selling eBooks is a fantastic way of makingmoney online. It’s a business that seems to grow with every daythat goes by. More and more eBooks are coming out all the time.Why? Simple. Because they work.Think about it. They can all be sent via email or instantdownload, yet people still say anything from – for them.It’s all about finding a hungry market, and then providing themwith exactly what they want.The question is how do you find that market? And once you’vefound them how do you know what exactly that market wants? Well this is a simple…
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Finding HOT, Non-Internet Marketing Topics For Your eBooks
It’s so tempting to write ebooks yet again, on "How To MakeMoney on the Internet" isn’t it? You see the thousands of books pitching the next big tip,technique or strategy for making money online.You get a flood of email from guru’s who have made it big in theworld of internet marketing products, writing ebooks on thattopic. Or have they really made it big? OK, They Are Going To Lynch Me For Saying This!Could it be that these gurus HAVE to be highly visible, runseminar after seminar and stay in your face to be able to LIVEmarketing to this niche?Honestly, I…
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Tips and Tricks To Getting Top Money for your Domain Names
Would you like to be that lucky person who sells their domainfor thousands or even a million dollars? It IS possible to findquality domains and resell them for huge amounts of money. Thetime is ripe for acquiring top domains and selling them. Nowthat the Internet Boom is behind us, valuable names expireeveryday. The best way to find these domains is to use serviceson the Internet such as DomainsBot to weed out the bad names. Orjust check out Hot Lists on sites like Namewinner or Pool. So what makes a "good" domain name? Usually short, single worddomains and – letter…
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Domain Investing is Getting Hot
Domain Investing is Getting HotThe domain name business is like real estate and a Forex trading put together. And that’s too much.And this business has great advantages: works in autopilot, you don’t need to setup a website and you can start with dollars.The Big Question: How can i make money with domain names?You can make money with domain names in many ways. Domain parking is the one i like.Domain Parking is a way to monetize one or many not developed domains.One of the greatest things of domain parking is that you dont need to desing a site or build its…
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Internet Marketing – Niche Marketing
To begin with, if you follow Zeitgeist* you can see if there is anything that catches the eye.. These are the keywords that are ‘hot’ at the moment, if they excite, then add them to the list. If they are particularly new, the analysis that follows may be invalid, so please use common sense. i.e. ‘world trade center’ would have been ‘cold’ before 9/11, then hot, then cooling over the following years and now it will be hot again because of the film. If in doubt, check the trends to see the movement over the years.
You probably don’t want…
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Hot News
The Bank of England has left its key interest rates on hold at 0.5%. UK PPI figures came out above consensus across the board: core output PPI rose 0.2% over the month of March and was up 3.3% from the same period last year; input price inflation increased by 1.0% on a month-to-month basis in March (down 0.4% y/y), while output producer price inflation rose 0.1% m/m and 2.0% y/y.Industrial production in Germany slipped by 2.9% in February from January. The figure fares better than the -3.1% expected and January’s figure of -6.1%.The US trade balance fell to -25.97 bn…
