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DJFrankie

I has job!

Yes folks, I have a new job. I'm now the "Internet Sales Co-ordinator" at Computerbank Victoria

What does this mean? It means I rummage through piles of odd IT and multimedia gear, research specifications online, and then list them on ebay. For a day a week of this and a couple of hours from home, they pay me $23.50 an hour.

And as God is my witness, I'll never go dishpigging again.

w00t!
lab

Homebrew Mac Mini Tablet

Now this is nifty. Apple don't make a tablet PC, a PDA or a UMPC, so Peter Green built his own



Based on the Mac Mini Intel - lightest Mac portable ever - 3 hour battery - 8" touch screen with on screen keyboard - digital audio - same height (or a little slimmer) than original Mini - little wider for extra electronics - video input (TV) - Most of the parts were scavenged from Ebay

(Personally I would have gone with a widescreen LCD for watching movies. But still - w00t)

This is the third Mini portable hack he's done - here's MkI and MkII
hmm

Linux on cheap games handhelds approaches usefulness

Yes, "Can it run Linux?" is a Slashdot meme that will not die. But when you're talking $100 to $200 toys with wireless networking built in, a useful operating system and some apps would be a Good Thing, no?

Run Sharp Zaurus apps on the $200 GP2X with Qtopia - Host USB too, so add your own modem, printer, keyboard, mouse, sound/MIDI interface etc

... or have a go at the Nintendo DS version. Cheaper, smaller, somewhat more limited. Uses the Nano-X GUI, which no-one writes for by the look of it. OTOH, there's a library to run X11 binaries.

There's a bunch of others out there. The GP2X looks like the front runner.