RFID Reader For Your iPhone

Benjamin Blundell built a hardware interface for his jailbroken iPhone that reads RFID signals. By patching in his homebrew hardware to his iPhone via a standard iPhone USB cable the reader detects low-frequency tags and will soon be able to read MIFARE tags as well. You can bet you will never see this app approved [...]

Dell Mini 9 Tablet

Hardware mod Rob928 has done a great job converting his Dell Mini 9 netbook into a tablet. He has also added some more features to his unit; an SSD hard drive, relocation of all ports and of course, a touch screen. The final product looks quite nice and without deep inspection you would never be [...]

Portable Data Center

A pioneering Dell employee has create a prototype portable data center. This won’t be replacing any of the big shipping container data centers that the likes of Google or Sun are building, but this is a great start to of things to come. This would be great in a disaster recovery plan to bring systems [...]

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Running OS X

The UMPCs are become hot little machines to turn into hackintoshes. The latest victim is the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. Loaded with a slipstreamed version of OSX (in a similar manner as the MSI Wind). To top it all off, the ethernet, wireless, and sound work. If you have a Mini 9 and want to [...]

Make Windows look like a Mac

Santa not bring you that shiny new Mac you asked for? Stuck with a Dell that was stuffed into your stocking? FlyakiteOSX transforms the look of Windows to OS X. You’ll still be running Windows and have to deal with all of the virii and worms that have been plaguing the OS for years, but [...]

Apple’s market share hits 17.6 percent

With all of the iPhone hype over shadowing Apple’s primary financial source, their notebooks and desktops, consumers are clearly still interested in the company’s bread and butter. Data from one market research firm shows Apple’s notebook business broke 17 percent while another research firm says that Apple is now in third place among computer manufactures. [...]