JKKMobile is expanding his bag of Eee PC tricks. The newest addition to his repertoire is grafting a 3G modem complete with SIM card inside his ASUS Eee PC. Both video and a set of sorta step-by-step images will help guide you through the process. Have you hacked your Eee PC, yet? If so, please post your project in our comments section.—Dave Prochnow

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For you last minute shoppers, Amazon.com is now showing the ASUS Eee PC 4G-Galaxy Black as “in stock.” The list price is, well, list price: $399.99. You will have to hustle, though and select One-Day Shipping to have it delivered by December 24.—Dave Prochnow

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Are you looking for something to do as a nice holiday break approaches? Head over to MoDaCo and read/see the exploits of Paul. Paul claims to have installed Microsoft Windows Vista on an ASUS Eee PC. The post includes video and a fairly thorough tutorial on accomplishing the same feat on your very own “Easy to Hack” PC. —Dave Prochnow

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While a new product from SparkFun Electronics is ostensibly designed for wiring wearable LIlyPad projects together, this conductive thread could be an instant hit with hackers, too. Garnering around 82 ohms worth of resistance, each 117/17 2-ply spool of thread could help with those delicate ASUS Eee PC hacks. At $16.95 per spool, this conductive thread is not for the squeamish. When inserted in a sewing machine and combined with paper PCBs, however, this thread could open up a whole new concept in circuit design—stitch-a-circuit. —Dave Prochnow

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If you were nice all year long and your stocking is filled with an ASUS Eee PC on Christmas morning, then you are in luck. The “elves” over at EeeUser.com have been filling their server space with lots of hardware hacks, software mods, and user tips for this lithe Linux laptop. Case in point, two terrific posts:

• 16Gb & Bluetooth Mod Complete by Johnx
  
• Load OSX 10.5 Leopard on the eeePC by Dan
  

That's right. With a little work, you can quadruple your EeePC's flash storage, add bluetooth, or turn it into that ultraportable Mac Apple has yet to develop (even though Leopard is probably a little poky on the Eee, reports are coming in that OS X 10.4 is quite usable). Watch How 2.0 for an in-depth guide to even more EeePC hacks coming soon. —Dave Prochnow

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Boy, was I wrong. Just last week I was gushing over the ASUS Eee PC and now this week I’ve seen the error in my ways. Forget that $400 UMPC, there’s a new and better kid on the block. Meet Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. For just a scant forty bucks more, you get a whole lot more. Check it out:

• 4.3-inch WVGA LCD (with the same resolution as the Eee PC)
• 128Mb DDR RAM
• 256Mb Flash RAM
• 2Gb storage; up to 8Gb SDHC removable storage
• GPS
• Bluetooth
• Wi-Fi
• USB
• VGA web cam
• QWERTY Keyboard
• Maemo Linux-based application development platform; featuring Web, media, communications, mapping, e-mail, imaging, games, and more apps

But wait, there’s more. Here’s the reason that the N810 moved to the head of the class. Its pocket-sized form factor may have you wishing you could run all of your Palm OS apps on the N810. Thank a company called Access for giving you a wonderful Thanksgiving Day present: The Garnet OS virtual machine (VM) enables Nokia N770, N800, and N810 platforms to run lots and lots of Garnet OS (aka Palm OS apps). Running a virtual machine of an entirely different operating system may seem like a tough job for a low-power hand-held tablet , but the svelte Garnet OS VM takes only 3.5Mb of RAM and 1-32Mb of user configurable storage space.

—Dave Prochnow

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