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22 August 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Woot! Refunds Coming For TouchPad Buyers?

If you’re one of the 612 who purchased the HP TouchPad on August 5 from Woot! for $379 thinking that you got a bargain – only to see HP discontinue the product and firesale remaining inventory at $99 – hang on. According to a message on Woot!’s discussion area from user DennisWKam who is identified [...]

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22 August 2011 ~ Comments Off

TouchPad User Manual and Guide – PDF Download

Did you just pick up a heavily discounted HP TouchPad? Need a quick link to the user guide in PDF format? Here it is – HP TouchPad User Guide (PDF). This 213 page guide covers: Basics, Setup, Working with Applications, Copying files and syncing your data, Email, Text, Multi-Media and Instant Messaging.

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21 August 2011 ~ Comments Off

How To Speed Up TouchPad Tablet

Wondering how to make that HP TouchPad faster? James Kendrick over at ZDNET has been using one for quite some time. According to a post there one of the secrets is to set the logging of errors to minimal. Apparently by default HP set their TouchPad to log every event which makes it easier for [...]

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21 August 2011 ~ 6 Comments

Sprint’s 9/9/11 $1.50 Administrative Fee Increase May Waive Your ETF

On September 9, 2011 Sprint is reportedly slated to increase their administrative fee on some subscribers to $1.50. A few members of SprintForum have called Sprint and been told that this increase will indeed (provided that it applies to your account) qualify for early release from Sprint contract without any early termination fee (ETF). According [...]

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06 May 2011 ~ Comments Off

iPad2 Compatible Clothing – Pants Pockets

The folks over at Tactical Pants Blog (yes there is such a thing) are out with a summary of various clothing options for carrying your iPad2. Unfortunately one of their top choices – Spectrum’s Warrior Wear Pants – have since been discontinued. They plow through a half dozen or so of additional styles of iPad [...]

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