dealzmodo hacks

Deals

Dealzmodo Hack: Don’t Give Up On Your Symbian Phone

6:00AM John Herrman | Symbian is the planet’s most popular smartphone OS—everywhere except the US, that is. It’s also arguably the most boring. In this last, most urgent installment of the mobile phone revitalisation series, we alleviate your Symbian shame. More »
Regulars

Dealzmodo Hack: Making iTunes Work For You

7:00AM John Herrman | Whether you have an iThing or not, you might use iTunes to manage music, listen to internet radio and podcasts, and buy music and video? If you do, here’s how to get it working—your way.
Regulars

Dealzmodo Hack: Overhaul Your Last-Gen BlackBerry

7:00AM John Herrman | For most, mobile phone trade shows mean carefree gadget porn. For some, it’s an assault on beleaguered gadget egos. Last time we helped straggling WinMo users. Now, dear last-gen BlackBerry users, we’re reaching out to you.
Regulars

Dealzmodo Hack: Revitalise Your Windows Mobile Phone

5:00AM John Herrman | For the legions of helpless Windows mobile users, the Pre is just the latest in an endless, corrosive barrage of ego-draining next-gen phones. But living with Windows Mobile doesn’t have to be so bad.
Deals

Dealzmodo Hack: Outfit Your Camera Like a Pro (Hobo)

7:30AM John Herrman | Whether your camera is brand new or an aging holdover, you want to accessorise it, but you don’t want to pay. By now, you know the Dealzmodo Hack drill: Paying is for suckers. More »
Regulars

Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC

7:20AM John Mahoney | Your PC could always be faster–always. So before you drop the dough on a whole new system, here’s a list of upgrades for squeezing a few more months, years even, out of ol’ faithful, during these trying economic times.
Regulars

Dealzmodo Hack: Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool

3:00AM John Herrman | With 8GB flash drives available for under $US20 and 32GB drives edging into the mainstream, nobody can blame you for shelving old USB sticks. But there are a surprising number of uses for those rickety, sub-gigabyte keychains. More »
Regulars

Dealzmodo Hack: Accessorise Your iPod/iPhone Like MacGyver

2:40AM John Herrman | The ubiquity of iPods has led to a ridiculous glut of accessories, some useful, most not. The best of them have essentially become a seamless part of the iPod experience, but they’ll all cost you — and it really starts to add up. The expansion of the iPod universe, however, is twofold; more official products are followed closely by nearly as many unofficial ones. In other words, you can fully accessorise your iPod or iPhone, old or new, pretty much for free. More »
Regulars

Dealzmodo Hack: Get Some Use Out of Your Useless Old PC

1:00AM John Herrman | The PC upgrade cycle is a brutal, senselessly fast one. Problem is, every upgrade doesn’t mean disposal for your old PC — it means suffering a much more depressing fate in the back of a dark closet. It doesn’t have to be that way. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of dusty towers yearning to breathe free — we’ve got some ideas. More »
Gadgets

How To: Max Out Apple TV’s Potential With Boxee

4:00AM John Mahoney | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/How_To_Max_Out_Apple_TV_s_Potential_With_Boxee'; This is a guide that, if followed, will unchain your Apple TV from its cruel iTunes tether, turning it into the useful living room conduit of music, video and web-based content it should have been all along via the media centre software Boxee. Boxee can be installed fairly easily via the ATV’s USB port to bring Hulu and Comedy Central streaming, playback of any video or music file anywhere on your network in virtually any file type imagineable, and a bevy of internet A/V sources like Flickr, Last.fm, NPR and BBC podcasts and tons of others–all upping the usefulness and fun of Apple’s notoriously underachieving box by a factor of 10, easily. If you have an ATV, Boxee is a must-install, and it’s 100% free. Let’s get started. More »