RJM62
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Geek on the Hill
A few days ago, I re-purposed an old Acer Aspire ONE ZG5 into an Android alarm clock with news, weather, and emergency alerts. I had the notebook laying around and Android is free, and I had an hour I needed to kill.
None of this is stuff I couldn't do with my phone; but it cost nothing except ~$18.00 for a new battery, and it's easier to see at night. It's also portable and could be used to read email, check my calendar, and so forth if I wanted to (none of which I actually intend to do because, again, my phone can do all that).
If nothing else, it killed an hour.
Installing Android onto the notebook was surprisingly easy. If you're interested in the how-to, I made an extremely rare post on my blog (which usually is more of a private photo-storing site for images that I want to embed elsewhere). You can read it here.
Rich
None of this is stuff I couldn't do with my phone; but it cost nothing except ~$18.00 for a new battery, and it's easier to see at night. It's also portable and could be used to read email, check my calendar, and so forth if I wanted to (none of which I actually intend to do because, again, my phone can do all that).
If nothing else, it killed an hour.
Installing Android onto the notebook was surprisingly easy. If you're interested in the how-to, I made an extremely rare post on my blog (which usually is more of a private photo-storing site for images that I want to embed elsewhere). You can read it here.
Rich
