E-Books on Pepper – not much yet, but promising
I’m no expert, but on the surface, the Pepper Pad seems like a great machine for reading e-books. It’s got a nice 8.4″ 800×600 screen with easily adjustable brightness. It’s got a large built-in scroll wheel, as well as an arrow pad. It’s ruggedized too, with rubber edges and a rubber screen frame. However, right […]
Web 2.0 + Pepper = very cool
Turns out you don’t even have to wait for new apps to be written for Pepper in order to enjoy new functionality: there are a lot of free browser-based apps out there that work great with Pepper’s browser (thanks to its Mozilla roots). Here are some that I’ve started using: eMessenger light: a web-based MSN […]
Looking for zip and unzip?
There are zip and unzip tools already installed on the pad, however they are called: minizip and miniunzip respectively.
Take control of your world
I just had an enjoyable time setting up my living room devices in Pepper’s Remote Control app. Unfortunately, the documentation in that app is very sparse… so I’m here to help you download remote codes. Personally, I hate teaching a “learning” remote — tediousness defined. Find the remote you need codes for, and note the […]
Better way to enable services
Sean who runs the nice looking but content-deprived Pepper Hacks website, offered up this tip: You can enable and disable services by using the initdconfig command. It behaves the same as the ‘chkconfig’ command for RedHat / Fedora Linux. Thanks Sean! So to enable the SSH server you just have to do: initdconfig ssh on […]
Site moooove…
I’m migrating this site over to my home server today – it will probably get much slower until I find a better permanent place for it. DNS will switchover in 24 hours so there might be a blip where it’s offline.
USB to PS/2 Adapter: a good idea
Since I pre-ordered my Pepper, I’ve been casually browsing around looking for some kind of small, wireless, full-size-ish keyboard to use with it. Don’t get me wrong, even though my thumbs are huge, I am getting used to and quickly learning the layout of the thumb-pads, but for more serious text input I knew that […]
Getting stuff onto the Pad
Unfortunately, right off the get-go I was having problems getting my music and video onto the pad (which is still without a name, and no, I’m not calling it Sgt. Pepper). I had initially planned on using my USB->CF card reader to put files onto it. Unfortunately, the Linux 2.4 kernel doesn’t get along with […]
FCC gives up the insides
Photos of the inside of Pepper, so I don’t have to take mine apart! Images in PDF file
Ohh, the extreme irony…
My Pepper Pad was shipped from Canada (where it is assembled), to the USA, and back to Canada. Canada Customs is making lots of money off of this transaction.
