Nokia's Internet Tablet hacked into secondary PC monitor
By Darren Murph 
posted February 17th 2009 9:52PM
posted February 17th 2009 9:52PM
[Thanks, Addae]
posted February 17th 2009 9:52PM
A look back on popular stories from today in a specific year.
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
So the iphone is now a unit of measurement...
Generally speaking, yes, it is. Everyone knows the size of the iPhone.
One thing though, that's not an iPhone, that's the Nokia tablet, there is no iPhone in this picture.
@Blue43Fan
Or is there...
It may be lurking.
Funny! This is unfortunately about as useful as a wooden frying pan. Can the laptop also be hacked to replace the keyboard with a telephone keypad :-)? -Alex Gajano
Funny! This is unfortunately about as useful as a wooden frying pan. Can the laptop also be hacked to replace the keyboard with a telephone keypad :-)? -Alex Gajano
Funny, your double-post was about as useless as braille radio.
Wow, my eyes already hurt from the squinting...
How is it helpful to have an extra monitor that is so tiny?
VNC != a second monitor. this fact is not debatable.
SPONGEBOB!!!!!!
MONKEYBALLS!!!!
Why the Hell would you use VNC for that?!
I was doing this with SSH -X; my tablet created its own X display and did its thing happily alongside my existing session. (At least, I did so for five minutes until I came to my senses and realized that I could have my tablet handle the news feed ticker on its own, which actually saves battery life since it can do so without an active network connection).
Well, if you were running something other than X, maybe some windowing system that was not "overloaded" with "useless" features like network support, VNC might be the best option.
I'd agree with you though, usually the best option is the tablet running independently, with Synergy used to mouse onto it from the desktop.
I would be more interested in the hacking of the device as an external camera monitor. Very useful if you want a higher resolution and bigger screen for focusing -- especially when using 35mm adapters.
Is this recent because i'm surprised that the psp could do this way before.
I was thinking the same thing too, and I wonder if it only works on XP like PSPDisp does. It would be cool to see it this could be implemented on Vista machines as a secondary monitor through a WDDM driver.
Can you do something similar with an old laptop?
Yeah, check out Maxivista. Its 30 bucks though, I tried the trial and it worked great. It works over LAN.
Or you could do _exactly_ the same thing; probably a bit laggier than Maxivista, but also cheaper. The N810 is just a microlaptop running Linux, so almost anything you can do on it can be done on a laptop running Linux.
[quote] schmitt @ Feb 17th 2009 10:16PM
@Blue43Fan
Or is there...
It may be lurking.[/quote]
@schmitt: roflmao!! the iphone is ALWAYS there..........
lurking........
...or, you can buy a 17-19" monitor for under $150 and just use THAT. But hey, different strokes....
Why do all the companies that are spamming engadget all from NJ? With addresses in residential areas?
I have never owned a device more annoying than the Nokia N810.