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Alltel HTC PPC 6800 phones ship with internal GPS functionality disabled by default. However, the HTC PPC6800 contains a chipset that supports GPS. The Alltel wireless carrier has simply chosen not to include necessary GPS drivers with their phones. It is possible to get the HTC PPC6800 internal GPS chipset fully functional and working and simply requires installing the essential drivers to turn on the internal GPS features. The GPS on these HTC 6800's uses the 911 service to track your location. So of course this option must be turned on under your phone settings in order for tracking to work.

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LetsTalk.com is an online commercial entity that offers cell phones and wireless contracts via the most popular wireless cell phone services. They give substantial discounts on cellular phone purchases to first time wireless customers. A phone that might cost you a couple of hundred dollars through your local wireless dealer (after rebates and discounts) might be FREE through LetsTalk.com. In some cases, they claim to pay you for buying a phone along with a new service contract.

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Is MojoPac too slow for practical use? MojoPac is a neat little portable application that offers the ability to bring your Windows Desktop and related user profiles with you. It's claimed that you can even bring applications and games that are normally installed on your PC with you using a Portable installation of MojoPac. All this sounds great and would make for a great portable Windows on a USB flash drive or iPod. So how does it perform?

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Trialsoftwarez.com is an impressive Software Encyclopedia that provides a very extensive repository listing of Trial Software, Shareware and Free Software. Trialsoftwarez features an easy to navigate Software Category structure, advanced Search capabilities and options for Software authors to submit their software for inclusion into the Software Encyclopedia via a PAD file or Direct Submission.

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What kind of coaxial cable splitter should one use with Time Warner digital cable and Road Runner high speed internet services? We currently have Time Warner digital cable, cable phone and broadband internet services in our house. During a trial and error approach, I have come to the conclusion that 5Mhz to 2Ghz splitters tend to work the best. Currently we split our cable service coming into the house two ways, with a high definition television in one room and the telephony/cable internet modem in another room.

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Recently, you've probably seen or heard one or more of those commercials advertising Websites that give you your free credit report. But what you may not know is that some of those so called free credit reports come with strings attached. Some of these sites have you sign up for a supposedly free service that converts to a paid service after a trial period. If you don't cancel before the end of the trial period, the company may start charging fees to your credit card leaving you paying for a service that is actually provided by the Government for free.

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One hot trend on the rise is the use of live linux. Typically live linux allows for a PC user to boot and run a linux operating system from a CD.

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