This is where you come in! I’m holding a contest for the logo for our Facebook page and our Twitter account. The winning entry will receive awesome notoriety, image credit, and satisfaction knowing that you contributed to a great site.

Contest Rules:
- Image must be gif (non-animated), jpeg, or PNG format.
- Image needs to have either “Your Warranty Is Void” with or without the “.com” or the initials “YWIV”
- No Pornographic images, please.

Contest Ends July 18th, 2010!

To Submit an image, upload to TwitPic, or any other public photo-sharing site and post a link in the comments to your image. Make sure your email is valid because I’ll email you if you’re the winner.

Thank you and Good Luck!

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I have recently gotten my hands on a new Samsung Moment on the Sprint network. Within the next few days, I will post all the gory details from this Android n00b and will be offering a comparison against the other smartphone I have, the Palm Pre.

The new category is called “Hardware PrOn” and will include pictures of teardowns of various devices that I encounter as well as some ideas on what you could do with one if you happened to find one.

Look for a new post within the next few days that might help with any yuletide hard drive upgrades.

A review of my stats shows that I’ve been getting increasing traffic to my site from mobile users with iPhones and Android based phones at the top of the list.  I know the site’s a bit slow on mobile devices so I went ahead and uploaded a new theme called WPTouch for those of you on the go that still like to drop by.  All major functions of the site are available through WPTouch so you can still comment and view all the information here, it’s just now in a considerably faster mobile-friendly format.  If you have any issues, please let me know in the comments so I can address them.

I’m back from my vacation and although my operating table, err my work bench is still largely unassembled, I will have some new content for you in the upcoming days. The move was hell, but thankfully it’s over so now it’s time to start hacking again!

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I apologize in advance for my lack of site updates. I’m currently in the process of moving so unfortunately all projects have been put on hold for the time being.

I will resume posting mid-October as soon as the move is completed and I have unboxed my brain. It’s in a box somewhere..

As always, thanks for visiting. Check back soon!

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It has been a rough couple of months with the site migration to the new server, but I’m hapy to say that the migration was a success.  New tools have helped me completely overhaul the YWIV site into something that at least looks like it was coded in this century.  Read more to find out what all I have in store for this site.

I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time.  After purchasing this domain name, I figured that instead of hiding my hacks and mods on my other site Theratshack.net I would post them here as some of them are really nice and deserve a lot of attention, and some of them are quick and dirty “Git-R-Dun” hacks or mods.

This site isn’t all about me however, although I will be the one posting a lot here.  I want to make this a community site, so if you have something you want to post or an article or hack that you have performed and want me to show it, please let me know!  At this time I don’t have a contact form up, so just drop me a line as a comment to this post for now.

With that being said, in the next few months, I hope to be doing the following:

• Convert my existing hacks and mods to the new site, along with pictures and updated information
• Create forums for public discussion of new techniques, processes of modding and hacking, discussions of parts, equipment,  and all things hardware hacking related.
• Continue with my reviews, editorial posts and comments about hardware hacking, Linux modifications and like minded stuff
• Contiue my focus on being community driven in regards to new topics posted.

I apologize that I don’t have much in the means of content right away, but the site will be updated frequently until all modifications from TheRatShack.net have been converted, then I’ll determine a set update schedule for which to post updated hacks and howtos along with related news in the popular media, information about new suppliers and sources for parts and other such stuff.

Enjoy!

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