How to Separate the Touch Book Magnets

Today, I managed to separate the three magnets that come with the Touch Book. These are provided for the purpose of attaching the Touch Book to a fridge (or some other magnetic surface). I felt like I practically had to break my fingers off to get the magnets apart.

The trick to doing this successfully is described here: http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/wiki/index.php/Magnets

I also recorded a bit of video with the Touch Book. If you’re interested in seeing it, just let me know by leaving a comment.

According to http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/info.htm , this is the software included with the Touch Book:

• Linux 2.6.29 with all the required drivers
• Xfce 4.4 desktop environment
• A unique 3D interface for starting applications with your finger
• Firefox 3.0 and Fennec beta 2
• Youtube and daily motion support
• A video and music player
• Abiword and Gnumeric
• A PDF reader, evince
• A chat manager, Pidgin
• Mypaint 5.1
• An e-book reader, Fbreader
• A printer manager, Cups
• All usual accessories (zip, picture viewer, dictionary…)
• Support for most standard USB accessories
• Java support

I intended to test all of these as much as I could, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to get the wireless working. Going to Control Panel -> Networks wouldn’t show any networks, and I don’t know any other way to do it. So if you have any tips regarding wireless connectivity, let me know.