With the launch of Vista, T-Mobile and the ‘Soft have partnered up to give away three months of free HotSpot service to anyone who upgrades. The free service relies on a pretty weak verification scheme to check for the upgrade though, so with a little easy hacking, you too can enjoy free wireless, courtesy of T-Mobile. Here’s what you need to do:
- Download Firefox (You should be using this anyways)
- Download the Firefox entension User Agent Switcher
- Restart Firefox and go to: Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options > Options…
- Click “User Agents” and then “Add”
- Fill out the window with following info:
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Description: Internet Explorer 7 (Windows Vista)
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
App Name: Microsoft Internet Explorer
App Version: 4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Platform: Win32 - Save, go to Tools > User Agent Switcher > Then click the newly added one.
- Browse over to http://hotspot.t-mobile.com/vista/ and you should be redirected to a trial sign-up page.
Note: This isn’t guaranteed to work (You may need to be using a Mac), but if it does, hooray for you!
[Via: UNEASYsilence]
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