Guys,

Thanks for all great advise, I've learned so much. I hope to eventually install all the apps mentioned.

I found a great subsitute for the included image viewer. It's Quiver Image Viewer. It rocks! I can basically view photos in many different ways and it even allows me to manipulate the image.

Below I discuss my experience with enabling the USB Host mode and adding more external sd/sdhc cards. Once the new 32gb cards come out I will buy six and have over 190gb of sdhc class 6 memory!! The reason I did this project is that I have a lot of movies, music and files on many cards and I was worried about damaging them as I changed them in/out on the n800. I could have just bought a regular hard drive but the comments from others mentioned it's slow response time and to me the moving parts seemed to be a step back from using sdhc memory. I also was concerned about the punishment that travel does to external hard drives. The USB Host mod will also allow me to add other USB periphials(printers, cameras, etc..). I have an external photo of the setup but I'm traveling and I don't have photoshop to shrink it down to a size that I can upload to this thread(I just uploaded a photo). The whole setup is very tiny. It was a fun project and now I can view and use six cards at once. Sweet.

I was reading a thread called External HD and was intrigued by the success Mara, mplawner, EIPI and others had enabling hard drives on the n800. After reading the threads below I decided to take the plunge! I don't know a lick about Linux, command line, nano, x-term, sudo gainroot, etc.. but I decided to try my hand at following these technical instructions. What slowed me down every step of the way was my lack of programming knowledge and basic commands in x-term.

Threads I used to create an external hard drive:

External HD

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...t=14193&page=2

USB Host Mode

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=4177

How to USB Host Mode

http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi..._using_OS_2008

I didn't want to cut, glue or modify any of the hardware. I did not want a complicated(for me) command line entry and exist in x-term. What I did want was a simple gui based click and load app. I wanted a hardware set-up that was small, light, clean and very fast.

I ended up with a total of six flash drives(two internal on n800 and four external on a powered mini hub) connected via the mini USB on the n800.

As of now I have 64GB of flash card memory! It is very fast and very stable. I can watch my movies from the external memory cards in media player. It uses very little CPU and most importantly the self powered hub seems to take some of the battery load off the n800.

Below is a screen shot(I hope it loads properly on this thread) of the n800 screen with all six cards activated.
The whole setup can fit in my shirt chest pocket(if I wore shirts with pockets)

Please bear in mind that I will probably have a hard time helping others technically(but others well versed in command line please help me to answer any technical questions), but I can comfortably answer questions on equipment, prices, etc... Have fun!!!!!!!

My next project is to move the n800 os2008 to my internal memory card. If anyone has done this successfully on an n800 using os2008 and can advise me on how to do it solely from an n800 without an external keyboard and no other computer to flash then please help me. I had the Nokia store in NYC flash the os2008 onto my n800 two weeks ago so it is ready.

The n800, this community and maemo are absolutely amazing!!! lol, Dan