So, you're not quite ready to spring for a copy of Vista, or maybe your system can't handle it, or perhaps you're running Mac OS or (gasp) Linux. Why should you be left out of those three months of free T-Mobile WiFi just because you don't kowtow to The Man? Never fear, it turns out it isn't all that hard to get tricksy on those T-Mobile Hotspots, since they're only verifying your OS based on the user agent string your browser spits out. Luckily for you, a simple bit of googling will quickly reveal methods for swapping the user agent on most major browsers, and once you enter the string "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)" you should be all good to go. Then all you'll need to do is train your browser to http://hotspot.t-mobile.com/vista/ and start browsing those internets.

courtesy of Engadget.


All you need to do to take advantage of the free T-Mobile Hotspot WiFi is:

• In FireFox (You should be running this by now!) download User Agent Switched
• Restart firefox and go to: Tools > User Agent Switcher > Options > Options…
• Click “User Agents” and then “Add”
• Fill out the window with following info:
  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 it, 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.