Turn Your Old Router into a Range-Boosting Wi-Fi Repeater
If you’re upgrading to a faster, stronger wireless router, don’t chuck your older Wi-Fi box. With the magic of DD-WRT, you can turn your older wireless router into a range-expanding Wi-Fi repeater to cover everywhere you need a connection.
The advent of wireless home networks grew slowly in the past decade, but reached the point at which nearly every home with a high-speed connection had a wireless router that shared Wi-Fi connections throughout the home. Now Wireless N has become the standard at electronics retailers, promising faster connectivity with your wireless devices, faster transfer and streaming speeds between devices, and better connectivity. So what’s to be done with your home’s first wireless router?
How to Ditch Slow Wireless Speeds and Go Completely Wired in Your Home (and Why You Should)
Wi-Fi provides a convenient way to connect the computers in your home without dealing with the hassle of wires, but Wi-Fi is also slow and unreliable compared to a wired connection. Wireless may be the way of the future, but here are some of the best ways to go wired where it counts.
Get error 500 in xmlrpc.php file while using Windows Live Writer with WordPress
I just installed Windows Live Writer and while not a big fan of Windows Live products I wanted to give this program a try, as I figured it would make adding to my Blog a lot easier.
I must say it took some time to get the settings up and working, I kept getting an error “there was error 500 while processing the file xmlrpc.php”. and when looking into it there was no xmlrpc.php file to speak of. In looking online I came across this nice little tip found on WebGuru’s Blog about Digital Life. – thanks mate.
Nine Common Myths and Misconceptions About Viruses, Examined and Debunked
This was posted on Lifehacker, This made me laugh.
There are so many myths, misconceptions, and just plain old lies about viruses that it’s often hard for anybody to know what to think. Let’s examine a few of the biggest myths about viruses, and debunk each of them.
Photo by TedRheingold
A few weeks ago, we explained how to understand the difference between viruses, trojans, worms, and other malware, and today we’ll walk through some of the common myths about malware and debunk them.
Google kills background images on home page
Fourteen hours into a 24-hour experiment with background imagery, Google’s home page is once again stark white.
Design guru Marissa Mayer confirmed that Google was ending the experiment early due to what she called a “bug,” which erased a link underneath the search bar on google.com that explained why Google’s famously spartan home page had taken on a colorful look. Apparently many searchers on Google.com Thursday morning missed the company’s blog post Wednesday night, and were confused and annoyed at the change, turning “remove google background” into the seventh-most-popular search on Google Thursday.
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