Wi-fi from 5 miles away? It can be done!
Just like magic. It’s not hard at all to connect two points 5 miles away just as if you’d run a cable between them. There are hundreds of uses for this technology: use it to cross…
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Best of the Blog 2013, Volume 4
Take a look at the best from the fall and early winter of 2013.
Best of the Blog 2013, Volume 3
Take a look at the best from the summer of 2013.
Best of the Blog 2013, Volume 2
Take a look at the best from the spring of 2013.
Best of the Blog 2013, Volume 1
The hits keep coming… here’s the best from early 2013.
I love my Ubiquiti Unifi Access Point
SS@SolidSignal asked me to write this article about my Unifi AP. It’s my first try at an article so bear with me here. I told him that I really loved it and he suggested that…
Turn an unused DECA into an ethernet port!
If you’ve been around DIRECTV for a while, you may have some unused wiring in your home, and a few unused parts. The good news is that it’s possible to turn that unused stuff into an…
Because tons of unsold palettes of Chromebooks, that’s why
A while back, I wrote an article for another publication called “The Chromebooks are coming.” If you still haven’t seen a Chromebook, don’t feel badly; it probably just means you haven’t visited Best Buy or one…
Biggest PC Fails of 2013
Arguably the biggest tech story of 2013 was the end of the PC juggernaut. Personal computer sales, which were utterly nonexistent in 1973,grew year-over-year for longer than most folks have been alive. The growth in PCs…
Webmail vs. Stand Alone Email Clients
Over the last few weeks I’ve had a few folks tell me that they didn’t like their email software but kept it because they didn’t want to change the email address that they’ve had for…
EDITORIAL: Data mining should be helpful not creepy
Or: Why Linkedin needs to cut it out already. Yes, there are some people who choose not to participate in social networks. While even grandparents have somehow learned the value of Facebook, other networks have…
What is net neutrality?
Maybe you’ve heard the term and maybe you’ve never been curious before. But, with “over-the-top” streaming services like Netflix getting more popular, it’s something you might want to get familiar with. Net neutrality is the idea…
WebTV FINALLY shuts down on Monday
Alas, it is finally no more. The MSN TV box, originally known as WebTV, is finally closing down forever on September 30, 2013. Of course, most folks thought it had shuttered years ago; the hardware hasn’t…
The police can find you by cell phone, and it’s totally legal.
In 1998, it was all science fiction. Most people don’t even remember Enemy of the State where Will Smith is having troubles and runs into Gene Hackman, a paranoid maniac who tells him that the government can track…
An artificial brain. What could go wrong with that?
Three billion human lives ended on August 29th, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war ‘Judgment Day.’ They lived only to face a new nightmare, the war against the Machines… That’s the…