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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.
Five Really Handy Google Command Line Tricks
With the right commands, you can turn your favorite command-line text editor into a distraction-free Google Docs app, add new events to Google Calendar, upload images to Picasa or video to YouTube, backup your Google data, and more. Here's how it works.
Basic UNIX commands
Note: not all of these are actually part of UNIX itself, and you may not find them on all UNIX machines. But they can all be used on turing in essentially the same way, by typing the command and hitting return.
Linux/Mac/Windows: Google's new utility, GoogleCL, allows you to access a handful of Google services from any *nix command line.
GoogleCL Brings Google Services to the Command Line
Linux/Mac/Windows: Google's new utility, GoogleCL, allows you to access a handful of Google services from any *nix command line. Google's services are pretty easily accessible in their individual webapps, but if you've got a hankering for the command line, this is awesome.
GoogleCL Brings Google Services to the Command Line
With the right commands, you can turn your favorite command-line text editor into a distraction-free Google Docs app, add new events to Google Calendar, upload images to Picasa or video to YouTube, backup your Google data, and more.
Five Really Handy Google Command Line Tricks
Securely Overwrite Files with a Built-in Command Line Trick
There's plenty of utilities to help you securely delete files so nobody can recover them , but did you know there's a built-in command-line utility that can do just that?
Google Voice is great, but it isn't an entirely free voice-over-internet service if you have to pay a phone bill to use it. With a few tweaks, though, you can make completely free internet phone calls with Google Voice. Here's how.
Make Free VoIP Calls from Google Voice
It’s OK if you don’t want to admit publicly that you were one of the 300,000 people to purchase an iPad on opening weekend, but here is a tip that will make your $499 worthwhile. And of course, this tip will also work towards wifi tethering any of your other laptops or mobile devices, but since the iPad needed some help, we thought we’d start there.
How to: WiFi Tether a Motorola Droid to an iPad - Droid Life: A
Make a Reverse Email Search with Free Web Tools
When the sender of an email doesn't sign their name, you have options beyond writing back with "Who is this?"Optimized Handbrake Presets to Encode Video for Your New iPad or
Apple has strict video encoding guidelines for its devices, and popular encoding tool Handbrake's default presets are a little out-of-date.Buying the right HDTV is actually much harder than simply walking into a store and laying down some plastic - and certainly much harder than it should be.
23 Tips For Buying the Best HDTV
Now that the long awaited 2.1 update for the Droid has hit, are you bored with it already? Root it and flash a custom ROM. And most custom ROM’s include the 3D draw and 5 home screens.