Month March 2014
Need a small wireless access point or wireless router?
Here’s one of the smallest, feature packed and powerful routers for under $30. The NetShair Nano by iogear offers some of the most features money can buy. Here’s how it works (interactive). (Thanks Jeremy for bringing it in!)
- Compact design USB powered ultra-portable Wi-Fi router with USB pass-through
- Converts any wired Internet connection to Wi-Fi
- Perfect accessory for Ultrabooks, MacBook Air and other devices without Ethernet ports
- Serves as a DHCP Router or Access Point
- Plugs into any USB port or USB charger for power
- USB pass-though (no loss of USB port when connected)
- Free apps for iPod®/iPhone®/iPad® and Android operating systems
- IEEE 802.11b/g/n compliant 150Mbps speed
- Supports WEP, WPA and WPA2 64/128 bit security
- VPN
- Firewall
- more
Warranty: 1-YEAR
What about the Zyxel Routers / APs we featured in late 2013? Here are some pics from an earlier our blog post earlier.. With a router/ap switch…
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Word for the iPad: is it really any good?
Spring-Clean Your Blog in Five Easy Steps
The first day of Spring is just around the corner, and with it comes the annual ritual of airing, dusting, and decluttering our homes. While you’re in cleaning mode, why not devote a few minutes to streamlining your blog, too? (Note: if you live south of the Equator, these tips are still valid!)
This isn’t just about appearances (though those matter), but also about traffic — a clean, attractive, easy-to-navigate site is one readers are more likely to visit again. Here are five things you can do in the next ten minutes to see immediate results.
#1 Unload your unused widgets
Theproblem: Widgets are a great tool for organizing your content and customizing your blog’s look. Overstuffing your sidebar (or other widget areas), though, can make your blog look busy, disorganized, and less professional.
What you can do: Look at your sidebar as if you were…
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My most inspiring lecture – Technology for disabled people
On our last day with David Krep we had to come up with ideas to make the internet more accessible to paraplegic Olympians. With the help of one paraplegic student we got very insightful information about the technology that is available out there for disabled people.
America Gives Up Control Of The Internet, What Could Go Wrong?
Plenty.
Should we really trust the rest of the world or the UN to have the same devotion to free speech as the United States of America? Please forgive my skepticism.
Charles C.W. Cooke of National Review seems to know what I’m talking about…
Handing Over the Keys to the Internet
If at least for the sake of variation, those charged with riffling through last Friday’s news dumps must have been relieved to find neither new Obamacare delays nor abandoned red lines hiding among the detritus. And yet, while the less technically proficient could have been forgiven for having missed it, an announcement just as vexing was waiting in lieu: that America was planning to give up control of the Internet.
At this point in the proceedings, one is customarily chastised by pedants who note impatiently that the United States does not really “control” much of the Internet at all…
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What Facebook Has Taught Me
Never take the written word too literal; what you are reading may have several meanings.
Be tolerant of what you read on other people’s page – after all, it is THEIR page and you don’t have to read it (hard one for me to learn).
Don’t click like out of guilt or for any other reason other than you like what you are reading.
Clicking like does not always require a comment.
Just because you like something does not mean you are required to write a dissertation on the subject.
When you share something, do not erase the person’s name who originated the piece…be original, not a glory hound.
When somebody asks for your opinion, be honest, but at the same time be gentle and generous. If your review is not flattering, request an e-mail address instead of blasting the person on a public format.
The old adage, “If you…
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