Top 10 Wi-Fi Boosts, Tweaks and Apps

No doubt you've got a home wireless network or you've connected to hotspots at the local coffee shop or airport—but are you getting the most out of your Wi-Fi? Whether you want to strengthen, extend, bridge, secure, sniff, detect or obscure your signal, today we've got our top 10 best Wi-Fi utilities and tweaks for the power wireless user

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70% of Computer Repair Companies Don't Know What They're Doing

CBC Marketplace did a kickass hidden camera investigation into computer repair companies and found only 30% were able to correctly diagnose their problem.

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Critical Excel 2007 bug cripples users

What is 850 x 77.1 ? a calculator will tell you it's 65535, but a critical flaw in Microsoft's Excel 2007 causes it return 100000 as the answer to this, and any other calculation for which the result is 65535.

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vista ultimate extras hidden by vista service pack 1

look at the pics from zdnet

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How to install 145 operating systems on one PC

3 versions of DOS, 5 versions of Windows, and 137 flavors of Linux on 152 partitions. He created on 4 hard drives to get his system up and running. He probably has the longest GRUB menu you've ever seen. We're guessing the slowest part of the boot process on this system is the amount of time it takes to find the operating system you want to use.

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Mac OS X Browsers Benchmarked

Andreas has a great article at macintalk that puts Mac browsers to the test against one another. He bases the test around intel Macs but also throws in a few things for PPC Macs. The tests cover HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Image loads in all the major browsers. The graphs don't hurt either.

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50 Vista Tips And Tricks

We'll walk you through Vista's many neat features and more than 50 tips on installing Vista optimally, configuring it for you and your family, improving system speed, and turning up its coolness.

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