Super Fast Router with Printer and Hard Drive Sharing
I recently wired up my whole house with full gigabit ethernet ports in all of the rooms. The only problem is that my router, a five year old Belkin Wireless G router does not support gigabit networking or fast wi-fi speeds. To compound things my router has been dropping my internet connection a lot lately, so I decided to upgrade the heart of my home network.
What I needed from a router
I had a few big requirements from my new router:
- The wired ports had to support gigabit data transfers (1,000 megabits per second)
- The wi-fi format had to be 802,11N
- Support for External USB Hard Drive networking
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Use VNC Software to Control Your Home Computer from the Road
Did you ever need to do something on your home computer from somewhere else? It’s really frustrating.
You can use free, open source software called VNC (Virtual Network Computing) to do just that. VNC software consists of two parts: the Server, which sits on the machine that will be controlled remotely and the Viewer, which another computer uses to control the first machine.
VNC is really easy to use inside of your network (your office or house). With a little bit of tweaking, you can also use it to control another computer through from any internet connected computer in the world.
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Step By Step Instructions with Video Tutorials
Many people have free blogs on sites like Blogger or Wordpress.com. These free services have simple, effective functionality, but they don’t have the flexibility and functionality that you may need. You can’t have your own domain name on these services On top of that, you don’t own your data.
If you want to have a blog that you own, has your own domain name, and allows you to make any custumizations, you need to host your own blog. This tutorial and the others in the series will show you how to install, configure, customize, and publish your own blog using free software and inexpensive web hosting.
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Who Says Macs have to Cost More?
Introduction
I have been a heavy Windows user for the last decade or so (HP UNIX before that). I bought a 15 inch Macbook Pro to use at home exactly six months ago. (Still use an XP machine at work.) Over the last six months I have been adjusting to the Mac Operating System with mixed results (mostly good). My biggest challenge was learning which application to use to do things. Again, this has been a mixed bag of results.
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