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Boost your wireless network signal with Windows 7
04 months ago
No additional hardware needed! Say you have your wireless router in the office of your house, directly above or below the office the signal is great, but when you reach out to the far corners, there’s such a low signal or even no signal at all that you can’t even browse or check your email. Even running a ping yields packet loss. If your computer already has a wireless card and Windows 7, you can magically give your wireless router a boost from that room above or below the office, extending the range of the signal to areas of your home or office that were dead zones before.
Microsoft has been working on a software layer called Virtual Wifi (VWifi for short) for a while now, and it appears to have made a hidden entrance in Windows 7. The layer abstracts your wireless card’s hardware into multiple virtual adapters, enabling your Windows 7 machine to become a wireless access point while it’s connected to your router via wireless using the same adapter! Best of all, it’s surprisingly easy to set up:
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A look at Google Chromium OS
22 years ago
“Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more
secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web.”
A lot of people are looking forward to the final release of Google’s new operating system, based on it’s browser, Chromium OS. Although aimed to be lightning fast so users can have the lengths of the internet at their fingertips, it’s still currently in VERY early stages of development. You can already find various copies of Chromium OS all over the web, either in VM format, or images you can burn directly to a USB drive and boot from. (more…)
External graphics upgrades for your laptop?
02 years ago
Those of us that strongly rely on the use of laptops have always struggled with keeping up with the newest technologies, specifically in graphics power. It seems within a matter of weeks after buying a graphics card or laptop, the technology becomes obsolete as there are faster, more powerful products coming out every day. A few companies have taken the initiative to try and help us overcome this struggle by offering external graphics solutions which will nicely accommodate our newer laptops that are already becoming obsolete. (more…)
Setting Up XP Mode on Windows 7
02 years ago
One of the biggest hypes about Microsoft’s newest version of Windows is the new backward-compatibility features when using XP Mode. XP Mode (or XPM, for short), which is essentially a virtual machine running a separate, retail installation of Windows XP, allows users having difficulty running programs that aren’t fully compatible with Windows 7 or Windows Vista to use their programs as they would on a system natively running Windows XP. (more…)
Getting Johnny Castaway to run on Windows 7 x64
32 years ago
For some of you, Screen Antics (aka Johnny Castaway) might be a little before your time. It’s even before my time, but it was introduced to me by my dad back when I was a little kid, and I thought it was the coolest screen saver ever. To this day, anyone who knows what Screen Antics is, would agree that it’s probably the best screen saver in existence. But there’s a problem: Screen Antics was originally written for Windows 3.1 – it’s a 16-bit program.
While Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 all have 32-bit versions which will run 16-bit applications, Microsoft didn’t find the need to include the 16-bit subsystem on x64 systems. Fortunately, there is still a way to get Johnny to run on your machine if you have a 64-bit Windows installation. (more…)
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