The inside of my apartment was a cell phone dead zone (cue creepy music left-over from Halloween) and I've written about the problem before. My first attempt at a solution, the zBoost zPersonal Cell Phone Signal Booster, fell flat and didn't do anything to boost my signal (in fact, it was hard to tell if it was doing anything at all). Fortunately, Amazon allowed me to return it … [Read more...]
Hotspot Shield – A Free VPN Connection
Hotspot Shield is a free VPN connection from AnchorFree that is designed to make your web browsing safer when you're on the go. By routing all of your traffic through a secure VPN connection, you would gain these benefits according to their website: Hide your IP while you're online. Access all content without censorship; bypass firewalls. Protect yourself from snoopers at … [Read more...]
Happy Net Loss Day – One Year Later with the Comcast Bandwidth Cap
This October 1st, 2009 marks one year since Comcast started enforcing their monthly bandwidth cap limit at 250GB. If a user were to go over the limit in one month, they would receive a warning by some means of communication. A second occurrence of going over the limit would result in a termination of services for a year. October 1st, 2008 I declared to be the first Net Loss Day … [Read more...]
Wake-on-LAN @ Home
I briefly mentioned Wake-on-LAN (WoL) in a previous article, PC Power Management, and that's when I started to think about it seriously and how it might be relevant to my setup. Right now, I leave my home computer on for long periods of time, even when I'm not there just in case I need to remote control it or if I want to stream my media. This wastes a bit of electricity each … [Read more...]
Microsoft SuperPreview and BrowserShots – Your website in different browsers
Due to the way Internet Explorer is integrated with the Windows operating system and just the restrictions Microsoft puts on it in the first place, you can only have one version of IE on a machine at a time. Of course, I've covered Tredosoft's Multiple IE solution before, which does allow you to have more than one version, but Microsoft has just released (in beta) a solution … [Read more...]