Monday, 23 May 2011

6 Things That Block Your Wi-Fi, & How to Fix Them

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May 23, 2011
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Top Story: Six Things That Block Your Wi-Fi, and How to Fix Them Fix your Wi-Fi woes with these simple tips from the experts.
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Kids Under 13 are Already Allowed on Facebook Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that kids under 13 should be allowed to join Facebook, but the only thing stopping them is Facebook.
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Verizon: Say So Long to Unlimited Data Verizon says it's axing its unlimited smartphone data plan. Should you be worried?
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Honeycomb 101: Getting to Know Your Android Tablet Not sure how to get started with your new Android tablet? Fear not: We've got you covered.
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Preview Gmail Messages Before Opening Them If you access your Gmail account in your Web browser, you'll love this Labs feature. It gives you a "sneak peek" at each e-mail with just one click.
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6 Registry Hacks to Make Your PC Faster Speed up boot times and make Windows a bit more responsive with these Registry tweaks.
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Downloads
The 10 Best Free Hard Drive Utilities Most users are satisfied with the hard drive utilities that ship with Windows--especially the more powerful partitioning and defragging tools found in Windows Vista and 7. Since you're reading this, though, you're obviously not a "most" type of user. Here are our favorite free utilities for partitioning, monitoring, and optimizing hard drives (as well as a few inexpensive for-pay alternatives). Despite some high-end features, they won't bust your budget.
Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office Imagine the feature set and usability of Office with the ability of Google Docs to store documents in the cloud and share them. With Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, that's exactly what you get. This free add-in for Microsoft Office lets you save your Office documents to Google Docs.
gPDF gPDF is a Firefox add-on designed to allow the quick and easy viewing of office files, including PDFs. Single-clicking any link within a Web page that points to a PDF, Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation will open them in the Google Docs viewer.
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Sony Alpha SLT-A55
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Downloads: Editor's Collection
The 10 Best Free Hard Drive UtilitiesMost users are satisfied with the hard drive utilities that ship with Windows--especially the more powerful partitioning and defragging tools found in Windows Vista and 7. Since you're reading this, though, you're obviously not a "most" type of user. Here are our favorite free utilities for partitioning, monitoring, and optimizing hard drives (as well as a few inexpensive for-pay alternatives). Despite some high-end features, they won't bust your budget.
Parted Magic   6595 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Hard Disk
This may just be the best partitioning utility/boot disc on the planet.
EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition   189144 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Hard Disk
FREE and ALL-IN-ONE magic partition solution and disk management utility.
Disk Space Fan   1081 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Hard Disk
Disk Space Fan is a nice disk space analysis tool for Windows.
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