Boosting Your Signal dd-wrt

Fire up your web browser and direct it to your router’s configuration page. Go to Wireless > Advanced Settings.

There are three settings of interest, the first being TX Power. This is the broadcasting power of your transmitting antenna. The default is a safe value of 70, but we can kick it up a bit. Most people report that jumping up to a 100 is safe. Pushing it higher can cause excessive heat which can damage your router. I don’t have to worry about that since my “server area” is cold and I’m also a bit reckless, so I kicked mine up to 150. It’s been that way for a few weeks and I haven’t had a problem yet, but your mileage may vary. Use your common sense and discretion.
Next up is the Afterburner setting. If your wireless router and adapters support Afterburner – also known as SpeedBooster, SuperSpeed, Turbo G, and G Plus (but not Super-G) – you can enable this to get a boost. Things may slow down if they don’t support it, though, so be sure to do your homework. B-only devices won’t see any problems and N-based devices shouldn’t be negatively affected, either.
Finally, we get to Bluetooth Coexistence Mode. If you use bluetooth a lot, then you may have noticed a drop in reliability or speed with both wireless and bluetooth devices. Turning this setting on should keep the two from interfering too badly with one another.

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Tomato Firmware/Installation and Configuration

Tomato is a partially free HyperWRT-based, Linux core firmware distribution for a range of Broadcom chipset based wireless routers, most notably the older-model Linksys WRT54G (including the WRT54GL and WRT54GS), Buffalo AirStation, Asus Routers and Netgear's WNR3500L. Among other notable features is the user interface, which makes heavy use of Ajax as well as an SVG-based graphical bandwidth monitor.

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ITool

iTools, is a free file and apps manager and synchronous assistant for your iDevices (iphone, ipad, ipod touch), it can help you to upload and download photos, music, video from your idevice and computer easily. iTools, is a tool to transfer and manage your files, apps, music, photos and video from iDevice to computer. It supports all series of iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch.
iTools, is a tool to transfer and manage your files, apps, music, photos and video from iDevice to computer. It supports all series of iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch.
Much easier than iTunes, more function than iFunbox! iTools, is a tool to transfer and manage your files, apps, music, photos and video from iDevice to computer. It supports all series of iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch.
iTools, is a free file and apps manager and synchronous assistant for your iDevices (iphone, ipad, ipod touch), it can help you to upload and download photos, music, video from your idevice and computer easily.

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CanYouSeeMe.org - Open Port Check Tool

This page will serve as a free utility for remotely verifying a port is open or closed on your router. It will be useful for users who wish to check to see if a server is running or a firewall or ISP is blocking certain ports or verify network security. If you want to do website hosting on your own or run your own ip camera behind your router it will also helpful.

CLICK HERE

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Backup OneNote 2010 Notebooks

f you are about to migrate your data, OneNote 2010 provides an easy way to backup the notebooks to use them later without any hassling. The backups are saved into any specified folder by the user.

Launch OneNote 2010 and verify all the notebooks (if you might have missed out on some important notebook). Navigate to File menu and click Options.note

It will bring up OneNote Options dialog, from left sidebar click Save & Backup. Under Save, double-click the Backup Folder path to change it for your own convenience.

Choose the desired folder where you want to create backup and click Select.

Close OneNote to save the changes. Now open it again and you will see the specified backup folder path. From Backup, configure the available options according to your needs and click Back Up All Notebooks Now button. By default it makes the backup daily, you can however change this time interval.

A small message box will notify you on successful backup, open the backup folder to verify the included notebooks folder.

You can check out previously reviewed guides on Evaluating list of mathematical equations and functions in OneNote 2010 & Make notebook password protected.

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Download a Set of Free Tools for Managing Hyper-V R2

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V can be managed locally or remotely from another Windows Server 2008 R2 server using the Hyper-V Manager console. Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 does not provide a graphical user interface because it is designed to be managed remotely. 

An option for managing Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 is to use the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 7. You can download RSAT for Windows 7 for free from the Microsoft Web site. 

RSAT for Windows 7, which can be installed on either an x86 or x64 version of the OS, includes a variety of tools including Hyper-V Manager and Failover Cluster Manager. After you download and install RSAT for Windows 7, you can enable all the available tools or only a selection of tools using the Windows Features control panel applet. And you can access the tools from Administrative Tools in Windows 7. 

From the Microsoft Press book Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Resource Kit by Robert Larson and Janique Carbone with the Windows Virtualization Team at Microsoft.

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Get the Full Path of a Folder or File in Windows 7

                                       

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If you recently moved from Windows XP to Windows 7, you probably noticed that the address bar no longer shows the full path of the current folder in the traditional way – you’re probably used to seeing backslash characters separating folder names. If you need to see the full path displayed that way, click anywhere to the right of the path in the address bar or right-click any part of the address bar and choose Edit Address.

The right-click shortcut menu includes additional options that allow you to copy the current address to the Clipboard. Click Copy Address to save the location in a format that is optimized for copying and pasting folders in Windows Explorer or use Copy Address As Text if you plan to paste the folder path into a document.

To copy the full path for an individual file, hold down the Shift key as you right-click the file, and then choose Copy As Path. This option is especially useful if you’ve found a file in Windows Explorer and you want to upload it to a Web site or open it in another program without browsing to the same location in an Open dialog box. Copy the full path for the file, then paste it into the File Name box in the target program.

 

 

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Where Sticky Notes are Stored

Microsoft added Sticky Notes with Vista, and changed them entirely with Windows 7. In Vista, you can write longhand sticky notes with a mouse or pointer, or record them with a microphone, but you can't actually type them with a keyboard. Windows 7 does it the other way around.

But both versions save the notes in a file called StickyNotes.snt, located in the C:\Users\login\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Sticky Notes folder. (When I write login, I mean the name you use to log into Windows.) You can easily get to C:\Users\login\AppData\Roaming by selecting Start, typing %appdata%, and pressingENTER.

So if you make a lot of notes, you should make sure that your backup routine includes that folder. In fact, it's a good idea to backup the entire AppData folder.

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Live Countdown Timer With Animations

Animated Countdown that counts down in seconds, minutes, hours and days to any date. Takes Time Zone & DST into account, and it can also count up!

Choose a design (Birthday, Sports, Baby Due Date, Wedding, and more), select your colors and add your own personalized message. More designs available soon.

Share the Countdown with anyone anywhere - just copy the web address (URL).

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