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5 Ways to Improve Your Wireless Network

Even if you’re not an expert on Internet connections, there are a few simple ways to improve the strength and speed of your wireless network. Here’s how.

Have an Insecure Wireless Router? Here’s How to Lock It

To ensure you are safeguarding your computer and Internet activity, it’s necessary to use the following tips to lock down your insecure wireless router.

How to Repair a Broken Laptop Keyboard

Broken or unresponsive laptop keyboards aren’t fun to deal with. Keep reading to find out how you can put a pesky keyboard back in its place.

4 Amazing Computer Cooling Techniques and Their Flaws

Most computers are still using fan and heat sink to cool theselves down. For those who are interested, here are 4 great amazing cooling techniques you can use.

Automatically Lock and Unlock Your Computer with GateKeeper

GateKeeper can automatically lock and unlock your computer for you via an actual Lock and Key. Enter now to win your own for Windows and Mac.

Learn What All Those Hieroglyphs On Your Devices Mean

Every device seems to have a set of cryptic symbols on them. In this piece, you will learn about the hieroglyphs on the device and what they mean.

Mouse Wars: Should You Settle for an Optical Mouse?

Read this first if you are getting a new mouse and wonder if laser mice is worth the extra cost.

3 Questions About Video Card Specs You’ve Always Wanted Answered

Here are some questions (and answers) about video card specifications that don’t seem to be fully explained in terms everyone can understand on the web.

All About Wi-Fi Router MAC Filtering

Other than WPA, MAC filtering is another feature to enhance the security of your WiFi router. Learn why this little setting is insurmountably powerful.

Can People Really Spy on Your Webcam?

There were news that the FBI was able to spy on people’s webcams without them knowing. How is this possible? Let find out how this hack was done.

Writing Pascal Programs on a Raspberry Pi Using FPC

While the Pascal programming language isn’t as popular as C, it certainly has a longevity. Let’s take a look at writing Pascal Programs on a Raspberry Pi.

How to Take a Screenshot on the Raspberry Pi Using Scrot

What is the best way to take a screenshot on a Raspberry Pi? The simplest is to use the command line tool “scrot.”

How to Install the Java Development Kit on a Raspberry Pi

If you are using a Raspberry Pi and want to start Java programming, here is how you can install Java Development Kit (JDK) on a Raspberry Pi.

How to Write C# programs on a Raspberry Pi Using Mono

The Raspberry Pi can be a good development tool, and writing C# programs on the Raspberry Pi is simple thanks to the open source Mono project.

Battery of The Future: What’s In The Works?

The current battery technology is lacking behind the smartphone technology. How can we create a new battery that can keep our phones running for days?

Review of piCore – a 25MB OS for the Raspberry Pi

Tiny Core is a minimalistic Linux distro and piCore is the Raspberry Pi port. piCore is runs entirely from RAM and is only 25MB big. Let’s check it out and see how it performs.

Why You Should Avoid Fake iPad Chargers at All Costs

A hands-on inspection of a fake iPad charger by one expert explains precisely why one should proceed with such caution. To avoid any risk, always use the official charger.

Do You Really Need 4K Resolution on Your Display?

In the not-so-distant past, we were saying how good 1080p monitor was, and now 4K resolution display is the trend. Do we really need 4K resolution?

Running FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi can support a variety of Operating Systems. For those who are keen to run FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi, here is the installation instructions.

5 Apps You Should Consider Installing On Your Pebble Smart Watch

Here are five Pebble apps that show how useful a smart watch can be. These apps reduce the times you have to reach for your phone and provide useful information on the go.

Going Beyond the Default Raspberry Pi Configuration

The default configuration for Raspberry Pi is completely functional, but if your Pi is exposed to the Web, changing the default configuration is essential.

How to Revitalize an Old GPU and Make It Run Like New

Don’t you hate it when your graphics card starts to freeze up and acting weirdly? Follow this how-to guide to easily cleanup you graphics card.

Watching Videos From the Command Line on the Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi’s command line interface can play video without starting the graphical desktop. Here is how you can watch videos from the command line on the Raspberry Pi.

What Does the (Near) Future of Processing Power Look Like?

As mobile technology becomes more advanced, there are more demand to push the processing power even further. Let’s discuss how the future of processing power will look like.

3 Awesome Uses For Google Glass (And Smart Glasses In General)

When Google Glass was announced, it was received mostly as some sort of novelty. However, a little bit of imagination can help make it a useful tool.

Get Weather Forecasts on Raspberry Pi

From the web to smartphones, there are tons of ways to check weather forecast. In Raspberry Pi, you can also get the weather forecast from the command line.

Everything You Need To Know About SIM Cards In 2014

There’s much more to your SIM card than what you think. You’ll discover that these little gold-plated pieces of plastic is more intriguing than you thought!

Run Your Very Own Radio Station with the Raspberry Pi

Do you know you can use the Raspberry Pi as a FM transmitter and setup your own radio station? And that do without much tinkering.

How to set up WiFi on a Raspberry Pi

Although the Raspberry Pi comes only with an Ethernet port, it can also connect to WiFi. All it needs is a WiFi USB dongle and some simple configurations.

Use the Raspberry Pi as a DIY Surveillance camera

Raspberry Pi comes with a camera module that can take full HD shots. Here is the guide to use your Raspberry Pi as a surveillance camera.

Enabling Remote Desktop Access with xrdp on a Raspberry Pi

if you need access to your Raspberry Pi from Windows, you can use Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to access Raspberry Pi.

How to Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a File Server Using Samba

Samba allows a Windows PC to connect to Raspberry Pi and manage files on it. Luckily, installing and configuring Samba on a Raspberry Pi is quite simple.

Setting up VNC on Raspberry Pi

If you want to access the full desktop on a remote Raspberry Pi, the easiest way is to setup VNC on Raspberry Pi so you can connect to it anywhere.

Supercharge Your Router with OpenWRT

If you think your wireless router is only good enough to dish out IP addresses to devices around your house, you need to infuse new life into it with OpenWRT.

How to Use a Static IP Address and Setup SSH on a Raspberry Pi

Do you have trouble connecting to Raspberry Pi (using SSH) because you don’t know its IP? Learn how to use static IP address and setup SSH on Raspberry Pi.

Stream HiFi Music From the Raspberry Pi

If you are an audiophile, you’d scoff at the suggestion of using the Raspberry Pi to listen to music. But that’s because you haven’t yet tried RaspyFi. It’s designed for music lovers and is fully equipped to work with your HiFi gear.

How to Build Go from Source on a Raspberry Pi

Since the Raspberry Pi can run Linux and FreeBSD, it can also use the Go language. See how you can build it from source and install Go on a Raspberry Pi.

Use the Raspberry Pi as a HTPC

You can use the Raspberry Pi to do all kinds of geeky stuff, but one of the most interesting uses for the little device is that of a home theatre PC (HTPC).

What Does The Future of 3D Printing Look Like?

When 3D printing first came out, no one knows whether it is a fad or is here to stay. The general consensus, though, is that 3D printing is here to stay.

Are Desktop PCs Losing Relevance?

As tablets become more affordable, you might be thinking whether the PC is still going to be relevant in the coming years or not. Let us examine this idea and explore some possibilities of the coming market.

7 Ways to Put Your Old Netbook to Good Use

If you have a netbook and is now lying in a corner collecting dust, here are 7 ways that you can utilise to put your netbook to good use.

Everything You Need To Know About SSD Caching

What is SSD caching? How does it work? How can you enable this? These are all questions you’ll find the answer to in this piece.

5 Common Laptop-Killing Practices Most of Us Are Guilty Of

Do you own an expensive laptop? You will probably want to avoid these laptop killing practices. They will apply for smartphones and tablet as well.

Does a Better CPU Lead to a Better Phone? 4 Big Mobile Processor Questions Answered

Most manufacturers like to boost how fast their mobile processors are, but is it translating better smartphone performance?

Use the Webcam of Your Computer as a Surveillance Camera

Are you sick and tired of your roommate or simply anyone at your home using your computer? How about turning your webcam into a surveillance camera and control the recording from your smartphone? We will show you how.

Damaged Laptop Screen? Here are Your Options

Do you have a laptop with damaged screen? Should you change the whole laptop? Send for repair? Or simply dispose it? Here are all the options you have.