Thursday, January 30, 2014

The 10 Best Wireless Routers | PCMag.com

The 10 Best Wireless Routers | PCMag.com: "A wireless router is the hub of your home or business network. In a nutshell, a router delivers a single Internet connection to other devices on the network through either wired Ethernet or wireless connectivity. Routers also often provide additional capabilities, such as USB ports for attaching an external drive or printer and then sharing those devices on a network; built-in firewalls to protect against Internet threats from invading a network; and services such as UPnP and DLNA to allow streaming multimedia content throughout the network."



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With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water — www.theverge.com

With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water — www.theverge.com: "This morning, Facebook is announcing a new standalone iPhone app called Paper. Contrary to earlier rumors, it's much more than just a news-reading app — it's a complete reimagining of Facebook itself. Once you've used it, you may never want to open the standard Facebook app again. It may not replicated every feature of Facebook's main app, but it does fulfill the majority of people's needs. Simply put, it's much, much better."



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Which Internet Browser Will Make Your Battery Last Longer? — www.7tutorials.com

Which Internet Browser Will Make Your Battery Last Longer? — www.7tutorials.com: "If you are a mobile user with a Windows 8.1 laptop or tablet, you may want to know which Internet browser to use so that you get the maximum battery time possible. To learn which browser uses the least battery power, I have compared all the major browsers on three separate Windows devices: an old laptop, a very new tablet and a powerful hybrid device. All with Windows 8.1 installed."



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How to Remove The Hidden Personal Information Microsoft Office Adds to Your Documents — www.howtogeek.com

How to Remove The Hidden Personal Information Microsoft Office Adds to Your Documents — www.howtogeek.com: "Microsoft Office saves hidden metadata in your Office documents, including how long you’ve been working on them, the name of everyone who’s worked on the document, when the document was created, and even previous versions of the document."



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How to Block an Application or .EXE from Running in Windows — www.howtogeek.com

How to Block an Application or .EXE from Running in Windows — www.howtogeek.com: "While doing some cleaning up on a test computer around the office, we realized that we’ve never written about how to block an application from running using a registry hack. It’s easy, so here you go."



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