Ask Ars: When should I plan to upgrade my iPhone? | Ars Technica

Ask Ars: When should I plan to upgrade my iPhone? | Ars Technica: "A new iPhone is here. You've spent most of the day watching Apple's announcement, the coverage around it, the reaction to the announcement and the coverage, and the reactions to those reactions. It's the standard tech news rigmarole, which can be fun, but ultimately doesn't really help people make purchasing decisions."



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▶ A router and an extender: When your laptop doesn't know which to use. | PCWorld

▶ A router and an extender: When your laptop doesn't know which to use. | PCWorld: "isa Marie Lalonde’s router isn’t powerful enough to cover her entire home, so she installed a range extender. But when she moves from one part of the house to another, her laptop fails to connect to the nearest signal and loses the network.

If you carry a laptop, tablet, or smartphone through a home with multiple access points (such as routers and range extenders), the device should latch onto the access point with the strongest signal—presumably the closest one. Therefore, it should appear to be continually connected as you move from room to room."



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A router and an extender: When your laptop doesn't know which to use. | PCWorld

A router and an extender: When your laptop doesn't know which to use. | PCWorld: "Lisa Marie Lalonde’s router isn’t powerful enough to cover her entire home, so she installed a range extender. But when she moves from one part of the house to another, her laptop fails to connect to the nearest signal and loses the network."



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Four Hardware Upgrades That Will Boost Your Laptop's Battery Life

Four Hardware Upgrades That Will Boost Your Laptop's Battery Life: "Want better laptop battery life? Hardware upgrades are much better than software tweaks for improving power efficiency. Unfortunately, not all mobile computers offer easy component upgrades. Most full-sized laptops are upgradeable though, and the process takes surprisingly little time or effort. Ultrabooks, on the other hand, require a bit more elbow grease to upgrad"



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Defend Your Windows PC From Junkware: 5 Lines of Defense

Defend Your Windows PC From Junkware: 5 Lines of Defense: "Every Windows user is fighting a constant war against junkware that legitimate application installers try to sneak onto our systems. Here’s everything you can do to protect yourself from obnoxious browser toolbars and all that other junk."



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