The 10 Best Wireless Routers | PCMag.com

The 10 Best Wireless Routers | PCMag.com: "When testing routers in the lab, I look at a couple of key features: throughput speeds, how well the device keeps decent throughput as I move the wireless client farther from it, how easy or difficult the router is to set up, its manageability, feature set, and pricing. The ten routers that follow strike the best balance among all our criteria."



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5 Things You Need to Do Immediately After Plugging In Your New Router — www.howtogeek.com

5 Things You Need to Do Immediately After Plugging In Your New Router — www.howtogeek.com: "Routers are such an infrequently replaced component of your home network that it’s easy to forget how you had things previously configured and what settings are too important to not overlook. Read on as we highlight the first five things you need to do right after powering up your new router."



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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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What is the Malicious Software Removal Tool and Do I Need It? — www.howtogeek.com

What is the Malicious Software Removal Tool and Do I Need It? — www.howtogeek.com: "Once a month, a new version of the Malicious Software Removal tool appears in Windows Update. This tool removes some malware from Windows systems, particularly ones without antivirus programs installed.

Bear in mind that this tool is no substitute for a solid antivirus program. It doesn’t run automatically in the background and only detects a few specific and widespread types of malware."



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9 Things to Do When You First Get an iPhone — www.howtogeek.com

9 Things to Do When You First Get an iPhone — www.howtogeek.com: "You just got an iPhone, now what?  The amount of things to setup can be overwhelming for first-time users, but How-to Geek is here to guide you through the essential steps required to get your iPhone up and running"



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Could humidity power join the list of renewable energy sources? — www.gizmag.com

Could humidity power join the list of renewable energy sources? — www.gizmag.com: "Ozgur Sahin, Ph.D., believes that water evaporation is the largest power source in nature. In an effort to demonstrate the potential of this untapped resource, Sahin and his fellow researchers have created prototype electrical generators with rubber sheets that move in response to changes in humidity thanks to a coating of bacterial spores."



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