I put out a call on Sunday for suggestions about what topics I should cover. One of them was WHDI. So what is it? WHDI is short for Wireless Home Digital Interface, and promises to cut the cord clutter that becoming increasingly common for us with tons of gadgets and electronics.
WHDI is a consumer standard for HDTV, and has prominent compan [...]
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What’s WHDI?
I put out a call on Sunday for suggestions about what topics I should cover. One of them was WHDI. So what is it? WHDI is short for Wireless Home Digital Interface, and promises to cut the cord clutter that becoming increasingly common for us with tons of gadgets and electronics.
WHDI is a consumer standard for HDTV, and has prominent compan [...]
Texter Helps you Type Faster
Most people write the same things over and over again. Think of an email: Dear Person,… you may even have a whole paragraph that you always use. I’ve recently had to increase the amount of time I spend programming. Like other code monkeys may know, a lot of the stuff we write is repetitious. For example, in Java, I often write: System.out.pri [...]
Complete Internet Repair Fixes All Co...
“Unless you have a faulty cable or live in a poor wireless signal area, all Internet connection problems can be tracked down to a few key areas in your system. So if Internet is not working on your laptop or you are experiencing connection issues like slow speeds, unstable connection etc. you just have to look at those areas. This you can do [...]
Blazing Fast Wireless: Brought to you...
tj.blackwell
We’ve gone from using the old cellphone networks all the way to 3G and 4G speeds of 200 kbit/s to 100 Mbit/s. Our laptops have gone from wired connections to Wi-Fi speeds of 54 Mbit/s to 600 Mbit/s. These speeds are great, and blow away the older connections we had. But they’re still far behind the simple wired connections that [...]
When computers go wrong [via PC Pro]
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Wesley Oostvogels
“When computers go wrong, they often go spectacularly wrong.
In most cases, catastrophic failures are blamed on “computer bugs”, although human error is normally the root cause for embarrassing failures. Here, we look at ten IT disasters that highlight the precariously fickle nature of computers.”
Among these spectacular fa [...]
USB Dead Drops
agoasi
“‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to s [...]
Google Gives away TV’s!
Shekhar_Sahu
Google’s conferences always have an awesome freebie with attendance, at several conferences; they’ve given away their phones (Nexus One) and other’s (G1, EVO 4G). This is some pretty great loot, but it looks like their latest conference is going to be remembered by its 600 attendees as the best one yet. What could be better th [...]
Program Review: Soluto
teknophilia
Soluto calls itself “Anti-Frustration Software” and actually does a pretty good job of accomplishing that. The goal of Soluto is to create a PC Genome, a database of all the software available along with a description of what it is, what it does, and how it affects your system performance. A quick visit to its homepage will give [...]
Program Review: Microsoft Fix it Cent...
teknophilia
Currently in beta testing, Microsoft Fix It Center is an automated maintenance center for common issues faced by windows users. If you have a Windows Passport, you can still sign in to the website, and it looks like the final version should be released soon.
It comes with automated fixes for most issues:
Aero
Diagnose and repair [...]
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