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How-To wireless

How-To: Repair dropped Wi-Fi connections in Mac OS X

You’ve gotten used to your Wi-Fi signal. You rely on it. You sometimes ponder writing a love note to your wireless router if it’s been reliable this month. And still, there are times where your Wi-Fi signal breaks down and goes through the floor. Fear not, for the mighty Topher Kessler has written a killer […]

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Fun Hack Hardware

Perhaps the Greatest Thing Ever

It’s unassailably cool, a perfect combination of cats, programmable Arduino circuitry, LEDs, Twitter and the shell from your old eMac. Per creator Samuel Cox, you too can develop an eSleeper, which turned a hollowed-out eMac into a bed for his feline. Inside the shell is an Arduino Ethernet connected to an IR sensor, some LEDs […]

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iPad News Software

BBC iPad Player app comes to Canada, should arrive in U.S. market soon

It’s been in the works forever but it may just be close to done. Per the BBC, the BBC’s long-awaited iPad app has been updated to version 1.2.5 and is becoming available in Canada. The app debuted back in July bringing iPlayer streaming access to tablets across Western Europe, before taking its programs to Australia […]