How to make a printed circuit board with stuff you all already have.

by josh
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Published on: June 5, 2011

 

You can make your own printed circuit boards (PBC) at home safely and easily, with stuff you have at home. You can use PBC’s for art or projects you are working on.

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Basics of soldering

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Published on: March 25, 2011

Soldering is using a filler material (solder) to join two or more pieces of metal together. Soldering occurs at relatively low temperatures. In soldering the filler material becomes liquid, coats the pieces it is brought into contact with, and is then allowed to cool. As the solder cools it hardens, and the two materials are joined. Soldering is a quick way to join many types of materials, from copper pipe to stained glass. It creates an electrically conductive strong bond between components that can be re-heated (desoldered) if you should ever want to disconnect two items joined together.

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How to Boost a wireless networks range

by josh
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Published on: March 6, 2011

I got this question to day. I’m using a wireless N router on the top floor of my home and I have a 25M dedicated (up and down) fiber optic LAN service. I am using a Belkin N router with 2 antennas. I get a decent signal downstairs, but I am hoping to boost my signal even more so that I can sit on the front porch and maybe even in my garage (20 ft from house). I have been looking at boosters and antennas and other things (second wireless router). Do you have any advice or preferences on getting really awesome Wi-Fi signals?

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How to keep you and your computer safe online

by josh
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Published on: February 26, 2011

This is the most common ways my friends and coworkers that have gotten Viruses.

Have you ever gotten a massage saying check out this video, when you go to the link it looks a lot like Youtube, but it says you need to update your Flash. Do not ever download flash from that site the video is not real. If you would like to see if it is just go to www.flash.com and download the newest one if you do not have it, or for any plugin you need.

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How to make a good strong password that you can remember

by josh
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Published on: February 25, 2011

 

You need to know how to make a good strong password, for most people all you need is at least 10 characters, made up of: Lower and uppercase letters, Numbers, Punctuation and symbols. You also do not ever want to use the same password for different sites.

In my opinion the best way to make a strong password is to take one or two letters from the site you need the password for. like mine Free time tech, you can use (fr ti te) and then make some letters uppercase like (FrTiTe) now you need to add numbers (FrTiTe56) then all you need to do is add Punctuation and symbols you will end up with something like this (Fr@Ti?Te56). Using this method no one will be able to break your password, for the most part.

 

How to help a computer that is slowing down, and will not update

by josh
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Published on: February 24, 2011

I got this question today, the best thing to do is back up the file’s you would like to keep to an usb drive, and restore the computer.  Since you don’t want to reformat the computer we will see what we can do to help.

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Sony Banned Jailbroken PlayStation 3

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Published on: February 22, 2011

Sony has taken hacker geohot to court over moding he’s PS3 to be able to install third party operating system like Linux  on it, which is a features that Sony removed from the system, I am sorry but if I buy something I think it should keep all of the features that it came with. So now Sony is banning all PS3’s that have moded firmware. You can keep up with this over at GeoHot’s web site.

NVIDIA reveals quad-core Kal-El processor

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Published on: February 22, 2011

My droid phone has a 600Mhz processer in it, and that is not much. Nvidia is releasing dual-core phone processer’s this year, but then Nvidia they revealed their new quad-core phone processor and a road map of where they will be by 2014. It looks like my phone in 2014 maybe more powerful than my I7 Desktop that can render 3D models. I just think the new generation of smart phone’s will be crazy. You can see more on this at Engadget.

Best Ways to Backup and Keep your Data Safe

by josh
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Published on: February 20, 2011

To keep all of your digital photo and file’s safe you need to make a full disk image of your computer’s hard drive, Use something like carbonite will back up all of your data to a server and keep them updated for you so that you don’t have to worry about them anymore. to back up your OS and applications you will need to make a full disk image.

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Phone Tech Support

by josh
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Published on: February 20, 2011

Now this one will not help you if you can’t get online, Today I got a call from my grandmothers saying that Windstream phone tech support said that her modem was dead, and that she needed to buy a new DLS modem for 99$. They had spent over

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