Post Tagged with: "Wi-Fi"

Don’s Picks: Six Wi-Fi adapters that get the job done

Don’s Picks:  Six Wi-Fi adapters that get the job done

One of the quickest things to die off is your internal Wi-Fi adapter. These delicate little fellows seem to bite the dust almost as quickly as laptop RAM does. Your internal components expand and restrict with the amount of heat that builds up inside the tiny space that is in most cases, causing parts to die.

Winning the 2012 Console War

Winning the 2012 Console War

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the three major console manufacturers announcing their next generations of consoles in 2012. Nintendo has already beaten their competition to the punch by announcing Wii U at this year’s E3 convention. Rather than speculate on what the consoles will and will not have I decided to look [...]

Choosing Keywords for your Blog

Choosing Keywords for your Blog

These days, our needs for knowledge, information, everyday  necessities and novelty materials can be found just with one  single click on an internet website. It’s no surprise that  people prefer to surf the WWW rather than go to a library or  shopping center to look for or buy what they want. More and more  people [...]

Square Enix vs. The Economy

Square Enix vs. The Economy

Welcome to the Weekend Edition of THE WRATH OF EL PATO. The column that never falls on hard times during a crappy economy. First things first, today I received a memo from “upstairs” saying that an old OCmodshop favorite, Trish Oliver is back to show us what good content is.  Cool! Trish’s writing is immaculate [...]

Aquarium and Fantasy Aquarium by DS Reviews

Aquarium and Fantasy Aquarium by DS Reviews

Title: Aquarium and Fantasy Aquarium Developer: Ertain Publisher: Destineer Release Date: March 17th, 2008 Genre: Simulation Console: Nintendo DS Rating: E (Everyone, 3+) Aquarium and Fantasy Aquarium are indeed two different games, separated like twins at birth but after a long separation and after long last, have been brought back together. If you are familiar [...]

WordJong (Nintendo DS) Review

WordJong (Nintendo DS) Review

WordJong has been a favorite PC title for casual gamers for a while, and can be played for free at various web sites.  It uniquely combines two games that provoke different parts of your brain: Scrabble and Mahjong.  You have to spell out words using the tiles on the screen, but Mahjong rules determine which [...]

What I Like about Wii

What I Like about Wii

These past few months, since Nintendo announced the details about their new system, I’ve been excited. I’ve been researching this new “revolution” in gaming. I liked what I heard. I was skeptical, however. The vision of Wii was so wildly different from anything before it, that I assumed it was either going to be incredible [...]

How To Secure Your Broadband Connection

How To Secure Your Broadband Connection

This is a subject that comes up a lot with my clients. The answer is not as straight forward as it may seem. There are a lot of factors that can effect this. Some of them are as follows: Your router: If you signed up for Verizon DSL in the last year, you probably received [...]

Palm TX Handheld PDA

Palm TX Handheld PDA

Palm’s newest iteration of their world famous PDAs, the TX is easily the most complete and versatile of currently available handhelds. Palm has had some challenging times in the past few years; strong competition from hardware vendors like Sony, operating system competition from the likes of Microsoft, and various business transitions have forced the mighty [...]

Waiting in line for an Xbox 360

Waiting in line for an Xbox 360

Late at night on Monday, November 21st 2005, many people stood in line at the Best Buy in Lynnwood, Washington. Some had staked out their mark on the sidewalk days before, camping out for the long haul. Others arrived earlier that day… Other parties were going on around Seattle, and Bill Gates himself was at [...]

SMC 802.11g wireless network kit

SMC 802.11g wireless network kit

I recently received a total wireless networking package from SMC featuring a router, PCI card, and PCMCIA card for a laptop. SMC is a company that’s been around for a long time, but some of you may not have heard of them. That’s OK though – networking companies rarely hold the same status among modders [...]

SMC 802.11b wireless network kit

SMC 802.11b wireless network kit

Wireless networking is becoming more and more prominent everyday with new technology and products emerging very quickly. Most of America now is ditching their slow dial up connections for fast broadband connections like cable and DSL. The problem with these connections is that they are hard wired and if you want to hookup multiple computers [...]