Lifehacker told us we can easily boost our wifi antenna’s reception up to 50% or more by creating a parabolic reflector out of scrap cardboard and tin foil. I made a crude one following their directions and measured the improvement in signal reception on my laptop running kismet. Check out my results!

One of the driving forces that led me to become a frequent user of Digg was the idea of disintermediation of news; that the userbase set the rules and determined what sites were newsworthy and which sites should be banned. In recent months following the DVD encryption key mayhem that rocked the site, things [...]

I’ve signed up for just about every music site that exists over the last couple of years and been disappointed with all of them. I’ve ditched allofmp3.com (who I hear might be coming online again soon) for pandora, pandora for last.fm and most recently Last.fm in favor of JiwaMusic. (My malaysian friends tell [...]

Disclaimer: downloading media that you don’t own is against the law

In case you haven’t heard Songbird is a great open source media organizer and content scraper. With a couple of small tweaks you can set it up to anonymously download (backups of your existing) media or stream media from millions of sources online. [...]

GoogleMonkeyR is a greasemonkey script written by a userscripts.org user named mungushome that I’ve fallen in love with lately. It alters the search results in google so you never need to click next page for more results and it is highly configurable allowing you to view the results in 1, 2 or 3 columns [...]

My TR gadget. Currently only works for guild server.

While checking out Ruby on Rails this week I came across a cool website @ swivel.com. I am an econ buff and the ways in which you can compare data are both amazing and easy, enabling me to waste several hours that I should have been working. After perusing the usual high correlation - [...]