“If Microsoft Windows ever notifies you about a weak signal, it probably means your connection isn’t as fast or as reliable as it could be. Worse, you might lose your connection entirely in some parts of your home. If you’re looking to improve the signal for your wireless network, try some of these tips for extending your wireless range and improving your wireless network performance.”
Very straightforward advice for people new to wireless.
1. Keep it Simple
This may sound obvious but if you find yourself using complicated coding to achieve your design then you should think again about whether the feature you need is really necessary or if you’re just thinking about your design and not your visitors. Too often designers get caught up in their own design and go to great lengths to produce a certain visual effect only to find later on that visitors find it either irritating or unusable.
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“Enterprise wireless LAN security is a persistent concern for every system administrator and CIO. Threats from both within and without the enterprise threaten your data each and every day. This download gives you the basic foundation you need to secure your enterprise wireless connections by detailing security protocols such as the Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP), the Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP), Cisco EAP-FAST authentication, and Microsoft IAS RADIUS. The guide also walks you through the configuration of these authentication protocols so you can properly implement them in your enterprise.” (registration with TechRepublic required)
“Following old-school backup routines for data backup could put your business at risk. To avoid disaster, you need to think about what data you need to recover—and how quickly.
When it comes down to the nitty-gritty details of backup, most small-business owners (along with most individual users) have a less-than-solid grasp on the reality of their backup needs. This knowledge gap should come as no surprise, since the path of least resistance is to follow the tradition of daily backup, rather than taking the time to examine one’s workflow and determine real needs.”
“Wireless networks, like their wired counterparts, rely on the manipulation of electrical charge to enable communication between devices. Changes or oscillations in signal strength from 0 to some maximum value (amplitude) and the rate of those oscillations (frequency) are used singularly or in combination with each other to encode and decode information.”
“Over the last ten years, our world has become interconnected in ways not previously imaginable. Today, for instance, people in Spain, the US, and Brazil can find out simultaneously that soccer-star David Beckham has switched teams. Small companies can now affordably be spread across the globe, and big companies can now have inter-office collaboration on a daily basis. But all of that interconnectedness relies in large part on our ability to protect the networks that create those connections.”
For Firefox fans 
the Web Developer toolbar provides a handful of useful tools for developing and troubleshooting web pages. View, edit and modify CSS styles while watching your page update on the fly. Use the outline tool to show the structure of divs and block level elements. Validate pages with any number of web standards and compliance measures. Ruler, magnifier, guides, cookie management are only a few of the many tools provided in this essential development tool.
Microsoft also supplies a web developer toolbar for IE that you can find here.
A List Apart is an excellent source for articles dealing with the intricacies of code semantics, content, design as well as the culture of web life. A perfect combination of layout and markup.
Favicons are the tiny 16×16 icons that sit next to you website in the address bar or favourites/bookmarks of your browser. They must be saved in the Windows icon format, one that is not directly supported by Photoshop out of the box. Get the plugin to save .ico files from Telegraphics and create your own favicons. The plugin is a free download for both Mac and PC.
When dealing with 3D computer graphics a small handful of names have dominated the landscape. Alias Maya (now owned by Autodesk, what a pity…), 3D Studio MAX and Softimage. Over the years that have a been a handful of small open-source projects that have come and gone but never gained any real credibility in the professional world.
Blender has changed that by offering a number of high level features in an open-source package. With an advanced modeler, rigging capability, animation, rendering and shading, as well as advanced dynamics, particles, fur, fluid simulation and scripting support with the Python language.
Click here to download apps and utilities from our list of recommended Freeware and Open Source development tools.
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