Turn Your $60 Router into a Super-Router with Tomato

Since last year there's been a lot of development of open source firmwares, and today we're taking a look at my new favorite, a firmware called Tomato. It does almost everything you expect, from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation, in addition to offering a simplified interface chock full of fancy charts and graphs

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Mysterious $100 ‘supernote’ counterfeit bills appear across world

These “supernotes" are not just any fake bills, but a counterfeit so perfect it’s become an international whodunit. The only way to distinguish some of these bills, experts say, is to compare photographically blown-up sections with magnifying instruments. About $50 million of the mystery money has been seized since 1989. However North Korea is suspected. In the late 1990s, North Korean diplomats were caught passing supernotes in Asian capitals; diplomatic immunity prevents prosecution.

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Better late then never! Microsoft Customer Service Calls Back 10 Years Later

On 01/08/2008, 10 years after he placed a call to Microsoft tech support, they called Brian back to see if his problem had been resolved. Are they just that backed up? Latent Y2K error? Phishing attempt? The truth is much more banal, and potentially, more frightening. See if you can figure out the solution before continuing on to the answer...

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MacWorld Steve Jobs keynote 2008 Buzz!

IMHO the worlds best Macintosh journal MacFormat reports that they will be at MacWorld. They will live blog the event. So all you need to do is click here at 9AM PST to see all the action. Even better yet click here to add the event to your iCal (or OutLook).

Why Apple Is Launching New Gear a Week Before Macworld

I had a briefing with Apple on their new Xserve and Mac Pros that were released today, mid week during CES, a week before Macworld 2008. I had only one question for them: Why release new gear when the Keynote is only a few days away? Their answer won't satisfy your curiousity, but here is the official.

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iPhone 1.1.3 questions answered by Gear Live

Gear Live has started answering reader and viewer questions on the iPhone 1.1.3 firmware. So IMHO while the iPhone 1.1.3 firmware seems to have a few nice features there is nothing earth shattering. Lets hope that Apple will add more features soon such as: Voice Dialing, copy & paste, Bluetooth Profiles: advanced audio distribution (stereo), phone book access, object push for vCard and vCalendar, file transfer, human interface, basic imaging for sending/printing non–protected images to a compatible device & basic print, Apple BlueTooth keyboard. Also camera night shot, Camcorder would be nice.

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2007 Darwin Awards

Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.

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