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Charging the Novatel MiFi while using WiFi

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: March 7, 2010
The Novatel MiFi is one of the most innovative and darn useful devices to have been released in the last couple years. For all its merits, the MiFi is plagued with a dark secret: for some oddball reason, Novatel decided to disable wifi functionality while the MiFi is plugged into a computer’s USB port. They [...]
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Enable AdBlock with Google Chrome

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: November 16, 2009
Google Chrome is an excellent web browser, but until recently was lacking in the extensions department. Here are quick and simple instructions for using AdBlock with the latest version of Chrome for Windows, Mac or Linux: Download and install the latest development version of Google Chrome. Launch Chrome and open the experimental AdBlock+ extension (more information on [...]
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ATI Radeon and Windows 7

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: January 21, 2009
If you’ve got an AMD ATI video card, and Windows 7 is either not accepting your driver or giving you the dreaded BSOD, check out the pre-release Windows 7 drivers from ATI.
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LogMeIn and Windows7

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: January 19, 2009
Windows 7 won’t work with the standard LogMeIn installer, but the manual installation does work. Here’s the run-through: 1. Download: https://secure.logmein.com/logmein.zip 2. Extract the archive. 3. Start->All Programs->Accessories, right-click on Command Prompt and select “Run as Administrator.” 4. Run: cd\users\<user name>\desktop\logmein\x86 (NOTE: if running 64-bit Windows change the ‘x86′ to ‘x64′) 5. From the prompt, run “logemein install” 6. The installer [...]
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