If you have a spare WiFi router with you and would like to increase the range of your WiFi network you can easily do that with the dd-wrt firmware, you just need to install dd-wrt firmware on the second router and use that in the repeater mode and I show you how.

The recently updated versions of Macbook Air and Mac mini for 2011 have been launched and they have also arrived in India, both the computers now sport the latest Sandy Bridge Core i5 processor from intel and the best part is that they are priced lower compared to last years models.

Everyone has their favorite applications which helps you to be more productive or make things easier to work with your computer and here are some of the apps that I install on a new Apple Macintosh computer which helps me being more productive.

Carbon Copy Cloner is a free application for the Mac by which you can easily clone your Mac HDD’s and I feel is a must have app if you plan to do major upgrades to your Macintosh or install a new Operating System and it’s very easy to use.

The latest version of Mac OS called Lion was launched on 20 July, 2011 which according to apple brings about 250 new features to the operating system, for upgrading to Lion you need to have the previous version of Mac OS X called Snow Leopard and use the App Store to download Lion It’s a 3.8 GB download, I have installed Lion on my Macbook Air and here are my initial impressions.

If you liked the tiles screen layout on the new Windows 7 Mobile phone and want to get that look and feel on your Android phone you can easily do that and I show how to get the Windows 7 look on your Android phone.

A Wifi router is one of the most important part of your network this is the device that connects all your devices to the outside world, can share a single internet connection with multiple computers / devices but most of the manufactures cripple the functions that your WiFi router hardware is capable of but by using an open firmware like DD-WRT you can unleash the true potential of your router.

Android phones are great with tons of features and the best part about them is that you can customize them as you like, if you Android phones dialer is just stock and does not have features like Smart dialer, one touch favorites and other goodies you will like this app.

With Google Chrome browser you can search google directly from the address / url bar but what about if you use firefox. I will show you how to search any site google / wikipedia / bing etc directly from firefox url bar with this handy trick.

These days most of our internet service providers (ISP’s) even with their so called unlimited plans have a bandwidth cap / restriction and when you hit that cap your speed reduces drastically from say 4 or 2 Mbps to just 256 kbps which these ISP’s like to call Fair Usage Policy (FUP) which is painful so it makes sense to monitor how much internet bandwidth you are consuming.

Firefox was recently updated to version 5 and I know things are happening fast coz firefox 4 was launched just a couple of months, this latest version of Firefox 5 brings to us some new nice improvements and I show you some of them.