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20MHz channels at 2.4 GHz (Channels 1, 6, 11) Now that I have a pair of Ubiquiti UAP Pro access points and an Airport Extreme, its time to look at the right frequency design given that all of these use huge 40MHz channels to get 300-450Mbps, but this diagram from…

Apples Lightning Cable Contains TI Chip Likely to Have Security Features – Mac Rumors. We were debating how small a computer can be. Well here are some of the answers, there are no fewer than four chips inside the tiny little connector inside a the new Iphone 5 charging cable…

Why build a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro and not a Retina MacBook Air? | 9to5Mac It turns out there are a few reasons, but let’s start with the Retina display: the Retina Display on the 13-inch MacBook Pro will be 2,560-by-1,600 (for those scoring at home, that resolution is the…

Privacy Fix is instructive.?Who knows how accurate it is, but I bet it is directionally correct. And it says that FB makes about 5 cents a year off ads delivered to me, whereas GOOG makes about $32. I have most of my privacy settings cranked up (on both GOOG and…

It is pretty clear that the world is moving to virtual machines and also phone and tablet front-ends. And it is amazing what you can do to study it yourself. So here are some things to try. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well…

We’ve been using MacBooks so long now that quite a few are past their three year Apple warranty period and unlike PCs, they are still in remarkably good shape. So rather than throw them away, these seem like things that work well enough to be repaired. Here are the top…

Mid-range Liquid Cooling, Automated radiator fan control. – Cooler-and-Heatsinks – Overclocking. I’ve always just tied my fans to headers on the motherboard and then used something like Speedfan to control them. With this outboard radiator, things are more complicated. We’ve mounted nine fans onto this huge outboard radiator, but there…

It’s been a while since I’ve done this, but Handbrake still works. The only trick is setting the encoding, I like to use X.264 and Handbrake.fr says to use RF Quality 20 for DVD and 22 for Blu Ray. This Constant Quality setting should work pretty well. The other setting…

Well this has been kind of an on and off again thing, but we’ve had Rock Band 2, 3 and Beatles for a while but hated paying for DLC content and never really research how to use it. But here are the little tricks. I can see sort of why…

Apple. Now that is a class act. Love the video memorial of Steve…