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When the house I currently live in was under construction, my family decided that they wanted our living room area to have a very clean appearance. In our previous house, the entertainment area was a complete mess due to a combination of poor cable management as well as clutter created by equipment such as the home theater receiver, HTPC, smart tv box as well as the Blue-ray player. To eliminate the presence of such devices from the living room, HDMI, USB, ethernet as well as coaxial cables were installed behind the TV mount during the framing stages of the house. These in-wall rated cables ran to the basement where a specific area was allocated for all the Audio/Video equipment in the house. Unfortunately, fixing the “clutter” gave rise to another problem; how would we control the equipment in the basement without physically going to the basement each time we wanted to alter a setting? For devices such as the Blue-ray player which featured an Infrared input (IR) the solution was to purchase and setup an Infrared blaster (or RF universal remote). However, this was not possible for the HTPC which featured no IR ports. In turn, Wake on LAN as well as a 2.4Ghz Keyboard/Mice was used.
It’s that time of the year again. The time of the year when all the holiday shopping has completed, only to be followed by endless credit card statements from the christmas/boxing day shopping spree you partook in this holiday season. Lucky for you, there are several strategies you can implement in your lifestyle to quickly reduce your liability (and perhaps start saving for the next holiday season?). In the past, Lifehacker has already produced several guides relating to the subject of interest like: Eliminating your Cable Television bill (1, 2) and consolidating your credit cards. However, now Canadians have a third option when it comes to reducing monthly liability thanks to a company known as Fibernetics. In this article, I discuss my experience using Freephoneline as my primary home phone provider as well as some advantages and disadvantages (honestly, brainstorming was required to come up with any disadvantages discussed in this article).
In this week’s article we will take a brief look at something that has probably affected every one of us at one point or another, viruses! As you may have already noticed by the categorical classification of this post, we are not discussing the biological vessels which contain harmful genetic material. Rather, the topic of interest for this article are the viruses affecting your computer.
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