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Have you setup a Wifi router at home? I like the freedom of wireless internet connection. Since I already installed broadband at home, I can setup an in house Wifi hotspot too. So that I can online via my iPod touch anywhere in or near to my house. I can online in living room, watch youtube on bed, tweet in garden, read feed in washroom. Any situation you might think of is possible.

The best to implement Wifi hotspot is using a wifi router. But a good brand wifi router might cost nearly $200, which is quite expensive for me to support an iPod touch. Hence, I have setup a so called “poor man wifi router”. It has almost the same feature as normal wifi router!

Setup Poor Man Wifi Router

If you have read through how I transfer files to iPod touch wirelessly, the method is almost the same. You just need a wifi adapter to act as a wifi router. In the setup guide below, I use Gateway computer (such as a PC that connected to Internet, act as wifi router) and Mobile computer (such as iPod touch or laptop) to illustrate. (more…)

Nowadays everything is inflating. The breaking news of new petrol price on yesterday evening make car owners crazy. It is more than 40% increase! I can fill up my fuel tank with 60 bucks before yesterday, but now have to spend more than 80 bucks for a full tank.

I’m afraid how will the effect for the next 2 weeks. Also, how we going to survive when the real floating petrol price on this coming August?

How to Save Petrol?

I suggest to become a save money blogger before enter into full time blogger or make money blogger. Because prevention is better than cure.

After some research, I have some interesting idea to save your petrol that you might not know!

1. Timing of Pump in Petrol

Timing of pump in petrol is one of the important factor to save petrol. Pump in petrol in early morning when the temperature is still cold. So that your liter is an exact liter. When the ground get warmer, the petrol gas expand and you get lesser than real capacity.

When filling up the petrol, do not squeeze the trigger to fast mode. The slower the more petrol you get. Also, do not wait until your fuel tank empty to top up. Most ideal timing is add petrol once reach half tank. The more air occupying in fuel tank, the faster your petrol get evaporates! (more…)

Nowadays, USB storage is very popular and cheap. No doubt USB thumb drive give us many convenience, but it can also be used by data thieves to leak sensitive information. Worst case is others might
spread virus into your computer without your knowledge! I had this bad experience.

How to protect data?

Goto Start, Run, type “regedit” then click OK. You must have administrative rights to run regedit tool.

To Disable:
In Registry, browse to ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Currentcontrolset\Services\Usbstor‘
-Double click DWord value ‘Start‘ and set to 4.
-Export the USBSTOR folder as DisableUSB.reg

To Enable:
In Registry, browse to ‘Hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\services\Usbstor‘
-Double click DWord value ‘Start‘ and set to 3.
-Export the USBSTOR as EnableUSB.reg

To make it easy, I have export the reg files accordingly. You might want to download and use at your own risk!

• DisableUSB
• EnableUSB

Download it and save it somewhere. To use it, just double click on the .reg file and click YES.

It is the best to store them into a hidden or restricted folder. Now you could prevent external USB storage without your knowledge. This also protect your computer from unnessacery virus spread via USB sticks, which are very common nowadays.

So what are you waiting for? Act now for better security!

PS: Please extra careful when tweak registry or your Windows might corrupt!

Although Windows claimed that it can handle “multi tasking”, sometime our computer run exstremely slow after running few softwares simultaneously.

Especially when burning CDs, old processor might not be able to do other things. As for me, I rather prefer CD burning to finish before continue.

Set Process Priority to Run Faster

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open task manager. Click Processes tab, right click on process that you want it run faster. Set priority to High and you are done. There are 6 priority levels for you to choose: Realtime, High, Above Normal, Normal, Below Normal and Low. For example, you might want to adjust your Nero to High level and see its running faster. (more…)