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Boost Your Wifi Signal for Cheap

If you barely register a bar on your Wifi network in the back corner of your house, give this simple do-it-yourself project a try.

With some aluminum foil, card stock and scissor, you can make a simple Wifi extender to boost your signal 9 to 12 dBi. Can’t say I can measure the exact gain, but I certainly see a slightly improved signal with my installation.

Simply print the template on some card stock and cut it out. attach foil to the reflector and attach the two pieces. Slide the contraption over your Wifi antenna and point in your direction. That is it!

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Original Droid 1.0 owners – boost the speed of your phone and make room for more apps with Ultimate Droid ROM.

After rooting my Motorola Droid 1.0, I was intrigued to test out a new ROM. The most common ROM is Cyanogen Mod, which I used (v6). I wasn’t totally sold on it – Cyanogen didn’t offer me much more than the stock ROM. I knew there were numerous other ROMs out there.

After some research, I found other Droid 1 users who had tested various ROMs and indicated that Ultimate Droid seemed to offer the fastest experience, though with fewer features than others (especially now that Cyanogen 7 has lots of great bells and whistles). However, after installing Ultimate Droid, I immediately noticed the increased speed over Cyanogen and the stock ROM.

After poking around a bit, I found other great features normally reserved for other stand alone apps: CPU over clocking and forcing use of the SD card for app installs, among other things.

Of course, this all goes without saying: you need to root your Droid first. Thankfully, I found a super simple way to do that.

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