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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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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Admittedly, I had problems with mine the first time. After a few backups, wipes and installs, it’s actually quite simple. It took me quite some time to sift through all of the various options and dated instructions out there. Note: I use the original Droid, though you can find other similar phones and methods at Lifehacker. And this method is only for Windows.

Downloads

• Visit the Motorola site to download the USB drivers
• Download the SuperOneClick rooting software

Process

1. Install the USB drivers
2. Put your phone in the USB debugging mode (Settings > Applications > Development and check the USB Debugging box at the top)
3. Install and start SuperOneClick
4. Plug your phone into the USB (do NOT mount the SD card)
5. Click “Root” on the SuperOneClick application
6. Once completed, it will ask you to confirm and test
7. Open your app drawer and find SuperUser application – if this exists, your phone is rooted.

For more details or help, visit the SuperOneClick site

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Not more than three months after purchasing this mouse new from eBay, the left click button started to flake out. Even at $5, three months seems pretty weak.

Stay tuned for additional mini USB mouse tests. I’m looking for the most durable one out there and testing five.

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Craigslist doesn’t make it super easy or very obvious, but it is quite simple.

At the bottom of every search page is a small “RSS” button. For Google Reader and other RSS junkies, simply click this to subscribe. But for most people who might not know what RSS actually is, have no fear: you can subscribe via email with the same button simply by using FeedMyInbox.com or other “RSS-to-Email” service. They are free and literally as easy as copy & paste. Check out the video above for a quick how-to.

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