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Although wireless is simpler for a lot of people, due to multimedia sharing, bandwidth on my home network and my slight paranoia about wireless security, I really wanted to use a hard wired solution for home networking. Having a wired network allows me to have a private, high speed, network at home for Internet access, file sharing, media streaming, online gaming (console or PC), IP security cameras, or any other use of standard ethernet type wiring. Lets get to it with considerations and planning! - Bassam Islam

SnowChecker is a Mac OS X program that provides a neat interface to browse compatibility data found on snowleopard.wikidot.com. It has several features, including: * Scanning for applications on your hard drive to display only relevant compatibility data * Robust search * Sorting - Bassam Islam

"I've read that the only devices worth purchasing extended warranties on are those that involve water in some way, such as washing machines or fridges with ice-makers/water dispensers. I guess those tend to break down more often. My washing machine is having trouble with leaks right now, and I kind of wish I had bought the extended warranty when I bought it 2 years ago. :-(" - Bassam Islam

The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave. - Bassam Islam

Note: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (of Good Eater) brought his analytical cooking expertise to us last week in his first installment of The Burger Lab. This week he starts another bi-weekly column, The Food Lab, dedicated to unraveling the science of cooking. Today, learn about what happens under the shell when boiling eggs and how to make the perfect soft and hard boiled eggs. - Bassam Islam

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As a Kindle 1 owner, the Nook is definitely an interesting-looking device. Already, Amazon has announced a PC reading application for Kindle books, and sharing of notes and highlights across Kindles and iPhone apps. - Bassam Islam

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Process Hacker is a feature-packed tool for manipulating processes and services on your computer. - Bassam Islam

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From basic image retouching to complex effects, Phoenix delivers the key features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity and accessibility of a web-based application. - Bassam Islam

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Google Docs offers an undocumented feature that lets you embed PDF files and PowerPoint presentations in a web page. The files don't have to be uploaded to Google Docs, but they need to be available online. - Bassam Islam

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Solution for extending the session restore saving time in Firefox, which is 10 seconds by default. - Bassam Islam

An introduction to programming to HTML 5 - Bassam Islam