Improving Your Home Network
- Extending Your Wireless Network Coverage – Gaining More Area Out Of The Wireless Network
- Multi-Building Home Networks – Extending Your Home Network To The Outbuildings
- Understanding And Managing Your HomePlug Network – Knowing how to get the best out of your HomePlug powerline network
- Understanding 802.11n High-Bandwidth Wireless Networks - Knowing about the 802.11n high-bandwidth wireless network standard and what is needed to deploy these wireless networks
- Wiring Your House For Ethernet - How to go about having your new or renovated house wired with Ethernet cabling
Your Small-Business Computing Experience
- Moving your closed-circuit TV system to IP technology – Understanding IP-based video surveillance and how to go about upgrading your video-surveillance system to this technology.
- DLNA and UPnP AV in the business - An article outlining the relevance of UPnP AV / DLNA multimedia network setups in the business
Cost-Effective Computing Setups
- Using an ex-business laptop computer as a kitchen PC
- Repurposing that ex-business laptop for home use – how to go about setting up a laptop that was used as a business computer as a home computer
Safe Home Computing And Networking
The DLNA Media Network
- Getting Started With DLNA Media Sharing – Setting up the DLNA-compliant network media client device for the home network
- Setting Up PC-Less Network AV – Using a dedicated device as a DLNA media server
- Integrating Classical Music Into Your Digital-Music Collection – Integrating serious classical music, especially complete works like symphonies, in to your digital music collecton and making particular works and movements easier to find.
- The 3-box DLNA Home Media Network – understanding the ability for a network media control point (as a piece of network hardware or a program running on a computer) to control a network media player rather than the network media player’s control surface.
Network and Internet Activities
Facebook and other social network sites
At the moment, these articles pertain to Facebook because of its preference as a social-network site by mature-aged and older people, many of whom are likely to be computer or Internet novices.
- Facebook – Fighting the battle against money scams – How you should handle “419-style” money scams that manifest on Facebook and other social networks as “calls for help” from distressed travellers.
- Someone saying things “off the wall” on the (Facebook) Wall about you - assessing the impact of a comment left on a Facebook Friend’s Wall about you
- Facebook – Where should I write and where do I write that post – A table about where you should write a message or comment whenever you use Facebook
Videoconferencing
- Video Conferencing and your Home Network - Setting up your computers and home network for long-distance video conferencing
Buyer’s Guides
- Choosing the right laptop for your small business – How to go about choosing that laptop computer as a business tool for your solo business operation or other small business.
- Buying an Internet radio - information about Internet radios and how to go about buying them
- Entry-level wireless routers - information about low-priced Wi-Fi outers for cable and ADSL broadband Internet service, including how to get the best value out of your first ADSL service.
- Moving your closed-circuit TV system to IP technology – Understanding IP-based video surveillance and how to go about upgrading your video-surveillance system to this technology.
Special Reports
- 10 Years Of the UPnP Forum - An article about the UPnP Forum’s 10 years in existence with a focus on how that has helped made the home network easy to use with equipment from differing manufacturers.