veronica belmont

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The cutest and weirdest iPod docks ever, plus how to add a secret wifi hub to your office without getting fired! Welcome to Tekzilla... hands on reviews of the latest tech, and how to make the most out of the gear you already own! Veronica Belmont and Patrick Norton are your hosts. DIY WiFi + The Corporate Network = Bad Idea Jason's looking to drop a spare PCI WiFi card into his office PC... it'll work as a Wireless Access Point and extend the WiFI coverage in his office. You could use Internet Connection Sharing to do this, it's built into Windows... and you'll probably be setting yourself up to get fired. DIY WiFi on corporate networks is usually a big no no! Better WiFi Security: WPA2 + Random 13 Character Keys! If you are looking to keep your WiFi secure (and you should!) the security researchers at the Church of WiFi have compiled Lookup/Rainbow Tables for the top WPA passphrases and SSIDs to speed up brute force attacks... so try to use a random 13 character key along with WPA2 security! Free Software: Folding@Home This distributed computing project runs protein folding models across millions of Macs, PCs, 3D video cards from ATI and Nvidia and Sony's PS3s around the world in order to better understand mis-folded proteins and, hopefully, help find treatments for a number of life threatening illnesses including Alzheimer's, Mad Cow, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease and a range of cancers. If you're gonna leave your PC or PC's on all the time... make a contribution to medical science and run Folding@Home! iPod and iPhone Accessories! Love or hate 'em, the iPod and iPhone have a ton of accessories... here are some of the ones we've gotten hands on with lately: Woodtec iPod Dock, Speakal iPanda, Monster Mobile SoniTalk, iGo Everywhere Power Kit, Tiko Fold Travel Stand! Website We Just Can't Get Enough of: iFixIt! Broken gadget? iFixIt.com has it all when it comes to repairing, troubleshooting, and ripping apart your favorite gadgets... at least if they're iPods, iPhones or Apple notebooks! The step by step guides are awesome, and they regularly tear down all kinds of gadgets, so you can finally see what's inside! XLR to USB: The Best Mic Adapter yet? Field recording? Recording your guitar? Need some help getting better audio for your podcast? Veronica says with Shure's X2u, a decent mic and a laptop "you'll never need to lug around anything else!" Find out why on the show... Blu-ray vs. a 720p HDTV Blu-ray players are getting cheap and Joel's thinking of picking one up... but none of the reviews mention how 1080p Blu-ray disks look on 720p HDTVs. Not to worry, Joel, Patrick has spent a lot of time watching DVDs and Blu-rays on both 720p and 1080p monitors, in various sizes and from various distances and he's got the info for you on the show! Parallel Port to USB? There are lots of reasons why folks still want to run Parallel Port accessories on computers that only have USB ports... who wants to buy another OKI Impact Dot Matrix Printer if they don't have to? (OKI still sells 'em, btw, and they do come with USB now and they still sell serial and paralell port versions, too!) What Lyman needs to do is verify that he's got drivers that'll work with his current OS, then pick up a USB Parallel Port adapter from Newegg or TigerDirect