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Sky formally announces Anytime+ arrival for next week

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Top 10 best tablet PC iPad alternatives

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Samsung Galaxy Tab review

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HTC Desire HD review

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Samsung PS50C6900 review

With its £1,300 price tag and an extensive secondary feature count this Samsung 50-inch plasma TV has the potential to become the first bona fide 3D bargain

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Nvidia' s Optimus technology, which allows the laptop to automatically switch between basic integrated graphics and powerful dedicated graphics, makes this lappy a bit of a steal

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Toshiba Camileo SX900 review

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Meridian 808.3 Signature Reference review

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Create an Ad-Hoc Wireless Network

What’s the best way to transfer files from one computer to another? You can use a USB thumb drive or an Internet service like Dropbox, but a network connection is almost always the most efficient choice. You might think that both computers need access to a common network to use network sharing, but that’s not actually the case. Thanks to ad-hoc networking (a built-in feature in Windows) any two Wi-Fi-enabled laptops can shares files and play games as though they were on a LAN.

Setting up an ad-hoc connection in Windows Vista or 7 is a surprisingly simple affair. We’ll show you how.

Host an Ad-Hoc Network

(Image A)

On the computer that you want to host the network, click the wireless-signal connection-strength icon on the right side of the task bar. Select Open Network and Sharing Center, and then choose “Set up a new connection or network.” If this is the first time you’ve used ad-hoc networking, you’ll be asked to choose a network name and password for your network (image A). That’s pretty much all you have to do—click through the rest of the setup process and your network should be ready to go. Note that you’ll be disconnected from any other wireless networks you were connected to.

Connect to an Ad-Hoc Network

You connect to an ad-hoc network just like you’d connect to any other secure wireless network. Just select it from the wireless networks menu, and enter your password. That’s it!

Ad-Hoc Networking Uses

What it's good for:

» Transferring files between computers.» Playing LAN games on multiple laptops.» Streaming media from a friend's laptop.» Sharing a single wired Internet connection.

What it's NOT good for:

» Replacing a router (the primary computer has to be powered on to use any of the others).» Sharing a mobile hotspot (the primary computer can't connect to two wireless networks at once).

Use Internet Connection Sharing

Ad-hoc networking is even more powerful when combined with Internet Connection Sharing (ICS), a built-in feature of Windows that allows multiple computers to share a single Internet connection.

When do you need to share an Internet connection? It can be useful any time you’ve got a single wired Internet connection and multiple laptops you’d like to connect. Some hotels, for instance, still only provide a single Ethernet cable for Internet access. Additionally, ICS can allow you to share a VPN connection, and it can provide a way to connect a computer without a wireless card to a Wi-Fi network.

Set Up Internet Connection Sharing

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(Image B)

In the Network and Sharing Center, right-click the Internet connection to share, and click Properties. Select the Sharing tab, then check the box marked “Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s Internet connection” (image C). Now, any computer networked with this one will be able to connect to the Internet using this connection.

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There are multiple facets of Bandwidth Monitor Pro that you can customize, but arguably the most important option in the Settings menu is the email alert system. Clicking to the Alerts tab (image E) will pull up a menu that allows you to choose conditions that warrant an email alert—for instance, you want to be notified when you are approaching your bandwidth cap.

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Although there’s nothing about ad-hoc networking or Internet sharing that would make this inherently impossible, the simple fact that most computers are not equipped to access more than one network at a time means that you need some extra help, in the form of a free program called Connectify.

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Once you start up Connectify for the first time, it’ll automatically run the setup wizard. This asks you for basic information like network name and password, but it will also ask you what kind of shared connection you’d like to set up (image G). Here are the options:

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This option does no Internet sharing (as you might have guessed) but it still establishes an ad-hoc network, allowing you to do file transfers and LAN gaming.

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This option shares access to the LAN that the host computer is currently connected to. Choose this option if you want to share a wired connection wirelessly.

» Wireless Network Connection

This is the option you’re most likely interested in—it allows you to share access to a wireless network, such as a mobile hotspot.

» VirtualBox Host-Only Network

This option allows you to share a special kind of a virtual network used by the VirtualBox virtualization software. You probably don’t need it.

(Image H)

After setup, when you run Connectify, it will go straight to your system tray. If you click it, it’ll open a configuration panel where you can change your network options, and also view anyone who is currently connected to your network, or who has connected in the recent past (image H). If you right-click one of these users, you can block them, give them a special icon, or click the Explore button to see shared folders on that computer.

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Troubleshoot Your Internet Connection

In this wired day and age, there’s nothing quite as frustrating as finding yourself unwillingly unplugged. What’s worse, with a busted Internet connection, you frequently don’t have much of an idea what’s going on—web pages don’t load, but it’s up to you to figure out why. Networking is tricky business, and there are dozens of complicated things that can go wrong, but a lot of time the root cause is one of a few simple problems. With that in mind, here’s our basic Internet troubleshooting checklist.

Restart Your Router

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If you find yourself routinely having to restart your router, you may be overloading it. In particular, BitTorrent and other programs that open lots and lots of simultaneous connections can overwhelm an old or crappy router. Lowering the maximum number of uploads and downloads in your BitTorrent client might fix the problem—at the expense of some download speed (image I).

Is It Your Wi-Fi?

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» Can you see other wireless networks?

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(Image J)

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(Image K)

» Is it your broadband provider?

And of course, the problem could always be out of your hands. If nothing else seems to be working, try giving your ISP a call and asking if there’s a problem on its end.

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Palm Pre is All Win

Finally, someone has announced an iPhone killer that we can all get behind. The Palm Pre surprised everyone at CES with its best-of-all-worlds specs and features. We’re talking about a multi-touch phone with slide-out QWERTY keyboard and a truly innovative web-integrated user interface.

Early impressions indicate a really smooth and fast interface and web-browsing experience, with all the productivity and media features that we’ve come to expect from a modern smartphone. It’s as if Palm designers made a list of everything that was lacking from the iPhone and made a point to incorporate it here. Real GPS, MMS messaging, USB port, and removable battery lets Palm blow a raspberry at the competition. Copy and paste is just gravy. But too bad it won’t be converting iPhone users anytime in the near future – the Pre is a Sprint exclusive.

Touch is Really Good

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We’re as guilty as everyone who’s compared large touch-screen displays to the gesture-controlled interface shown in the movie Minority Report, but this year’s CES was the first time that futuristic technology actually felt within our grasp (or touch, at least). Intel’s booth showcased a prototype touch screen on a special glass pane with images projected onto it. The single-touch capacitive panel let us intuitively maneuver around a 3D representation of a showroom to read about Intel’s Core-i7 processor.

What was special about this demonstration wasn’t the technology used in the touch screen, but the unique implementation with a transparent panel. This prototype may not have practical applications or ever come to market, but we’re still enamored by anything that’ll take us back to 2002 and let us relive that awesome Minority Report scene.

Windows 7 Charms Us with Betta

It might’ve been the worst kept secret at CES, but announcement of the Windows 7 public Beta was still music to our ears. And despite initial download-server woes last Friday, this beta release has been pretty successful for Microsoft. We were surprised at how easy the installation process was,[http://www.2012celinebag.net/celine-large-luggage-leather-tote-yellow-with-black-trim-discount-p-64.html Celine Large Luggage Leather Tote Yellow With Black Trim], whether from installing on a new partition, upgrading from within Vista, or even running with Boot Camp on a Macbook Pro.

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Ultra-Thin is In

The central CES hall was predictably dominated by fleets of flatpanels, but the models unveiled this year were noticeably more modest than in years past. Gone were 150” monstrosities and the battle for the largest screen size,[http://www.2012celinebag.net/celine-classic-box-shoulder-bag-grey-online-sale-p-29.html grey celine classic box bag], replaced by the newest fad in LCD monitors – ultra-thin displays. Hitachi debuted a line of 1.5” deep HDTVs, while Pioneer and JVC both amazed us with prototypes that measured less than 10mm thick. But it was Samsung that showed everyone up with their 6.5mm thin panel, taking home the “thinnest TV” title,[http://www.2012celinebag.net/celine-trapeze-bag-tri-color-beige-grey-coffee-discount-p-141.html celine bag tri color]. Advances in LED backlighting is what enables the these displays to be so anorexic, with the possibility of going even thinner once OLED technology is more developed. We don’t know if these ultra-thin displays will make good role models for the next generation of image-conscious televisions, but we have to admit – they’re damn sexy.

Don’t You Dare Call These Netbooks

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Sony, on the other hand, showed off a device that doesn’t quite fall into either the netbook or UMPC categories. The almost purse-sized Vaio P runs on a 1.33GHz Atom processor, 2GB of Ram, and boots into Vista, but also uses a Sony XMB-like instant-on OS for access to media and the internet (via built-in 3G). Starting at 900 (and going up to 1500 with storage upgrades), the Vaio P is another device that, unlike netbooks, doesn’t trade power for portability – if you can afford it.

Bonus: Light Attendance

Attendance falling 22 from last year may be a sign of the struggling economy, but at least it made walking through the typically packed exhibit floors much more manageable.  We didn’t have to weave through swarms of packed crowds to make our meetings, and even the legendary taxi line waits (well over an hour in the past) were bearable. Hopefully exhibitors weren’t too discouraged by the emptier halls and will return next year.

Check back tomorrow for our Worst of CES picks!

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