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The Best Way to Point Your Wi-Fi Router Antennas: Perpendicularly

Raise your hand if you thought pointing both of a router's antennas straight up was better for Wi-Fi reception. Yeah, us too. According to a former Apple Wi-Fi engineer, however, the best placement is to have one antenna vertical and the other horizontal.

In an enlightening post about Wi-Fi on the Mac Observer, Alf Watt, who also created Wi-Fi utility iStumbler, explains why the perpendicular orientation is better:

This is because radio reception is maximized when both client and access point have matched polarization (antennas pointing along the same plane).

Some client devices have antennas in vertical orientation, some horizontal. The current crop of MacBooks, for example, have their antennas in the black plastic part of the hinge in a horizontal orientation.

By pointing antennas both ways, you'll maximize radio reception no matter which way your device's antenna is oriented.

Check out the full post of the Mac Observer for more Wi-Fi tips, including why you should use the same SSID for all your access points.

Via: Life Hacker

Coca-Cola and will.i.am unveil the Ekocycle Cube, a 3D printer that uses post-consumer plastics

Coca-Cola is making in-home 3D-printing as simple as making toasts with a new tech piece that comes as part of its Ekocycle brand initiative, centered around innovative recycling and sustainability. Ekocycle, launched by Coca-Cola and celebrated artist will.i.am back in 2012, now presents the Ekocycle Cube, a small-scale machine that “bakes” smaller items out of recycled plastic Coke bottles.
The machine is developed in partnership with 3D Systems, where will.i.am is the chief creative director. The tech installation uses cartridges loaded with filament, produced from recycled 20-ounce plastic Coke bottles, to create a range of consumer plastic items ranging from phone cases to bracelets, vases, bird houses, robots and even shoes to name but a few.

The machine comes pre-loaded with 25 different patterns to be used to create various every-day objects. The palette of the objects is limited to red, black, white and natural—which is actually quite enough.
The Ekocycle Cube is positioned as “not just another tool for making,” but as “a revolutionary tool for RE-making, and encourages and helps us to change the way we think about recycling by transforming post-consumer waste into new and beautiful objects,” says the description to the printer below the YouTube launch video. The plug and play printer is available to purchase for $1,199 through the 3DS’ online consumer hub Cubify—the printers will be shipped to those who ordered them starting the second half of 2014.
3D Systems is now also partnering with Hershey’s on a printer for confections.

[via POPSOP]

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Tyre changing express team!

Saudis are at it again.

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BBM coming to iPhone & Android

BBM coming to iPhone & Android!
Was it a surprise? I don't think it was, in fact they are too late to do so.
why is everyone eager to get it. Fake BBM apps filling the android App store.
Only time will tell if it was the right move for Blackberry. Its sad to see a giant like blackberry fall down like this. 
I think that if they only focused on business solutions they would've been in a better place now.