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TP-Link TL-WDR7500 Wireless AC Router Review 14 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
A new wireless standard often comes before the final standardization of the previous generation. Wireless N has been standardized and in comes Wireless AC. It has been in development roughly two years...
Three More Pay Days 11 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
The countdown begins (I lied, it began long long ago). Three more pay days and I’ll be “free”. Never have I been so happy to not get money before. I want to get fired from this job so badly. Three mor...
WordPress 3.6 Oscar Update 3 Aug 2013 | 10:58 pm
WordPress has started making videos for their releases again (at least for this release)! This time around, the 3.6 update is titled Oscar to “honor the great jazz pianist Oscar Peterson.” See what’s ...
ChicagoVPS Impressions (3 Months) 31 Jul 2013 | 02:58 pm
I’ve “used” ChicagoVPS (CVPS) for slightly more than 3 months now. That is a quarter of a year so I guess this will be a rather fair gauge of their services. CVPS is a web host provider; their main at...
Introducing the Ubuntu Edge 23 Jul 2013 | 05:45 pm
Did you know that there are other smart phone OSes besides Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s Windows? Mozilla’s Firefox OS is one of the up and coming mobile OS. Together with that, we hav...
Repurpose a USB Hub into a USB Charging Station 21 Jul 2013 | 11:21 pm
Nowadays, devices use USB ports as their main source of external power. To charge a phone, external battery or wireless headset, you would often find yourself fiddling with a charging cable with a USB...
DIY NAS – Remote File Access (via SFTP) 14 Jul 2013 | 11:28 am
Now that we have set up our basic firewall and port forwarded the necessary ports, we will now learn how to make use of that to enable data communication from outside the local area network (LAN). The...
DIY NAS – Basic Security: Firewall (iptables) 13 Jul 2013 | 09:58 am
Now that you have learnt how to enable global access to your server, you should prepare your server to be ready for the outside world. There are many different measures that you can take to prevent yo...
Fake DualShock 3 Controller Review (Ebay, AliExpress) 7 Jul 2013 | 11:41 am
In my search for cheap third party Playstation 3 controllers, I’ve decided to give the infamous Made In China fake DualShock 3 controllers a try. I’ve purchased two “different” fake controllers from a...
A Week of Downs 29 Jun 2013 | 03:44 pm
If you’re a frequent visitor to Swift World you would realize that the site was down for practically the whole of last week (actually even more, roughly 11 – 12 days?). Now there is a reason to explai...
