Boosting the signal of your Wi-Fi router can be as simple as adding an antenna. Fortunately, you don’t have to spend money buying one. The Free Antennas website has patterns that you can download and print out. You simply glue tin foil or wire mesh to the back of the printed pattern, cut out the [...]

You may have seen various VoIP mouse phone combos and thought the same thing I did: hygiene issues. Computer mice aren’t exactly clean, and I wouldn’t put a dual purpose mouse/ VoIP phone near my face. (And no, that’s not what you’d call a dual-mode phone.) But this is a little more interesting: a computer [...]

Are you lazy? Like, really really lazy? Then the TV Messenger might be the device for you. Basically you hook your telephone into the jack and plug the TV Messenger into your TV.
Now when someone calls you can see who it is on the screen. It costs $110 and is available [...]

Mac OS X Skype Flaw Patched
Skype has fixed a security flaw in their Mac OS X version which would allow someone to take control of a user’s computer. This applies only to Mac versions of Skype that are 1.5.*.79 or earlier. Get a new version. [via CRN]
Skype 2.6 Windows Beta Update: Hot Naked Skype
Skype [...]

Blogger Alec Saunders thinks that the new, sort-of-top secret but not, The Venice Project by Kazaa and Skype cofounders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, is already sunk, and gives three reasons why (my rebuttal below). Venice marries the P2P (peer-to-peer) technology of Kazaa with IPTV (Internet Protocol TV). Om Malik presented an interview with Janus [...]