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Does anyone know anything about boosting cell signal? I'm headed to the Adirondacks tomorrow and cell phone coverage is dismal. There is one tower 6 miles away and no others anywhere near. My son spent a lot of time on the roof last summer texting and I was able to get a weak signal in the driveway. The middle of the lake is a bit better. Other than that not so much.
There seem to be a lot of products that boost the signal of the phone itself and a number of antenna solutions, but I have gone blind trying to figure out what is hype and what is fact. It wouldn't make sense to pay more than putting a land line in, but having my cell would be a big help.
The truth is that all most all of the antenna boosters are hype. Your phone would need a power boost and that is regulates by the FCC.
The hype says that phones are X power by default and you can boost them to the Y max that the FCC allows. I'll check with the Sprint people. It is mostly for my son's text addiction. But there is always the roof for him.
I use the ip phones, but sometimes they are crazy noisy.
Perian 1.0 is available. This is likely the only QuickTime plugin you will ever need.
This is likely the only QuickTime plugin you will ever need.
Combined with the WMV plugin anyway.
Does anyone have a suggestion for a good and free U3 password manager? SignupShield only seems to manage web passwords--I want a PC version of Keyring.
I've never used it, but there's this.
It's weird. I don't want to install a trial version of anything, because I don't want to spend the time typing in the info and then redoing it for an app I actually settle on.
Which is kinda dumb.
And I realise that I'm a bit leery of typing my passwords into a third party apps whose innards might not be trustworthy. Which is kinda dumb too.
Having recognised the dumb, thanks--I'll give that app a shot.
Aargh. Anyone know why when I burn songs to a cd from iTunes, then import the songs to iTunes on other computer, I lose all the song info? So aggravating.
(ita): I've been burning my DRMed stuff out to CD and then re-importing it. I lose played statistics, but iTunes has tagged the songs correctly otherwise.
Searching back in the thread, it sounds like there's some way to do it. Help?
If you burn an audio CD, the tag information will be lost. If you just copy the tracks (i.e. not using iTunes), much of it will be kept (you'll lose ratings, at the very least).
