5 Ways To Boost Your WiFi Signal

Here's a roundup of some gear that'll turn your hotspot into a data blast zone

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5 Ways to Kill Youir Startup

Sure, the act of startup suicide is not sudden or immediate, but ultimately, from the company’s perspective, is still just as fatal – it just takes a while.

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10 Ideas About Ideas

Doc Searls

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10 Things I Wish I Hadn't Believed

1. Money is the root of all evil
2. Getting a good job is the best way to earn money
3. ...

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14 Things I Wish I'd Known - Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson, the man behind, Carson Workshops, Amigo, DropSend, and ThinkVitamin talks about things he wished he'd known beforehand.

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A Lazy Man's Guide to Budgeting: 101 Painless Ways to Cut Spending

Comprehensive list of tips, including: how to make a budget, cutting down on gadget expenditures, raising deductibles, and getting travel discounts.

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Top 10 Vehicles Owned by Billionaires

If your pockets were as deep as Bill Gates
’ what would you drive? A new Porsche or a seven-year-old one? Each year, Forbes magazine compiles a list of the world’s wealthiest people. Now, ForbesAutos.com gives you a look at the vehicles driven by the billionaires at the top of the 2006 list.

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5 ways to building a better blog

In-depth article that discusses 5 principles to building a better blog. The article talks about improving content, usability, visibility, uniqueness, and listening to your readers.

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11 things you are guaranteed not to know about internet history

Did you know where google got it's start on ad distributions? Do you remember how $300.00 turned AOL into the mega giant it is today? 11 things you are almost guaranteed not to know about internet history and they are all true.

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Top 10 Tips for Salary Negotiations

Negotiating a better salary package has put more than a few stomachs in knots over the years. Remember, we all go through it sooner or later. Try to keep these 10 basic tips in mind when it's your turn to ask for a sweeter deal.

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Top 10 Most Annoying Things About Online Gaming

Online gaming is still truly in its infancy stage and therefore is quite immature and on occasion will soil itself. That being said it is still worth the love and dedication it needs to grow, but all good parents must be able to scorn their children when they do something wrong. So far no one has scorned baby online.

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10 Programming Languages You Should Learn Right Now

Knowing a handful of programming languages is seen by many as a harbor in a job market storm, solid skills that will be marketable.

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Top 10 Notorious Prisons

The horror stories that have leaked out of these international prisons will be enough to scare you into becoming a law-abiding saint.

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46 Things I Wish My Mom Taught Me About Money

A few of these tips are obvious, a few not so. Of course, the age-old problem in personal finance, love, or dieting is having the discipline to follow the advice!

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The top 25 best free quality fonts

There are a ton of fonts out there, but how to separate the wheat from the chaff? Web designer Vitaly Friedman tackled this dilemma and decided to make his own list of the top best free quality fonts.

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The Top 10 Fitness Lies

Biting my tongue has become second nature to me. Why? Because I hear endless questions like this: “If I purchase one of those ab machines I see on late night infomercials, will that make my stomach flatter?” Or, "if I lift light weights and perform a lot of repetitions per set, will that get me a defined body like Madonna?"

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50 Helpful Blogging Resources

A list of 50 blogging resources with descriptions. Some of the resources include blogging platforms, how to design your blog, free themes, fighting comment spam, increasing your blog traffic, and creating content.

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The 10 Worst Bond Girls

Here's hoping ''Casino Royale'' doesn't add any new names to this list. Joshua Rich kisses off Holly Goodhead, Mary Goodnight, and 007's other misfiring flames

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10 Most Beautiful Cars of All Time

Here is an interesting list of the 10 most beautiful cars of all time. Which ones are your favorites - antique or modern cars?

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32 Weirdly Specific Museums

Here's a sampling: the Hat Museum, the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, and the British Lawnmower Museum... these are all brick-and-mortar museums; there are many more that exist only on the Web.

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8 Ways to Shoot Video Like a Pro

Nothing brings out the camcorders like the holidays, which is why this is the perfect time to admit an ugly truth: You suck at making home movies. As with photography, good videography requires a bit of know-how. Luckily, I know how, so here's my list of ways you can improve your home movies.

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40 Things That Only Happen in Movies

My favorite one: You will survive any battle in any war UNLESS you show someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

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7 Pains You Should Never Ignore

Most of the time, it's good that the little Vince Lombardi sitting on our shoulder tells us to shut up and play through the pain, otherwise we'd never get anything done. On the other hand, there are a few instances in which we can actually talk ourselves out of existence. These common aches could very well be nothing. Or something far, far worse.

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25 Best College Programs for Nerds

College doesn't have to suck: Game Design. 'Ethical Hacking'. Open Source Development. Cryptogoraphy. Aeronautics. Robot Design. Haptics. This list of 25 courses and programs offered at colleges around the world are geek educational heaven.

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10 Reasons To Drink More Water

I bet you don't know how important is water for your health, figure and well-being. But sipping water from fancy bottles is not just a trend, it's essential! Everything your body does it does better with a healthy supply of water, every system in your body depends on water. So here are 10 reasons why drinking water is good for you.

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50 Helpful Web Design Resources

A list of 50 design resources with descriptions. Some of the resources include CSS galleries, usability sites, blogs, web standards sites, tools, color wheels and typography sites.

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10 Steps to Making a Zack Braff Film

Great blog entry giving you the 10 steps to making a zack braff film. Apparently its that easy - and visually this guy did a great job. [via NOTCOT]

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Top 50 Most Expensive Adwords

New list of the top 50 most expensive Google adwords as of September 11, 2006. The most expensive one is as much as $69.16 CPC (costs per click!). I found it rather amazing that these keywords are much more expensive than, say... even keywords like private yachts, jets, luxury homes and so on!

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10 Major News Stories the Media is Ignoring

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- The San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper has printed a list of stories we in the media seem to have largely ignored over the past year.

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Top 10 Ping Pong Shots Of All Time

Awesome ping pong volleys

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Top 10 High-Tech Vehicles for the Filthy Rich

Can't decide what to do with all your cash? How about a personal sub?

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10 Steps to Rescue a Floundering Project

When a project is sinking, how do you decide whether it's better to save it or let it die? How do you get it back on track? When a project is in trouble, you need to look at the strategic vital signs. You need a higher-level view. The entire reassessment process shouldn't take more than two weeks to complete for midsize to large projects.

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10 Avoidable IT Interview Flubs

eWEEK rounds up some of the worst offenses, and while we're certain that none of you would ever make such obvious errors, it never hurts to review before your next interview.

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150+ Digg tools by category

A large collection of Digg tools and related gadgets. Over 150 different tools spread across 13 categories such as: Online Tools, Search Engines, RSS, Mobile/PSP, Browser Add-ons, Blog, Software, Bookmarklets...

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10 Things Businesses Should Know Before Making a Website

10 tips for organizations about to start a new website project, whether they are building a completely new website or redesigning their current one.

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Top 10 Snake Movies

IGN takes a look back at some of the key snake movies and moments in the history of cinema.

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10 Tips on Maximizing Laptop Battery Performance

or How to Fly From San Francisco to New York City With an Average Battery and Not Have to Watch an Ernest Goes to Anywhere Movie):

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Top Ten Highest Earning Celebrities of 2005

Film director Steven Spielberg was the world's highest-earning celebrity last year, according to Forbes magazine. Second was someone you might not immediately think of: Howard Stern. He beat out George Lucas and Oprah Winfrey.

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Top Ten Snake Movies

IGN takes a look back at some of the key snake movies and moments in the history of cinema.

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18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work

What are some of the things we can do to minimize interruptions and distractions?

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Sportscenter's Top 10 Unsportsmanlike Plays of All-Time!

Who doesn't love watching millionaires who play a game for a living act like complete idiots? This is sports entertainment at its best.

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Top 10 Most Stolen Cars

according to Forbes

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Top 10 Most Bizarre Game Plotlines

Ever played a game that was SO messed up you're like WTF was the developer thinking?? This is a cool collection of ten of the most crack-induced game plotlines of all time. Post your Top 10 in the comments below.

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The ten "most harmful books" of the 19th and 20th century

Read about what conservatives don't want you to read.

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The 10 STRANGEST statues you will ever see.

Make sure to look at #8. "Nude man attacked by babies."

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Six steps to secure sensitive data in MySQL

A common reason for not securing databases is that it is "difficult" and "complicated". While this is certainly true, if you're using MySQL, there are some easy things you can do to significantly reduce the risk you face. This tutorial lists six such items, but you can find many more in the MySQL manual and discussion forums.

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