Amped Wireless High Power Wi-Fi Adapter for Windows 8 (TAN1)

Amped Wireless has a Wi-Fi adapter built specifically for Windows 8 notebooks, ultrabooks, and tablets. It's designed to clip onto your computer and give you better throughput and range over a Windows 8 client's native Wi-Fi adapter. No, it does not work with Windows RT. Also, according to testing, it has negligible performance impact at distances less than 30 feet over those device's native adapters. For weak signals, no matter what operating system you use, Amped Wireless's excellent High Power Wireless-N 600mW Gigabit Dual Band Range Extender (Repeater) SR20000G, which can be used to extend a wireless signal, is a better option for whole home coverage (although it is designed to be an extender, whereas TAN1 is designed to give better performance).

The TAN1
The TAN1 is a small horizontal wireless adapter that clips to your device's monitor. It's a bit smaller than a ballpoint pen, measuring .4 by 4.5 by .6 inches (HWD). It may be small, but it's not cheap, at a list price of $59.99. The adapter only supports the single 2.4 GHz band?it does not operate at 5GHz. TAN1 also supports WEP and WPA/WPA2.
The device houses two 2dBi high-gain antennas and provides up to 300 Mbps theoretical data rate. It connects to a wireless client's USB 2.0 port and will work on either 32- or 64-bit Windows 8.

Setup
Included in the TAN1's packaging are a USB cable, setup guide, and a mounting clip. The adapter has two notches which fit into two grooves on the mount and then the whole thing clips to a monitor. It's not the sturdiest setup?anytime I moved my Windows 8 laptop, the clip and adapter fell off.

Setup is effortless. Simple clip the adapter to your screen, connect the USB cable, and Windows 8 will install the software automatically. The operating system displays the TAN1 in network adapter settings as a Realtek RTL8191SU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB network adapter.

Performance
The purpose of the TAN1 is to provide up to three times the range of your Windows 8 client's wireless adapter. Unfortunately, I find that claim inaccurate in my testing. In fact, the throughput of the TAN1 was less at short range than the throughput of an Acer Aspire M Ultrabook running Windows 8 with a robust Qualcomm Atheros AR5BWB222 wireless network adapter.

I didn't witness any TAN1 benefits until I got to a distance of 50 feet or more from my wireless router. At 50 feet, the Acer's throughput petered out until I had no wireless signal, while the TAN1 sustained signal. I tested throughput using Ixia's IxChariot and a bidirectional throughput script that threw a data stream between the Acer Aspre and a Dell Latitude E5430 that I had connected to the same router via Gigabit Ethernet. I first ran the script with the Acer wirelessly connected to my router with the Qualcomm adapter and then using the TAN1. The router used in testing was the Trendnet AC1750 Dual Band Wireless Router (TEW-812DRU):

Acer native adapter:
5 feet from router: 55 Mbps
10 feet: 57 Mbps
30 feet: 26 Mbps
50 feet: started at 25 Mbps and then signal went to zero and dropped

TAN1's throughput:
5 feet from the router: 38 Mbps
10 feet: 36 Mbps
30 feet: 36 Mbps
50 feet: 22 Mbps and sustained throughput

TAN1, OK But Booster Better
You can see from the numbers above, TAN1 is better for greater distances. At close range, it actually performed worse than my client's native adapter. If you have a weak signal, Amped Wireless' High Power Wireless-N 600mW Gigabit Dual Band Range Extender (Repeater) SR20000G is a better (although more expensive option) or look to D-Link's Wireless N300 Range Extender DAP-1320, which is about ten buck cheaper and is our Editors' Choice for wireless signal boosters.? The Amped Wireless High Power Wi-Fi Adapter for Windows 8 (TAN1) earns three out of five stars for its easy setup and its ability to sustain throughput at range.

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Appeals order on gay marriages may be reversed in California

Texas Guardian Sunday 30th June, 2013

California gay marriage opponents have acted to re-impose a ban on gay marriage.

Gay weddings, which resumed across California on the weekend, may once again have to be called off.

On Friday, in a historic ruling for gay marriage, a federal appeals court in San Francisco lifted a ban that had been in place since 2008.

On Saturday, opponents of same-sex marriage in California filed an emergency petition to the US Supreme Court to try to halt any further gay weddings in the state.

Opponents have said the appeals court should have, by law, allowed them more time to appeal before the lifting of the ban.

A group called Alliance Defending Freedom has said the Supreme Court should now overrule the order by the appeals court because, by law, it had 25 days to challenge the original Supreme Court ruling.

The gay marriage ban, known as Proposition 8, was approved by voters in 2008, months after California's Supreme court decided such unions were legal.

Last Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled that a private party, such as Alliance Defending Freedom, would have to demonstrate it would suffer injury if same-sex marriages were allowed.

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Nigerian commission reports troops kill, torture, rape civilians in Islamist uprising

Nigeria?s National Human Rights Commission said Sunday it has credible reports security forces are killing, torturing, illegally detaining and raping civilians in a fight to halt an Islamist uprising in northeast Nigeria that has killed nearly 2,000 people since 2010.

A report by the commission said troops retaliating against civilians have torched homes and tried to hide evidence of gross violations by disposing of bodies.

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In the most egregious case, where troops went on a rampage in several villages after a soldier was killed in mid-April in the fishing village of Baga, it quoted police as saying soldiers ?started shooting indiscriminately at anybody in sight including domestic animals. This reaction resulted to loss of lives and massive destruction of properties.?

The military said 36 people were killed, most of them extremist fighters. Witnesses told the AP at the time that some 187 civilians were killed.

The commission said the killings also came after militants had ransacked an armoury, with subsequent reports indicating the extremists enjoyed an increase in the calibre and quantity of weapons and ?had become both more organized and emboldened by their apparent successes despite the enhanced security presence.?

That contradicted military reports that they have taken control of the region in a military emergency covering thee states and one-sixth of the sprawling country. Instead, they appear to have pushed the fighters into rocky mountains with caves where it is more difficult to flush them out. The extremists regularly attack towns and villages.

The commission, a government body, issued an interim report saying it would finalize it when its investigators are able to visit the area where soldiers have cut mobile phone and Internet connections. A state of emergency was declared May 14 when the government said extremists from the Boko Haram terrorist group had taken control of some towns and villages.

The insurgency poses the biggest threat in years to security in Nigeria, Africa?s most populous nation of 160 million and the continent?s biggest oil producer.

Communities trapped between the Islamist militants and the security forces ?reportedly live in desperate fear and destitution,? the commission said.

It warned of an imminent public health emergency and food shortages because farmers have been forced from their fields.

Food prices have nearly trebled, the commission said, with a 50-kilogram sack of rice selling for up to 18,000 naira ($112.50 USD) from 7,000 naira ($44 USD).

Some medical experts from the region have reported a notable upsurge in sudden deaths, heart attacks and aneurysms, it said.

Northeast Nigeria already presents ?the worst statistics of human development in Nigeria generally,? it said.

Maternal mortality rates were three times the national average of 545 deaths for every 100,000 live births, and reports reaching the commission suggest the emergency has even more mothers dying in childbirth.

Northeast Nigeria is the poorest region in the country, with government statistics indicating 75 per cent of the population lives from hand to mouth on less than $1 a day.

The commission?s interim findings corroborated AP reports from the region. Militants who began by targeting government personnel and health workers ? they preach that Western religion and medicine are forbidden ? are increasingly targeting civilians in attacks on schools and vaccination campaigns.

?The Commission equally received several credibly attested allegations of gross violations by officials of the JTF (joint task force of police and military), including allegations of summary executions, torture, arbitrary detention amounting to internment and outrages against the dignity of civilians, as well as rape,? the rights commission said.

?In particular, we have received persistent and credibly attested allegations of indiscriminate disposal of dead human remains by personnel of both the JTF and the Borno State Environmental Protection Agency.?

The military and presidential spokesmen did not respond to requests for comment.

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Check Out These Gorgeous Color Photos From World War II

As the generation that fought World War II passes on, it can be difficult for younger people to remember that it was a war fought not by the elderly in black and white, but by millions of Americans in vivid color. These gorgeous images, via Shorpy, remind us just how vivid that war was.

Originally shot by the War Department in gorgeous Kodachrome film, the saturated hues and crisp edges bring that era to life in a way that few other forms of med

ia can. These photos document the trucks, planes, trains, and other various machines that were being prepared on the home front in anticipation of the conflagration sweeping the globe.

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Bubble tea | Food and Beverage

Boba milk tea, also known as pearl milk tea or PMT, is a Taiwanese tea-based drink invented in tea shops in Taichung, Taiwan, during the 1980s. Most bubble tea recipes contain a tea base mixed with fruit or milk. Ice-blended versions are usually mixed with fruit or syrup, resulting in a slushy consistency. Most bubble teas come with small chewy tapioca balls, commonly called ?pearls? or ?boba? .

There are many variants of the drinks, and many kinds of types are used and ingredients added. The most popular bubble drinks are bubble milk tea with tapioca and bubble milk green tea with tapioca.

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India U-19 beat Papua New Guinea by 71 runs

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Australia beat New Zealand in U-19 series

Bombay News.Net - Sunday 30th June, 2013

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