The easiest way to see what is the speed of your wifi link is to click on the Airport icon in the menu bar while pushing the Option/Alt key. Here is a screenshot:

I recently configured a Netgear WGT634U access point running OpenWRT Kamikaze 8.09.2 to use a HUAWEI E1750 3G modem. The HUAWEI E1750 is sold under different names, some people report it as E220 or E1752. You should check in /proc/bus/usb/devices what is the vendor and product id of your 3G modem. You should see the [...]

I use Skype to make video calls mainly to a couple of contacts. I didn’t want to enable video automatically for all calls and at the same time I find it tiring to search for the contact name and place a video call. I wanted something easy to automate that. Here is a simple Automator [...]