Six Great Laptop Hacks

If you and your laptop are joined at the hip, be sure to check out Lifehacker's guide to productivity on the go. Author Adam Pash rounds up six ways to make your portable PC a better, safer travel companion. For example, you'll learn to use your cell phone as a wireless modem, set up various anti-theft alarms and data-encryption methods, keep your files in sync, improve your battery life, and more.

Here's an excerpt about WMWifiRouter, which turns Windows Mobile cell phones into wireless routers (an applet we've covered before):

The absolute simplest method works with Windows Mobile phones, and it's an application called WMWifiRouter. In a nutshell, all you have to do is install this app on your Windows Mobile phone and run it whenever you want to connect to the internet. It'll set up a Wi-Fi network you can connect to through your laptop's Wi-Fi, so there's basically zero configuration. (Read more)