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Wireless Network Watcher 1.47 Wireless Network Watcher is a small piece of utility software that scans a wireless network and displays a list of all computers and devices that are currently connected to it. This is a helpful way to find out if ... neighbors are "poaching" on your internet connection, or if hackers are "eavesdropping" on your online activity. This list is "live," so you can copy the details of the connected devices into another application, such as Excel or some other spreadsheet. http://www.nirsoft.net Wireshark 1.8 Despite being totally free to use ... (view more)

A new "ultrabook" from Hewlett-Packard (HP) is getting high marks for squeezing solid performance from a very small package. And the packaging itself is drawing lots of extra attention: the HP Envy 14 Spectre is covered almost entirely in glossy, ... scratch-resistant glass. By the numbers, it's hard to tell the HP Envy 14 Spectre is a premium laptop. For example, it's only modestly powerful for the price: you'll find a Intel Core i5 processor under the hood, along with 4GB RAM, a 14-inch or 13.3-inch display, and a battery capable of lasting eight hours unplugged. Laptops with this level of ... (view more)

Wireless Network Watcher 1.32 Wireless Network Watcher is a small utility that scans your wireless network and displays the list of all computers and devices that are currently connected to your network. For every computer or device that is ... connected to your network, the following information is displayed: IP address, MAC address, the company that manufactured the network card, and optionally the computer name. http://www.nirsoft.net WebCookiesSniffer 1.05 WebCookiesSniffer is a packet sniffer tool that captures all web site cookies sent between the web browser and the web server and displays ... (view more)

Frequent wireless Internet (WiFi) users are being warned this morning to never click on the network "Free Public WiFi". It's not actually free wireless, but a rogue network that can lead to the infiltration of a system by hackers. Waiting for a ... plane several years ago, WiFi security guru Joshua Wright first noticed the "Free Public WiFi" network in an airport. Desperate for a connection, he was drawn to the option, but stopped short to investigate it first. "I went to connect to an available wireless network and I saw this option, Free Public WiFi," Wright says. "As I looked more and more, I ... (view more)

Wireless radio signals virtually surround us. In fact, we take for granted how easy it is to find Wi-Fi access, be it in our homes, offices, or coffee shops. But could these signals actually make us sick? Parents in an Ontario, Canada community ... actually think this might be the case. It used to be that parents worried about kids standing in front of the microwave too long -- or watching too much television, or using the cell phone. All of these things, some people feared, could lead to radiation poisoning and even cancer. Wi-Fi Behind Nausea, Parents Say But what about WiFi signals? Parents ... (view more)

An unfinished feature has been discovered lurking within Windows 7, which would allow a regular laptop computer to be transformed into a wireless access point. The "secret" WiFi feature is not a foreign or accidental creation, however. Microsoft ... crafted "Virtual WiFi" in an effort to " virtualize " one wireless card as separate adapters for several different devices. Original efforts to forge ahead with "Virtual WiFi" were halted in 2006, when the project was discontinued. However, the work has apparently made a grand re-entrance with Windows 7, now known as Native 802.11 Virtual Wireless ... (view more)

Wireless Net View WirelessNetView is a small utility that runs in the background and monitors the activity of wireless networks around you. For each detected network, it displays the following information: SSID, Last Signal Quality, Average Signal ... Quality, Detection Counter, Authentication Algorithm, Cipher Algorithm, MAC Address, RSSI, Channel Frequency, Channel Number, and more. This is particularly useful if you want to test the signal strength of your networks and to see which networks are on what channel. http://nirsoft.net Boxee On a laptop or connected to a High Definition TV (HDTV), ... (view more)

Supercharge Your Wireless Router Consumer-grade wireless routers -- your standard Linksyse or Belkin -- do their job well enough much of the time. But there are some juicy features offered by high-end commercial routers that just don't come with the ... home package. We're talking features like quality of service (QoS) management, adjustable transmission power, and support for IPv6. If you need (or just crave) these features, you can shell out cash for a pro-grade router, or you can get them for free by installing new firmware on a cheap home router. http://www.wired.com Chromium Chromium is an ... (view more)

Wireless Net View WirelessNetView is a small utility that runs in the background and monitors the activity of wireless networks around you. For each detected network, it displays all necessary factors to help you connect better, including SSID, Last ... Signal Quality, Average Signal Quality, and more. http://www.nirsoft.net Lansweeper Lansweeper is a powerful freeware solution that takes a complete software, hardware, asset inventory of your windows network. With Lansweeper, you can: find unknown running processes, spyware, browser hijacks; use the webconsole or custom queries to use your ... (view more)

Regulators have backed plans to allow unlicensed wireless devices to use that section of airwaves freed up when analogue TV transmissions cease next year. It could mean considerably faster mobile broadband, though it could be bad news for rock ... stars. The Federal Communications Commission has voted in favour of rules it calls "a careful first step" towards unlicensed use of 'white spaces'. Those are some of the frequencies currently used for over-the-air television broadcasts; those frequencies will no longer be used after February when TV networks switch to an all-digital format. While there' ... (view more)