Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me find a WiFi stumbler app for Lion
Dear Aunt TUAW, I'm a Mac IT professional, and often find myself configuring, troubleshooting, and optimizing wireless networks. In the past I used AP Grapher to graph wireless strength and find competing Wi-Fi networks as I walk around my clients' of...
BearExtender turns its product mini at Macworld | iWorld 2012
Just before I headed out of San Francisco at the end of Macworld | iWorld last week, I met up with a few of the guys from BearExtender, who make an impressive product that will boost the Wi-Fi signal coming into your Mac. The guys were in San Francis...
Review: Republic Wireless and its $19/month cell service
Republic Wireless is an upstart taking on some of the biggest behemoths in American industry—the major cell carriers—armed with WiFi as its main weapon. Republic keeps costs low by encouraging the use of WiFi o......
Apple gives AirPort Utility an iOS makeover, supports iCloud
Apple released two AirPort-related software updates Monday afternoon. AirPort Utility 6.0 is a new, Lion-only version of the software to set up and configure Apple's base stations. An updated AirPort firmware adds compatibi...
Sanho previews CloudFTP at Macworld | iWorld 2012
Sanho had its Kickstarter-funded CloudFTP at Macworld | iWorld 2012 this year, and the project has generated a lot of excitement. Sanho's Daniel Chin originally sought $100,000 in funding through Kickstarter, but wound up with more than 2,700 backers ...
Sync Your iOS Device Wirelessly with AppleScript
Sync Your iOS Device Wirelessly with AppleScript Doug Adams shares a great AppleScript to initiate a wireless iTunes sync session, set up so that it runs automatically once a day: A while back, I retired my iPhone 3G to the bedside table after buying an iPhone 4. I use the 3G pretty much as glorified...
Windows 8 to manage your mobile broadband use for you
Windows 8 will contain built-in support for mobile broadband devices and smarter use of metered Internet connections, as detailed in the lastest post on Microsoft's Building Windows 8 blog.
Most 3G mobile broadband connections a...
Why The iPad 3 Won’t Come With Siri Unless You Pay More For It
We’re only about two or three months away from the iPad 3 dropping and blowing our socks off. Right now, we can tell you a lot about what the iPad 3 will probably be like. It’ll feature Apple’s new, quad-core A6 CPU. It’ll feature...WiGig promises low-power 2Gbps wireless device communication by 2013
The WiGig Alliance is moving full steam ahead with its plan to enable devices to communicate wirelessly at mulit-gigabit speeds using unlicensed 60GHz spectrum. WiGig Alliance President and Chairman Dr. Ali Sadri sat down w......
QuickWiFi Web App Allows You To Share Your Network Credentials The Easy Way
Jeff Broderick, the designer behind the beautiful iOS Settings Home screens shortcuts we detailed weeks ago, has released a new web app for easily sharing a secured network with multiple users. QuickWiFi is a simple web interface that lets you...Broadcom launches next-gen 5G Wi-Fi chips with gigabit ethernet speed and increased range
Broadcom Corporation is a global innovator for wired and wireless communications, and today the company announced its first family of 802.11ac chips designed for a broad range of product segments. The chips, also called “5G Wi-Fi” by Broadcom, do not correlate with 3G and 4G cellphone networks. The BCM4360, BCM4352, BCM43526 and BCM43516 chips improve Wi-Fi’s...
Hands-on: hacking WiFi Protected Setup with Reaver
WiFi hacking has long been a favorite pastime of hackers, penetration testers, and people too cheap to pay for their own Internet connection. And there are plenty of targets out there for would-be hackers...
