Wifi News: Dec 5, 2007

Music on the DS has just taken a giant leap beyond musical games like Electroplankton, thanks to the efforts of German programmer and musician Tob. Previously, using MIDI with the DS required getting geeky with a soldering iron - now the DS's internal WiFi card can be used to wirelessly send/receive MIDI to and from a "server" running on a PC.

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Turn your Nintendo DS into a phone!

It's a handheld device with a built-in microphone and a WiFi connection. Of course it was just a matter of time before it was hacked to make free calls. Compare some of the homebrew options to the official Nintendo methods of giving you VoIP on your NDS. ... Now when is someone going to port Skype?

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Ars System Guide: Home Media Server

What's a home media server? A central place to put all that data you have, from e-mail to music to movies. With multiple PCs becoming commonplace in the home, the need to push data through every room in the house via Ethernet or WiFi combined with the proliferation of digital-only content mean the storage demands of home users are rising quickly.

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AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wi-Fi Wireless Base Station

Apple embraces draft 802.11n with its new AirPort Extreme Base Station. In addition to supporting Draft 802.11n, the new AirPort can share a USB hard drive over the network. Does Apple's first 802.11n WAP give more bang for the buck?

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Hands-on with the i-mate Momento 70

Thrown together by well-traveled ODM Inventec, i-mate's new Momento series of digital picture frames break some important ground. First of all, they do WiFi -- a seemingly obvious feature for this category of devices that's inexplicably missing from a majority of the mainstream models currently in the marketplace. Next up, the Momento

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What Starbucks Can Learn From the Movie Palace

Today, hotspots are the new cold spots. WI-FI service is quickly becoming the air-conditioning of the Internet age, enticing customers into restaurants and other public spaces in the same way that cold “advertising air” deliberately blasted out the open doors of air-conditioned theaters in the early 20th century to help sell tickets.

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Wii goes online with Mario Strikers Charged

Move over, Pokemon. Another Wii game is receiving the Wi-Fi Connection treatment: Mario Strikers Charged. The world's favorite sport can now be played virtually by players all over the globe. A Mario-themed World Cup now seems inevitable. Charged hits UK Wii systems on May 25th. Unfortunately, a US release hasn't been announced yet.

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Zelda DS Will Have 1-On-1 Voice Chat!

Phantom Hourglass is due out this holiday season, and comes with a battle mode that has one player scrambling for pieces of the Triforce while being attacked by their opponent. And now, Famitsu confirms that while you're kick your opponent's ass over WiFi, you'll be able to scream insults at him as well.

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Don't Spend $100 To Wirelessly Connect Your 360... Use Your Laptop!

Using Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) you can use your laptop (or desktop) to connect your 360 to the Internet via your computers WiFi connection. Super easy and super cheap.

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Asus WL-700gE WiFi Router: Built-In 160GB Drive, iTunes, and Bittorrent

"It has a built in network iTunes client, so it'll show up as an iTunes client to your PCs. And it has a BitTorrent client that can rip down 7 streams automatically (and 10 FTP or web streams at the same time.) That's with your PC off, all downloads handled by the router. And there's a lot more. Too much more to share before the jump."

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Apple Patent For Recording Satellite Radio/WiFi

Apple has filed for a patent to capture AM/FM/XM Satellite Radio and WiFi broadcasts onto an iPod, identify the song artist/title, and give to option to buy it. This is the best indication yet that a Satellite Radio/iPod will happen.

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How To Get More Power From A Wireless Router

Need more range out of your Linksys wireless router? Consider adding a WiFi Booster Antenna. We tested one with our Linksys WRT54GC mini wirelss router and the results were impressive! Check it out!

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How To Build A Tin Can Waveguide WiFi Antenna

Looking for an inexpensive way to increase the range of your wireless network? A tin can waveguide antenna, or Cantenna, may be just the ticket. This design can be built for under $5 U.S. and reuses a food, juice, or other tin can.

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Rumor: Mario Galaxy Pushed Back To X-mas Metroid Coming in April

An anonymous Nintendo rep gave me a little inside info today. The world around the company is that promises of Mario Galaxy in the spring are not going to be kept. But the new Metroid is coming much sooner, with Wi-Fi!

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Review: The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet

OSNews reviews the recently released Linux-based Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. They love the two SDHC slots, the WiFi reception and the kickstand, but found problems with the retractable video-call camera, backwards incompatibility, Flash speed, lack of USB-charging, and limited Mpeg-4 video support.

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Play Nintendo DS against a Sony PSP! (Screenshots Included)

Someone on the DSWifi forums has created a homebrew app that will allow a person to play a game using a Nintendo DS against a person with a Sony PSP (or other way around).This allows 2 people to play against each other using the Wi-fi capabilities for both handhelds! It's only the beginning... Screenshots included.

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Wi-Fi Helping To Fight War On Terror

Cell phones have become a key way for terrorists to detonate bombs remotely. But a Bay Area company has developed a possible solution for the military and for airports to pinpoint them before it's too late.

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Speech given by censored Apple WiFi hacker at ToorCon

"Text of Speech Given Johnny Cache at ToorCon 2006 in lieu of his and David Maynor's scheduled talk on "Wireless Drivers"" (via boingboing.net)

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Blackberry 8800 Specs

Ultra slim form factor with full keypad and large 320 x 240 screen. 1.3 megapixel camera with 5x zoom. 64MB of memory, EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi.

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Wireless technology made me sick

It is the hi-tech tool that has revolutionised home and office alike - but a growing band of campaigners claim wi-fi is a major threat to health.

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How to nab free T-Mobile WiFi lovin' without running Vista

So, you're not quite ready to spring for a copy of Vista, or maybe your system can't handle it, or perhaps you're running Mac OS or (gasp) Linux. Why should you be left out of those three months of free T-Mobile WiFi just because you don't kowtow to The Man? Never fear,

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Best Geek Hotels in the World

We've been to plenty of hotels where the TV hardly worked and the Internet connection was spotty. But some properties are on the other end of the spectrum: true Geek Hotels. What does it take to be a Geeky Hotel? Way more than just free WiFi, that's for sure. Being geek is a cultural endeavour, so after searching every henhouse, ..." awesome stuff

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The six dumbest ways to secure a wireless network

I've seen a lot of misinformation about securing wi-fi networks. This article debunks those myths by explaining why mac filtering and ssid hiding is pointless in most cases. Looks like the only effective security is WPA with a strong passphrase.

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Guy arrested for using free WiFi without buying something

A Vancouver, WA coffee shop called the cops on a guy who had been mooching their free wireless over a three month period without buying anything. Fair game or foul play?

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Beerquad Wifi Antenna

While searching for materials to build his antenna, he discovered that flattened Guinness cans are the perfect size for regular antennas and that 25oz Labatt cans make for great double wide versions.

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Wi-Fire extends wireless range to 1,000 feet

"A new Pennsylvania-based startup, hField Technologies, has just gotten FCC approval for their new supercharged WiFi antenna, the Wi-Fire."

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Sweet Wifi Finder/Google Maps Mashup..

This is a community-driven listing of cafes with wireless internet access. Browse listings, share reviews and ratings, and add your own cafes.

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Why your next cell phone must be Dual-Mode

A dual-mode phone is able to use both cellular Wi-Fi radio signal for communication. This technology is not quite ready yet, but it has huge implications for the future of mobile communication.

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Don't Want to Get Sued by the RIAA? Just Disable Wi-Fi Security!

Tammie Marson of Palm Desert, California responded to a lawsuit from the RIAA by stating that her wireless router was not secure, and that therefore the file sharing seen on her network could have been from any passerby. The defense worked, and the RIAA dropped the case.

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