4 Key Security Setups To Safely Connect To Public Wireless Networks
Many people believe that visiting obscure websites or downloading files from illegal sources is the only real security risk when going online. While such behavior certainly increases your risk of catching a malware infection, it's not the only way to get into trouble. One other major safety hazard is using public wireless networks. In this article you will find key security precautions you should take before connecting to a public wireless network.
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In the future, your phone will only need a data connection. Paying for voice minutes and text messages will be an outdated concept and you’ll be able to communicate entirely over Wi-Fi. Google already offers free calls from your web browser, but they don’t offer this feature on smartphones to avoid upsetting the carriers. Talkatone does what Google won’t and offers free calls and texts over Wi-Fi.
4 Reasons Why Wireless Internet Is the Future
Before the era of smartphones, we've always been used to getting our internet from good old cables, whether it be phone lines, broadband cable, or DSL. While those were pretty good options when they first came out (and they're still decent today, except dial-up), we're starting to go toward a more wireless world.
Create Your Own Wi-Fi Hotspot With Connectify
Connectify turns your laptop into a personal wireless hotspot. Windows makes this possible, but makes you disconnect from Wi-Fi and connect with a wired connection to do it. We're giving away a whopping 25 Connectify Pro licenses worth $1000 in total! Stay tuned for the giveaway.
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Share Your Windows Phone Internet Connection Using The Tethering Feature
Windows Phone is becoming an increasing popular platform, but its initial release in 2010 baffled commentators by omitting key functionality such as copy and paste and tethering. Omitting these features arguably punished the platform, resulting in some poor early reviews. Making matters worse was the fact that devices from Samsung and LG had wired tethering functionality that could be enabled via a hidden engineer’s console.
Secure Your Wireless Router In The Short Term By Assigning It An Aggressive Name
As more devices ship with wireless networking capabilities, it becomes increasingly important to have routers that are capable of handling connections from hardware such as tablets, laptops and mobile phones. The problem is that many routers still in use are perfectly good pieces of hardware, except for one drawback - they don’t support Wireless-N or offer advanced encryption such as WPA.
Turn On Your PC With An Android Device Via Wi-Fi [WoW LAN]
When you imagine being able to do cool stuff with your phone, what do you think of? Finding your way out of the middle of a forest with nothing but GPS to guide you? Looking for buried treasure with just the geomagnetic sensor? How about walking in the house after work, touching just a couple of buttons and automatically turning on all of the computers in your house? Science fiction?
Students Can Now Create Wi-Fi Hotspots For Free With Connectify [News]
Connectify is offering free accounts until October 15th to students with .edu addresses, allowing them to set up free Wi-Fi hotspots for their devices. Students can sign up for the service for free and receive their Connectify Pro license by using their .edu email address.
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Downloading or streaming music is definitely an activity that I love to do when I'm relaxing or just trying to pass the time. The problem I have is that when I download music to a PC, I may want to access that music from different PCs in my house. To solve that problem, I decided to create a sort of Wi-Fi PC Radio server where I can store all of my music and then allow users from anywhere to stream that music.
Someone Stealing Your Wifi? Find Out What They're Looking At With These 3 Apps
If your Wifi is being hijacked by some dirty rotten thieves - I showed you how to check this before - what can you do to get your own back, or find out a little more about who is responsible? Or rather, if a hacker has gained access to your wifi network, what kind of nasty things could they do to you?
Nmap - Wi-Fi Security Auditing Software to Check Your Home Network [Windows]
When most people think of network security, they think of people sitting up in the computer rooms deep inside corporate headquarters, sifting through thousands of computer assets on networks stretching across the entire globe. Not many people consider monitoring a network as something that is really important in a home setting.
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How To Stream Music & Video To Your iPhone, iPod Touch Or iPad From A Mac Or Windows PC [iOS]
An issue I encountered when I first received my iPhone was the inability to stream my fairly well-organised music and video collection direct to my new device. I don’t use iTunes other than on my iPhone for the odd podcast, mainly because I’m primarily a Linux user, so I thought I would try Air Playit for Windows and Mac OS X.
Use Your WiFi Connection Setup On All PCs With WiFi Network Backup Manager [Windows]
Having multiple wifi access points isn't much of a hassle, because you can just configure all of them in your wireless network setup and then click to connect to whichever one you want. The hassle comes in when you switch to a new computer or if you switch computers often. You have to set up all of those Wi-Fi points again.
How To Combat WiFi Security Risks When Connecting To A Public Network
As many people now know, connecting to a public, unsecured wireless network can have serious risks. It’s known that doing this can provide an opening for all manner of data theft, particularly passwords and private information. Let’s have a look at the exact risks of public networks, and the solutions available to counter those risks.
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