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  • A wireless bridge to link all your computers

    Titled “Wire Your Living Room Over Wi-Fi with a Bridge“, a post from LifeHacker. With subjects like: Why a Wireless Bridge? How a Wireless Bridge Works Setting Up the Wireless Bridge (a Buffalo airstation)

  • Revolutions in the air

    I noticed two important announcements for airline passengers. Things will be changing in terms of accepting new technologies useful for most international frequent flyers: GSM mobile phones will be accepted in planes by Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority. But prices may be hard on your wallet, of course. [1] American Airlines to start WiFi broadband service…

  • Replace BitTorrent with more discreet software

    If you want to do discreet (if not completely anonymous) P2P, Bittorrent and Gnutella or Kazaa are not your friends. With the advent of more attention from authorities, it is difficult to consider them as good opportunities. I have been looking quickly at some of the possible solutions to protect your privacy while exchanging files…

  • IPv6 starts tomorow

    For most of us, IPv6 has been a little more than vaporware. But in order to fight the upcoming lack of Internet addresses (as IPv4 addresses are more easily known), there is this new protocol, IPv6. It is steadily progressing and tomorrow, February 4th, several of the major international routers of the Internet backbone will…

  • Use your iPhone to access the Internet from your PC laptop

    Thanks to LifeHacker, and if you have the following, you will be able to use your iPhone to access Internet from your laptop. A computer with Wi-Fi capable of creating an ad-hoc computer-to-computer connection (yours is) A jailbroken iPhone (If you don’t know how to jailbreak your iPhone, the easiest way is to make sure…

  • FTP drive mapped onto Windows

    FTP drive mapped onto Windows

    Sometimes, you make a heavy use of a FTP server. But it is tiresome to go to a separate program in order to copy files to and from this server. There is an easy solution under Windows: Add a FTP server onto a disk drive letter. For this, thanks to CyberNetNews explanations, you can map…