Tag: Wi-Fi

Travel Tips for Techies (And Everyone Else) – Nemo Memo

Adapter, Apps, Audio, Back Pack, Battery, Bluetooth, Camera, Clothing, Earphones, Hard Drive, Headphones, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Macintosh, Music, Navigation, Nemo Memo, Network, Opinion, Photography, Review, Security, Speakers, Special Report 3

I just returned from my fourth weekend trip taken during the past two months. Two journeys were by car and two were by airplane. I live in Tucson in southern Arizona. One trip each was to Nevada and northern Arizona, and two were to Marin County, north of San Francisco, California. The California flights were for family occasions, and both Nevada and northern Arizona were for sightseeing. Only the Arizona trip included other people: daughter and son-in-law. We took our small family dog with us on the sightseeing trips and also on the first California flights.

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Rocki Play – Review

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The Rocki Play is a small Wi-Fi audio converter. With the Rocki Play, it acts as an Airplay device, meaning you can stream audio from any iPhone, iPad, or Mac directly to the Rocki Play, which in turn is connected to a speaker or your home entertainment system.

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Amped Wireless RTA15 High Power 700mW Dual Band AC Wi-Fi Router and REA20 WI-FI Range Extender – Review

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The Amped Wireless RTA15 High Power 700mW Dual Band AC Wi-Fi Router is blazingly fast, easy to set up, and broadcasts a powerful Wi-Fi signal that enables you to stream HD programs smoothly and without interruption. There are many similar products on the market for a lower price. Some are equal to or faster than this one, but for ease of use, reliability and coverage, the RTA15 is a strong competitor and highly recommended.

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Macally WIFISD, IOGEAR MediaShair, Kanex meDrive – Nemo Memo Comparison

Adapter, Apps, Audio, Battery, Battery Packs, Features, Hard Drive, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Nemo Memo, Review, Shoot-out 2

How low can you go? Does it make sense to save money and purchase a low-capacity iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, then extend its capacity using a wireless remote storage solution? With fast and cheap flash drives and USB external drives available, is it preferable to be thrifty when buying iOS hardware, and extravagant when considering the new types of remote and wireless personal file servers that are being released monthly?

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Interesting, but Ultimately Flawed Audio Player – Review

Audio, Features, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod Classic, Music, NAS, Network, Review 1

Pioneer, a venerable name in home audio, has come up with a pair of interesting devices to better integrate the audio part of the internet and your own digital music library into your home audio system, the N-30 and N-50 Networked Audio Players. The Networked Audio Players are part of Pioneer’s Elite product line, noted for their excellent construction and superb audio quality. Pioneer foolishly loaned me an N-30 to evaluate. I say foolishly only because I seem to attract products for review that have fundamental flaws that cause me to write far too many negative reviews. Sadly, this is one of them.

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The Mysteries of iOS 5 Wi-Fi Syncing

Apple, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Macintosh, Opinion 2

One of the many promises of iOS 5 was that it would lead us out of the wired wilderness and into the modern world of over the air updates, syncing, and backups. Anyone with iPhones and iPads knows the pain of constantly having to tether their devices to their computer just to update things like podcasts, and to make sure apps and settings are backed up. Now those things can be done over Wi-Fi, provided a few conditions are met.

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WIFI in the Sky

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Recently, I was flying home to New England from an Atlanta business trip. While I waited to board the plane, a young women came up to me and asked if I was interested in trying Delta Airlines’s new inflight wi-fi service for free. Naturally, I said yes. She gave me a card with some instructions on it to follow and I boarded the plane. I noticed an ‘This aircraft is equipped with Wi-Fi’ sticker on the outside of the plane as I entered the cabin.

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The Book of Wireless, 2nd Edition

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According to the back cover, John Ross’ The Book of Wireless, 2nd Edition is targeted at readers who want a broad overview of the whys, wherefores, and hows of wireless networking. If you can stay with it, the later chapters have some useful information, especially on antenna configuration. Ross’s Chapter 12 discussion of Wi Fi security and packet sniffing was quite good; it was useful information.

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