Tuesday, July 21, 2009

About Computer Networking: Wi-Fi Cell Phones | Geolocation in Firefox | More

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  from Bradley Mitchell
If you use an external hard drive, a Wi-Fi cell phone, or Firefox 3.5, the featured articles in this newsletter are for you. If you don't use any of those things, well, maybe you should consider them (and also check out the sidebar for other topics of interest).

 
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POLL Do You Use Wi-Fi On Your Cell Phone?
Many so-called "smartphones" provide support for Wi-Fi wireless networking in addition to the normal cellular connection capabilities. Do you have a Wi-Fi ready phone and if so, do you use it? Quite a few of our readers do.

 
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DISCUSS: Sharing External Hard Drives
If you use an external hard drive (such as a portable USB drive), you can share its files and folders across a local network same as for internal drives, with one exception: External drives stop sharing when the computer they're connected to is rebooted. One of our members recently asked on our message board whether there's any way to avoid this inconvenience. Do you have a solution to offer?

 
Using Geolocation in Firefox
Starting with the recently released Firefox 3.5, Mozilla's Web browser supports geolocation - the ability to determine a computer's geographic location. Have you tried it yet?

 
 
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