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Comment Yesterday's Technology (Score 1) 293

by mhess126 on Friday April 27, 2012 @03:29PM (#39825033) Attached to: Why Apple's Next Revolution Should Be In Your Car

Personal automobiles are in the process of being de-prioritized as a mode of transport. If Apple is a forward-thinking company, they should understand that cars are a 20th century machine, not a growth market in the 21st.

Submission + - Connectify Subverts Dorm Room Limitations (connectify.me)

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hazydave

on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @04:38PM

hazydave writes: "Connectify 3.0 is a new version of an application that creates a virtual Wifi hotspot on a Windows 7 PC. When he made the Dean's List last fall, I set the previous version up on my son's PC, to let him hook up his iPod Touch or X-Box 360 via Wi-Fi. Looks like the Connectify people have realized this use, they say: "Many Schools and private institutions have restrictive limits on the amount of devices an individual can have registered to their wireless networks. In this day and age, these quotas are quickly exceeded by the wide variety of Wi-Fi enabled devices (such as smartphones, tablets, e-readers, and gaming systems) we use on a regular basis. With Connectify running on a laptop or desktop PC, you can circumvent these limits and securely connect any number of devices to your personal Wi-Fi network." For the kid, the dorms at Richard Stockton College allow only a single wired connection, and wireless routers or APs are specifically illegal. The new version has apparently been well tested with most gaming systems and other non-PC devices. They're also running a back-to-school promotion, complete with a marketing video and a discount on the "pro" version of the software. Worth checking out... hope the RAs don't start to get wise to it."

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