Wireless Surveying on the Pocket PC
Wei-Meng Lee surveys some of the tools you can use to locate wireless networks when on the road with your Pocket PC. He also touches on the topic of wardriving and its various derivatives. Wei-Meng is the author of Windows XP Unwired.
Microsoft Smartphone Tips and Tricks Ultimately, smartphones are only as smart as the applications that run on them. Wei Meng Lee begins a new series that explores what's possible, and what's practical, with these powerful mobile devices. [Wireless DevCenter]
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Treo 600: Not Your Parents' PalmPilot Palm's Handspring Treo 600 is at the very high end of the PDA spectrum. It provides full PalmOS5.2 support with a fast 144MHz ARM processor, a full GSM or CDMA cell phone, full proxyless web browsing and email support, synchronization with Palm Desktop and Microsoft Outlook, a 640 by 480 camera with the ability to email directly from the camera, and an SD/MMC card slot. Ian Darwin takes you inside in this in-depth review. [Wireless DevCenter]
Creating Web Content for Mobile Phone Browsers, Part 2 In part 1 of this series, Robert Jones explained the ins and outs of the WML and XHTML MP markup languages. Now he tackles the diversity of phones and how to create content for them. [Wireless DevCenter]
Creating Web Content for Mobile Phone Browsers, Part 1 To develop successful web content for mobile phones, you need to understand the technical limitations of their browsers, the diversity of existing hardware, and the practical difficulties and frustrations faced by users trying navigate from a phone keypad. In the first article of this two-part series, Robert Jones shows you how. [Wireless DevCenter]
The Motorola MPx200 Smartphone 2002 The Motorola MPx200 is the first GSM/GPRS smartphone based on the Microsoft Windows Mobile Smartphone 2002 platform available in the United States. Todd Ogasawara takes a look at the hardware and the platform it uses. [Wireless DevCenter]
Wireless Mesh Networking Tomas Krag takes a look at some of the principles of wireless mesh networking, and he provides a simple test scenario for running a mesh routing protocol on a Linux-based computer. Tomas will discuss wireless networks as a low-cost, decentralized alternative for the developing world at the upcoming Emerging Technology Conference. [Wireless DevCenter]
Design Considerations for Microsoft Smartphone Applications Microsoft has recently announced support for the .NET CF in the new SmartPhone 2003. Here are some things to keep in mind when developing .NET CF SmartPhone applications, by Wei-Meng Lee. Wei-Meng will be discussing Smartphones in his tutorial, Developing Smartphone Applications with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, at O'Reilly's upcoming 2004 Emerging Technology Conference. [ Wireless DevCenter]
Securing AirPort Extreme Networks with WPA With the release of Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, Apple also provided a firmware upgrade for the AirPort Extreme Base Station and AirPort Extreme clients, which support the WPA security standard. WPA is far more secure than WEP. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to set it up. [ Wireless DevCenter]
Sony Ericsson T610 Camera Phone Review Sony Ericsson calls the T610 camera phone an "image and entertainment" phone instead of a smartphone. It is based on the proprietary Sony Ericsson OS, and it can run applications written in Java. Todd Ogasawara shows you the ins and outs of this compact phone that includes camera and Bluetooth capabilities. [ Wireless DevCenter]
TFTP and Error Correction TFTP's (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) design is revealing the same way that a car's airbags are. As an airbag testifies to the probability and violent nature of a crash, so TFTP's design speaks of frequent and catastrophic data misadventure. Heath Johns helps you get your head around this specification. [ Wireless DevCenter]
Squeezing NAT Out of Panther Server All Glenn Fleishman wanted was for Panther Server (Mac OS X Server 10.3) to hand out private Network Address Translation (NAT) managed addresses over DHCP. In client-side Panther he simply checks a box to enable this. But not so for the server. Here's how he figured it out. [ Wireless DevCenter]
Improvising Your Own Wireless Router Wei-Meng Lee is back this week with an article on using the Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) feature available in Windows XP to improvise a wireless router, allowing you to wirelessly (and cheaply) share an Internet connection with multiple computers in your home. Wei-Meng is the author of Windows XP Unwired. [ Wireless DevCenter]
Enabling BSS Master Mode on Hermes-Based Radios Rob Flickenger is back with yet another excerpt from his latest book, the recently released Wireless Hacks. This week, Rob shows you what you'll need to do to operate a Hermes-based radio card--the kind found in the original AirPort AP--as BSS master. [ Wireless DevCenter]
Sending SMS Messages Using Windows XP Windows XP users need not envy Mac users anymore, Wei-Meng Lee, author of Windows XP Unwired, happily reports. The recent release of the free SMS Sender lets cell phone users send SMS messages from the comfort of their Windows XP computers. [ Wireless DevCenter]
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