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Wireless Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition | ISBN: 0596005598 | 304 pages | September 16, 2003 | CHM

It's an increasingly wired world, but many people are finding that the best way to get connected is to do away with wires entirely. From cable replacement to universal Internet connectivity, wireless technology is changing the way we connect to our machines and to each other. As with any new technology, buying your gear is only the first step. Understanding how to make the best use of it is another story. Wireless Hacks offers 100 industrial-strength tips about wireless networking, contributed by experts who apply what they know in the real world every day. Each Hack can be read in just a few minutes, but can save you hours of research.

Inside, you will find a wealth of useful techniques for making the most out of wireless technology, including:

Making sense of the alphabet soup of the 802.11 standards, and understanding which technology makes sense for your solving particular problem* Using Bluetooth, mobile radios, mobile data networks, and other exotic methods to keep you connected, no matter where you are
* Practical methods for detecting, analyzing, and monitoring wireless networks
* Extending the range of your network, and making the best possible use of the available radio spectrum
* Designing and building your own antennas
* Engineering long distance network links that span several miles
* Understanding the security issues of wireless networking, and protecting yourself and your users from unauthorized access and eavesdropping

Written for the intermediate to advanced wireless user, Wireless Hacks is full of direct, practical, ingenious solutions to real-world networking problems. Whether your wireless network needs to extend to the edge of your office or to the other end of town, this collection of non-obvious, "from the field" techniques will show you how to get the job done.

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• Yahoo Health partners with educational video network [CNET]
  "HealthiNation to provide streaming video content to Yahoo's health portal."
• Vista Anytime Upgrade to become transferable [CNET]
  "Microsoft said late last week that it will make a change to the licensing terms for Windows Vista…"
• Alleged loophole lets users bypass Vista activation [CNET]
  ""A flaw in the product activation code for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system makes it easy to bypass the registration process indefinitely."
• Blog Divulges Details About Next Windows OS [PC World]
  "Microsoft employee in Denmark places a presentation on the company's web site that divulges new information."
• Cell phones embrace Wi-Fi [CNNMoney]
  "Top-of-the-line cell phones may offer Internet access, but not even the do-it-all Apple iPhone comes with the ability to make calls over Wi-Fi."
• Yahoo's mobile search now available to all [InfoWorld]
  "Yahoo opened up its mobile oneSearch offering to anyone with a phone who can access the Internet."
• You Don't Know Jack is Back [Wired]
  "The popular '90s trivia-quiz video game is resurrected online, complete with Cookie, the wisecracking emcee."

Windows only: WordWeb provides definitions and synonyms with a click of the mouse.

This dictionary/thesaurus can look up words in almost any program. Just press the Ctrl key and right-click a word: this pops WordWeb (too fast) for you . WordWeb can also find sets of related words by pulling info from Wikipedia, Wiktionary and other sources. It'll even pronounce words for you.

Its far better than all the inbuilt dictionary we get with the Micro$oft Office ..etc.  WordWeb is free for personal use.

Happy vocabulary ! 

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PS : Sorry i forgot to put the link to download.thanks krishna for reminding. (see comments)

Apple has announced that it has now begun shipping Apple TV, a wireless device that allows you to play music, movies, photos and more on a widescreen TV.

According tp Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, “Apple TV is like a DVD player for the Internet age- providing an easy and fun way to play all your favorite iTunes content from your PC or Mac on your widescreen TV.” 

In the technology world, conventional wisdom says that we’ll soon be saying R.I.P. for the DVD. Internet downloads are the future, baby. No driving, no postpaid envelopes. Any movie, any TV show, any time.

Features: 

Apple TV has a 40GB hard drive, which can store up to 50 hours of video, 9000 songs, 25,000 photos or a combination of each. It is capable of delivering high-definition 720p output.

Apple TV iTunes 7.1 or later, running on a Mac with Mac OS X version 10.3.9 or later, or a Windows PC with Windows XP Home/Professional.

Apple ships with HDMI, component video, analog and optical audio ports. The Apple Remote ships with Apple TV at no extra cost. Apple TV can also auto-sync content from one computer or stream content from up to five additional computers directly on to the TV without any wires. It can do so using high-speed AirPort 802.11 wireless networking.

Pricing: Apple TV, which includes the Apple Remote will be available for a price of $299.