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Viewing Wi-Fi Details in Snow Leopard

In Snow Leopard, hold down the Option key before clicking the AirPort menu. Doing so reveals additional technical details including which standards, speeds, and frequencies you're using to connect, as well as what's in use by other networks. With the Option key held down and with a network already joined, the AirPort menu reveals seven pieces of information: the PHY Mode, the MAC (Media Access Control) address, the channel and band in use, the security method that's in use, the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) measurement, the transmit rate, and the MCS Index. In Leopard, some, but not all, of these details are revealed by Option-clicking the AirPort menu.


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AutoShare 4.0 Released

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AutoShare 4.0 Released -- Four years after releasing version 1.0, Mikael Hansen has released version 4.0 of AutoShare, his freeware mailing list manager and email auto-responder. New in AutoShare 4.0 are support for Sophisticated Circuits' Rebound crash recovery device, several new AppleScript commands, and most important, the capability for AutoShare to enable Web-based subscriber administration by acting as a CGI program. AutoShare 4.0 requires either Eudora Internet Mail Server or Stalker Internet Mail Server 1.2.1 or later and is a 3 MB download. [ACE]

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