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Eye-Fi launches. Really neat idea: a digital camera SD card with built-in WiFi to beam your photos straight to your laptop. SitePen built the UI, which runs in your browser on top of Dojo and talks to a small web server running locally. # 11th November 2007, 10:40 pm

What I did at Hack Day. John McKerrell made a tool for updating your FireEagle location through a DNS query, useful for sneaking around for-pay WiFi nodes. # 19th June 2007, 10:32 am

The Truth About Wireless Devices. “After eating babies, the WiFi Routers will grow to enormous size and attack our cities.” # 27th May 2007, 2:09 pm

Wi-Fi Wants To Kill Your Children. Ben Goldacre tears the ridiculous Panorama WiFi episode to pieces. # 26th May 2007, 10:12 pm

The Oxford Guide free WiFi plotted on Google Maps. The guide offers a geocoded Atom feed which can be directly plotted on a Google Map. # 26th May 2007, 9:55 am

Category Free Wifi on The Oxford Guide (via) More hotspots, this time with RDF, Atom and RSS feeds. # 26th May 2007, 9:51 am

Oxford on hotspotr. Nicely designed community WiFi hotspot site. Only lists two for Oxford at the moment; I plan to add more as I confirm them. # 26th May 2007, 9:47 am

WiFi Hotspots in Oxford. The best list I’ve found, but that’s not saying a lot. # 26th May 2007, 9:46 am

Extending a WiFi network with two Macs and a FireWire cable

Last night’s Oxford Geek Night went really well, despite more than the usual flurry of problems. It’s definitely true that the more geeks there are in a room the less likely it is that the projector will work! Thankfully we got everything up and running in time for the talks to start, although it was a pretty close call.

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PyCon Wireless Network. Conference WiFi is generally bad, and getting worse as more people turn up with laptops. Here’s how Sean Reifschneider built a solid network for PyCon 2007 for $2200 in hardware and 70 hours of work. # 6th April 2007, 10:39 am