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        Pocket PC app finds nearby wireless access points

        Doug | Date: May 27, 2004 | Comments: 1



        You've just landed in a strange city. You're walking around town and want to know if there are any WiFi access points available. Pull out your Pocket PC and start up the freeware application WiFiFoFum.


        Up pops a list of nearby hot spots, their identity and relative signal strength.

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        There's even a radar-like display that shows the relative location of access points in range. The stronger the signal, the closer it appears to the center of the radar.

        WiFiFoFum v 0.3.1 runs on PDAs running Pocket PC 2003 (based on Windows CE 4.2). The author, Malcolm Hall, says that it supports a range of HP iPAQ devices as well as some models from Fujitsu, Toshiba, and Asus. WiFiFoFum is freeware and may be downloaded here.

        Hall says his plans for future development include tying WiFiFoFum to GPS so the radar display shows absolute position. Support for Bluetooth scanning is also in the works.



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