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Nintendo 3DS gets free airport Wi-Fi

Fasten your seatbelts, proprietors of the Nintendo 3DS.

Boingo Wireless, a provider for Wi-Fi at 42 airports in North America, is now providing free hot-spot Internet access for the 3DS gaming console.

Traditionally, getting on a Wi-Fi connection at an airport through your laptop or tablet is depressing. Many of you have had that experience of wasting dozens of dollars on a mediocre Internet connection only used for a few hours at best.

I always groan when I have to pull out the credit card and type in my financial details into the antiquated wireless authorization system, especially after spending … Read more

Addressing dropped Wi-Fi connections in OS X

A dropped Wi-Fi connection in OS X is one of the long-standing frustrations that some Mac users have had to deal with. In some instances a system that works well on one Wi-Fi network will not maintain a connection with another one, and in other instances two seemingly identical Macs (same model and OS version) will result in one connecting to a network and the other not.

These frustrations can be tricky to deal with, and generally the troubleshooting steps revolve around checking the router for any special services, using the older 2.4GHz frequency (802.11 "b" … Read more

The 404 956: Where the files are IN the computer? (podcast)

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The future of airport security: thermal lie detectors and cloned sniffer dogs. Facebook's most-shared articles of 2011 list shows babies, banks, and brats. Fios is coming to an Xbox 360 near you. Could your printer be a Trojan horse? Researchers say yes!… Read more

Sync up your audio on all devices

An AirPort Express will let you listen to iTunes over your home stereo speakers. Airfoil is an application that takes that simple functionality and turns it up to 11. The iTunes-AirPort Express combo is perfect for listening to iTunes on your nice stereo, but what if you want to hear music from a browser-based app like Pandora? Or Sirius Radio through an app like StarPlayr? Or work with audio from your Elgato EyeTV? Airfoil lets you send audio from any application (even your system audio) to your AirPort Express, so you can use your stereo for anything from RealPlayer and … Read more

Apple's Find My Friends and Airport Utility apps arrive

Ahead of releasing iOS 5 to users today, Apple released two new universal iOS apps: one for keeping track of other friends with iOS devices, and another for setting up and managing the company's wireless networking equipment.

The first of those is Find My Friends (iTunes), an app Apple debuted at last week's "Let's talk iPhone" event. Like the company's "Find My iPhone" app, it lets you see where one or more iOS devices are on a map, though in Find My Friends' case, these are people who do not share your … Read more

Apple prepping next-generation AirPort Express?

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple is planning to launch a new version of its 802.11n AirPort Express Base Station router.

According to the publication, citing "a person familiar with the matter," as-yet released developer notes for the upcoming AirPort Utility 5.6 mention a new AirPort Express Base Station.

"Adds support for the AirPort Express 802.11n (second-generation) base station," the note reportedly reads.

To further bolster its claims, AppleInsider pointed to Amazon.com's listing of … Read more

Fix Wi-Fi autoconnect problems in Lion

One persistent problem that some users have noted in OS X Lion is where Wi-Fi connections may not autoconnect when waking from sleep or when performing other tasks where the Wi-Fi connection is cut and needs to be re-established. Instead of locating a previously used network, the Wi-Fi connection will remain gray and require you to manually select a Wi-Fi network in order to connect.

If this problem happens to your system, you can try a few things to correct the problem:

New Location An easy step is to try creating a new network configuration in the Network system preferences. … Read more

Report: Apple's Time Capsule to work as iCloud drive

A new report this morning suggests that Apple's iCloud plans may not be tied to its massive 500,000-square-foot North Carolina data center as much as a piece of hardware you plug in at home.

Cult of Mac reports that Apple is planning to unveil an update to its Time Capsule hardware and software at tomorrow's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote that will act as a home base not just for file backups but also as an Internet-enabled storage folder for Macs and iOS devices.

"If you make any changes on any computer, those changes are updated through … Read more

Air traffic control at your fingertips

Flight Control is an attractive, addictive game in which you play an air traffic controller guiding an endless armada of incoming aircraft to safe landings (you hope!) at a crowded airport. Flight Control makes great use of the iOS touch interface, as you use your finger to trace a trajectory for each approaching craft, sending jets, seaplanes, and helicopters to various runways and landing pads. The controls are incredibly simple and intuitive, which contributes to Flight Control's surprisingly rich, devilishly addictive gameplay.

The game starts out at a leisurely pace, but as aircraft enter from every edge of the … Read more

Air traffic control at your finger tips

Flight Control HD is an attractive, addictive game in which you play an air-traffic controller guiding an endless armada of incoming aircraft to safe landings (you hope!) at a crowded airport. Flight Control makes great use of the iPad interface, as you use your finger to trace a trajectory for each approaching craft, sending jets, seaplanes, helicopters, et al. to various runways and landing pads. The controls are incredibly simple and intuitive, which contributes to Flight Control's surprisingly rich, devilishly addictive gameplay.

The game starts out at a leisurely pace, but as aircraft enter from every edge of the … Read more