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Why 'digital nomads' need Wi-Fi finders
blogs.computerworld.com — I do a lot of business travel in the United States, but I never understood the need for those Wi-Fi finder gadgets until I embarked on my current adventure in "extreme telecommuting." After six weeks living and working in Greece as a "digital nomad," I'm certain than I'll never travel abroad again without some way to detect Wi-Fi hotspots.
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- atmasphere, on 05/19/2008, -0/+1My phone does this ... Nokia NSeries
- sexybobo, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1My t-shirt does this
http://www.thinkgeek.com/991e/
Well actually my hoody riped a hole in the shirt the day i got it but it easily remounted it on a hoody
- sexybobo, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1My t-shirt does this
- radiantarchon, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1my laptop does this. xps m1210. when its off you can push a switch on the side and it will light up if it detects a hotspot
- mark076h, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1what about http://www.netstumbler.com/ and there is a new one for vista called Vistumbler http://www.techidiots.net/project-pages/vistumbler
- peaking, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1"AP logger" on a jailbroken iphone
- drkmccrthy, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1for real. replace "wi-fi finder" with "device that has more than one use"... what "digital nomad" is going to want to carry single purpose devices that would be unnecessary if they had one value-added device.
- shadowspawn, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1helps to have an external antennae. And a bit of metal screen you can bend to make it directional. Saved my ass plenty of times while traveling.
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