Bluetooth wireless technology, the global standard for short range wireless communications, is celebrating its 10th birthday this year. At the Mobile World Congress, centered around the mobile phone, the Bluetooth SIG expands on its strategy to create wireless connections to the mobile phone with ultra low power Bluetooth technology and high speed Bluetooth technology which is being made possible using elements of IEEE 802.11 and ultra wideband.
Dubbed the ‘Bluetooth umbrella’ by Dr. Michael Foley, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the approach strives to make efficient use of selected features from other wireless standards aimed at a wide range of applications with the familiarity and ease-of-use of classic Bluetooth technology.
“The umbrella approach will enable the mobile phone user to connect to the widest possible range of products using Bluetooth technology in dramatically new and unique ways made possible by our work with alternate radio solutions,” said Foley. “Heart rate monitors, pedometers, watches and television sets are only a few examples that soon can be connected via the already familiar Bluetooth technology, strengthening the role of the mobile phone as the personal device used at every occasion.”
The NetGear ProSafe firewall FVS124G is a security device that protects your network from attackes and intrusions. It has 2 WAN ports and 4 Gigabit LAN ports. It uses a technology called Stateful Packet Inspection for Denial of Service Attack protection, and it delivers various ways to keep LAN users from going on the Internet to do all kinds of things they aren’t supposed to do. Furthermore --but I couldn’t test that part of the firewall-- it supports up to 10 Virtual Private Network tunnels.
In short, the NetGear ProSafe VPN Firewall FVS124G looks like a great addition to your network equipment, esecially if you’re in the printing or design business. It can help you maintain security of Macintoshes and PCs on the inside, while offering customers the ability to log into the network and upload and download their project assets through the VPN functionality, and it’s not expensive.
Macs have been equipped with Gigabit Ethernet for quite some years now. Even my old G4 has a Gigabit Ethernet port. Home users cripple that port’s blazing speed by hooking up an Airport, but video editors, compositing and 3D artists want to network at the highest possible speed, so they can render their results as fast as possible. For them, Gigabit Ethernet is a business need.
SyncTogether is a utility enabling users to synchronise three Macs under one license. SyncTogether works well, but you do need to read the manual before you can safely synchronise your data. It also will not work unless the application you want to synchronise already supports iSync. Finally, it integrates with iSync, meaning it takes iSync’s preferences with regards to changed data to schedule its own synchronisation activity.
iDropper is a special FTP client for both Windows and Mac users. It enables you to distribute iDropper droplets to your clients who can then drop files onto the droplet and have these uploaded to your server. After the upload. the droplet will carry out some extra tasks that you define, such as filling in a web form, sending an e-mail message, and more.
CrushFTP is a full-blown FTP server for people who need to offer others access to their computer by FTP, SFTP, WebDAV . CrushFTP is easy to install, and relatively easy to manage. However, ease-of-use is probably not the most important feature you’re looking for in a FTP server. That’s power, and CrushFTP has more power than Mac OS X Server’s FTP service. I compared the two and found CrushFTP to be a winner by a large margin.
First of all: it’s not the main intention of Ben Spink, the developer of CrushFTP, to replace Mac OS X Server FTP services. But I found that running CrushFTP on a machine running Mac OS X Server made it extremely easy to compare both in terms of what they have to offer. Whereas Mac OS X Server has of course web access with Apache, and FTP is only a part of an encompassing server package, CrushFTP offers services that typically rely on FTP as the core service. And it does it very well. In fact, it does it so well, some administrators of smaller workgroups, might be inclined to go with CrushFTP, rather than with Mac OS X Server’s own FTP service.
Ambrosia Software brought us Snapz Pro, one of the best (if not THE best) screenshot programs. With Dragster, Ambrosia has brought us the best way to move and copy files fast.
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