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coconutWiFi
Coconut-flavour has recently released coconutWiFi
1.0, which you can see to the right. This is a little menu bar item that scans for WiFi networks and lets you know
the number that is finds, and the encryption level (using three different colors).As you can see here, there are 4 WiFi networks in my apartment vicinity (though I edited mine out because I am paranoid) and the green bubble tells use that Lexom is open and unencrypted (you don't need a password to sign on). The others are encrypted (mine is as well).
A pretty cool little app, that is Universal and it costs nothing.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris McElligott said 7:14AM on 2-01-2006
Christoph has got quite a few little gem applications, coconutBattery is my favourite.
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icerabbit said 8:22AM on 2-01-2006
Your method, then you also have to replace the 4 with a 3 ;)
You could've just blurred out your network name and that would've been just as secure. Plus saves explaining the discrepancy.
Anyhow, another nice little app for the wireless machines. Thanks for bringing it up.
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tdungan said 8:55AM on 2-01-2006
I LOVE the Coconut apps.
And now I can finally delete my Air Traffic Control widget.
Would be nice though if it ran without the Dock icon. It's a nice looking icon and I know I can do it manually, but I'd rather not have to "hack" things. Maybe that will happen in the next release.
But in the meantime, I've already added it to my startup items.
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AH said 10:18AM on 2-01-2006
I seem to have nothing but problems with the Coconut apps.
coconutbattery consistently crashes on me, and now so does WiFi.
Odd I guess, but based on the descriptions the apps themseleves are very useful. Glad to hear they are working for others.
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Stork said 10:30AM on 2-01-2006
Cute app. I'll try it out in my wanderings although I'll crank up iStumbler too.
BTW, if you didn't broadcast your SSID, then it wouldn't appear on the list. (I'm using a Linksys WRT54G running Sveasoft's firmware which is *so* superior to Linksys f/w.)
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Sebastian said 11:39AM on 2-01-2006
The program crashes for me, too. I sent a crashlog to the author. He says that he found the error and it will be fixed in the next release.
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Chris said 12:14PM on 2-01-2006
It crashed for me too on my mini. The other Coconut apps have been fine for me though.
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Chris Meisenzahl said 8:48AM on 2-06-2006
This great, thanks! I've been using the battery app for a while now w/ no trouble.
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