Posted: January 26th, 2005 | No Comments »

Topographie inhabituelle de la Suisse montre l’évolution de l’accessiblité des communes en Suisse de 1950 et 2000. Cela rejoint mon post sur Shrinking Switzerland.


Wireless Network Sniffer with Graphical Netwrok Mapping

Posted: January 26th, 2005 | 2 Comments »

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system that contains a Graphical Network Mapping called GPSMap. GPSMap can download maps from several online sources (MapBlast, Tiger, Terraserver, Earthamaps, and more) as well as use user-provided graphics, provided you know the scale and center coordinates.


Use Wi-Fi To Play Access Point Games

Posted: January 26th, 2005 | No Comments »

Use Wi-Fi To Play Access Point Games explains how you can get more from your Wi-Fi by playing access point games. Access point games come in many forms, such as a “fox and hounds” game, capture the flag, or a treasure hunt. However, they are all based on the nature of an access point to “give itself away”�that is, broadcast the configured service set identifier (SSID) to all willing listeners.


Horus, a WLAN Location Determination System

Posted: January 26th, 2005 | No Comments »

Horus is a WLAN Location Determination System designed by Moustafa A. Youssef for his thesis work.

We have developed location-clustering techniques based on the signal strength received from the access points to reduce the computational requirements of the location determination algorithm and allow the system to scale to large areas.

The Horus system has been tested in areas as large as 20,000 square feet and the accuracy is 2.5 feet on the average for different testbeds.


Learning & Instruction

Posted: January 24th, 2005 | No Comments »

Theory Into Practice is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.


Photo Mapping

Posted: January 24th, 2005 | No Comments »

I am not sure if and when I am going to use it, but 93 Photo Street is a real nice piece of free software to generate photo maps. A photo map displays your images arranged by location instead of by time.


Mouse and Keyboard Sharing with Synergy

Posted: January 23rd, 2005 | No Comments »

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).


Socializing my Data

Posted: January 23rd, 2005 | No Comments »

I socialized my oplm file in Bloglines (social RSS reader) and my bookmark in del.icio.us (social bookmark).


OpenTrek

Posted: January 23rd, 2005 | No Comments »

OpenTrek is a peer-to-peer networking platform specifically designed for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Using OpenTrek it is possible to create advanced multiplayer games for mobile devices.


Red Libre Red Visible

Posted: January 23rd, 2005 | No Comments »

Free Network Visible Network co-led by the Laboratorio de Luz of Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia propose to make visible the interchanged information between computers of a wireless network connected to Internet. The main objective is to ask for the free access to the net and at the same time to make actions in the urban landscape as a way to create new meanings in the public domain.