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Option-Click AirPort Menu for Network Details
If you hold down the Option key while clicking the AirPort menu in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, you'll see not just the names of nearby Wi-Fi networks, but additional details about the selected network. Details include the MAC address of the network, the channel used by the base station, the signal strength (a negative number; the closer to zero it is, the stronger the signal), and the transmit rate in megabits per second showing actual network throughput. If you hover the cursor over the name of a network to which you're not connected, a little yellow pop-up shows the signal strength and type of encryption.
Written by Adam C. Engst
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| Question: What's a Webring?
Question: What's a Webring? Dave Sacher <sacherd@csn.net> asks, "I keep seeing references to 'Webrings' - what are they?"
Answer: Webrings are actually the common name for a fascinating new form of fungus (Conocybe packetea; see a picture of the closely related Conocybe lactea at the URL below) that springs up, seemingly overnight, on related Web pages.
<http://www.dnai.com/~mwood/mykoweb/species/ Conocybe_lactea.html>
Seriously, Webrings are a way for groups of Web sites with related content to link to one another in a circle, or ring, simplifying navigation and providing some locational context within the abstractness of the Web. Thus, you can move back and forth between related sites within a Webring by clicking the next and previous Webring buttons. A large number of Webrings have appeared, with topics ranging from the ABC Daytime Soap Opera Webring to the Vietnam Veterans on the Net Webring. For a list, check out Yahoo and the main Webring Web site. [ACE]
<http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/ Internet/
World_Wide_Web/Searching_the_ Web/Indices_to_Web_Documents/
Rings/>
<http://www.webring.org/>
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