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Share Your Paid Wifi with Friends

Published by Bret Fisher on Aug 17, 2010 in Life, Microsoft and Tech. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Virtual RouterEver been in a hotel, airport, coffee shop, or some place that you pay per computer to use their Wireless Internet?  Windows 7 has a new feature “Virtual Wifi” that lets you use your wireless as if it was multiple wireless NIC’s, but why do we care?  One way to use that virtual wifi feature is to use free software to allow connecting to wireless Internet while also turning your wireless into it’s own hotspot.  Great for the wife’s or coworkers laptops sitting next to you.  Pay once, surf many.

There’s been a similar feature since XP to share connections, but this required you to use two different NIC’s and only supported peer-to-peer network. This software fixes both issues.

Software: Virtual Router – Wifi Hot Spot for Windows 7 – 2008 R2

Info: Share Wireless Internet Connection In Windows 7 Without Ad Hoc

Universal Spell Check in Windows

Published by Bret Fisher on Nov 5, 2008 in Tech. Closed Tags: , , , , .

Humanized Enso Words I’ve used Humanized Enso for a year, and while I’ve uninstalled the other add-on’s for launching apps or searching… I’ve gotten used to it’s “hold down caps lock” interface and the spell check works 99% of time.  However, it doesn’t always keep formatting after spell check in web-based text boxes that have formatting, and on Vista I’ve got what I assume to be a permissions issue since it won’t save my “add to dictionary” settings for custom words.

Since Enso is now free, I recommend you check out the Enso Words first.  The hardest part is remembering it’s an option (since you don’t see anything until you hold down caps lock).

WordPress 2.3 Upgrade Hiccups

Published by Bret Fisher on Nov 12, 2007 in Solution Writeups. Closed Tags: , , , , , , .

Just upgraded from WordPress 2.2.x to 2.3.1 and found a few plugin issues.

  • Needed to upgrade Google XML Sitemaps. I just deactivated the old and uploaded/activated the new.
  • The new plugin upgrade feature in WordPress told me to upgrade my WordPress Database Backup, which wasn’t activated, so I just overwrote the file.
  • My K2 theme is so advanced it had it’s own Widget manager before WordPress did. Once WP added the feature, you needed a K2 plugin to disable the WP widget manager (because K2′s is still better). Now, the K2 theme disables the WP one on it’s own without the Plugin. So, I’m removing this plugin and updating my K2 next.

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