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iStumbler is a free, open source tool for finding wirelessnetworks and devices with your AirPort equipped Macintosh.
iStumbler combines a compact user interface with a real timegraph of signal strength and complete debugging informationsuch as network type, name and mac address.
Real-time visualfeedback of signal strength and encryption allows you toquickly find open networks, perform site surveys or justhave a look at your wireless neighborhood.
Release 91 gives iStumbler a thorough face-lift. The AirPort, Bluetooth and mDNS plugins now display icons for various items. Menus for the AirPort and Bluetooth plugins have been greatly improved and resize behavior was tuned up. Behind the scenes improvements in stability, memory and processor usage make this the most reliable release of iStumbler yet.
What's New in This Release:
· iStumbler can now adjust the text size used in the interface
· iStumbler can now adjust the toolbar style for all plugins
· iStumbler remembers toolbar style and text size across reboots
· iStumbler can now display help on the loaded plugin from the help menu and the help button on the main window.
· The ISPlugin class is replaced by the Plugins framework
· the Plugins framework adds support for help, home pages & RSS feeds
· All Plugins are converted to use the Plugin base class
· All Plugins are now configured with property file info
· The PluginManager now unloads plugins when the application quits
· GPS plugin re-introduced
· GPS plugin automatically uses the first serial device it finds
· GPS plugin won't load if there are no serial devices on the system
· GPS plugin provides a log view of the GPS coordinates
· GPS plugin moves the location info to the inspector panel
· GPS plugin closes the connection on sleep and reopens on wake
· GPS plugin closes the baseband connection to a bluetooth GPS device hen quitting or on startup, if it's still open
· GPS plugin toolbar includes a location display
· GPS plugin toolbar includes tools for displaying the map location on Google Maps, WiFi Maps, A2B, GeoURL and US Census Maps.
· Subscriber plugin introduced
· Subscriber plugin shows subscribe and shop pages
· mDNS plugin can now display unicode host names without crashing
· AirPort plugin can now ignore ad-hoc radios when Auto-Selecting
· AirPort plugin can now identify and show icons for five different network types: open, closed, open ad-hoc, closed ad-hoc and .public
· AirPort plugin's icons are updated and displayed on the join buttons.
· AirPort plugin updated the order of tabs on the inspector panel
· AirPort plugin updated to track GPS position if available
· AirPort plugin updated to improve thread safety
· Bluetooth plugin inspector updated to match the AirPort plugin
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