What’s connecting to where?
If you’ve ever wondered precisely what your Mac is connecting to on the internet and when it’s doing it, there’s a new free app called Private Eye to help you out.
For many many years now, the app of choice for this kind of job was Little Snitch, and it remains the choice of professionals because of its lengthy list of advanced features.
Private Eye is a simpler [Read More...]
Finally!
Have you ever watched your iPhone attempt to load a webpage with a poor Wi-Fi connection, and wondered why it doesn’t just switch to 3G automatically? In currently iOS releases, your device can’t do that. If you’re connected to a Wi-Fi network, it will only use the Wi-Fi network. But iOS 6 changes that. You’ll soon be able to use “Wi-Fi Plus Cellular” connections, which allows apps to switch to a [Read More...]
If your iPhone Wi-Fi connection seems inexplicably slow, particularly when having moved from one wireless network to another, try manually setting custom DNS servers. This speeds up the response time and your wireless connectivity in general: Open Settings Tap on “Wi-Fi” and tap the blue arrow alongside the wi-fi network name you are connected to Tap the numbers next to “DNS” to change them For the best results, [Read More...]
Private Eye is a free real-time network monitor app for Mac OS X 10.7+ that is extremely easy to use. Launching the app, you’ll start to see all open network connections, and you can then filter connections by app, monitor all open connections, or watch only incoming or outgoing transfer. Connections are reported by application, the time of the connection, and arguably the most useful, the IP address [Read More...]
Apple continues to out-muscle Android online, according to a new report of devices using the Internet. Despite fewer mobile devices, iOS-powered products in September collectively accounted for 54.65 percent of the mobile market, versus 16.25 percent for Android. The data from enterprise app maker and web watching firm Net Applications indicates around a 1 percent gain for Apple over August, when the tech giant had slightly over 53 percent of the mobile [Read More...]
