My Christmas WiFi Wish List at WLAN Book.com

December 23rd, 2010

My Christmas WiFi Wish List

by Zaib Kaleem

My Christmas WiFi Wish List

My Christmas WiFi wish list…in no particular order.

A documented WiFi API for iPhones and iPads (iOS devices). This would allow developers to create WiFi scanner and site survey apps for iPad without getting banned from the app store. The new MBA 11″ is nice but the iPad’s touch interface and battery life are much better suited for WiFi scanning and surveying.

Bigger flash hard disk for new MacBook Air 13″. The current max size is 256 GB and requires me to go through my downloads every few days to keep free disk space above 10 Gig. Also, I usually keep many 6 GB virtual machines on my laptops for testing vendor software without mucking up my work PC but now I have to keep those images on a USB drive. I think a 500 GB hard disk would make the MBA 13″ a more engineer friendly laptop.

Ever since I heard about Fluke’s AirCheck™ Wi-Fi tester on WLAN Pros blog, I have wanted one. My primary use would be for rogue hunting and training clients on how to rogue hunt. AirCheck is a “dedicated, handheld 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless network tester with instant-on technology. Rapidly perform a wireless discovery to fully assess your current wireless security settings and network availability. See wireless network utilization by channel and quickly determine if it is 802.11 traffic or non-802.11 interference”

The next item on my wish list is a Mac version of Microsoft Visio. This item isn’t directly related to wireless but is an app that many wireless engineers use for illustrating WiFi networks. I moved to a Mac full time about two years ago and the two apps I missed the most were Snagit and Visio. Techsmith released a Mac version of Snagit a few months ago leaving Visio as the only app that is missing not having for on a Mac. There is an app called OmniGraffle that everyone recommends but I’m just going to go without for now.

“AirStash stores your movies, music, photos, and documents and wirelessly shares them with your phone, media player, netbook, tablet, computer, and more. Use AirStash like a USB flash drive to drag & drop the files you want to your SD card while charging the built-in lithium polymer battery, then unplug & play on all of your browser-enabled WiFi devices.”