Mac version of WeFi in the works
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jun 20, 2007 at 11:08am
A Mac version of WeFi, the social WiFi community, is in the works and “coming soon.” Currently, a public beta is available for Windows users. WeFi is designed to help mobile consumers find the best available wireless connection quickly.
WeFi maps provide users with a dynamic, constantly updated view of available free WiFi spots, as well as the location and profiles of users. WeFi software residing on the notebook computer, immediately starts looking for sources of free WiFi, and connects users to the spot with the best available connection, according to WeFi CEO Arnon Kohavi. The WiFi locations are then presented in graphical form, with available ones identified with the color green, and the best one displayed on top.
Users can also choose to connect manually to any WiFi location they choose by using the “Manual Connect” option to stay on a particular connection. To help users find free WiFi networks with or without WeFi software, WeFi provides online maps that users update and share with others. The maps are constantly refreshed with new user-generated information. The maps display the location of available free WiFi locations as well as location and profiles of users.
Users can mark their favorite WiFi locations and save the access keys for locked spots to which they’ve obtained access or purchased. In addition to connectivity, the WeFi user tab displays other WeFi members connected to WiFi, their distance, location and profile information. One
can even see if a user has visited a certain location recently.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
