We had to make a hard decision today at Network Magic that will affect many of our customers. We decided to remove our "Wireless Network Manager" feature from our latest release and put it back into Beta for more testing. Read on and I'll give you some more insight into why we made this decision and when you can expect to get your feature back!
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If you have ever setup security on a wireless network, then you have probably heard the term "WEP" before. While WEP has weaknesses that make it easily crackable by a sophisticated hacker, I did learn something new this weekend from my IM with Matthew our Development Manager .
When configuring a WEP-key in your router, 
there are two options you can choose: “Shared” or “Open”. At first glance, without knowing anything about the nuances of the technology one might think that “Shared” sounds better than “Open”. Open suggests that it’s not especially secure and anyone can get in. “Shared” sounds safer - like you tell everyone what your key is ahead of time. Naturally I assumed that Shared was more secure.
How wrong I was! Read on and I'll tell you why...
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I'm always amazed that people actually pay twenty bucks a month for GoToMyPC or even $200 for PC Anywhere.
If you have Windows XP Professional at home then you already have this feature! It's called "Remote Desktop".
Read on, and I'll give you step-by-step instructions on how to enable it for your home network.
At Network Magic we use the term 'dogfooding' to refer to the act of running our own software in early pre-release form on our home computers. It's a term that we inherited from a previous life at Microsoft.
Generally speaking, a "dogfood build" has been lightly tested and is hot off the press of the nightly build machine. They contain many bugs, but usually the latest and greatest features.
They're somewhat edible, but not fit for broad human consumption :)
It's a requirement of working at Network Magic to eat your own dogfood!