Software
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This page is the place to describe and advertise third party softwares, widgets or other tools that might be useful for Foneros. Feel free to add yours!
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General
- FONLogo Creator(c)FrancoFON Create a nice looking FON Hotspot logo with your name on it to print out & put on your window
FONhotspot Location
Trying to find a FONspot when going on a holiday? These tools might help!
- maps.fon.com has a "mobile widget" under tools in the menu which allows you to export the location of all fonspots in a certain country. Use KML for Google Earth, OV2 for TomTom, CSV for eg Excel/OpenOffice and GPX for most other navigation software
- labs.ceek.jp/fon Show active/inactive fonspots around the world on a big screen. As long as you don't reach 200 fonspots you can even zoom out until you do & still see them! They're not hiding behind a "zoom" icon anymore.
- maps.francofon.fr Export the whole Northern Hemisphere in one GPS file, only the active ones, also shows the "public places" !!!
- FonZugang Show FON hotspots database offline
- Pdatools Show FON hotspots database offline (Pocketpc)
- GpsTool Show FON hotspots database offline (pc)
- Firefox maps.fon.com Search Add maps.fon.com to your firefox Search-bar
- Fon-Maps (c)Newton Japan, (IPHONE), Price: FREE
- WiFON (c)Samposoft, (IPHONE), Price: € 1.59
- Spots (c) Savoy Software, (IPHONE), Price: € ....
Locate offline the following hotspots on your iPhone with adres/worldmap/... BT FON: 80,000 in the UK (NEW) Neuf FON: 60,000 in France (NEW) FON: 200,000 worldwide locations (updated) BT Openzone: 3,200 UK and IR locations (updated)
Locate fon wifi hotstpots near your location! now: - save locations - mashup! feature (with 'Mashup-Radar' 'Mashup-Panoramio' and OpenFONMaps) - threading implemented soon to be open source!!! FONMaps was developed for Android by FON Wireless Package name : com.fon
- Edit the FONmaps Mobile Widget maps with the following tools to remove possible errors:
FONhotspot status software
- Yahoo FONStatus add the status of your Fonera to your Yahoo Widget dashboard
- statut.francofon.fr Add the status (offline/online) of your fonera ton your website or to a forum (Green or Red icon) using the routerid you find in MyFon managment portal
- www.fonfan.de Add the fonfan signal on your fonera (unlocked with eg Freewlan) and join the FONScouts. When your fonera is down for eg 5 minutes you will get an email about this! Additionally you have images that can be put on Forums & Websites showing it's last heartbeat
- FONstatus.be Install this addon and know when the uptime of your fonera(s). It also shows how many people are currently on your public or private signal and how much data has been uploaded/downloaded since it's last reboot (uptime is shown as well)
FONhotspot VPN software
- Secure VPN Create a Secure SSH Tunnel from the internet (insecure hotspot) to your secure fonera at home!
WiFi related software
- Did you know you can use WiFi not only to surf the net or get your email? You can do many other things as well and not necessarly only at home behind your Myplace but also from remote when you are located behind a FON_FREE_INTERNET elsewhere!
- www.orb.com Install this software on a (heavy) fileserver and you can access from any internet connected pc to this server and get/view your Documents (word,excel), Music, Video (transcoded to the resolution of your mobile phone, pda, ...) , pictures, TV TUNER ... TARGET: Mobile Phone, Pda, PC
- www.zyb.com Backup your contacts,calendar,sms of all your mobile phones centrally, exchange/keep uptodate with friends, edit online through your Wifi(/gprs) enabled mobiles... TARGET : PC & Mobile Phone
- www.goosync.com Synchronise your (wifi) mobile calendar with your Google Calendar!
- www.soonr.com Connect to the pc running the soonr client via wifi/gprs and use the skype, outlook, powerpoint presentation, ... located there.
- www.fring.com Chat/talk with skype,msn,icq,gtalk on your Symbian Mobile Phone using Wifi/Gprs
- www.opera.com Opera Mini browser for your mobile phone, get on websites that otherwise do not give you access due to "mobile" authentication
- www.shozu.com Directly send your pictures/video to certain people, blog, ftp sites; Send once, receive many, edit your contacts online, get Podcasts... via wifi/gprs on your symbian phone
- www.trendcam.com Send your screen or camera output to a "webserver" so people can watch it with their browser via Wifi in the same lan. (symbian/pc client)... You can also use the Mobile camera as a "wireless" webcam for usage in Skype on PC
Non-WiFi related software
- Screenshot Take screenshots of your Symbian Mobile Phone screens. This can be handy when you have a problem you want to communicate with us. You can now send us a screenshot of the problem!
