Mobile Wi-Fi Testing with Mac OS X

Continuing my work with mobile website testing, here are the steps to create a local Wi-Fi network from a Mac laptop. This allows mobile phones and tablets to connect through the laptop for either a proxy configuration (like Charles), or passive monitoring (like tcpdump or Wireshark). Read on to learn how to set this up quickly…

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Mobile Wi-Fi Testing with Windows 7

In some recent mobile website testing (e.g., using Fiddler to capture Android web traffic), I’ve found it helpful to create a local Wi-Fi network on my Windows 7 laptop. This allows connecting mobile phones and tablets and ensuring the network traffic flows through the laptop, allowing a proxy configuration (like Fiddler), or passive monitoring (like tcpdump or Wireshark). Read on to learn how to create this local Wi-Fi test setup.

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Adding DuckDuckGo Search Box to Movable Type

DuckDuckGo is a search engine startup whose claim to fame is a strict privacy policy, focusing on delivering high quality results without tracking their users. Like most search engines, DuckDuckGo also has a search box capability that can be used for site-specific search. Read on to learn how to implement this with Movable Type.

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