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Miracast. Miracast is a wireless communications standard created by the Wi-Fi Alliance which is designed to transmit video and sound from devices (such as laptops or smartphones) to display receivers (such as TVs, monitors, or projectors). It uses Wi-Fi Direct to create an ad hoc encrypted wireless connection [1] and can roughly be described as ...
MAC spoofing. MAC spoofing is a technique for changing a factory-assigned Media Access Control (MAC) address of a network interface on a networked device. The MAC address that is hard-coded on a network interface controller (NIC) cannot be changed. However, many drivers allow the MAC address to be changed. Additionally, there are tools which ...
For desktop computers and laptops, Microsoft Windows is the most used at 71.47%, followed by Apple's macOS at 15.45%, desktop Linux at 4.55%, and Google's ChromeOS at 1.73%. Since ChromeOS is a Linux based OS, it can be added to the total desktop Linux share bringing it to 6.28%. The remaining 6.81% is unknown.
Nearby Share. Nearby Share was a functionality developed by Google that allows data to be transferred between devices via Bluetooth, Wi-FI Direct or Internet. In 2024, it was merged into Samsung's Quick Share. It was available for Android, ChromeOS and Microsoft 's Windows. [1] It was first released on August 4, 2020.
Bonjour provides a general method to discover services on a local area network. The software is widely used throughout macOS, and allows users to set up a network without any configuration. As of 2010 it is used to find printers and file-sharing servers. Notable applications using Bonjour include:
A MAC address (short for medium access control address) is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address in communications within a network segment. This use is common in most IEEE 802 networking technologies, including Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. Within the Open Systems Interconnection ...
Website. www.maxthon.com. Maxthon (Chinese: 傲游浏览器, formerly named MyIE2) is a freeware web browser, created by JeffChen in Singapore. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and as Maxthon Mobile for Android, [8] iOS, [9] and Windows Phone 8. [10] Since version 6, Maxthon is based on Chromium.
VNC. VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is a graphical desktop-sharing system that uses the Remote Frame Buffer protocol (RFB) to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard and mouse input from one computer to another, relaying the graphical- screen updates, over a network. [1] Popular uses for this technology include remote ...