This week in App-reciation, we take a look at very handy, and very free, smartphone app that locates the nearest Wi-Fi hotspots in your immediate area.
If you’re a tech savvy entrepreneur looking to get ahead in the business world then you need to be able to utilise and maximise your online presence.
However, not every start-up has the luxury of charging mobile internet bills to a company account. Even when you do have that luxury, you can still be left with dodgy internet access if your smartphone can’t pick up even the faintest of 3G signals.
So what do you do when you’re stuck in traffic in the middle of town with no mobile internet access and you have to email a proposal to a perspective investor in less than 15 minutes?
The quick thinkers would already be out of the taxi and searching for the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot. Unfortunately, these hotspots can often be rarer than an investor with never-ending pockets, but with the ‘
Free Wi-Fi Finder’ from developers JiWire you’ll never be too far way from the web.
This cleaver little app saves the location of both paid and free local Wi-Fi hotspots in over 145,000 locations worldwide straight to your smartphone so you can find the closest access even when you’re offline. You can search using a ‘near me’ filter that checks to see what’s the closest hotspot around you using the GPS in your phone, or you can search a specific geographical location so that you can plan ahead if you’ve got a business trip in an unfamiliar country.
So the next time you find yourself frantically running around town looking for internet like an intern on the first day, just remember to take a deep breath and check your Wi-Fi Finder app*.
*In your haste to find a semi-decent internet connection, we will remind you : DON’T forget to include any attachments when you eventually send those proposals! That would be a tad embarrassing…
Find out more…
Wi-Fi Finder – iPhone
Wi-Fi Finder – Android
