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Last Updated on Thursday, 22 October 2009 11:50

PingThere's been some fun interpretations of the name "Fing". Let's just say some Hungarian friend of us have a good laugh. But the name really meant to be "Find+Ping", as a way to discover the elements of your network and to know how distant they are. So far, Fing has demonstrated how powerful its discover and scan engine are. Printers, iPhones, even the most secluded device, if it has an Ethernet card will be found.

We are about to fulfill the second promise we made with that name. A fantastic Ping utility that will allow multiple hosts to be pinged at once, with high level of customization and the many reports. The feature will be available in Fing 1.3, don't miss it!

 

Windows 7 packageWhile we are focusing on the GUI that will come, two major players have released their new products, or are about to. Snow Leopard hit the streets at the end of August, while the much-awaited Windows 7 is scheduled for October, 22nd.

All tests for Fing on Max OS X Snow Leopard passed with a perfect green light. Fing is committed to maintain a small memory footprint. Any advantages coming from a 64-bit architecture are therefore less relevant to the application.

We had tested also Fing on Microsoft Windows 7 RC1. Some changes have been applied, and the current executable of Fing (which runs on Windows 2000, XP and Vista) doesn't start. We apologies to anyone who tried and spent times on that. 

Snow LeopardWe have figured out a solution, and are currently testing for Windows 7 64-bit platform. We will, of course, keep you posted through news, mails and tweets.

 

Compatibility with new platforms is not the only feature you will find in the next release of Fing. But we'll keep that for another post.

Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 10:28

Chart Results from UIAugust is over, and despite the summer season, we had a lot of activities running. For the last two months we asked what kind of User Interface you would like for Fing. Meanwhile, the Team has been developing and testing several layers with amazing features.

As you may see from the chart on the right, Web 2.0 interface wins, followed immediately by an application with O.S. Look and Feel. What does that mean? The Web 2.0 experience is well-known for being really crossplatform, allowing easy remote access and easy integration with existing portals. We are working with browser-enabled application more and more these days.
On the other hand, people might be afraid that a Web 2.0 inteface means an online service. Fear not. We will keep on providing out Applications to be downloaded and installed on your preferred machines running Windows, Mac Os X and Linux. We will just leverage the browser to give you the best user interface that we can.

Being focused on cross-platform software, we will of course be cross-browser. Because you must be able to choose. Because it's your network.

Last Updated on Saturday, 16 May 2009 10:43

100% Clean If you come from a Look@LAN experience, you are used to the Windows world. But the engine of Fing is truly crossplatofrm, so we are now proud to be enlisted on freshmeat.net website's Networking Tools. And if you have a mixed networks, that's a big plus, isn't it?

Last Updated on Monday, 04 May 2009 11:55

IT Administrator MagazineIT Administrator, a major German magazine for professional System and Network Administrators, has reviewed Fing, which has been awarded the editor's 5-star rating!

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