Friday, June 18, 2010

Turn your Keyboard into a network indicator

A small icon at the windows taskbar indicates the network activity of your computer. They blink every time data is sent from or to your PC. A similar method is there to indicate the network activity by using your keyboard using a small program so that you dont need to watch your monitor to see whether there is an active connection or not.




Network Lights is a Windows program, which blinks keyboard LEDs (Light Emitting Diode) indicating outgoing and incoming network packets on network interface.Network Lights lets you monitor network activity (upload/download) from your keyboard ScrollLock and NumLock indicators. Each LED will flicker when network traffic is detected.

The best part of network lights is that it is free and open source. You can download the source sode from the same page and tweak according to your needs.

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