IF YOU HAVE only a couple minutes in line at Starbucks, logging in to the wireless hotspot to check e-mail or make a quick VoIP phone call may not be worth the trouble. Now you can skip the preliminar¬ies and get connected as soon as you move into hotspot range, just like at home

or in the office. Visit Devicescape Soft¬ware's site. down¬load the free software. and set up an account. Add your paid and free hotspot log-in information to the account, and next time you visit a supported hotspot, you'll connect automatically.

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Thus far, Devicescape works only with Windows XP and Vista, Mac OS "lHI eommunily ""I X, Windows Mobile smart phones and PDAs, Nokia E and N series phones, Nokia NBOO and N770 tablets, and the Linksys WIP300 IP phone. With Devicescape, even devices that lack browsers can con¬nect at hotspots, which they previ¬ously could not do. Gadgets that Devicescape will support in the future-such as Skype phones, music players, and digital cameras will have the software built in, elimi¬nating the download and installation.