{"id":1891,"date":"2007-07-18T20:10:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T18:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/fight-summer-bugs-with-ultrafobos\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:51:00","slug":"fight-summer-bugs-with-ultrafobos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/fight-summer-bugs-with-ultrafobos\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight summer bugs with Ultrafobos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" id=\"image1892\" alt=\"Fight agains mosquitoes with your PC\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/07\/ultrafobos.png\" \/>If you think you&#8217;ve already seen everything about software, we can assure you there&#8217;s still room for surprise. If not, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/ultrafobos.en.softonic.com\/\">this application<\/a> on Softonic, specially developed to fight one of the most annoying elements of summer nights: mosquitoes.<\/p>\n<p>Ultrafobos uses the small internal speaker found in computers to emit sounds at a given frequency range. These sounds, although inaudible for human beings, are unbearable for certain kinds of animals and bugs. The application includes some configuration options to select the type of animal you want to scare away, set the volume and schedule sound repetitions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m seriously thinking about trying this at home and see if I can get rid of the dangerous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asian_tiger_mosquito\">tiger mosquito<\/a> we have around the area. If you try it yourself, drop us a line in comments and let us know if Ultrafobos worked for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think you&#8217;ve already seen everything about software, we can assure you there&#8217;s still room for surprise. If not, check out this application on Softonic, specially developed to fight one of the most annoying elements of summer nights: mosquitoes. Ultrafobos uses the small internal speaker found in computers to emit sounds at a given &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/fight-summer-bugs-with-ultrafobos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fight summer bugs with Ultrafobos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337403,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/337403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}