[dba-VB] Most useful droid apps

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Mar 19 21:45:39 CDT 2011


Nope, Verizon

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 3/19/2011 10:34 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote:
> Are you on AT&T?
>
> If so, you may be interested in this:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/18/new_att_tethering_policy/
>
>
> On 19 Mar 2011 at 22:01, jwcolby wrote:
>
>> I am trying various tethering solutions.  My laptop is vista, my ip
>> range is 192.168.122.x.
>>
>> I got WiFi Tether to work, but only without encryption.  I was getting
>> about 1.5 mbit down and .5 mbit up.
>>
>> As soon as I turned on encryption I was unable to set up the laptop
>> password to match (that was the only thing that changed).  No
>> encryption is unacceptable to me as I would only really use this in
>> public places, exactly where you would most want encryption.
>>
>> I tried barnacle.  That one just didn't work at all.
>>
>> I am now trying PDANet which is a USB tether.  Since the PC is tied to
>> the phone by a usb, encryption seems to be unnecessary?  Unfortunately
>> this one is not working either.  The PDANet desktop app says it is
>> connected and the droid pdanet app says it is connected but the PC
>> just can't see the internet.  I can't ping anything etc.
>>
>> Any suggestions for this beast?
>>
>>
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>
>> On 3/19/2011 4:53 PM, David McAfee wrote:
>>> Advanced task killer
>>> Weather channel
>>> Lookout antivirus
>>> AK Notepad
>>> Bank of America
>>> Acar auto maintenance
>>> Barcode scanner
>>> Bubble level
>>> Bump
>>> Droid light
>>> Google goggles
>>> Google translate
>>> IMDB
>>> Key ring
>>> Print share
>>> Trapster
>>>
>>> Sent from my Droid phone.
>>> On Mar 19, 2011 12:52 PM, "jwcolby"<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
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