OS X bluetooth tethering on the Qtek 9100, HTC Wizard, MDA Vario etc in WM5
Posted on March 6, 2006
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Seeing that unlimited EDGE dataplans are easy to come by these days, GPRS Dial Up Modem capability over bluetooth is a highly valued feature, especially under Mac OS X. This basically allows you to utilize your phones data connection as a modem for your laptop and get decent connectivity speeds (Around 10-25k/s on EDGE networks). It is quick easy to do in windows (I will be posting an article on this soon too.) and from what I hear works even better over the USB cable.
I found a great article about bluetooth tethering a device in OS X and think it might be useful for many others out there. It works on my Qtek 9100 and OS X 10.4.5. You’ll have to change the username and password for your network provider. If you have a working phone #, username and password feel free to comment here and I’ll add it to the post for others to use on that network.
So far, this is the login info for the following carriers:
Cingular:
Account Name: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password: CINGULAR1
Enter 99# as the phone number. I also hear *99**# might work.
T-Mobile Thanks to tim from www.timaldridge.com:
Account: *
Password: *
Use *99# as the telephone number.
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Posted on March 6, 2006
Filed Under Daily Thoughts, Mobile Tech, Productivity, Tech
Web Analytics, Marketing and Design … Oh my!
Posted on March 5, 2006
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I rant about this, talk about that and occasionally give a few news updates on a weekly basis. But I’ve found that I don’t talk as much as I’d like to about the things that drive me and that I focus on right now in my business.
I work daily as knowledgable web “professional” (I love that phrase) doing the daily dew of web design, web marketing, web analytics, hosting and search engine optimization. So I thought it would be nice to include my daily thoughts, knowledge and secrets (well not all of them of course…) in my blog as some might find that just as valuable as over-hyped Apple rumors.
So stay tuned and keep posted as you’re going to see alot more out of these 5 new categories in the future.
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Posted on March 5, 2006
Filed Under Analytics, Business, Daily Thoughts, Design, Hosting, Marketing, SEO, Tech, Web
Blackberry case finally settled
Posted on March 4, 2006
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As seen on MSNBC, a settlement has been reached in the NTP vs RIM case. The settlement was reached for a cool 612.5 million dollars.
“RIM has paid NTP $612.5 million in a “full and final settlement of all claims,” the companies said.”
“full and final settlement of all claims”. Lets hope that means no more future claims as well, that may be pocket change to a company as big as RIM, but for a few patent infringements that is still a nice chunck of money. And as I remember it, the original settlement figure NTP asked for before all this mess was in the range of 150 Million if I recall correctly.
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Posted on March 4, 2006
Filed Under Business, Daily Thoughts, Hardware, Mobile Tech, Tech
Achieve 3840 x 1024 Screen Res with Matrox’s TripleHead2Go
Posted on March 4, 2006
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Matrox has a new device called TripleHead2Go, which lets you link 3×19” monitors to attain 3840×1024 ultra-widescreen resolution to your single input device. I especially see this as a great choice for laptop users as well. The specs require Windows 2k or XP and supporting display drivers. I would have really loved to try this on my powerbook though.
“TripleHead2Go is not a graphics card but an external box that harnesses your system’s existing graphics solution (including SLI™) for rendering of all 2D, 3D and video, and adds multi-monitor support. TripleHead2Go appears to your system as an ultra-widescreen 3840×1024* monitor and simply connects to your computer via a standard analog VGA monitor cable. Using Matrox patent-pending technology, TripleHead2Go then splits the 3840×1024 Microsoft® Windows® desktop into three separate 1280×1024 screens of information, and displays across three independent 1280×1024 monitors. There is no image distortion and no scaling to the original raw pixels generated from the existing graphics accelerator.”
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Posted on March 4, 2006
Filed Under Daily Thoughts, Hardware, Productivity, Tech
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