Archive for the ‘Android’ tag
Tethering the Google G1 — at last!
Wow, I have wanted this for such a long time and I finally found out how to do it today. In fact I have posted this entry whilst on the bus using my Android phone’s 3G capabilities with my laptop connected by USB.
And you don’t have to have root access!
OK, so how does it work. There’s two parts. One on the PC (or Mac…) and one on the phone. The phone bit is easy thanks to the man behind Proxoid a proxy App for Android. It’s free and available in the Marketplace. Also it’s a tiny download and has almost zero configuration! The PC bit requires the Android SDK, which is a free download from Google. Here are the instructions:
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UPnP Wizardry
You may notice an Xbox360 related theme in my current posts, as after getting one, most of my technology thought process is involved in something to do with it. Hence the Xbox Live Gamercard API I wrote about before. Now we get on to UPnP.
Universal Plug and Play is used for 2 mains things as far as I can tell.
- Dynamically opening holes in firewalls/NAT configurations for inbound connections to services. (bad!
- Media Discover/playback/control on a local network. (good!)
The first is bad in my opinion. I don’t want the ability for some software behind my firewall to allow connections into my network. It might make some software function a little more smoothly, but if it’s that important that connections can be made inbound I would have set up a port-forward myself.
So I am only concerned with the second scenario.