Mobile Savages
Anybody had any luck using a cell phone to connect a laptop to the Internet? Specifically, a Mac, using Cingular? I just found this software, Mobile High Speed For Mac OS, via Nova Media. Sounds pretty good. Before, Cingular insisted that it was simple to connect using a Sony-Erriccson t68i and WAP. WRONG! I don't know a single person who's tried that who's had success. And my boyfriend, who put this blog and a number of Web sites together, and could build his own computer out of a plastic fork and two rubber bands and a few other household elements, spent several painful hours on the phone with Cingular's tech "support" people, and we both concluded afterward that the notion you could use a Cingular phone to connect to the 'net was a baldfaced lie! PS Apparently, the Wifi card for my Palm Tungsten T2 will be out by November. Ish. You know how solid those tech release predictions are. Or you don't -- which makes you one of the lucky Luddites, now doesn't it?
Try looking at
http://homepage.mac.com/jrc/contrib/tzones/
Leave another comment if it doesn't work, and I'll try to come up with something else.
Howard at June 15, 2004 3:48 PM
Your boyfriend and mine should meet. He's the rubber-bands techie-type too. I love it cause he does everything complicated for me while I just look helpless and watch.
Wendy at June 16, 2004 3:57 PM