Tethering HTC Hero With Android 2.1

 

After upgrading my HTC Hero to Android 2.1 recently, one of my first thoughts concerned tethering. Would it still be possible and would it still be easy? Being able to connect to the Internet no matter where you are is very convenient and it was a feature I was hoping would remain.
It did and if anything, using it now is even easier now than what it was on Android 1.5. Below are the steps:

1. Plug in the USB cable into the computer and into the phone.
2. Select "Internet Sharing" and hit "Done" as shown below: 

That's it. Your computer should, assuming it has no driver problems, be able to recognize that your phone is a modem and you should be able to connect to the Internet that way.

Thank you Google for making this so easy and thank you ACS for not blocking this functionality.

Please note: the above is true for HTC Hero's from ACS in Alaska. It should hold true for other 2.1 devices as well.

2Tall Tales Is Moving

After several years of entertaining on Blogger, I've decided to move the blog and give it a proper domain and a slight "name lift." Going forward, 2Tall Tales will be known as Tall Tech Tales and will be located at :

http://www.talltechtales.com

All entries from here have been transferred but until the search engines catch up, I'll be posting in both places.

The new blog is powered by Wordpress and gives me more flexibility to do what I want and as a result, I hope it will turn into a better blog.

So, if you enjoy my entries, whether they are about TV shows, Android or Ubuntu, head on over to the new spot.

I'll see you there!

LeBron James and Twitter

I guess it was just a matter of time before LeBron would appear on Twitter. With his free-agent status and so many rumors flying around about this man, I'm frankly surprised he hasn't joined the band wagon already. After all, there are plenty of other people that I'd say are less famous that have more followers than LeBron.

Of course, that may be about to change.

When I first laid my eyes on LeBron's Twitter account, it had about 80,000 followers and was not yet confirmed as his official Twitter account. That was about 10am yesterday, July 6th. At about 1pm, the account was up over 120,000 and now, at about 9pm on the 7th, he has almost 284,000 followers.

He has stated that he'll make an announcement on live television on Thursday but one can't help but wonder what the role of this Twitter account is. I suspect that by tomorrow, the amount of followers could be 350,000 or 400,000 at least. That's almost half a million fans (or not) that are watching for any news beyond what will be on TV. Really, if LeBron plays it smart, he should keep hyping the account and increase traffic to his own site as well.

So, King James may have been slow jumping into the tweeting but as far as followers goes, he's quickly joining the popular crowd. Time will tell whether he'll actually keep tweeting anything interesting or if it was just a publicity stunt.
Links:

 

• http://www.lebronjames.com
• http://www.twitter.com/kingjames