Windows 7’s Mobile Broadband enhancements give people a more reliable way to connect to the Internet using a wireless modem. Taking advantage of this feature is just like connecting to any other wireless network, and is done using the View Available Networks feature.
This week there have been some questions around the use of mobile broadband with Windows 7, so I’ve started searching the web for information. and came across the Mobile Broadband Team Blog.
If you plan to to use Windows 7 and mobile broadband, I strongly recommend having a look at the various posts on this blog. The blog contains detailed lists of devices that work and don’t work on both Windows 7 32 and 64 bit. You can also download this whitepaper which contains a lot of useful information.
When I checked my Twitter messages today, I came across a message about LiveAndroid. LiveAndroid allows you to run Google’s Android operating system that is used on mobile phones on a x86 platform.
First you need to download the LiveAndroid ISO files. liveandroidv0.2.iso.002 and liveandroidv0.2.iso.001 The ISO file has been splitted due to maximum upload size restrictions. Once you have downloaded both files, run HJ-Split to merge the two files into one ISO file.
Now you can continue setting up a Virtual Machine. Android is based on the Linux kernel 2.6 so that is what I selected during the Virtual Machine Setup. As a hard disk type i used IDE and assigned 256 MB RAM. I tried with less memory before, but got strange results like not having a mouse pointer etc.
Once you have completed the virtual machine configuration, you simply boot the guest OS from the liveandroidv0.2.iso file.
Boot Screen
Desktop (or whatever it’s called)
Menu
Anything about IT mobile page (launched in Android embedded browser)
You can always return to the main desktop by pressing the ESC key.
It’s been in May this year that i first wrote about Microsoft Live Mesh, later in July I was able to get it installed and since then i have been using it on a regular basis.
Not that there is anything new in remote controlling a PC and sharing documents, but it is the simplicity how it is done and how it can be used.
Once you have added your clients to live mesh, you can remotely access them from anywhere where you have Internet access and the necessary permissions to install an ActiveX control. Note that you can also access your mesh clients from a PC that is not part of your mesh network, you just need to logon on mesh.com
All clients that are part of your mesh network have the Live Mesh Agent installed, this then adds an additional tray icon to your windows taskbar which allow you to directly access any live mesh devices, folders and the desktop.
Performance is quite ok and allows reasonable remote working, but i recommend to configure the Windows Vista Desktop to Vista Basic or Windows Basic, this will prevent the annoying screen painting effect.
Another great feature is the Live Mesh Desktop. Here you can create folders that if needed can be replicated across all your clients that are part of your mesh network. I personally use this feature often to simply move a file from one client to another, or I drop a document in there I want to continue reading on my home PC.
At present a limited tech preview is also available for Mac clients and the CTP for Mobile devices has just been expanded as well. In general I am rather sceptic about the whole Cloud hype, but Live Mesh is definitely a cool innovation that we will most likely will hear and see more about in the near future.
The task for this Saturday was to remote control my mobile phone. After a short search on the web I found MyMobileR
The first good ting about this application is that it is FREE ! Second it’s easy to install, within seconds i could remotely manage my mobile phone.
Using this application allowed me to perform an e-mail account configuration in just a minute, because you can use your PC keyboard to enter data, and that is a bit more convenient than typing on a mobile phone.
