How to Configure Nexus One for 3G
This from Dickson Seow, head of corporate communications at Google Southeast Asia, in response to media reports about 3G connectivity issues with the Nexus One.
For Singapore owners: For SingTel customers, the Nexus One should auto-connect to their 3G network. For Starhub and M1 customers, they will need to enter in their APN settings to connect to their 3G network.
1. Go to Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names.
2. Hit Menu button, create new APN.
3. Enter new APN settings. See below for the details.
4. Hit Menu button, save settings.
5. Select the new APN name, then hit the home button. Your 3G connection will shortly appear in the top bar.
If users can’t find the answers they need, they can call the HTC Support line in Singapore at 1-800-238-7788 from 8am-8pm, Monday to Saturday. HTC is providing local support and repair services for Nexus One.
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For Starhub customers:
- name: Starhub Internet
- APN: shwapint
- username: [leave blank]
- password: [leave blank]
For M1 customers:
- name: M1 Internet
- APN: sunsurf
- username: 65
- password: user123
And in case it is not working for SingTel customers:
- name: SingTel Internet
- APN: internet
- username: 65IDEAS (or blank)
- password: IDEAS (or blank)
Google Talk Shortcuts
Google Talk is one of my favorite applications: it’s light, unobtrusive and you can store your old conversations in Gmail. But I realised I wasn’t using it as well as I could, so I looked for some keyboard shortcuts. Here’s a few:
Text
CTRL + R Right align text
CTRL + E Center align text
CTRL + L Left align text
Spacing
CTRL + 1 For single spaced lines
CTRL + 2 For double spaced lines
CTRL + 5 For 1.5 spaced lines
Function keys
F9 Send an email to the contact you’re chatting with
F11 Start a voice chat with the contact
F12 Cancel the current call
Other
ESC Close the current window
ALT + ESC Close all Google Talk windows
WINDOWS + Esc Open Google Talk if minimized, or behind other windows
Tab/CTRL+Tab/Ctrl+i Cycle through open windows
Shift+Tab Cycle backwards through open windows
Sources
Google Talk keyboard shortcuts
Shortcuts from Customize Talk
PersonalBrain: Refreshing Your Icons
(For users of PersonalBrain only.)
I find the icons for websites (favicons, to be precise) very useful for making thoughts stand out:
But sometimes PersonalBrain either doesn’t get them or forgets them, defaulting back to the boring standard icon:
It took me way too long to figure this out, but you can easily refresh the stored icon.
Make the thought you want to refresh the active one.
Open the properties tab or right click on the thought and select Properties and Attachments:
Right click on the link and select Refresh URL icon:
You should see the old icon change to the website’s one:
How to Geotag Your Tweets
Twitter has just announced release of its API to enable geotagging. This means that you can allow people to see where your tweets were tweeted from—and to see where others are tweeting from. Twitter says
The added information provides valuable context when reading your friends tweets and allows you to better focus in on local conversations. Now you can find out what live music is playing right now in your neighborhood or what people visiting Checkpoint Charlie are saying today about the anniversary of the Berlin Wall.
In other words, it should make geographical dicing of the twitter torrent easier.
Geotagging is turned off by default. To turn it on, go to your settings page and look for the location section:
Check the enable geotagging box:
(To delete such data in the future, click on the button below it.)
To see it in action, check out one of the applications that has already built this functionality in. (Twitter lists Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid, Twittelator Pro as among those which have.)
If someone has it enabled, you’ll see it on Seesmic web as a small beacon. Mouse over it and a map will pop up:
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