Awesome, Ben. Thanks! And I'm happy that many of your answers are the "right" answers IMO. Some followup...
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Originally Posted by bcombee
Here's some answers I can give right now.
How do I transfer a file from Foleo to Treo? SD card? BT?
At the moment, SD card and USB thumb drives are the best bet. However, our third party Avvenue has a nice service that lets you get access to files on your PC or Mac over the web. The Bluetooth connection is currently only used to talk to your paired phone. |
To clarify, I was asking about transferring files betwewen Foleo & phone and from your answer it's clear I can do that with an SD card. I was also wondering, is it possible to use the File Manager or whatever to transfer files between Foleo and phone over Bluetooth? Clearly the syncing apps can do it; I was wondering if the user can do it manually for arbitrary files.
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Originally Posted by bcombee
How easy to manage multiple network configurations: WEP on/off, proxies, etc.
WiFi supports multiple profiles based on the network SSID, and each has its own security and networking settings. However, at this time there is only one proxy setting in the web browser, so you'll have to adjust it based on your network connection. I've suggested connection-specific proxy settings as a feature for future software updates.
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Great, this is a good start. But let me get on my soap box. I would like to further suggest two things.
First...that the proxy setting be centralized somewhere so that I can change it in
one system-wide preference panel and
all internet-enabled apps (and there will be more eventually, right?
will be updated, provided they are written to access that system-wide setting. Many Windows XP apps seem to do this pretty well from IE's "Internet Options" window, though I'm sure you can do it more elegantly.
Second...I understand where you're coming from when you talk about setting the proxy based on the network connection, but Palm could take the lead here if you recognize that that's not really sufficient. Classic case is when I'm at home using my WiFi, I configure the network connection with a "home" profile: WiFi SSID, security, etc. When I then VPN into work though I need to configure some more stuff for the work network: proxy, DNS, etc. But when I'm not VPNed in, I need to change some of those to "home": no proxy, different DNS, printer, etc. The point is I have
one network access profile--"home"--but
two destination profiles--"work" and "home".
So what I really want is an elegant way to manage this two-dimensional matrix of "where I'm connecting
from" (home, Starbucks, Treo DUN, etc.) by "where I'm connecting
to" (direct connection, work, League of Superheroes LAN...oops, did I say that?).
Today on my laptop I have faked this matrix by creating a bunch of network location profiles with names like:
"direct @ home"
"direct @ library"
"work @ home"
"work @ library"
"work @ work"
...
My location manager does what you propose. When it detects I'm at the library, it automatically picks one of my two "library" profiles but guess what...half the time it's not the one I want and I have to manually switch it. That's not terrible, but you see what I mean it's not really solving the problem. The real nightmare is if work changes their proxy server or some other setting, I need to change all my "work" profiles, and there are many. So...very...many...[shudder!]
So what I really want is a network configuration manager with two pull-down menus: "from" and "to". It can automatically set the "from" based on the wireless SSID or whatever, and I can manually select the "to" myself, or get slick and let the VPN dialer set the "to." The win is I'm only entering the proxy info once per "to" entry, instead of the redundant nightmare I have today.
Okay, off the soapbox now. Boy are my feet clean. Thanks for reading.