MDD - BLOG: gennaio 2012

USB Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer III makes leaving your basement apartment even less appealing:

"Get up and go" is for the birds, man. But in the off-chance that your PC, home entertainment system and various gaming consoles weren't enough to keep you inside for days at a time, check out the upgraded version of Brando's USB Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer. The third iteration of the temperature gauging device gives you the sort of accuracy you just can't get from TV and internet forecasts. The thermometer can give you instant readings without having to install extra software -- you just hold down the caps and number lock keys and it will copy the current temperate to your clipboard. It can also send you the temperature via text message, for those times when you can't be bothered to start up the computer. The price of such glorious slothfulness? A mere $32, American.

USB Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer III makes leaving your basement apartment even less appealing originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ClockworkMod Tether serves free Android USB tethering, no root required:

Not content to provide us with ClockworkMod Recovery and other fine hacks, Koush just made a free USB tethering app available for Android aptly called ClockworkMod Tether Alpha. While it’s not the first app to bypass paid tethering plans, it supports unrooted phones and works with Linux, Mac and Windows computers. Just enable USB debugging on your phone, download the appropriate installer for your desktop OS of choice, then connect both devices via USB and you’re all set. The installation process creates a virtual network adapter on your computer and pushes a matching APK to your phone. A proxy is used to avoid detection by the carriers.

We tested the app on a late-model MacBook Air running OS X Lion and an AT&T-branded Samsung Captivate Glide — along with a couple other handsets — without much success (as documented in the screenshot above). Then again, based on the discussions following Koush’s Google+ post (source link below), the app appears to work for many folks and continues being tweaked on an hourly basis. Clearly your mileage will vary, but let us know in the comments how it’s working out if you’ve installed the app.

ClockworkMod Tether serves free Android USB tethering, no root required originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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