cold dead raw fish (CDRF)

Larger Fonts for Android, Text Messenging SMS, No "rooting" required

The Droid 2 keyboard and Android OS 2.2 "Froyo" is very nice, but still help in the fonts department. And before you iPhone folks chime in, the fonts on the iPhone SMS look about the same, though I'm not sure if they can be changed.

Anyway, you can't tweak the default SMS application. And the "magnifier" on Adroid is silly / useless imho.

However, there is a REPLACEMENT SMS client for Droid that DOES let you adjust fonts, and it's FREE!

ChompSMS / Chomp SMS

http://www.chompsms.com

Long story, but no rooting required. It talks about "font packs", but you probably have some on your phone already. Even the System Font can be increased in size, and also you can have it render as Bold.You have to let it search for all the fonts in your phone at least once; it will find the built in System fonts, among others.

You can also adjust the text color and background color.

Oh, it can also be set to REPEAT the text message alert, including a few different vibrate patterns. And you can put it's icon on your desktop screen.

I just wanted to get the word out for folks with poor vision, or heck, who aren't 20 years old with aparently 20/10 vision.

 

10 Ways to Network 2 Computers Together (Answer to Stacey's question)

Answered this for a friend, thought I'd post it here, I was suprised there were 10.  BTW, some of these are very lame, I'm not suggesting that they are all practical.  This is for TWO computers; if you have more than 2, or if you also want to get to the Internet, things change and some of the options fall out.

- - to Stacey - -

1: Network port to network port, with a SPECIAL cable, a "cross-over Ethernet cable", *usually* red or orange, but color is no guarantee of wiring  (special cable not needed on VERY new computers with Gigabit, but I doubt you have that)

2: Network port to network port with 2 regular Ethernet cables and a hub or switch (a box)

3: Wifi to Wifi in "peer" mode, but does not use security/encryption. Extreme Nerds could also setup a non-peer client-server mode, which would be secure, but beyond my normal realm of nerdy-ness.

4: USB to USB with a SPECIAL cable, has the same USB plug on both ends AND a small fat oval plastic puck in the middle of the cable, this is sometimes called a "USB laplink cable" or a "USB to USB networking cable

5: Firewire to Firewire with a **generic** Firewire cable.  If you have a cable with the proper plugs that will plug into both PCs (or pc and mac) it will probably work

Oh and what the heck....

6: On old computers, you could use a null-modem SERIAL cable (RS232 null modem / patch cable / cross over cable)

7: If you have 2 phone lines, you can go modem to modem

8: If both laptops have an IR port (infrared port), you can sometimes network that way.

9: You may be able use Bluetooth to bluetooth, though I haven't done that

10: And of course "sneaker net", with CDs, floppies, or a USB Thumb Drive