On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Stephen Irons <[email protected]>wrote:
> Some one on Trademe is selling little Bluetooth adapters for $10 + $2 > postage [1]. It is the size of the tip of my thumb. Just right for plugging > into one of the USB holes of your netbook. > > I bought one. Plugged it in. It Just Worked. > > Up popped the little Bluetooth icon on my Gnome panel. Discovered my phone. > Paired and set as 'trusted'. Browsed files on phone from PC. Sent file from > PC to phone. > > Bluetooth seems to have come a long way recently. > > Unfortunately, I cannot yet send files from phone to PC. You need to > install 'gnome-user-share' which also brings in Apache (so that you can > share files using webdav). It is a known packaging problem, and I can't > bring myself to do it on my laptop. > > Stephen Irons I have a similar one, but the bloody thing is so small I can't now find it (doesn't help that I have moved house 3 times in just over a year).
