I had a dilemma. My wireless mouse was out of juice, and there were still things I needed to do on the computer. What’s a girl to do? Then I remembered I had Gmote installed. Usually, I only find a need for Gmote when I’m elsewhere in the apartment and too lazy don’t want to get up from where I am, but I recognized how the app could fit my current need. So I fired up Gmote and started using my phone’s touchscreen as a one-button mouse, and went back to my computer activities.
Have any of you found yourselves in a similar or otherwise unique situation? Let’s hear some times you guys got creative with your Android to solve a problem.
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i was laying in bed watching netflix on my pc across the room and need to go to the next episode of king of the hill. I was too lazy to get out of my bunk bed and change it so phonemypc to the rescue!
android comes to the rescue all the time for me whenever im out and need internet on my laptop or tablet…thank god for wif-tethering =’)
I was driving down the street and got a text message from my realtor telling me to fax over the receipt for a wire transfer. I pulled over to the side of the road and
mobile fax to do rescue
My sister had forgotten a paper that was due that day on the way to school, so I pulled it up on my phone from her GDocs account, downloaded it, and used Printershare to send it over the campus wifi to a printer on her way to class for her.
Not the only time Android’s been a good emergency ender, either–just the most recent.
Phonemypc – all day, every day.
Forgot to email myself a copy of a word/excel doc?
phonemypc to computer, email or dropbox, pull up on phone.
want to interrupt my roomate’s hot date at the apt?
phonemypc, youporn.com, turn volume up.
atdhe.net showing a hockey game that requires a plugin for IE only so i cant watch it on my phones browser?
phonemypc, open IE, watch hockey game while driving.
the possibilities are endless…
I had to email a project I completed for a client (huge image files required for a large print flyer) and the internet was going ridiculously slow (3KB/s on a cable connection that normally tops out between 1.5 and 2megabytes/s…there were issues) so I tethered my phone to the PC i was using and it saved the day…
One weekend i forgot my keys to the company building at home 80 miles away.
VPN from my droid into the company network -> SSH onto our Serial Server -> Open serial to alarm system -> deactivate alarm and open door
Saved me 2 hours of additional driving for half an hour of work.
That sir, is exceptionally awesome!
Oh so many
WiFi tethered for church soundroom when the internet went out
emergency flash drive to transfer files of course
Downloaded my notes midday before school started
Found a website to study from a period before class ended