Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/17
Last time when I was in the USA, I got myself a new T-Mobile USA SIM card with a local phone number so I could call and have data.
There are a few pre-paid T-Mobile USA plans interesting, depending on how long you visit the USA:
Voice+Text+Data:
- Pay by the day USD 3/day for Unlimited Talk/Text/Data with the first 200 megabyte of data at 4G speed and the rest at 2G speed.
- Pay by the day USD 2/day for Unlimited Talk/Text/Data with the data at 2G speed. 2G speed is maxed at 128 kilobit/second.
- USD 50/month for 0.5 gigabyte of high-speed data and the rest at 2G speed. (works better for > 25 days of USD2/day).
- USD 60/month for 2.5 gigabyte of high-speed data and the rest at 2G speed. (works better for > 20 days of USD3/day).
- USD 70/month for unlimited high-speed data. (works better for > 23 days of USD2/day)
Data only:
- 0.5/1.0/2.5 gigabyte per day for USD 10/15/30.
- 0.5/2.5/4.5/6.5/8.5/10.5/12.5 gigabyte per month for USD 20/30/40/50/60/70/80.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/17
I forgot who brought this up in one of my circles a while ago, but this is fun:
An island in a lake, inside an island, inside another lake inside an island inside the ocean.
From the outside in:
- Sea (South Chinese Sea/Philippine Sea/Pacific Ocean)
- Luzon island of the Philippines
- Taal Lake
- Volcano Island
- Main Crater Lake
- Vulcan Point Island
Isn’t the earth a magnificent planet (:
–jeroen
via: Taal Lake – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/14
Great music. Still a few hours left: Why De La Soul Is Giving Away All of Its Music for Free – Businessweek.
De La Soul is Giving Away Every Single Album of Theirs for Free for 25 Hours [Not Android, Still Awesome] | Droid Life:
All you are required to do is sign-up on their mailing list. They will then send you an email with links to download each album individually. Afterwards, you can unsubscribe if you’d like.
De La Soul Site.
Be sure to read the comments at De La Soul to Make Entire Catalog Available for Free | Hacker News, as there are various reasons they published it this way.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/12
UX fail: None of the buttons on the window will resize the Control Panel.
Which means that the height is only one third of my screen height and makes it impossible to follow the Q&A stream.
This is with the latest GoToWebinar 6.0 Viewer, which is worse than the 5.4.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/31
Yes, I’m a font addict (:
K-Type Independent Type Foundry » Freebies.
Most of their fonts have at least one style that is a Freebie for non-commercial use too, a great way to experiment with some of their fonts: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/27
A few links so I won’t forget them; I own the first since 2010, the others look interesting too.
- Wireless 3G-N1 Broadband Router
– sold under various brands: DealExtreme, 7links (through Amazon.DE), Monoprice (through Amazon.COM)
– Connects to LAN then broadcasts as router or Access Point to WiFi SSID
– Connects to WiFi then forwards to LAN
– Connects to 3G USB stick then broadcasts as routes through LAN and WiFi SSD
– Make sure you configure through LAN, as that is more stable than configuring through WiFi
– PDF Manual
– downloads
- Eminent EM4610 WiFi Travel Reader especially for your Apple Devices – Eminent.
– Powered by battery, charged through micro USB
– Connects to WiFi then broadcasts as router on a separate WiFi SSID
– Connects to LAN, then broadcasts as router on a WiFi SSID
– Battery powered (charge through Micro USB)
– Connect USB storage stick or SD card for storage
– Dutch review at Deel je betaalde WiFi met al je gadgets – Lifehacking.
– PDF Manual
- TP-Link TL-WR702N 150Mbps Wireless N Nano Router 802.11b/g/n
– sold for instance through Amazon.COM and Amazon.DE and from China.
– Supports AP, Router, Client, Bridge and Repeater operation modes
– PDF Manual
– downloads
- The WR-703N can be had for uner USD 25 (cheaper than Raspberry Pi and about as fast) and runs OpenWRT nicely.
- TP-Link TL-MR3020 Portable 3G/3.75G Wireless-LAN Router
– sold for instance through Amazon.COM and Amazon.DE
– Supports 3G Router, Travel Router (AP), WISP Client Router, Supports AP, Router, Client, Bridge and Repeater operation modes
– interesting mod: Sebastian Mauer – Google+ – Finished my little #WeekendProject The result is a TP-Link MR3020….
– PDF Manual
– downloads
- TP-Link MR13U.
- TP-Link TL-MR10U.
- TP-Link MR11U.
- Has a 1000 mAh battery!
- Does 150 megabit max speed
- Could not find a really cheap one.
- TP-Link MR12U.
- TP-Link MR3040.
–jeroen
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