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USB tethering a Samsung Vibrant with MAC OS X and T-Mobile

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

I would suggest you get an unlimited data plan with T-mobile.

*** Note: You have to have USB debugging enabled to get MacOS X to prompt setting up the vibrant as a USB modem. Not having this enabled didn’t work.***

1. Connect your Vibrant to your Mac with the USB cable.

2. MacOS should prompt you saying that there is a device connected and not set up. If it does not, click on the Apple Menu, select system preferences. Select the Network pane.

3. The device should have been named as SAMSUNG_Android. Select it.

4. Start with the advanced options. Click the button that says ‘Advanced.’

5. Under the Modem tab, use these options:

Model: Samsung

Model: GPRS (GSM/3G)

APN: epc.tmobile.com

CID: 1

6. Leave the DNS, WINS, and Proxies tabs alone

7. Under the PPP tab, ‘TCP Compression’ has to be checked.

8. Click ‘OK’ and return to the Network Pane.

9. I used these settings for the SAMSUNG_Android configuration.

Telephone Number: *99#

Account Name: username

Password: password

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Add an image or text on top of a one page PDF

Monday, January 17th, 2011

First, scan your signature and save it as a decent-quality image (.gif works, as does .jpg and .png). Keep this image for any future need. Second, open a word processor (MS Word and Pages both work) and create a new document. Drag the PDF into the document, and it will come up as a smaller document, with adjustment handles. Under ‘wrapping’ in the formatting palette, make sure the document is in the background, or floating (not Inline). Then, adjust the size of the image so that it exactly fits on the page (it’s easier to do this if you reduce the page window to less than 100%).

Once you have the PDF in the background and sized appropriately, you can place images or text boxes wherever you like. Then, simply Print to PDF, and you’ll have the merged PDF. The PDF text will remain selectable and the PDF size should not change appreciably (depending on the extras you add).

If you want to do this to a multi-page PDF, it is more time consuming, but doable: first ‘Print to PDF’ the page you want to change as a single page PDF, and then follow the instructions above. Finally, merge the new PDF page with the old document by either printing the other pages as two separate documents and then using Preview (as in this hint), or by using a PDF Merge application such as PDFMergeX (now PDFGarden) or other freeware.

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