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Looking at Tasker, it seems it supports Locale plugins. That's pretty nifty. But since I've bought Locale for both my phone and my tablet, I'll stick with that for now for both devices. Until I find something it can't do that's very important.
Something I bet Tasker can do, and I haven't worked out if Locale is doing out of the box, is identifying a setting by WIFI network. I mean, GPS and cell towers get you so far (like to my office building), but the only way to tell my office from the cafe (11th floor vs 1st) is that their networks have different SSIDs. Locale has a "Train" option that lets you select an SSID, but documentation is for shit, and I have no idea what that actually does.
Tasker can indeed do that. It can find locations by wireless points it is near or connected to. The calendar setting worked perfectly, by the way.
I found the help page for Locale, and it does "train" by narrowing it down by WIFI access points. I need to test tomorrow to see if it can tell the floors of my work building apart.
Now I'm sifting through plugins, seeing what I haven't thought of doing yet...
I have found a USB device in my house that confuses me. It has two cables that branch off the main cable at one end, one with a USB plug and the other with an audio jack. At the other end is a 3-port USB hub and a cylindrical bit that rotates to a 90-degree angle from the plane of the hub. Hubby things the rotating bit may be a microphone. There are no words on the device that I can Google. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I plugged it into my computer and it was IDed as a generic USB hub. So, bonus, a new hub, but I'm curious as to the rest of it.
alien technology, Connie.
do you have strange fillings?
there was that root canal a year ago . . .
Connie, is it this? [link]
Yes, that's it exactly! Thank you!
and it's only compatible up to XP, which may be why it didn't work on my 64-bit Win7 system.
What an odd thing to find just laying around.
Compared to some of the stuff the rest of us having kicking around? NSM
