John Ó'Ríordáns Blog

When I’m at work I don’t want to be using my Mobile Data Connection to download content onto my android phone. I had a look to see how I could easily share my laptops network connection with my phone. I came across a very useful piece of software called VirtualRouter. It takes care of everything for you. It bridges your network connections, installs a small DHCP Server and creates an ad-hoc wireless network for your phone to connect to.

Now I can browse the market, read emails, and check my social networking sites from my phone, at work for free!

Currently this software only works with Windows 7. If you want to do this for older Windows Operating Systems you can set up an ad-hoc network manually by following these steps. If you want to use Ubuntu you can follow these steps.

I’ve been doing a couple of sites for a Friend of mine who also happens to be my MMA instructor. RebelMMA and KenHealyFitness. They aren’t so much blogs as advertising websites. As a result I wanted to make the static pages jump out, whereas the blogging function should be hidden a little further into the site. I still wanted to use WordPress though as it’s already running on my server. So I had a dig around and found it was actually easy to move the blog away from the front page. Now on those sites when you vist them you get a static front page and you have to navigate to the blog.

Check out the steps on the WordPress site.