i should be working (but i'm fixing my computer).

because I have been saving up the aggravation.

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1. Droid3 is still wonderful, though I just discovered (a) Verizon released a 4g lte Samsung phone with a keyboard minutes after I got the Droid3; and (b) Droid4 is almost here ... as in rumored to have been at Best Buy around Dec. 22, but now pushed back to Feb. or so?  What to do ... I need to take advantage of the (allegedly) 10x better speed.  But, I love the Droid3.   And either way, it is going to cost $$$.  Do I have to succumb to spending $100/mo. on cell phone hardware???

2. Droid3 does occasionally have its issues.  As in, disappearing apps and ringtone music.  Which has something to do with the USB / memory management apparently.  And, foolish me, I moved most of my apps to media storage, which then have a way of disappearing.  And/or coming back again.  Yikes!  Besides, I do not understand the file storage management.  There is 11gb onboard and then my silly-small 4gb add-on card that is rather pointless in context but I pulled it from my blackberry.  It's completely unclear what is what, as I only have 1.5 gb available for Apps, but 11gb available for storage, not to mention 3.5gb on the add-on card.  Ok, so I don't get it.

3. Disappearing apps lead me to AppBrain, which allows syncing Apps to a social-networking style webpage.  Which makes loading apps onto the Droid3 when sitting at the console computer super-duper easy and also helps bypass nonsense Market restrictions/issues.  Cool.

4. Now, to change the subject ... dynamic DNS.  Ok, I gave up and paid dyndns the $20 for an annual "pro" account.  Worth it just to avoid the nag of having to login every 30 days and in addition they have made it more restrictive/difficult to get a free account up and running.  As in, you can barely understand how to do it ... you have to give up a credit card, get a 30 day free trial ... and then at expiration you apparently can keep one domain name.  I give up.

And anyway, it's a pretty flawless service.  There are some other free ones, but dyndns works with my linksys router so I don't have to worry about updating the IP.  So, while I am on the subject, I discovered a pretty good trick that probably everyone else already knew.  I have my main access on an https connection with a specified open port.  Extra security! (Yeah, right).  But in any event, that makes it difficult to give out the link as necessary because it is https://blahblahblah.dyndns-something.com:XXXXXX.  Most people look at a link like that and immediately go back to playing Angry Birds.  But here's the deal: once you set up a link from that address to your dynamic IP, THEN you can set up a Web ... (oops, forgot what they call it) link that is "simple" -- such as abc.easydyn.com, refer it to https://blahblahblah.dyndns-something.com:XXXXXX and "those who need to" can arrive at your secured front door with a much easier link.  Which is alot easier for me, also, because I can remember it and can skip typing the http://, port address, etc.  I can report that it has always worked "very fast" for me.  As in, I don't see any difference between accessing the computer I am presently typing on and accessing my ISP pages where this is being input.

Well, I do see a difference.  Access across the internet to my own computer is often way faster as my ISP has been presenting me with throttling issues, especially on the mysql database.  On which this blog runs, actually.