Menoxploratory; well isn't this exciting?

I am starting this post from the YAMroid!!! First time ever trying this. You'd think it would be the same as from Voovoo the Vaio, but no. Android operations make things quite different. The main thing is that one cannot simply open up every page one wishes to access on the one screen. Blogger is one task, but the tubular is another and mail is another. Having to close screens to go between them is annoying.

Anyway. Am not going to ramble at this point. I just want to experiment now with uploading an image - which has also been processed entirely through my new set up, of which more after this... it took me 87 hours quite several minutes to work out how to access it. Turns out the gallery is hidden behind the option of 'documents'. Sigh.

My office chair with the addition of the COOshun, a gift from Mac2.
Notice all the cabling going on behind...

Now, I notice that this has used up quite a bit of YAMroid's juice, so I need to get a lot more clever and quicker if I intend to do any posting from OZ... that's what this is all about you see...

Random pic from YAMroid's gallery.
Really look like I know what I'm doing, right?

You will recall I lamented not having Voovoo with me on the last visit to the father (or maybe you don't, who cares, right?). I am hopeless at tapping the screen keyboard and the whole 'one at a time' opening and shutting of blog pages makes my morning rounds twice as long and something of a chore rather than the fun it oughtta be.
Therefore, as am planning to travel with only the YAMroid to the Great Down Underparts, and it is for two months, I needed desperately to think outside the 7"x4" and that is when I remembered I had the little Bluetooth keyboard (11"x4.5"). It works a treat for typing at least, so emails and comments should be less of a trial.

The thing was, though, I thought it would be nice to have a mouse, too. I could have ordered a whole new Bluetooth unit for that but was stopped in my tracks when thinking that if I wanted to post pictures from the Hisstix I also had to do something different for that... it was all getting a bit overwhelming...

(This next bit is being prepared on Voovoo as the YAMroid gasped...) A card-reader with micro USB would be necessary, a converter for USB to micro USB would be necessary, the possibility of plugging in a second USB was starting to show up as necessary. I just didn't want all those extra little bits of equipment. I'm getting absent-minded remember!

Enter the Inateck Hub.

YAMroid sits on Voovoo's lovely blue textures whilst it goes into training...

Unbeleiva-hub-le. A little black pill for all most headaches. Plug and play OTG (on-the-go) technology is the best! That said, it wasn't all plain sailing. While the pocket mouse plugged and worked immediately (woohooooooooo, navigation of YAMroid just got a bit magic), after plugging in one of my backup flash drives I discovered it has been wiped clean. Turns out Android will reformat any storage device that does not meet its criteria. My other stick was okay - but then I didn't try to access anything from YAMroid in that one. I will be taking an entirely new flash drive with me to OZ for backing up. Also had to work out which cables, if any, could work more than one task and whether I need more than one converter plug. I discovered I had an old charger lead from OZ which will do for the camera battery charger. Anyway, for a good while last Thursday I was up to my eyeballs in cables and leads - hence that background spaghetti mess in the first photo!

Then there was the bit about photographs and how to work 'em... I return to that topic on Monday...

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