so. shooting into the sun with the plastic lens on the black slim devil. most photographers would suggest you don’t do it with any type of camera but what do they know. this is the result. i find it rather pleasing. agfa vista 200 (expired 2007).
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my workplace uses a web proxy for all http web access. i normally use an ssh tunnel to bypass this but when i want to connect to the wireless network with my android phone this doesn’t work. the solution? i hate to say it but it’s opera mobile. the only android browser i’m aware of that allows the user to edit proxy settings via a GUI (well you can maybe do it with firefox’s version but it won’t run on my phone’s ARMv6 processor so i couldn’t tell you). fire up opera mini and you’ll be greeted with the usual start page…
note that none of opera mobile’s serious tweakables can be accessed using the settings option in the menu. you have to type opera:config into the address bar and hit go…or enter…or whatever. this’ll bring up a page with a long list of configurables. scroll down and tap on the ‘Proxy’ option. this will expand to produce something like this…
scroll down in this section and enter the required proxy information (get this from your network admin if you’re not sure of it) in the HTTP Server and HTTPS Server sections. also check the boxes that say ‘Use HTTP’ & ‘Use HTTPS’. now click save at the bottom of the proxy section and you’re done. note that this only enables the opera browser to access the web. your email, twitter and other clients won’t work.