I posted about my difficulties connecting my Samsung Moment to my Mac laptop. If you want to, you can read those trials and tribulations.

If you just want the solution...

After looking for drivers, doing various experiments, and getting feedback from others with the same problem, I just hunted for any and all settings having to do with USB and one finally worked. It may not be perfect, but this seems to help.

Go into Settings -> Applications -> Development on your phone's main menu.

Turn on USB debugging ("Debug mode when USB is connected"). It will recognize that a USB connection now exists.

A widget will pop up on your Mac saying it's recognized a network device and will want to install the phone as a modem. Don't worry about it. It's a red herring. I never configured that, never connected that.

Go into "Notifications" from the phone's main menu and you'll see a notification under "Ongoing" that says "USB Connected (select to copy files to/from your computer)". Touch it.

You'll get a dialogue with the title "USB Connected" and the text "You have connected your phone to your computer via USB. Select 'Mount' if you want to copy files between your computer and your phone's SD card." It offers options of "Mount" and "Don't Mount". Touch "Mount".

A removeable drive will appear in Finder called "No Name". That's your Micro SD card and you can begin copying files. You'll need to unmount the card for applications on the phone to have access to it. I created a folder called "Music" in the DCIM folder, put a couple of MP3s in there and I'm listening to them now.

Don't know if this will work with Snow Leopard's built-in sync program or third party sync programs, but I'm happily able to move media back and forth which is HUGE for me.

UPDATE WITH SOME IMAGES

This is what the "main menu" looks like. When you're on the home screen and press your menu button/key, you'll get these options... Add, Wallpaper, Search, Notifications, Settings.

First, some people may be asking "what is a 'splog'?" The word comes from the combination of "spam" and "blog" and its usually a completely useless blog site with no real content (either randomly generated crap or nothing but "borrowed" content) that exists for no other reason than to try to trick the search engines in an underhanded link building scheme or is actually trying to capture search traffic in the hopes that people will arrive, realize the site is worthless, but will choose to click an ad link to leave instead of hitting their back button.

If you have a blog, you may find that you see "pingbacks" coming from sites that are reposting your content and then linking back to you. If these sites are running Google AdSense ads, there are a couple of ways to fight back.

Read the rest of this entry »

Just a quick test to see if my feedreader will show this post if I backdate it. I want to add some content that will mainly be for SEO purposes and doesn't need to be prominently displayed to my regular readers.

Apologies if this shows up in the feed.

- Greg