Technomancy

SSH is a way to remotely log onto other machines. It's vital to any sysadmins. ConnectBot is an excellent SSH client programme for Android Phones. It's very slick. The first time you start it up, there's a few screens that tell you the basic operations. It also tells you important things like how to do various Control-key combinations, which is not obvious. I think this is a great way to make your programme more usable. In some regions, you can download an old copy from the Android Market. However the USA has some restrictive laws about exporting cryptographic programmes. I'm in Ireland at the moment and so you can't get ConnectBot on the Android Market. You need to install it manually. From the ConnectBot website, download the latest version you can find. e.g. for me it was ConnectBot-svn-r174.apk. Save it somewhere. Plug your Android into your PC's USB. Open up a terminal and go to where you downloaded the Android SDK. Go into the tool directory, and execute the following the command: So if I downloaded version 174, and saved it to my Desktop, I'd do the following command: That's it! You should have ConnectBot available in the menu.