WAP/GPRS on TMobile & T68i (I Wanna Do More)

I have a T68i on TMobile Service, and thus far, the service has been great. However I signed up for T-Zones (1Mb/month plan), but still haven't found a use (killer-app) for it.

For example, if I want to check movietimes, I go to wap.moviefone.com (or something like that), but it takes me much longer to type in my zipcode, then it would if I just dialed the phone number. Is there a wap-site that I can save my profile and have it always go to the same theater?

I've tried using mapquest wap page, and no matter what I do, I can't get it to work.. suggestions?

As an IT admin, is there a program out there that will ping a certain IP and send me an SMS if the ping doesn't bounce back?

Thanks for any help

[CaliphoniaBoy]

Anon,

if you go to the t-zones web site you can set your personal preferences, e.g. your favourite movie theaters, weather zones, email, ... just check it out. When I want to check movie times I just go to "My movies" in the t-zone menue and they are all right there.

Some of my personal "killer-apps" are zagats.com (restaurant guide), aol - city search, movies, check all my pop-emails, and most important of all united2go from united airlines.


I don;t really understand/know about your other question. Can you be more specific?

C.

[ZaphodB]

There is not a software specifically meant to ping you - but there are definitely notification suites out there. However, the names of the ones we use have gone right out of my head, so I'll give you a lower-tech solution (and probably cheaper).

You can set up a scheduled task (on NT/2000) or a cron job (on Unix) to ping the server every N minutes and, in the case of failure, to send an e-mail to you. Your SMS e-mail address is yournumber@tmomail.net (unless, of course, you've changed it on your My T-Mobile page). You are limited to 120 characters so make the messages brief!

There are apps that make Windows NT/2000 Task Scheduler a bit more robust - one that I used recently was AutoMate, by Unisyn, which has a simple scripting language.