I don't know how things work on the iPhone but Bluetooth tethering works fine with the N& to my Android phone.

Hre's a link I found about tethering via Bluetooth on th eiPhone, maybe it will help you: http://www.macworld.com/article/1159258/bluetooth_tethering.html

Huh?  According to the linked article, the award went to the iPad 2!  It took me a couple of minutes to figure out that the link points to the 2012 winners.

Here's the link to the 2013 winners: http://www.gsma.com/newsroom/gsma-announces-winners-of-the-2013-global-mobile-awards

. I thought the op was trying to change file names and such.. I still think a file explorer would make life a lot easier to run the ball.

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Yes, the OP will be able to do those things with a File Explorer but not until he gets the photos PHYSICALLY on the N7.  That's what Bigtroutz and I are trying to get across.

I've loaded my pics from my camera into the Nexus Media Importer from my SD card.
They appear in the Importer, but not in my Picasa or Quickpic program.  How do I get them there so I can send them e-mail with my Nexus?  Maybe I'm going about it the wrong way.
 I'm lost again. -  -

Old greybeard

Did you actually copy the files to your N7 using Nexus Media Importer or did you just see that they show up there?  Your email program won't be able to see the pictures on the SD card, only the Nexus Media Importer can see them.  You need to actually copy the pics from the SD card to  the N7's internal storage before the email program or ES File Explorer will be able to find them.  Ypu do this by selecting the pics you wish to copy to the N7 and clicking on the Save icon.

XBMC works OK on it, not sure what you mean by the "usual channels".  I really don't care for XBMC so after seeing that it worked OK, I uninstalled it.

I've tried XBMC on Windows, Linux and Android and don't see what the hubbub is regarding it as it just seems to add an additional software layer that's not needed.  I prefer to use a video player app to play vids, a music player app to play music, a picture viewer to view pics, a weather app to check the weather, etc... don't need all those rolled into a single app with a terrible interface.

Sounds intriguing.  I would definitely upgrade if it had HDMI out and a microSD card slot.

I came late to the party, only got 12G free. 

Hopefully they will update the service to be more useful.  It's too simplistic now without enough control over what I want stored or not stored there.

I looked at MediaFire but what I don't like abut the free account is that there is a max file size of 200MB.  You'd have to pay for their "Pro" Plan to be able to store files up to 4G in size.  I was hoping to be able to stream movies from MediaFire to my N7 but 200M is too small of a file size for that and 4.50/month is more than I would be willing to pay to be able to have larger file sizes.