Hey everyone… I know it has been a LOOOONG time since I last wrote, sorry bout that.  New baby, new directions, other areas creating more passion than blogging, etc.

But, here is one I had to share:

Thanks to ismashphone.com for this one.  I just did this and it was really easy and very cool.  Let us all know how you do with it.

 

Netshare

There have since been several jailbroken alternatives to enable iPhone tethering. PdaNet, made by June Fabrics, has been available for Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and jailbroken iPhones for a long time. Since the jailbreaking phenomenon, PdaNet has been one of the most downloaded applications in Cydia through the ModMyI depository. 

Go here to read more about PdaNet, and here to learn about other useful jailbroken iPhone applications. 

PdaNet

Fortunately for us iPhone users, applications like PdaNet will no longer be necessary, because full (legit Apple built) internet tethering is now available on the iPhone OS 3.0. PdaNet is one of many applications that have become obsolete since the release of iPhone OS 3.0. 

The new iPhone OS 3.0 was released today, but was installed by many users last week thanks to the torrent leak of the iPhone OS 3.0 Golden Master. The new firmware is great, and offers many excellent new features. 

The problem is, however, that due to AT&T’s incompetence, internet tethering and MMS messaging will not be available to 3.0 users until the end of the summer at best. The reason that tethering is delayed is because AT&T is still trying to form some kind of a pricing plan (to maximize the amount of money they rob from you.) 

Allegedly, the pricing plan we’re most likely to end up with is $70/month for unlimited tethering. Something tells me only 7 people in all of America would actually pay $70/month for tethering. Hopefully AT&T will realize that. 

All that aside, someone has created an amazing way to activate internet tethering on your iPhone 3.0, today! 

Screenshots of my iPhone tethering in action:

1. Install iPhone 3.0:

Get On With iPhone 3.0: Download and Install Now

2. Go to http://tr.im/oS1h

On your iPhone, in the Safari browser, go to the following website: http://tr.im/oS1h

3. Go to Mobileconfigs and download

Press Mobileconfigs. Find your country, select your provider, and press download. 

4. Press Install and Confirm

The message reads: “IMPORTANT: The authenticity os “US AT&T” cannot be verified. Installing this profile will change settings on your iPhone.” Changing settings is exactly what we’re trying to do. Confirm with “Intall Now”.

5. Go to Settings>>General>>Network>>Internet Tethering

7. Bluetooth or USB

Decide how you’d like to tether. Follow the instructions on the screen (it’s almost automatic). 

WARNINGS:

• AT&T could be charging you. Nobody knows.
• Do this at your own risk.

How To Activate Internet Tethering Now On iPhone OS 3.0 : iSmashPhone

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On this day when the prophesied 3rd generation iPhone will be announced, I wanted to post my thoughts on my sturdy, reliable 1st gen iPhone I use and have used every day since it’s release in the summer of 2007.

Yesterday, in a haze of activity in a home where we have a newborn (part of my story here), I decided i needed to finally mow my lawn for the first time in this season.  Using my handy cathcart jeans, which I seek out as a favorite pant style solely for the purpose of using the tightly integrated side pockets to hold my iPhone, I set out on a borrowed mower since ours is stubbornly not starting at the moment.  At some point yesterday, as we all ran inside to dodge the falling rain, I noted that my iPhone was no longer at my side.  It was late and I was tired, a constant state for me these days, so I gave up the hunt and went to bed.  Today, actually just now, I decided it was time on this sunny morn to have a look around and backtrack where I have been.  Sure enough, there it was, in the middle of my lawn having been driven over more than once I am sure, by my lawn mower.  Amazingly it was never touched by a blade, though likely run over by a tire once or twice.  It lay there all afternoon yesterday, including while it rained.  I now have it charging up as I write this.

This thing had been amazing… I have dropped it at least 300 times if not more.  And it wasn’t until I was in El Salvador last autumn when I dropped it while running down some steps and it flew out of my hands as though I had thrown it that a crack in the screen accured. Since then I have done that same move or similar to it and it is cracked worse. 

I have “loved” this phone deeply; love implying that things we love we use ferevently, like an old dogeared book.

So what about the birthing?

Well, I want to not recommend using your iPhone to listen to music while your wife, or you are performing a REALLY important task, like giving birth. 

Last wednesday the 3rd of June, as my wife was pushing our newborn 3rd child into this world and we were listening to a sublime playlist comprised of native and eastern spiritual tones someone decided to call me… oops.  It was the chiropractor who promised to come into the hospital to adjust my wife while in labor, but the timing was too late and awkward while my wife pushed for this little guys life.  Needless to say I got our music back rather quickly, but still… take my advice… if you are preparing for a birth do one of tow things, use the iPod for that perfect playlist or turn the phone part of your iPhone off, put it in airplane mode!

Wanna learn how to build an iPhone app?  Tons of new resources are popping up everywhere.  Apple and Standford have just announced their iPhone Application Programming course and it is available for free in Stanford’s University courses in iTunes U in the iTunes Store.

There is also the Viximo iPhone application called VixML to help you with drag and drop + a little basic web coding language.  Their auto generated email to me included this little overview:

“VixML allows designers to create rich iPhone content. And who created VixML? Viximo did! We’re an internet startup in Boston, Massachusetts that distributes user-created virtual goods to websites and mobile devices like the iPhone.”

Registered users of VixML are given an SDK (software developer’s kit) and all the tools needed to create your own app and submit it to Apple.  Pretty cool.

And of course there is the Apple SDK itself, downloadable for free to anyone at apples developer site (once you register yourself there).

I’ve got a string of things I’d like to see on the iPhone, You?

I just remembered to go to MacHeist for 10 really great applications for the iPhone and Mac for $39.  It ends in 5 days so go check it out before it ends… in previous years I often just missed it and was pretty bummed, so at least go check it out. 

The iPhone app allows a great access to your iPhone while it is on the same network.  It is called Phone view:

So go get it adn enjoy!

MACHEIST 2009

My Messy office, shot using Qik on a jailbrocken iPhone. Very cool app! 02/10/2009 04:32   4 views

FYI…

Also, just so you know, 3G will NOT be available until later this year… so it is Edge for now… breathe…

For all of you in line reading this on Thursday the 15th of January, YAHOO!!!!  You made.  welcome to the real iPhone experience, no longer is it a dream… you are on the threshold!  For those of you still sitting on the fence, here is what the other’s are seeing, sans (without) iPhone as these shots were taken yesterday.

For those of you who have not been in yet, Unicel is no more.  On Monday all Unicel Corporate stores opened as at&t stores.

Here is what it looks like now…

Inside…


everyone is waiting…

Iphone Kiosk sans iPhone

Any of you with photos of the iPhone waiting line or of your new iPhone, or anything, please post them here and I will post them on this blog today and over the next few days.

Congratulations to Lew on being the first to report back here with a shiny new iPhone 3G!!

This just in…

New Multi-Core iPhone with Firmware 3.0?

ZDNet reports that the iPhone 3.0 firmware will support quad-core processors in an upcoming iPhone hardware revision. While Apple has not yet detailed iPhone 3.0 firmware, MacRumors has independently heard from a reliable source of this same multi-core support in the 3.0 firmware which should accompany the next iPhone.

Meanwhile, Imagination Technologies is announcing a multi-core GPU that could be suitable for iPhone use. Apple, an investor in Imagination Technologies, presently uses a less powerful version of their PowerVR GPU in the iPhone and iPod touch.

The likely candidate for the new iPhone’s CPU, however, is a derivative of the ARM Cortex A9 multi-core processor. The ARM Cortex has excellent power efficiency, well ahead of Intel’s Atom offerings. Apple appears to be an ARM architectural licensee and their acquisition of P.A. Semi has brought low-power chip design expertise into the company.

Thursday January 08, 2009 05:15 PM EST; Category: iPhone
Written by Arnold Kim

I tend to believe that Apple will do a real announcement with something to bite into before spring.  They have a lot of juicy stuff on the burner, both Mac Mini and iPhone based, no doubt.  So…will you wait?

As recently noted by a commenter here, it was confirmed in a meeting in Montpelier of licensed resellers for AT&T (Radioshack style outlets who sell other products and also sell cell phones) they will carry all phones but iPhones.  The Stowe retailer, Vermont Electronics owners confirmed this after today’s meeting with AT&T. 

Needless to say for a small store like theirs this is a real letdown as they have existing clients who they would happily stock these phones for, and of course this is all everyone who is aware of the transition is thinking of.

Boo.

So we can all commute to the closest Full AT&T store for our new iPhones.