Well, after a few weeks of the tethering hack being released, many people have enabled it on their iPhones and I have not yet heard of anyone receiving a bill for anything above normal. I still haven’t enabled tethering on my iPhone because I was worried that AT&T would try to slam me with a massive bill, so decided to just wait on the sidelines and see what happened to all those who had enabled tethering. The only real “problem” that I’ve heard of thus far is the loss of visual voicemail, which already has a fix/workaround to get it back up and running. I’ve been reading about how to enable tethering and I’m amazed at how easy it is. I’m going to enable tethering on my iPhone tonight and I’ll post about it in the next day or two to let you know how it went.
Enabling iPhone Tethering on AT&T Network
September 3rd, 2009 | Posted by in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (0 Comments)MediaMonkey Crashes When Connecting iPhone After Installing iTunes 8.2
June 8th, 2009 | Posted by in Entertainment | iPhone Tips & Tricks | Tech/Web - (20 Comments)
I’ve been a huge fan of MediaMonkey ever since it was released, I love the ease of management and the freedom that it gives you (over that of iTunes) is great! I now love the fact that it supports iPhones as well because it so nice being able to put songs onto the iPhone without using iTunes. Now the only thing I really use iTunes for is to download the podcasts that I’m subscribed to, and I’ll occassionally connect my phone to iTunes to remove some songs or to add some new ringtones. Other than that, iTunes is pretty much obsolete on my computer. Until recently.
I just upgraded my PC from Windows 7 Beta to Windows 7 RC1, and I’ve installed MediaMonkey 3.0.7.1191 and ever since I’ve upgraded iTunes to version 8.2, I am unable to connect my iPhone while running MediaMonkey. Connecting my iPhone causes MediaMonkey to immediately crash. It just gives me the following error message prior to shutting down:
MediaMonkey – Audio Library has stopped working
As of right now, it looks like I’m stuck using iTunes to manage all of the music on my iPhone until the next version of MediaMonkey comes out, or until iTunes changes… I think it’s going to be left up to the MediaMonkey developers to fix the problem.
Get iPhone 3.0 OS Beta Today! Download the iPhone 3.0 Software
April 11th, 2009 | Posted by in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (0 Comments)
Many of us are anxiously awaiting the release of the iPhone 3.0 Software, but if you just can’t wait to get your hands on the iPhone 3.0 OS, you can download it today to begin testing and playing with it if you’d like. All you have to do is register to join the iPhone developer program. So what’s the catch? No catch really, other than the fee to join the program – $99 for the Standard Program.
Joining the Standard Program allows you to develop applications that can be sold in the AppStore. You could probably make that $99 back quickly and easily if you built an application that people liked.
So if you don’t think you can wait until summer for Copy & Paste functionality, Push functionality, the new Spotlight Search functionality, join the Apple iPhone Developer Program today so that you can download and start testing the iPhone OS 3.0 Software.
iPhone 3.0 Software Release Date – Copy & Paste Is Finally Here!
March 17th, 2009 | Posted by in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (14 Comments)
After literally YEARS of waiting, the folks at Apple have finally decided to begin offering support for cut and paste in the new version of the Apple iPhone 3.0 software update. In addition to the support for copy and paste, there are a whole slew of other new features being offered, many of which include support for 3rd party devices.
So now that it’s almost here, what will be the first thing that you copy and paste once you install the new version of the iPhone 3.0 firmware?
Problems with Google Mobile Sync for iPhone
February 10th, 2009 | Posted by in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (1 Comments)
As much as I love the new Google Mobile Sync for my iPhone, there are a couple problems that I’ve come across. Well, they’re not necessarily problems, but they’re “features” that I might like to see added.
Syncing to iPhone
This is when I add contacts in Gmail and they are Pushed to my iPhone.
Pros:
- Contact photo gets pushed to iPhone
Cons:
- Nowhere to add birthday
- Deleting a contact in Gmail doesn’t remove it from my iPhone
Syncing to Gmail
This is when I add new contacts in my iPhone and they are pushed to Gmail. I love the fact that when adding contacts on the iPhone, you can typically put in all information immediately, including a photo.
Pros:
- Automatically backs up new contacts to Gmail. No need to sync to your computer anymore.
Cons:
- Does not push contact photo to Gmail
- Does not push contact birthday to Gmail
- Deleting a contact from my iPhone doesn’t delete it from my Gmail contacts
Other than these few minor “problems” there is not really anything else that needs to be added. I love the features and functionality of google mobile sync. Stay tuned for my review of how to sync your iPhone calendar to two or more Google Calendars.
iPhone Sync Gmail, Google Contacts and Google Calendar with iPhone Contacts and Calendar
February 9th, 2009 | Posted by in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (1 Comments)Google has finally decided to offer a fully functional syncing system that allows users to sync their Google accounts with their mobile devices, such as iPhone, BlackBerry or Windows Mobile device. Sync functionality with my Google account is something that I’ve been looking for ever since I’ve I got my iPhone. I’ve tried a few other 3rd party options over the past year or so, none of which was really “fluid” in the way that it worked.
That’s the best part about the new Google Mobile Sync functionality. It is truly fluid and works seemlessly once it is setup. The Push capability makes it a breeze, and I love the security knowing that when I add a new contact on my phone it is immediately Pushed to my Gmail account, and vice versa, when I add a contact in Gmail, it is available on my phone next time I look at my contact list. Before you sync to your Google account for the first time, you may want to export your your current contact list from Outlook, iCal or whatever. My problem was that my Gmail contact list wasn’t quite the same as my iPhone/Outlook contact list, so what I did was import my exported list into Gmail. This added all of the “missing contacts” from into my Google Account.
Here are a few things that I’ve noticed so far:
- This is just great!
iPhone Copy and Paste (Cut and Paste) – iPhone Features Update
October 23rd, 2008 | Posted by in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (1 Comments)
According to a recent post at MacApper – iPhone Copy-Paste Must be Implemented by Apple. Copy and Paste is not a function that could be created by a 3rd party developer using the Apple iPhone SDK. The iPhone SDK just doesn’t include the functionality in order to implement copy and past (or cut and paste) functionality.
John Casasanta, president of the iPhone app development company Tap Tap Tap, would love to build it, but with the tools Apple gives developers, it’s technically impossible. “Apple doesn’t really provide it in their SDK,” he said. “There’s no real way of doing copy-paste.”
- from MacApper.com
If you have any specific features that you’d like to see added to the iPhone, please view this post and leave a comment, add to the list… hopefully Apple will see it and maybe do something about it.
iPhone Features that we’d all like to see – Apple, please add some of these features
September 29th, 2008 | Posted by in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (39 Comments)- Video Recording Capability – upload to YouTube functionality would be nice with this
- Copy & Paste – is it really that difficult?
- Multi-Text Message – rather than leaving a group text message, can’t the multi-text be added to the conversation of each recipient? That’d make sense, wouldn’t it?
- Text Message Forwarding – no explanation needed.
This is just my short list – if I’m forgetting anything major, please let me know, or just add it in the comments.
iPhone Software 2.2 Update – iPhone 2.2 Release Date
September 29th, 2008 | Posted by in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (2 Comments)
Like many of you, I’m hoping that the iPhone 2.2 firmware release will add copy & paste functionality, along with a couple other much needed functions… like the ability to record video! If you have any specific requests, make sure to add it to our iPhone functionality we’d all like to see page here.
iPhone Update 2.1 – My Phone Works Again
September 18th, 2008 | Posted by in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (0 Comments)
Ever since updating my iPhone to firmware version 2.0, I’ve had nothing but problems. Slow keyboard, lagging contact menu, glitchy web browser, etc. But since installing the 2.1 iPhone firmware update, all of those problems have since been resolved.
