As I noted last night, I’ve finally decided to jailbreak my iPhone 3Gs. After a bit of research, I decided to use Spirit, which offers an “untethered” jailbreak. This post is a rundown of the process.
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Over the past few years, I’ve become increasingly dependent on Gmail. I actually have several different accounts that I need to keep separate for a variety of reasons, and have found that Mailplane is an excellent tool for managing them.
While trying to restore my iPhone earlier tonight (it’s a long story), I ran into an iTunes error that was preventing me from re-activating my phone. After a bit of digging, however, I stumbled onto the solution.
If you ever mess up your iPhone or iPod to the point that you need to restore it and start from scratch, you’ll need to put it into “Recovery Mode.” Start by powering it down — simply hold the home button for 5 seconds and move the slider to the right.
After resisting the temptation for close to a year, I’ve finally decided to jailbreak my iPhone. My main motivation for doing this is to be able to tether my MacBook Pro to my 3G connection. I’d also like to be able to give me kids mobile internet access for their iPods and/or netbooks when we’re traveling.
With AT&T’s recent announcement that they’ll be discontinuing their “unlimited data” plans for new customers in favor of their new “DataPlus” ($15 for 200MB) and “DataPro” ($25 for 2GB) plans, you might be wondering (like I was) how to check your data usage. Fortunately, it’s easy.
I recently helped my son shoot a news story for his Language Arts class. We shot the video using our Flip Mino camcorder, dragged the clips into iMovie for editing, and then exported the finished product in .m4v format.
My son’s iPod Touch has been been giving us a bit of trouble recently. Whenever he plugs it in, it claims to be synchronizing but instead it re-copies everything. While that might not sound like a huge deal, he has the 64GB model loaded with a ton of movies, and it takes a long time to complete the process.
Last fall, we got a Belkin N+ wireless router. After we got the initial kinks worked out (including a near-impossible firmware update) and got over the fact that it won’t work with HFS+ hard drives, we started running into problems with dropped connections, especially on my wife’s MacBook.
I have an iPhone and my son has an iPod Touch. Until recently, we’ve been frustrated by our inability to share apps that one of us buys. Fortunately, we’ve since figured out how to share apps without re-buying them, and it doesn’t even violate the iTunes user agreement.