Flashlight App Sneaks Tethering Into App Store (For Now)
Handy Light, a new flashlight app by developer Nick Lee, brings unofficial SOCKS Proxy tethering to the iPhone hidden behind what appears to be a simple flashlight app that uses the screen for illumination. The app’s description provides no hints of …
No Jailbreak Tethering Available Now — If You’re a Developer
We all gave up the ability to jailbreak and tether our iPhones when we updated them to iOS 4 or purchased an iPhone 4. Hackers have been teasing us that an iOS 4 jailbreak is eminent, but now you don’t have to wait for them or the jailbreak to have tethering again. You can have
Apple won’t support iPhone to iPad tethering
Filed under: Apple Corporate If you thought that when iPhone OS 4.0 gets released and you can buy the 2GB “Datapro” plan for $25, along with an additional $20 per month to tether your iPhone’s WiFi connection to your iPad , think again. It’s just not going to happen. This is consistent with Steve Jobs’ answer to an email asking him about this possibility. His response was a terse ” no .” According to Apple , once enabled, you will be able to tether your iPhone to a PC or Mac either via WiFi, Bluetooth, or a USB cable, but they didn’t make mention of the iPad. It turns out that WiFi isn’t possible on the tablet: the required Bluetooth profile isn’t enabled , and using the camera connection kit to connect to a mini-USB port on your camera won’t work either, although it will work with a USB keyboard and headset . Not allowing iPhone-iPad tethering doesn’t seem to be an oversight
iPhone OS 4.0 to finally allow tethering
Filed under: Apple , iPhone It turns out that the long-awaited tethering option on the iPhone ( in the US anyway) is just around the corner. MacRumors discovered that there is a new configuration page for setting up Internet tethering via the iPhone inside of the latest beta of iPhone OS 4.0. The feature isn’t actually enabled yet; as you can see in the picture, you’ll need to call AT&T to set up the service (which, of course, will come with an additional charge). But the framework is in the latest version of the iPhone OS, so when that version gets released, presumably sometime next month when the new version of the iPhone is rumored to arrive . As you can see in the picture, we’re talking about a 3G connection.
Rogers customers get to keep free tethering and get offered a paid nav app
Filed under: iPhone Our Canadian friends have a couple of new products to look at if they have an iPhone. The first is Rogers Navigator , powered by TeleNav. For $4.99 a month Rogers’ iPhone customers get a full featured turn-by-turn solution with spoken instructions. The app includes real time traffic alerts and rerouting, online pre-planning with the ability to send destinations from the web to your iPhone, iPod integration and an extensive POI database. The app is similar to the AT&T Navigator app, and has the same feature set. An even bigger deal is that Rogers has continued its introductory free tethering plan.
Ask TUAW: Shopping for new Macs, iPhone home screens, home folder on external disk, and more
Filed under: Features , Troubleshooting , Ask TUAW Welcome back to Ask TUAW , our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about whether to buy a 27″ iMac or a MacBook Pro, increasing the number of iPhone home screens, moving your home folder to an external disk, and more. As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you’re using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we’ll assume you’re running Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac if you don’t specify), or if it’s an iPhone-related question, which iPhone version and OS version you have. Bayuze asks I have a iPhone 3G 8GB.
