Iphone Internet Tethering

 

Internet tethering allows you to share the internet from one device to another...in this case, from your iphone to your Mac or pc.

Why is this useful?

• How about if you have a few hours to kill in the airport and don't want to surf the net on your phone or pay the daily rate to use the WIFI in the airport.
• Or, what if you are in a room with no WIFI but your phone still has a signal...tether time!
• Or, anytime you want to use your laptop and there is no free WIFI available

Goto this site on your laptop: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/simple-secret-iphone-tethering-fix

And this site on your Iphone (must have 3G, this will not work on EDGE): http://help.benm.at/help.php

Setup should only take about 5min...remember to restart your phone after you install the mobile config or your voicemail might not work right.  Works like normal after a quick restart. Leave me a comment if you get stuck and need help.

Telekinesis iPhone Remote

I have found an application for the iphone that will let you access EVERYTHING on your home computer right on your iphone! I had to dig through several different sites and blogs to figure this all out and my goal is to give you all that information right here.

Step 1: go here. http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/ and download the file iPhoneRemote_0.9.21.zip under the Featured Downloads on the right side of screen.

Step 2: unzip the file after it downloads and click on the iPhone Remote application (may take a second to load)

Step 3. Enter in a user name and password. I suggest you make this different then your other user names and passwords. Hit enter. This should launch Safari and connect to your computer via your IP address. The web address should be
https://:5010

If the page opens correctly then enter the URL (address) into your iPhone’s browser. You will be prompted to “Accept Website Certificate.” Click Accept. Enter in your user name and password and hit Log in. Bam! You’re in!

If the page did not open then you will need to find your computer’s IP address. To do this go to http://www.whatismyip.com/ Once you have the IP address, goto
https://:5010

Once the page is open I clicked the blue “+” at the bottom of screen and clicked the “add to Home Screen” and now it will be on your home screen like an application.

Up to this point you can now access all the documents and files on your computer (not music or video)

In order to play music/videos you have to go into the Iphone Remote Preferences.
Once there, click on the box that says Share media insecurely – This is why you want to have a really good User name and password. Otherwise someone would be able to access and download your media files.

Launch the program on you Iphone and go into the file screen. Find the music or video that you want to watch and click on it. If it is playable in Itunes then it should play on your phone.

In order to access my media I had to change my firewall settings. Here’s how

Step 1: log into your router
To do this you need to know your router ID which can be found by going to your System Preferences, then Network, then TCP/IP, then copy the Router field -192.168.?.?

(If you have never signed into your router then the following website might help http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html )

Step 2: This step is going to be a little different for each router. I went into the firewall settings and selected the computer that I wanted to access. Then I clicked to allow all applications. Then Save.

Step 3: Step 2 changed my IP address so I had to go back to http://www.whatismyip.com/ to get my network IP address. Be sure not to give this to anyone or the might be able to access your computer.

Step 4: From your iphone goto https://yourIPgoeshere:5010
You can now enjoy your media files on your Iphone…You Rock!

****Final thing. Your computer must be on, logged in, and have an internet connection. I am using a laptop so after I log in, i just close the screen almost all the way and let it "fall" asleep on it's own. ****

Hopefully this was easy to follow. If not, please let me know and I will attempt to make things clearer.

WANTED: GOOGLE NOTEBOOK IPHONE APPLICATION

I love Google notebook! I have been using this everyday since I found it and now I think that someone out there should make an Iphone application for it.

I listen to NPR while at work and at least once a day I hear about a movie, book, song, artist, or website that I want to check out. I'm not allowed to use my work computer for personal stuff so I pull out my handi (cellphone) and send a little note to my google notebook and it is automatically added to my mobile notes.

As of right now you can access it from your handi (cellphone) by going to: http://www.google.com/notebook/m but there are some limits as to what you can do. Any notes that you add from the above site only go to the mobile notes because they were entered from a mobile phone. This is where the new Iphone application would be handy (yes, the pun IS intended).

The Iphone application should allow the use to do at least the following:

1. Post new notes to a default list i.e. mobile notes
2. Allow for the creation of new notebooks while on the go
3. Allow new posts to be added to any notebook, not just the default notebook
4. Allow for an entire notebook to be emailed to a Gmail contact or entered email address
5. Allow for a single notebook post to be sent via SMS to contact or entered phone number
6. Look cool
   

It would be cool if it could also...

1. Read the post in a notebook back to you
2. Transcribe notes so that you could post to a notebook while driving.

There ya go, let's make this happen.

...Just an idea