No 'jailbreak' para iPhone 4 con iOS 4.0.2. Lo que deja fuera a los teléfonos vendidos en México.

El DevTeam, quienes han desarrollado varias de las herramientas para hacer 'jailbreak' en iOS, informó que no habrá una versión para iPhone 4.0.2, ni iPad 3.1.2. Es una mala noticia dado que los iPhone 4 que se venden en México llegaron con esta versión y no es posible regresarlos a una versión previa.


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Great PCMagazine article explaining how to print from an iPad

Great PCMagazine article explaining how to print from an iPad: http://bit.ly/ce58Gp «iPad printing apps claim to do a lot, but in our testing, many of them simply didn't work. There's definitely still room for a brilliant third-party app which can print to a range of Wi-Fi printers, because we couldn't find one. The best we could find was Air Sharing HD, an app that reliably prints to printers shared by Macs on the same Wi-Fi network as your iPad, but even that had some formatting oddities. There are three basic types of iPad printing apps. The first, supposedly, print directly to Wi-Fi-enabled printers. The second look out on your Wi-Fi network for Macs sharing printers, and can print to the shared printers without any intervention from the Mac's user. This is a decent solution if you go somewhere with Macs and printers. The third type requires you to run a server in the background on a Mac or PC every time you want to print something. I consider that an unforgivable kludge; at that point, you might as well just sync your iPad… http://bit.ly/ce58Gp » -- Desde Mi iPad usando BlogPress

iPhone: How to restore 3G data after upgrading to iOS4

Sometimes, the process to upgrade iPhone to iOS4 corrupts the configuration for 3G data. You can see a 3G icon on the status bar, but all apps requiring Internet report that there is no connection. This problem don't affect WiFi connections. These are the steps I followed to restore the 3G data connection: 1. Download "iPhone Configuration Utility" from Apple site: 2. Run the "iPhone Configuration Utility" and select "Configuration Profiles" from the left sidebar. 3. Click "New" on the toolbar. 4. Fill the "General" section with a name, identifier and description of your choice for the profile. 5. Fill the "Advanced" section with the details of your phone carrier. For Telcel (Mexico) I provided these values: - APN: internet.itelcel.com - User: webgprs - Password: webgprs2002 - Proxy: 148.233.151.240 6. Connect your iPhone using USB and select it on the left sidebar. 7. Go to the "Configuration Profiles" and click 'Install' on your profile. And done, you must have now 3G data again. -- Desde Mi iPad usando BlogPress

iOS4

Download iOS4 for iPhone 3G using iTunes 9.2

Download redsn0w from the Dev-Team blog.

Use the restore option instead of the upgrade one. The latter causes 3G data issues on some jailbroken iPhones.

Run redsn0w just after the iPhone reboots and while iTunes waits for the sync options. This is the moment that worked the best for me, since waiting for the full sync has hung my iPhone in the apple logo.

Browse for the IPSW file for iOS4. The version released last june 21st is called "iPhone1,2_4.0_8A293_Restore.ipsw" and it's located in "~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates".

Enable the multitasking, wallpaper and battery options.

Plug the iPhone, turn it off and follow the onscreen directions.

The iPhone will restart already jailbroken and then you may continue with the sync.

Et voilà.

iMovie requires a front face camera, it won't work in 3G/S iPhones

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Telcel sent me an invitation to download BlackBerry software... to my iPhone :-)) LOL!!!

PDANet in Jailbroken iPhone 3.1.2 is faster in Telcel than built in tethering

I just jailbroke my iPhone 3.1.2 and the main reason to do that after months of being using only AppStore apps is for Tethering. In the offices of our current customer we have very limited internet access and I heavily depended on iPhone Tethering until I blindly updated to 3.1.2 and Tethering vanished.

But after installing PDANet I was very impressed not only on how easy was to set it up, using USB and using adhoc WiFi network, but on how fast the connection is. It obviously depends on the location and the strength of the cellular signal but in these days I've measured download speeds above 1MBs on the Telcel network, almost twice the speed using the iPhoneOS 3.0.1 builtin tethering.

Genius Mixes in #iPhone 3.1 + iTunes 9 automatically groups songs that go great together

iPhone Remote App is now an external keyboard and gesture-based control for AppleTV

The most annoying defect of AppleTV is having to use the IR remote to enter text. And for me it's a frequent task since I use it to search for YouTube videos, movie trailers and songs.

But the new AppleTV OS combined with the updated iPhone/iPod Touch Remote App solves this issue elegantly. Now you can use the Remote App as an external easy to use keyboard and it also allows you to control the AppleTV using gestures, with some swipes it's now faster than using the standard remote control.

In fact, I misplaced it and I don't care where it is ;-)

iPhone 3.0 Tethering Test Speed results on Telcel México were: 0.69 Mbps Down and 0.33 Mbps Up

I had configured Leopard to use iPhone 3.0 Tethering but just today I tried it on Windows XP and it was unexpectedly easy.

The only drawback is that it requires iTunes 8.2 and some of our enterprise laptops have software installation restrictions that may make impossible to install it.

But once installed iTunes 8.2, you only need to connect your iPhone, enable Tethering and the new connection is automatically detected and configured on Windows XP.

BeejiveIM (IM client for iPhone 3.0) now supports Push Notifications and 'Meta-Contacts'

BeejiveIM is my favorite IM client. It supports MSN and GTalk, the two networks I use and it sends an email when a message is received and the app is not running. This is very convenient, but not always reliable, sometimes the email is received an hour after sent and then it's useless.

Since the Push Notification was announced some months ago I've been waiting for BeejiveIM to include it. Today they've released an update and Push notifications works as expected. Messages appear almost instantaneously when the app is not running, it looks like the app were running on background.

Additionally, the app has an improved gray UI, and the contacts witho more than an IM account can be grouped in meta-contacts.

Evernote for iPhone 3 has now map view, landscape thumbnails and an improved local list of notes.

Evernote is a simple but powerful online Note system. It allows to organize notes in different 'notebooks' and assign multiple tags to each note.

The notes are always available online using the web version, and there are local versions for different platforms, including Mac, Windows, iPhoneOS and other mobile phones.

The new version for iPhone has improved the graphic interface, my favorite changes are:
• New map view to list and filter notes with geotags.
• A local list including all the online notes titles.
• A beautiful landscape mode showing notes thumbnails.

Omnifocus for iPhone 3.0

I'm a fervient GTD practitioner and once I moved from PalmOS the first thing I missed was the flexible ToDo app.

Fortunately, since day one of AppStore Omnifocus appeared as the best ToDo and GTD management system.

It always had the option to sync with MobileMe allowing to have a single synced list between the Mac and the iPhone. Omnifocus always makes contexts more meaningful using iPhone location, so when you're at home or office only the relevant tasks appear with just pressing the Nearby button.

With the version for iPhone 3.0 Omnifocus has been improved, my favorite new features are:
• Graphic Nearby view using maps,
• Repeat settings on iPhone, repeat tasks were supported in previous versions but they should be configured on the Mac version.
• More flexible tasks configurations, now a task can be converted to a project or moved between projects without needing to use the Mac version,
• Landscape mode,

Now I'm just waiting for the missing feature: Notifications 3.0
;-)

Tethering on iPhone 3.0

Another great feature in the iPhone OS 3.0 is the ability to Tethering, or sharing your unlimited cell data plan with your laptop.

To enable Internet Tethering there is a new option in Settings > General > Network > Internet Tethering.

You can share your connection using Bluetooth (after pairing) or the USB cable. I just tested the USB option, once enabled Leopard displayed a message asking to configure a new Ethernet connection in Network Preferences and after some moments the iPhone changed to Tethering mode, a blue status just like the green one when in a call.

The connection is pretty fast, actually this post is created using the iPhone connection.

TELCEL (Mexico) doesn't enable by default Internet Tethering but it's simple to activate it using Property Editors and iTunes 8.2.23.

Location Services

Location Services was not improved with the latest carrier settings for TELCEL (Mexico). This feature was working since betas of iPhone 3.0, and its accuracy was improved in the last weeks.

At the beginning it showed me a circle of around 500 meters in Mexico City that DID NOT included my iPhone actual location. Now it shows a smaller circle, around 50 meters, and it is almost centered on my iPhone actual position. It's good when you forgot if the iPhone is at home or at the office, but not good enough if you know it's at home and you hoped the map could show you in what room.

What works flawlessly is the location message, it is displayed on the iPhone screen along with an alarm sound (even in mute mode). If you misplaced your iPhone you can sign into your mobileme account and ask the iPhone to sound for some minutes.

I've read that these features should help you to locate your iPhone in case it's stolen. It may be true if it was stolen in USA, but I don't think it could help in anyway if it's stolen in Mexico City. What would you do? Ask police to search your iPhone? And even if you're lucky enough to find a cop eager to help, would a 50 meter diameter circle be good enough in a public place?

Anyway, these are cool features and can be used to impress some friends ;-)

MMS working on Telcel

The iPhone OS 3.0 betas had the MMS functionality but it didn't work on TELCEL (México). Today, with the final version came a 'carrier settings update' that allows MMS sending.

Skype

Skype para iPhone permite hacer llamadas cuando se tiene conexión WiFi. Se escucha bastante bien, de hecho más claro que algunas llamadas por Telcel.

iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3

La tercera versión Beta del iphoneOS3 es mucho más estable comparado con las versiones anteriores. Mis mejores favoritas son: 1. Tethering

1. Copy & Paste, sin necesidad de ‘jailbreak’
2. Reenvío de SMS y MMS
3. Youtube sincronizado con cuenta en línea
4. Múltiples calendarios

Storing sensitive information on iPhone

I come from a Palm world where I used YAPS to store sensitive information, instead of masking notes as privates because that way you had specific fields depending on the type of note you wanted (Bank info, ATM, SSN, etc). Now with the iPhone I use this webapp: http://passvault.ktomics.net I like it because: - It's easy to use and really fast since it's formatted for the iPhone. - It has templates and categories as YAPS had. - You can add the page as an icon on the iPhone as any app. - You can access your data from any online computer, so you don't need to worry about losing your data if you lose or misplace your iPhone. Anyway, you must consider that all your sensitive data is stored online, so carefully read the conditions of the service and their online FAQ.

Opciones ocultas en Google App

Google App tiene un conjunto de opciones 'ocultas' (Easter Egg) en el menú de Settings que permite cambiar los colores de la aplicación, cambiar la voz al procesar el audio, mostrar en 'vivo' la onda de audio y abrir las ligas en la misma aplicación (sin abrir Safari).
Esta última opción me parece muy útil y yo la pedía desde que instalé la aplicación, es increíble ver que siempre estuvo ahí.