Nate True's Weblog http://cre.ations.net/$base_path Thoughts and musings from Nate True, casual inventor."; en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:12:33 -0600 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:12:33 -0600 custom http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[How to tether your iPhone 3G and browse the web using your 3G connection]]> Thanks to the excellent work of the iPhone Dev Team and the porting work of Jay Freeman as well as the authors of 3Proxy, it is now possible to "tether" your iPhone 3G and use its Internet connection on your laptop.

Warning - Tethering your iPhone is against the iPhone data plan terms. AT&T could slap you with huge fees if you overuse this. I recommend only using it during emergencies.

Here's the basic rundown:
- Jailbreak your iPhone 3G
- Install 3Proxy and Terminal
- Create an ad-hoc Wi-fi network using your laptop
- Join the network with your iPhone
- Find the iPhone's IP address
- Open Terminal and run the proxy program
- Open Safari on your iPhone and open a web page
- Configure your browser to use the proxy

I will be using a Mac and Firefox to demonstrate,...

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]]> Thanks to the excellent work of the iPhone Dev Team and the porting work of Jay Freeman as well as the authors of 3Proxy, it is now possible to "tether" your iPhone 3G and use its Internet connection on your laptop.

Warning - Tethering your iPhone is against the iPhone data plan terms. AT&T could slap you with huge fees if you overuse this. I recommend only using it during emergencies.

Here's the basic rundown:
- Jailbreak your iPhone 3G
- Install 3Proxy and Terminal
- Create an ad-hoc Wi-fi network using your laptop
- Join the network with your iPhone
- Find the iPhone's IP address
- Open Terminal and run the proxy program
- Open Safari on your iPhone and open a web page
- Configure your browser to use the proxy

I will be using a Mac and Firefox to demonstrate,...

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]]> http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/how-to-tether-your-iphone-3g-and-browse-the-web-using-your-3g-co http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/how-to-tether-your-iphone-3g-and-browse-the-web-using-your-3g-co iphone, iphone 3g, tethering, proxy, socks, apple, jailbreak, jailbroken, 2.0, cydia, dev team, saurik Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:35:05 -0500 <![CDATA[My take on Twitter]]> Most of you have seen the in-bred spawn of IM and blogging that is Twitter in the last week or two as it has taken the blogosphere by storm. I was turned on to Twitter by my good friend Andru Edwards and have since been following the other blogging greats like Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble as they post every little thing they do.

As a self-confessed attention whore, I also try to post pretty often. I've even gone so far as to make an e-mail to Twitter converter bot which can take Eyejot or photo attachments and post them to my (or your) Twitter account. I can now, for example, take a photo with my ultra-sleek Treo 600 and e-mail it to the bot, which will save the...

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]]> Most of you have seen the in-bred spawn of IM and blogging that is Twitter in the last week or two as it has taken the blogosphere by storm. I was turned on to Twitter by my good friend Andru Edwards and have since been following the other blogging greats like Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble as they post every little thing they do.

As a self-confessed attention whore, I also try to post pretty often. I've even gone so far as to make an e-mail to Twitter converter bot which can take Eyejot or photo attachments and post them to my (or your) Twitter account. I can now, for example, take a photo with my ultra-sleek Treo 600 and e-mail it to the bot, which will save the...

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]]> http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/my-take-on-twitter http://cre.ations.net/blog/post/my-take-on-twitter twitter, addiction, social, web2.0, stalker, twitterbots Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:24:23 -0500