Tunneling and Tethering iPhone over USB has its own advantages. The first being Security. You don’t have to fear the less secure ad-hoc WiFi networks. The second is Battery charge conservation. Ad-Hoc WiFi based tethering methods (like PDANet) would drain your battery in no time. With USB tethering, your iPhone will get charged as it tethers!. For Windows users, there are many tools which helps tether over USB. But for Mac the following is the only one I could find. So Sharing:-
Download the iPhoneTunnel for Mac application
After launching click on the icon on the Mac super bar.
Select the “Turn Tunnel On”
Select Tools->Tethering
Enter the root/alpine credentials when asked for in the Terminal
Configure Firefox for Socks 5 Proxy by setting it’s values as 127.0.0.1 and port: 9999
Type about:config in Firefox and set the values network.proxy.socks_remote_dns = true
Restart Firefox
Nothing beats leather when it comes to protection with luxury. I bought this new leather slip case from a New Zealand vendor – Ikonic Edge.
I had only just a gut feeling when choosing between it and the Sena slip case. But this one turned out to be a superb case. The build quality is impeccable. I hear it is handmade. The leather is pretty thick and rich. The only issue I have is since the pouch is very new, its slightly tight fit (Just like a new shoe!). A hard pinch at the bottom is what pops the phone out of the case. I think this will become second nature with time. I would gladly recommend their super slim leather case to everyone.
November 18th, 2008 in
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The latest Google Mobile App available on the Appstore is a major update to the previous one. The major feature of this release is Voice Search. This option is not enabled by default. You can go to the settings screen of the app to enable and customize. Google has successfully coupled the Location based locale results with an individual’s voice search queries. Most of the time, the results are accurate.
To start the Voice Search, you just start the application and then hold the iPhone to your ear. Start speaking the search keyword(s), after you hear a beep sound. The results will appear next on the applications screen.
What is Good?
The Voice Search accuracy is almost acceptable. If you are a non-American, you have no luck!. But Google has promised other language/accent support. These would be server-side upgrades Google will be making independently and progressively.The voice search also works well for searching images, Wikipedia, News and Maps.
What is required?
The search results are not voice navigable further. It would be very nice to have Voice equivalents to the insanely useful Google Keyboard Shortcuts.
Apart from the Voice Search, Google Mobile App for iPhone also features custom domain support. If you have opted to host email/calendaring/document storage/instant communications with Google, accessing them on iPhone is really quick now. Google Mobile App gives you quick shortcuts to access them further on iPhone’s Mobile Safari. I especially liked the Google Talk Gadget performing well over an EDGE connection inside Safari. It would have been much better if Google opted to open these shortcuts within the application itself, instead of launching a separate Safari window.
Overall I am impressed with the app for now. I look forward to the further updates for a more integrated application – aggregating all of the Google Services.
November 18th, 2008 in
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See what you can do with those awesome 2 Megapixels! Extremely impressive shots. Just imagine what would have resulted if Apple decided to stuff in some more sensors and a Xenon flash!
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Checkout the 2008 IPPA Photographers of the Year
This must be a dream came true - especially if you are an Indian/Brazilian - and own an iPhone 
Just move over to http://m.orkut.com on your iPhone and there you have an iPhone optimised version of Orkut. This would work equally well on the Android Browser too.
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October 17th, 2008 in
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