How to : Use iPhone’s 3G Connection on iPad Wifi Models

Here’s a simple workaround to use 3G on your iPad without even buying the 3G model. All you need is iPad Wifi Only model and a iPhone 3G which should be jailbroken.

Just follow these steps to get 3G on your Wifi Only iPad.

  1. Get your Jailbroken iPhone, Open Cydia >> Manage >> Select Sources
  2. Just add a new source – sinfuliphonerepo.com
  3. Search for MyWi and download it.
  4. You will have to restart your device to have things working.
  5. Turn on Your Wifi and launch the MyWi app.
  6. Turn on Wifi Tethering.
  7. Grab your iPad, Select the Wifi network you just created on your iPhone.

Felicitaciones! You just got 3G on your Wifi Only iPad!

[Via Geekword]

iPad 3G : iSend Text Messages too

Sushi Time Everyone. The iPad 3G sends text messages too. The iPhone Dev team has done wonders yet again for the latest iPad 3G and jailbreak team is working vigorously towards more possibilities.

We don’t know how have they done it nor does it look ready for public release as it lacks a GUI. We tag it as work in progress. We’ve got a video too where they manage to send text messages to an iPhone using Terminal (The dark black thing with white text flashing). I just wish, they release the app for it soon! Video Down below.

We aren’t happy with Lala’s death. Neither is Apple

The message put up on Lala.com, popular music “locker” service, sparked lot of rumors. It sinks down when this month ends, and Apple which acquired it sometime back has no plans, or maybe it does?

Why is Apple shutting it down? Rumors were floating that Apple was soon to reveal, iTunes.com which would take Lala’s place. Sadly thats not happening, atleast not now though Apple is looking forward to it.

For those who don’t know this already, Lala.com allowed users to make shareable playlists which they could stream over multiple devices and the content could be anything they uploaded or purchased. Apple was looking to launch a web based version (cloud) for iTunes soon and Lala could possibly play a lead role in what Apple has to offer.

The Cupertino based company was in talks with Music Labels but it seems most labels did not find this a profitable venture because, if we go by the business model it allows streaming of music via multiple methods and thereby giving a multiple plays for the same single price. Either prices will have to shoot up to make the labels happy or else Apple has to revise it’s model.

No matter how bright the future might be, it surely isn’t happening soon, atleast not in June (Apple’s WWDC).

H.264 beats Flash : Bad news for Adobe

Steve Jobs spinned the hottest debates of this year few days back, inclusion of Flash in Apple products. Steve justified his companies decision of excluding Flash from their gear with technical reasoning.

Steve Jobs’s essay, “Thoughts on flash” , where the discussion started, spoke about Flash being used for rendering video. He prominently pointed out that if Flash provided for 75% of video on web, it was more or less present in the modern H.264 format which is supported by Apple’s lineup of iPhones, iPods and iPads.

For those who thought Steve’s reasoning was counterfactual (including Adobe), here are some facts which they would like to digest.

Hell now, H.264 now makes 66% of the web video while Flash is just wavering with some 26%. This means, one strong fact over which Adobe argued has been washed away! All the stats were provided by encoding.com which has encoded over five million videos for high scale clients like MTV. Well, if you know YouTube also provides all it’s video in H.264 format which means a huge part of the web video is already available in the new formats. [Thanks Techcrunch]

I feel that Adobe cannot publicly go on criticizing Apple for it’s decision, after all it’s their devices and their wish. It’s wrong on Adobe’s part too and as far as what it looks to me, i think Apple has got it right though losing up a bit to allow specific flash components to work could be a win-win for customers and developers both.

Feel Windows Phone 7 on your iPhone!

This is the best part of having an iPhone. You can taste interfaces of several OS’s together without even needing to change your device. All you need to do is download some apps and your on it!

For Palm Pre like app switching, we had Pro Switcher. They actually ran Android on iPhone 2G too and amidst all this if you missed Windows Phone 7, then it’s here!

We’ve got a Windows Phone 7 theme released in Polish language (unluckily no English) at Deviantart.com (Direct Download Link – 11 mb). The theme resembles a lot of the actual OS save a few features which can only be possible on the actual Windows device. No Doubt the theme is worth it!

The theme comes with a little bit of text to read to install the theme and have it working flawlessly,

Windows 7 Mobile Theme by Woocash ver. 1.3
POLISH LANGUAGE!
*iPhone 2G/3G/3GS* NOT FOR WINDOWS VISTA
You must have:
- root… I mean jailbreak
- inifidock
- iconoclasm
- winterboard
- recommended apps from screens (I made icons for them, f.ex: palringo :))
- iblank
- SBsettings
- springjumps
- I think that’s all
Include:
- all editions (lol XD)
What you must do:
- iconoclasm settings like on the Iconoclasm.PNG
- Infiniboard same as in Infiniboard.PNG
- download from Cydia Lockscreen Clock Hide
- download from Cydia SB Hidden StatusBar
iBLueNova & SBSettings apps’s theme in this folder.
Others things are include in theme (I think so XD’)

Steve Jobs says “Nope” to Mac App Store

In near recentness, there were some rumors surfacing regarding the possibility of huge changes to Mac OS (which I think are surely going to happen) and there was one specific rumor which caught the attention of potential developers and readers. It was the coming of a App Store for Apple’s Mac OS.

The rumor was that Macintosh would get a App Store bearing resemblance to the current App Store for the iPhone. This did shake a lot of developers because this would block developer’s freedom and all applications would have to be approved by Apple first inorder to start working on the Mac.

For developers, the rumors’s aren’t true. Guess who said it? Steve Jobs himself while replying to a mail. Lame question you think? Why would steve even bother to answer? Well, that’s pretty counterfactual. It indeed was a extremely important because it is a direct hit upon the future of Mac OS and if the rumors weren’t spilled away then it could damage the intentions of developers to keep working on Mac Apps.

[Via MacStories]

The new iPhone 4G : Dragged into the Wild, red hot from the factory

For all those people who expected about a dozen posts conveying how the latest iPhone 4G would look, guys here’s the real deal. The iPhone 4G itself and it’s very difficult to say it’s not made by the Cupertino’s notorious company because we’ve got enough evidence to turn your mind. (Thanks Gizmodo)

Let’s talk about the iPhone 4G, in depth.

Design

The new iPhone design isn’t revolutionary or something like that, but Apple has kept it simple but it still scores as  you couldn’t have expected anymore simplicity with all sorts of complex features wrapped inside. They’ve got a front facing camera too!

The round back (which i hated) is no more. It’s all flat like a football field now. If you’ve used a iPhone you would be familiar to the globular style shaping on the edges but the new iPhone has lost it and replaced is replaced with flat lining with metallic finish.

The Back is still plastic or glass, quite obvious because they could have used aluminium but it would have costed the iPhone reception problems which is basically the priority in mobile devices though they have used it in the borders.

All buttons except the home button have now been reformed to match the borders and have turned metallic. The symbolic joint volume switches are now separate (the ought to be, it’s a selecting the correct button and pressing it).

Lastly, this iPhone completes the complete Mac Family, it suits the rest of the products by Apple especially the iPad, MacBook and the iMac. The squared of feel also makes it look more elite compared to previous versions. Overall it is a game changer indeed.

Hardware

Geeks, gather round here. The new iPhone has a new standardization and is also a proof the genuinity of the the product. The components are so Apple-ish it is very difficult to deny that it could be a fake tip.

The Phone’s dimensions – 4.50 by 2.31 by 0.37 inches. The battery is larger than the 3GS battery, they managed to fit this in by minimizing the rest of the components inside. I’ll recall the mentioning the front facing camera, it’s up right next to the top speaker on the phone.

Folks over at Gizmodo claim the new iPhone to have a higher resolution than the previous generations. It uses a micro sim, yes the one that’s in iPad.

Talking about the camera, it camera’s lens is probably larger than the current iPhone and is now supported with Flash too!

Finally.

That’s all what we know about the new iPhone 4G though we could not have the feel of the phone running as Giz couldn’t pass through the Connect to Itunes image as the OS for the new unreleased iPhone isn’t obviously available.

For all those still tinkering how did Gizmodo get hands on the new iPhone, here’s the story.

You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it

It surely is a much better improved version compared to the older version, and it’s transparently visible with the classic appearance of the device.

iPhone 4G to be released this June : AT&T sources say so

Latest Speculation is that the next iPhone will be released sometime before July.

iPhone 4G

Why, you ask. Here’s a simple reason to digest the fact – AT&T has blocked all vacation leaves for the employees during the month of  June. AT&T did the same last year when Apple took over the world with the fastest iPhone till date, the 3GS. One fact still isn’t clear, will AT&T still be the exclusive partner for releasing iPhone in the US or will it lose to Verizon?

[Via BoyGeniusReport]

Our Take on the iPad

Did you get one? I did. Sadly, I will have to wait until late April to get my hands on it.

Everytime I hear or read someone talking about it, they mention “It’s just a big iPod touch”. The iPad is so much more then that. For example, lots of websites are now supporting HTML5 because of the iPad. The screen brings tons of possibilities with it. There is so much more space and power inside and out, developers and build more in-depth applications. A large amount of devs and designers are actually redesigning, coding, and re-submitting their apps for it, not just allowing it to double the size of the app. If you have checked out iTunes recently you can see all the beautiful new apps and the high price tags.

The iPad is a money bag. I have been scouting out apps I will buy when mine comes, and the total is well over $100. Since most of the popular apps like twitterific, Real Racing HD, and Things were built pretty much from the ground up, they are charging more then double compared to the iPhone versions. Things, by the development company Cultured Code, will be priced at $19.99, double the $9.99 for the iPhone version.

Editors Note : The App Store pricing has changed strikingly, but we see no clear reason for this. The app developers and the customers get the advantage of a larger screen but the development process is much similar to the iPhone and we think the prices shall be the same as the iPhone apps, but indeed the iPad is good business for Apple, whatever you say. From the product to the maintenance, accessories and the apps, its raining money for Apple.

Apple Store Currently down : Smells of updated MacBook pro’s

Currently Apple’s Online store is down and speculations start right away. The most obvious among them is the MacBook Pro refresh because the rumor has been around almost for about a week.

Apple Insider has been told that the refresh will add a 4GB of RAM to the MacBook Pro models , which include 2.4GHz and 2.66GHz 13-inch models, 2.4GHz, 2.55GHz and 2.66GHz 15-inch models, and a 2.53GHz 17-inch model. It’s also being said that models might have a 512 gigs Flash Storage.

Not to forget, the MacBook Pro’s will have three type of screen modifications available, Glossy, High Resolution Glossy and High Resolution Glossy with Anti Glare.