How do I switch "Internet access over mobile network" off in my old iPhone3?
I may want to hook on the Internet over Wi-Fi once in a while, but I must avoid "Internet access over mobile network", as its current SIM card has no dedicated tariff for that any longer.
In my Android set-up I would go here:
Settings > Wireless and networks (More settings > Mobile networks > Mobile data (Enable data access over mobile network)
I have no idea, how to achieve the same with my iPhone3.
Any hints appreciated.
Showing posts with label iPhone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iPhone. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
How to add more than one google/gmail Calendar to your iPad/iPhone - O'Reilly Answers
How to add more than one google/gmail Calendar to your iPad/iPhone - O'Reilly Answers
OMG, how long did it take them to find this out? I had written about this last year. And others even earlier.
OMG, how long did it take them to find this out? I had written about this last year. And others even earlier.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
how to browse music?
Today resp. just now I found "yet another time …", that browsing my music library in iTunes / on the iPod / on the iPhone "by genre" is much more fun, then browsing by name on my file system – what a surprise!
Yet I still insist, that my music library has to be kept "by name" on the file system. Quite a contradiction, isn't it?!? But browsing a huge amount of music, with lots of covers included, that definitely is fun. Have a nice weekend, all of you out there …
Yet I still insist, that my music library has to be kept "by name" on the file system. Quite a contradiction, isn't it?!? But browsing a huge amount of music, with lots of covers included, that definitely is fun. Have a nice weekend, all of you out there …
Monday, June 28, 2010
iPhone apps, that I need sooner or later
- Telefonkarte (Calling Card): supplies you with support for all sorts of call-through telecom providers, even your FRITZ!Box at home can serve as one and is indeed supported by this app
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Google Mail Contacts is my personal killer app
Serious!!!
Once again: it syncs with the iPhone address book.
I use it for reverse look up (phone number to address book entry) together with my telephone system in my home office, and that's build around an AVM "FRITZ!Box". The glue software got implemented by myself in ruby (w/o Rails).
Why ruby? I thought, I could make it run with Cocoa Ruby on the iPhone. But you know yourself: Apple fights those kinds of things. And just for running it with a GUI on a usual Mac OS X? No, that's not worth my effort.
Update / 2010-06-16 11:45:
I forgot mentioning xing.com here. Downloading vCards from xing and adding them here – that's just awesome!
Once again: it syncs with the iPhone address book.
I use it for reverse look up (phone number to address book entry) together with my telephone system in my home office, and that's build around an AVM "FRITZ!Box". The glue software got implemented by myself in ruby (w/o Rails).
Why ruby? I thought, I could make it run with Cocoa Ruby on the iPhone. But you know yourself: Apple fights those kinds of things. And just for running it with a GUI on a usual Mac OS X? No, that's not worth my effort.
Update / 2010-06-16 11:45:
I forgot mentioning xing.com here. Downloading vCards from xing and adding them here – that's just awesome!
I really love using vCards and profiles pictures from Xing
I "always" also "copy" them for my Google Mail address book, which gets synced with my iPhone's address book. This really makes my life so much easier – recognising resp. remembering people by their faces is so much easier.
Update / 2010-06-16:
I forgot to mention, that I always use Xing's vCards for new contacts to create resp. complete their entries in my Google Mail resp. iPhone address book.
Update / 2010-06-16:
I forgot to mention, that I always use Xing's vCards for new contacts to create resp. complete their entries in my Google Mail resp. iPhone address book.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
traveling on public transport using an iPhone
In Hamburg (Germany) you can use mobil.hvv.de, in Berlin (Germany) you can use mobil.bvg.de.
For Berlin there also exists a very nice iPhone app by the name of fahrinfo, which I really make use of a lot.
For Berlin there also exists a very nice iPhone app by the name of fahrinfo, which I really make use of a lot.
how to log into your iPhone using the root resp. the mobile account with a well-known password
This article on h-online.com helped me to log into my iPhone via ssh for the very first time. Find the instructions especially here! I used it for changing those passwords immediately, and I also created a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 for user mobile. Creating one for user root did not work, even "$ man sshd_config" did not help me, I still have to log in using a password.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
sipgate's SIP client for the iPhone
sipgate.de re-announced their SIP client for the iPhone on the 2009-10-30.
Downloaded it, started it, nice.
It can of course make us of my address book on the iPhone.
I'm not sure, I would want to use SIP over UMTS (if they don't restrict that anyways as Skype does), but for telephone over WiFi, that's pretty nice.
Downloaded it, started it, nice.
It can of course make us of my address book on the iPhone.
I'm not sure, I would want to use SIP over UMTS (if they don't restrict that anyways as Skype does), but for telephone over WiFi, that's pretty nice.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
creating phone book and diary entries from incoming calls on my router
If you read this title, how mad do you think I am? Honest!
Alright, "as you know" (so of course this article only applies to some sort of computer nerds), my router is a FRITZ!Box 7270, it's also the base station for my (wireless) phones, and a lot more ... -- certainly one of my most important toys or gadgets. And I have 2 of them, one for at home, one for anywhere outside, where I can only connect to the Internet through UMTS.
So alright, back to the title of this article!
Well, my router is running Linux as its operating system kernel, and BusyBox on top of it. On each incoming phone call it runs a shell script with a few parameters, of course the caller's phone# (if available) and also the callee's phone#. (I do have more than one phone#, and why not also record the called phone#, just for the record?) It tries to associate a name with the caller's phone#, if there is a matching entry in the phone book.
Quite a while ago I started implementing such a shell script, and obviously (as it is almost an ordinary (bash) shell script), I can develop and test it on any of my computers, that can run shell scripts, like any of my openSuSE computers, any WinXP computer running cygwin, a Mac running OS X, ... . Yes, I cannot create a full blown shell script, I will not pipe a lot through one-liner perl or ruby scripts on my router, but still: it's a handy and useful, not so tiny shell script.
So far it appears to me, as if no such executable gets called on the router for outgoing calls, but I can still mimic this behaviour by calling that script on my main development box.
Having said this, my script (fritz_box_calllog.sh) fulfills all the requirements, that I listed above in that bullet list.
For incoming calls without caller id and/or without a matching entry in the phone book it creates a piece of XML text, that I can paste into my FRITZ!Box XML phone book, and where I can fill in a phone# and a name or any descriptive text, so next time, I want to dial that phone# myself, I can select it from the phone book. And maybe another time that person will call you with caller id, and then you will be able to greet that person with her/his name. Wouldn't that be nice?
The implementation of this software also got inspired by Matthias Hühne's "Dial!Fritz", that I run on my iPhone. But of course his software is far completer and nicer, and it's well integrated.
Alright, "as you know" (so of course this article only applies to some sort of computer nerds), my router is a FRITZ!Box 7270, it's also the base station for my (wireless) phones, and a lot more ... -- certainly one of my most important toys or gadgets. And I have 2 of them, one for at home, one for anywhere outside, where I can only connect to the Internet through UMTS.
So alright, back to the title of this article!
- It's nice to record your incoming and outgoing calls in your diary, right? (my diary is emacs style)
- It's nice to get something descriptive displayed on your phone, when somebody calls, right?
- It's nice to extend your phone book through time as easily as possible, right?
Well, my router is running Linux as its operating system kernel, and BusyBox on top of it. On each incoming phone call it runs a shell script with a few parameters, of course the caller's phone# (if available) and also the callee's phone#. (I do have more than one phone#, and why not also record the called phone#, just for the record?) It tries to associate a name with the caller's phone#, if there is a matching entry in the phone book.
Quite a while ago I started implementing such a shell script, and obviously (as it is almost an ordinary (bash) shell script), I can develop and test it on any of my computers, that can run shell scripts, like any of my openSuSE computers, any WinXP computer running cygwin, a Mac running OS X, ... . Yes, I cannot create a full blown shell script, I will not pipe a lot through one-liner perl or ruby scripts on my router, but still: it's a handy and useful, not so tiny shell script.
So far it appears to me, as if no such executable gets called on the router for outgoing calls, but I can still mimic this behaviour by calling that script on my main development box.
Having said this, my script (fritz_box_calllog.sh) fulfills all the requirements, that I listed above in that bullet list.
For incoming calls without caller id and/or without a matching entry in the phone book it creates a piece of XML text, that I can paste into my FRITZ!Box XML phone book, and where I can fill in a phone# and a name or any descriptive text, so next time, I want to dial that phone# myself, I can select it from the phone book. And maybe another time that person will call you with caller id, and then you will be able to greet that person with her/his name. Wouldn't that be nice?
The implementation of this software also got inspired by Matthias Hühne's "Dial!Fritz", that I run on my iPhone. But of course his software is far completer and nicer, and it's well integrated.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Safari AdBlocker
Do you think, I am starting a fairy tale here? No, I'm not. Look it up on Apple's list of public downloads for Mac OS X. The link there is broken (right now), but read it and bend it! It points you to sweetpproductions.com, there you want to look for the Safari AdBlocker (maybe this link will still be functional). It works with Firefox AdBlock Plus filter subscritions.
Question is, how long it will take, until the iPhone's Safari can be made to block ads as well. I mean, an iPhone is an OS X derivative using Cocoa, so I wonder how hard that will be.
Well, now don't you complain here, if you find browsing without ads a poor experience!
Question is, how long it will take, until the iPhone's Safari can be made to block ads as well. I mean, an iPhone is an OS X derivative using Cocoa, so I wonder how hard that will be.
Well, now don't you complain here, if you find browsing without ads a poor experience!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
[[RATHER OLD ARTICLE]] how to remove an app installed through "Installous"
After I had bought my iPhone (on a German "prepaid" card, so: I did pay quite some money for it, and I don't feel like I stole it, and I don't have an expensive monthly tariff on a "postpaid" card), I got somebody to jailbreak it. He installed Cydia, Installous, and "all that".
I the meantime I also installed a few apps from those repositories, but I wasn't able to remove any of them.
Now I found a setting to get apps installed through Installous to appear under my iPhone's Applications on iTunes on my PC. Looks like that is a way to also remove them.
Yes, I read there is an issue with that "AppSync". So be sure, you know, what you do, before you also simply toggle that switch. Your "other apps" might get removed by iTunes next time you sync your iPhone.
I am now stuck in a huge sync, and I will interrupt it, as my SO keeps reminding me through the phone, that we have an appointment in the gym.
At least I do know now, how to get rid of that app, that I didn't find useful. It drives me nuts, if I can't find things like that out in a rather short time.
Oh, just a short extra note, before I leave for the gym: YES, that syncing DID remove a few apps, that I didn't want to get removed. Those were those navigation apps, that the guy thought I should get installed by him for quite some bucks. Well, not to worry, I shall poke him for that soon. Offfffffff for the gym!
I the meantime I also installed a few apps from those repositories, but I wasn't able to remove any of them.
Now I found a setting to get apps installed through Installous to appear under my iPhone's Applications on iTunes on my PC. Looks like that is a way to also remove them.
Yes, I read there is an issue with that "AppSync". So be sure, you know, what you do, before you also simply toggle that switch. Your "other apps" might get removed by iTunes next time you sync your iPhone.
I am now stuck in a huge sync, and I will interrupt it, as my SO keeps reminding me through the phone, that we have an appointment in the gym.
At least I do know now, how to get rid of that app, that I didn't find useful. It drives me nuts, if I can't find things like that out in a rather short time.
Oh, just a short extra note, before I leave for the gym: YES, that syncing DID remove a few apps, that I didn't want to get removed. Those were those navigation apps, that the guy thought I should get installed by him for quite some bucks. Well, not to worry, I shall poke him for that soon. Offfffffff for the gym!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
iPhone: "unlocked", "jailbreaking", Cydia, ...
What a pity, Apple attempts to make it impossible, to add whatever software the owner of an iPhone wants to add to his gadget! And they also don't allow me, to select the cheapiest carrier for phone calls and Internet traffic. I mean, I am seriously willing to pay a proper amount for that gadget, not that I am simply a thief. I do want to honour, that they provided us a very, very nice gadget.
A lot of useful information is actually descibed in the wikipedia article on the iPhone:
... "Jailbreaking" allows users to install apps not available on the App Store or modify basic functionality. SIM unlocking allows the iPhone to be used on a different carrier's network. ...
So, there are iPhones locked to the SIM-card, they were sold with, and there are ones, that are not locked to such a SIM-card. Apparently in Italy iPhones are available (October 2009), that are sold without such a SIM-lock. Obviously those pieces are also available sooner or later in Italy's neighbouring countries.
But there are also descriptions on the web, that show you, how to unlock your iPhone. Maybe those descriptions do not work for you and your current (latest) software on your iPhone.
Right now (2009-10-15) I am thinking about getting me such an Italian 3GS 36G thingie.
You do want to know about alternative installers and application repositories: read the article on Cydia, the application on wikipedia!
Afterwards you want to know, what Installous is ...
A lot of useful information is actually descibed in the wikipedia article on the iPhone:
... "Jailbreaking" allows users to install apps not available on the App Store or modify basic functionality. SIM unlocking allows the iPhone to be used on a different carrier's network. ...
So, there are iPhones locked to the SIM-card, they were sold with, and there are ones, that are not locked to such a SIM-card. Apparently in Italy iPhones are available (October 2009), that are sold without such a SIM-lock. Obviously those pieces are also available sooner or later in Italy's neighbouring countries.
But there are also descriptions on the web, that show you, how to unlock your iPhone. Maybe those descriptions do not work for you and your current (latest) software on your iPhone.
Right now (2009-10-15) I am thinking about getting me such an Italian 3GS 36G thingie.
You do want to know about alternative installers and application repositories: read the article on Cydia, the application on wikipedia!
Afterwards you want to know, what Installous is ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
iPhone address book Group info blanked again
I love "categorising" the contacts in my address books, in iPhone "speak": keeping them in Groups. I installed a utility, that can do that, it's called Grouper. But occasionally the all the Group details, that I entered get entirely reset. Actually the Group names still get listed, but all the Groups are left empty. I think, for the time being, I will not use that again on the iPhone.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
must-have downloads for the iPhone
this is actually just a little note for myself after reading the above blog entry.
what I selected for myself from that list are "best apps for taking photos", as the built in camera app is a little to simple of course:
- $0.99 for "Camera Zoom"
- $2.99 Pano
- FREE Postino
the best (and maybe only) app for running (yes, just "running") seems to be
- $9.99 RunKeeper Pro
I am not sure I need the latter one, maybe a Windows app would do the job just as well and with a more convenient keyboard, I mean a real keyboard.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
my iPhone twitter app: tweetie
I selected tweetie as my app, because it is quite outstanding in the comparison table on 12 Twitter Apps for the iPhone. It's quote important to me, that it is multi-account.
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