Last night, a very interesting app appeared in the AppStore. It’s name was NetShare, a utility from Nullriver that allowed you to tether your iPhone’s internet connection to your computer.
Many people, including myself, were quite surprised that this made it past the AppStore sensors. While AT&T offers tethering for many of it’s 3G devices, iPhone is not one of them. It didn’t seem like an app like this would go down well with them, and apparently, it didn’t. About 18 minutes after NetShare arrived on the AppStore, it was taken down. You could still see it when you searched for “netshare,” but if you selected it, you received a message notifying you that “The item you requested is no longer available.”
This brings up many questions. Was NetShare supposed to be there in the first place? Did it slip by Apple’s AppStore guards? Did AT&T make Apple take it down? Was the word “lawsuit” possibly involved? Nobody knows. The app was also taken down from Nullriver’s site. I have asked them to comment, but no response yet.
While it was available, NetShare cost $9.99. Using a SOCKS5 proxy, the app allowed you to use your iPhone’s EDGE or 3G connection on your Mac or PC. Several users were able to grab the app in the time frame in which it was available, and they report that it works wonderfully. Anyone that did manage to get their hands on it can see a tutorial here.
UPDATE: Nullriver has issued this response to those who contacted them about the app:
We’re not quite sure why Apple took down the application yet, we’ve received no communication from Apple thus far. NetShare did not violate any of the Developer or AppStore agreements. We’re hoping we’ll get some feedback from Apple tomorrow. Sorry to all the folks that couldn’t get it in time. We’ll do our best to try to get the application back onto the AppStore if at all possible. At the very least, I would hope Apple will allow it in countries where the provider does permit tethering.
UPDATE #2: It looks like NetShare is now available again in the AppStore. Grab it while you can, because who knows when it may disappear again. Also, use at it your own risk for now; we still have no word on whether or not this violates your carrier’s terms of service.
UPDATE #3: Aaaaaand, it’s gone, again! Very early this morning, NetShare was yanked again. Nobody, including Nullriver, has heard anything from Apple or AT&T. Until we do, be sure to now download any large files or use the internet too much on a tethered computer, as it’s smart to try and stay below AT&T’s radar.
Posted By Lincoln on Monday, July 28, 2008 under General | 5 Comments
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A while ago, we wrote about a way to shorten the time that your iPhone running the 2.0 software takes to sync. In this method, you cancelled the part of the sync in which your iPhone was backed up. While this most certainly does improve sync times, you won’t be happy with yourself when you’re forced to restore your iPhone and you don’t have that backup.
However, iPhoneFreak has discovered another way to improve your times. By default, diagnostic data from your iPhone is sent to Apple every time you sync. (This data does not contain any personal information, only crash logs and the like.) Apparently, this takes a good bit of time as well. Follow the steps after the break to disable this.
First off, you should know that Evernote is not only for iPhone. It also offers a web-based service, and a desktop application for Mac and PC.
Evernote on iPhone allows you to take notes in four four forms: Text Note, Snapshot Note, Saved Photo Note, and Audio Note. Once you have composed a note, it is synced with your Evernote account, and the note will immediately appear in your online account and on your Mac or PC. You can also use a very nice feature to search for text not only in your Text Notes, but in your Photo Notes as well. Once a photo has been synced with Evernote’s servers, text inside photos can be recognized. Read more… »
Posted By Lincoln on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 under General | 2 Comments
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One of the nifty features of the 2.0 software is taking screenshots by pressing the Home and Lock buttons at the same time. There are lots of ways to make use of the feature: screenshots for an app review, capturing your home screen to show to your friends, or grabbing a page in Safari to look at later.
However, there’s one quite useful feature of it discovered by James1292 on the Apple Discussions board. It’s a way to crop photos on your iPhone, a feature that has been frequently asked for. It’s simple to do; just zoom in on the portion of the image you want to crop, and take a screenshot. There will then be a new image of the area you selected. Of course, this won’t result in the highest quality image, (quality will decrease as you zoom further) but it’s a start.
When you Google “iPhone apps”, this website comes up as the top hit. When you view, the page, you see an offer that reminds you of MacHeist; a bundle of the “top 10 iPhone apps”, that all go for a price of $24.95, which the website calls “a steal”
However, there are quite a few interesting things about it, if you look deeper. First of all, you are required to jailbreak your iPhone to use these application, and the website does not state this on the home page or state that you cannot install the apps with the consent of Apple. Also, in order to jailbreak the iPhone, the website sells ZiPhone, a freeware jailbreaking app. Also, there are two interesting apps in the bundle; a screenshot app and a VNC app. Taking screenshots is supported in the 2.0 firmware, and there is a free VNC app in the AppStore. Hmmm.
The website also contains a lot of improper grammar, and the link to the “Live Chat” does not work. There have been customers of the website that have lost their money and not received the bundle. I advise you not to buy these applications and to avoid the website.
Posted By Lincoln on Friday, July 18, 2008 under General | 1 Comment
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WeatherBug is an application that gives more location-based weather information that the standard weather app found on iPhones and iPod touches. To get weather for your current location, you can either enter your zip code or have WeatherBug use the GPS or Triangulation features to locate you.
Once you have set the location, WeatherBug displays lots of information, including the current temperature, wind >speed, weather alerts, and High and Low temperatures for three days (these can be tapped for even more information). There is also a tab at the bottom of the screen that shows radar for your area, using Google Maps as the background. You can also browse through pictures that were taken in or near your selected area.
There are a few improvements to the app that could be made with future updates, such as displaying information for more days than three. Also, the photo browser could include more photos, as well as ones that were taken closer to your location; some of the ones that I was shown in were in Virginia and Ohio, and I live in West Virginia. However, the app has not crashed once or rebooted my iPhone, so stability gets a good rating. All in all, WeatherBug is a very nice, useful little app.
Today is July 11th, 2008, and today the iPhone 3G and iPhone Software 2.0 are finally available. The 2.0 update was announced in March, along with the iPhone SDK, and iPhone 3G was announced last month, on June the 9th. The software upgrade is available today, as is iPhone 3G, which will be in consumer’s hands this morning at 8:00 AM. Read more… »
Posted By Lincoln on Thursday, July 10, 2008 under General | No Comments
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It’s been a long wait since iPhone 3G and the iPhone Software 2.0 was announced, but that wait is over tomorrow morning. iPhone 3G will go on sale at 8:00 AM at your local AT&T and Apple stores, and the iPhone 2.0 Software will be available for download for V1 iPhones either tomorrow - or, according to rumor, sometime today. Also, if you have updated to iTunes version 7.7, you can now download apps from iTunes. They won’t work on iPhone - but they’re there!
What will you be doing tomorrow? Waiting in line to get your hands on that new iPhone, or sitting at your desk, updating your current iPhone? Let us know in the comments.
Yesterday, Gizmodo posted a video walkthrough of the new iPhone 2.0 (build 5A345) software, as well as screenshots of the iTunes 7.7 confidential pre-release — which will be required to install the new iPhone OS.
Gizmodo confirms that everything Apple promised - the push data feature, the content restrictions, the BCC field in Mail, etc - is there. The AppStore is there; however, it is not operational yet as Apple hasn’t officially released the firmware. The site also reports that both the firmware and iTunes 7.7 are “rock solid,” and the iTunes Music Store as well as MobileSafari as faster than in previous versions of the firmware.
In iTunes, the iPhone section now has an Applications tab, but there are no apps to try it out yet. There are also three changes in the iTunes Preferences: automatically check for available downloads, age gaming restrictions, and, quite interesting - look for iPhone and iPod Touch remotes. This pretty much confirms the rumor of Apple providing a free application allowing the iPhone/iPod Touch to control iTunes.
Google has just announced that it will be providing Google Talk for the iPhone and iPod Touch. As Google Talk will be a web application, you won’t need to download it from the AppStore, and your iPhone does not have to be jailbroken to use it. To view the Mobile Safari-based Google Talk page, point your iPhone or iPod Touch to google.com/talk. You can also access it through any browser via this link: http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/m
As it is a WebApp and runs in Safari, GoogleTalk will switch your status to “Unavailable” when you are viewing another window in Safari or when you return to the home screen - it cannot run in the background. A description of the app from the Google Mobile team:
We’ve tried to keep the design as faithful to the desktop experience as possible, so it should be familiar to you. You can select from a quicklist of the people you contact most, search your contacts, and manage multiple conversations.
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Last night, a very interesting app appeared in the AppStore. It’s name was NetShare, a utility from Nullriver that allowed you to tether your iPhone’s internet connection to your computer.
First off, you should know that 
WeatherBug is an application that gives more location-based weather information that the standard weather app found on iPhones and iPod touches. To get weather for your current location, you can either enter your zip code or have WeatherBug use the GPS or Triangulation features to locate you.
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