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SMS Widget für’s Dashboard

2. Dezember 2009 Keine Kommentare

Hat man einen Computer zur Hand, gibt es durchaus Gründe diesen auch zum SMS-Versand zu gebrauchen. Das Tippen geht schneller mit einer großen vollständigen Tastatur und gewöhnlich sind die Kosten auch niedriger wenn man die SMS-Nachricht über’s Internet verschickt. Manchmal ist es sogar kostenlos!

Überraschender Weise kenne ich nicht viele Leute die das tun. Ein Grund könnte darin liegen, dass häufig die erlaubte Zeichenanzahl niedriger ist und Werbung automatisch an die SMS-Nachrichten angehängt wird… und wer will schon seine Freunde voll spammen? Ein anderer Grund der Leute davon abhält SMS über ihren Computer zu verschicken könnte die Prozedur sein, sich auf einer Website anzumelden bevor man mit dem Schreiben beginnen kann. Damit könnte es am Computer doch länger dauern als mit dem Handy zu schreiben.

Vor einiger Zeit habe ich ein kleines Widget geschrieben, dass SMS schreiben einfacher macht.

  1. Da es sich im Dashboard befindet, habt ihr immer sofortigen Zugriff daruf!
  2. Es nutzt das Adressbuch deines Macs mit Auto-Vervollständigung. Ihr brauchst also nur die Anfangsbuchstaben des Adressaten einzugeben.
  3. Als Dienstleister ist nur TerraSIP möglich. Sie verlangen 4.9 Cents pro Nachricht (weltweit) und werbefrei.

Hier sind ein paar Screenshots:
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Categories: on the iPhone, other Stuff

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16. Februar 2009 2 Kommentare

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Wie ihr vielleicht wisst, gibt die timestamp-option des date Befehls die Anzahl der Sekunden seit Beginn der Unix-Epoche (1.1.1970) aus.
Am Freitag den 13. 23:31:30 wurden meine Zeitgenossen und ich Zeugen eines einzigartigen Ereignisses: Die Zeit schlug 1234567890.

Ein ähnlich signifikantes Ergeignis wird in ungefähr 273 Jahren stattfinden.

Categories: on the iPhone, other Stuff

Howto: Turn off EDGE on iPhone 2.0

20. Juli 2008 21 Kommentare

UPDATE:
BossPrefs is now available for Firmware 2.0! You can find it in the Cydia-Installer. It lets you turn on and off EDGE on demand! So use BossPrefs instead!
 

Firmware 2.0 came and installer.app left.
Right. Installer.app will not work on firmware 2.0 phone, nore will the the other apps you have installed with installer before. This also means, that you won’t have BossPrefs or Services to turn on or off your EDGE connection on demand. Here is a little workaround to permanently turn EDGE off until the above tools will become available for the firmware 2.0.

First, to save you from any costs immediately, you should turn on the flight-mode and then turn on Wi-Fi again (yes, this combination is now possible). This turns off EDGE but also the phone capability, so it’s not a solution.

As a requirement you need to have OpenSSH installed. You probably have, if you chose the simple-mode in pawnage-tool.
I will describe the graphical way here but you can also do it via Terminal.
Hint: You might set the auto-lock time in Settings to never while doing this, since it will loose connection on locking. 

  1. Find out your iPhone’s IP Address in Settings>Wi-Fi by clicking on the small arrow next to your Wi-Fi Network.
  2. Open Cyberduck (you don’t have it? Get the best FTP-client for mac here http://cyberduck.ch)
  3. In Cyberduck, click on Open Connection. There,
    1. choose SFTP as the protocol to use
    2. enter your iPhone’s IP address as the server address
    3. root as user name
    4. alpine as password
  4. Once connected, go to /System/Library/Carrier Bundles
  5. You’ll see a lot of numbers. Don’t worry. Scroll down to end of the list to find human-readable names and choose your carrier.
  6. Download carrier.plist (if you do this with Terminal, open this file with nano)
  7. Double-click it to open it with Property List Editor
  8. Go to Root>apns>0 and change the value of apn (it’s sufficient to add an extra word, e.g. offline so you can undo changes later if you need to)
  9. Safe and upload the file to the same spot where you downloaded it off you iphone (be sure here, Cyberduck might fool you).
  10. Restart your iPhone and turn off airplane-mode. You can try if it worked by turning off Wi-Fi and trying to access a web page. If it says “unable to connect” you did everything right :)
Categories: on the iPhone

iPhone 2.0 unlock available!

20. Juli 2008 1 Kommentar
This morning, the iPhone dev-team posted this beautiful comment

This morning, the iPhone dev-team posted this beautiful comment

Here is how to do it:

The apps you installed with installer.app will be removed!
The installer.app is not available for Firmware 2.0 right now!

  1. Download the Pwnage-Tool from one of the mirrors posted in their blog
    e.g.: http://thebigboss.org/repofiles/nonrepo/PwnageTool_2.0.zip
    or: http://rapidshare.com/files/131007777/PwnageTool_2.0.zip
  2. Download the Firmware 2.0 from
    here: iPhone1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw
    Do it with Firefox! Safari will unzip it automatically and you won’t be able to use it unzipped
  3. Download the Bootloaders 3.9 and 4.6
    3.9: http://ispazio.net/FFU/files/BL-39.bin.zip
    4.6: http://ispazio.net/FFU/files/BL-46.bin.zip
  4. Run the Pawnage Tool you downloaded in 1.
    You might want to run it in expert mode to edit Boot-Images and install custom packages.
    It will eventually build a single, custom .ipsw-File.
  5. Put your iPhone to recovery-mode. For this do the following
    1. Turn it off
    2. Plug in the USB-connector
    3. Push and hold the power- and home-button
    4. After approx. 3 seconds release the power-button but still hold the home-button
    5. When the recovery-sign appears, you can release the home-button as well
  6. iTunes will tell you, that it found a device in recovery-mode
  7. Hold down the alt-key and click on the restore…-button in iTunes
  8. Select your custom .ipsw-file
  9. After recovery, the BootNeuter.app will run and unlock your phone.
  10. After restart, you can restore an backup of your iPhone with iTunes
Categories: on the iPhone

Seat belts fastened!

16. Juli 2008 Keine Kommentare

This has been an exciting week for macies since Apple started selling the iPhone 3G, replaced its .Mac platform by the new MobileMe service, published the new Firmware 2.0 for iPod and iPhone and launched the AppStore in iTunes. Even Steve Jobs said it was his biggest launch ever. After some stumbling on Friday afternoon they are up and running and people are starting to calm down (or checking out the games on the appstore)…

Everyone? No! Some people are still enjoying the pre-release thrill. Namely those that have their iPhone unlocked. The Dev-Team is jollying them along with videos and posts like 

We are almost there. Please fasten your seat-belts.

Our seat-belt is so tight we can hardly breathe!

Categories: on the iPhone