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Best way to tether your iPhone – PDAnet

Unlike most apps that will provide a proxy web service to your computer through your iPhone PDAnet will provide a complete network solution for tethering your computer.  Basically, you can use your iPhone as a computer wifi device, without restriction.  While proxy apps will work well for web applications, it doesn’t work for stuff like email, ftp, ssh, etc. PDAnet can handle all network traffic.  I’m using my iPhone right now to access the internet from my Macbook Pro and it’s quite fast!  Check PDAnet out!

http://lifehacker.com/5086490/the-best-way-to-tether-your-iphone-to-your-laptop-for-free

Bold vs iPhone

iphone-vs-blackberry-boldAfter buying both the iPhone and iPhone 3g, I became frustrated with the typical iPhone problems – spotty 3g network access, no cut-n-paste, etc. As a result, I was excited about the Bold and got one right when it came out. Having used a crackberry in the past was I confident that it would be the device for me.

I used the Bold for a number of days and learned an important lesson – Appreciate what you have. The Bold did not have all the answers, and after using the email and web interface on the Bold, I quickly realized that the iPhone was still the device to have.

Now I have a new appreciation for the iPhone. It has issues, no doubt. But the core functionality has yet to be challenged by any competitor.

After compiling a list of features and rating them, I posted the results at:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pLRnDwRBVmrELW9i6ug_-fw

Using system wide socks proxy with iphone tethering

apple-imageRecently I discovered a program called proxifier, a OS X Leopard program that will send all network traffic through a defined socks proxy server. So instead of defining the proxy settings in each individual program, simply turn on proxifier and redirect all the network traffic.

proxifier is the same thing as WideCap or FreeCap in the Windows side. tsocks for OS X may work as well.

So why is this important? Well, I’m on the road a lot and with a iPhone 3g that’s jailbroken you can install a socks server called 3proxy through the cydia installer and with proxifier you can route all your network traffic on your Mac through your new socks server at 3g speeds. This means I can get email, surf the web, use skype, etc. all through the iPhone Continue reading Using system wide socks proxy with iphone tethering