iPhone TIPS: iPhone Controlled Beer Robot

Hey please give me a beer. Great iPhone app to make a robot toss you a beer of your choice and to where ever you are sitting in the livingroom.

iPhone TIPS: The $2 Cheap Earbuds Question

As a owner of iPods iPhones and iPads, you once in a while need to replace the earbuds. The white earbuds are included on every purchase of your iDevice. However, when your earbud-set has been lost or broken, you have to pay like $30 for a new set. The good news is, there are cheaper alternatives. The big question: Should I buy $2 Earbuds for my iDevices? Lets have a look at the site DealExtreme.com by far my most favorite site. A colleague mentioned about this site which is originated in HongKong. The big advantage of this company is that they offer free shipping for most of the products, worldwide! Second big advantage is the extreme low prices they ask for the products. There is a special iPhone and iPad section  and even a section with dirt cheap Earbuds. I have bought 5 sets earbuds of the white OEM-look-a-likes after reading and being convinced of the customer reviews. The earbuds are as good as the originals. I don't want to link to the specific product  I bought to stay out of trouble. But just trust yourself and carefully read the customer reviews. I also bought 4 pieces of Car-Cigarette-Power-USB-Adaptor (omg what a long name) from the Top Sellers page for around $2 a piece. I use them to charge my iPhone in the car, and they work like a charm. Or you need a some new case? Search for "Bumper" and you are wondering why the originals are 10 times more expensive than these. As mentioned before, most of the products on DealExtreme.com offer free shipping. And that is great, but you need to be patience, because the ordered product are shipped from HK via regular postoffice agencies. That can take up to 10+ days or more to reach your front door.
website: dealextreme.com

iPhone TIPS: Apple 2010 Zeitgeist Video

 We are nearing the end of 2010. To illustrate what Apple has achieved in 2010, a Hongkong based student has created this video. It is very good, I think. Especially if you notice that Kelvin Choi is just 15 years old. Checkout his channel for more of his work. Note: I haven't checked all the facts and numbers in this video but it looks alright.

 

iPhone TIPS: Stream Videos To Your Mac with AirPlay For FREE [without Jailbreak or Apple TV]

Question: Can I use Airplay without owning a Apple TV (2th Gen). Answer, yes you can! Question: Okay How can I stream from my iPhone, iPod or iPad and to where? Answer: You only need to have iOS 4.2 running on your iDevice. With that you can stream photo's video's and YouTube to your Mac OSX device. No iTunes is needed, no Jailbreak is needed and it is free! Question: Please tell me how to do it? Simple download the mac program called AirPlayer from well known fellow blogger writer and developer Erica Sadun HERE. Then execute Airplayer on the Mac OSX device which is connected to the same Lan connection on the WiFi netwerk of your iOS 4.2 iDevice. You are ready to go. Question: How to stream photo's and video's. Answer: Apple TV owners should be familliar with the AirPlay button when open an photo in your photos app. It is a blue white square with a bluewhite-solid triangle. Just hit that button, which you will find when viewing photo or viewing a youtube movie. 

Example of a YouTube video on my iPhone 4. Tap the AirPlay button, to start selecting the destination device next.

It then pop-up with a selection buttons for stream destinations. Among them, you will see a button of your Mac OSX devices, which could be a Macbook, iMac or a Pro.

Hit the button of the Mac OSX device and your iDevice is streaming the pictures to your bigg ass computer screen. 

Tap the Mac OSX device as the destination of your video stream.

This is what you see on your big Mac OSX computer.

Note as a iPhone owner, that at this moment, you can stream your own videos but not the ones from your camera roll. This is a known behavior of iOS 4.2 (1) and will hopefully fixed in the next iOS update. If you own a Apple TV (2th gen like me) then you must have noticed this strange missing feature. The AirPlayer is at the moment in beta. 
info at ericasadun.com

iPad TIPS: iPad 2 Will Arrive April 2011

March 2th 2011 UPDATE HERE
Digitimes report the following regarding to the next generation iPad  Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) plants in Shenzhen, China have recently been notified they will ship Apple's iPad 2 within the next 100 days with initial shipments to reach 400,000-600,000 units, according to sources from Taiwan-based component makers. However, Foxconn declined to comment on its products or clients. Via Digitimes

iPhone TIPS: No Tethering after iOS 4.2 Update and Carrier Settings Update (FIX)

Always choose "Not Now" to Cancel

 -by http://iphone-tips-tricks.com - If you update your iPhone to iOS 4.2.1 and/or you also choose to update a "Carrier Settings Update",

than your Tethering may get disabled. Before these updates, your tethering was working fine. I had the same problem with my iPhone 4 (UK factory unlocked) and I have fixed it. This post explains how I did it. No jailbreak needed! Read me...:) 

First check if you are suffering from the same problem that I did.
Go to Settings => General => Network

You will see a button called "Set Up Tethering"

When you tap on it, It will ask you to "contact (your provider)to enable tethering"

Second check the "Cellular Data Network" Tap via Settings => General => Network
Notice that there is NO Internet Tethering section anymore.

If the above checks are true you have the same problem: The "Carrier Settings Update" has disabled tethering. You could contact (your provider) if you are sure your provider is offering tethering with your 3G subscription. Unfortunately for most of us, it was on purpose to disable tethering with the "Carrier Settings Update" !

If your do regular backups of your iPhone, than you can get tethering back by Restoring your iPhone from previous backup from a date BEFORE you did the "Carrier Settings Update".
Quickly check your backups via:

• Connect your iPhone to iTunes.
• In Devices, Rightclick iPhone icon => choose Restore Backup... 
• Verify in the dropdown box if there is a previous backup from a date BEFORE you did the "Carrier Settings Update". If yes, than go to the next steps. If no, come back later to this site to check if there is a solution without restoring backups.

impression (old screenshot) of the dropdown box showing previous backups

Okay lets go back in time....before you did the "Carrier Settings Update"...The time that tethering was working fine... Let's do it.

NOTE: From this point, If iTunes or iPhone is ever asking for a "Carrier Settings Update" just tap "NOT NOW" to CANCEL !

1. Connect your iPhone to iTunes
2. Create a backup of your iPhone (just to be sure) - In Devices, Rightclick iPhone icon => choose Backup iPhone. This takes some time...
3. Restore your iPhone to a "virgin" iOS state - Select the iPhone device icon => Select summary page => Click "Restore" button to restore. After the restore, which takes some time, the iPhone will have state as if you just bought it with the latest iOS version onboard . After the activation of your "new" iPhone you will be asked if you want to restore a previous backup. go to the next step. 
4. restore a previous backup, choose to restore a backup which is created on a date BEFORE you did the "Carrier Settings Update" - Select it and Continue. The restore will take some time.

Done!

Check your "Cellular Data Network" Tap via Settings => General => Network

There should be a Internet Tethering section. If so, enter the provider APN, username, password of your provider by hand. Find your APN settings via this Post

Tethering should work now. Please comment your experience
source: iphone-tips-tricks.com

  

iPhone TIPS: How To Do Word Search in Safari (iOS 4.2)

Q: I like to search for words and phrases on a website with Safari. How can I do that? A: The word search option is hidden in iOS 4.2 in the "regular" Search box in the right-upper corner of Safari. Just do the following to search for in-site words.

Open the desired website in Safari

Tap the regular Search box right-upper corner

Type the word(s) you are looking for. Notice the "On This Page (x match)"just above your keyboard.

Now the trick: Tap-And-Hold your finger in the search results, the slide the search results up (or down) a bit. The keyboard will disappear.

Okay, at the bottom of the result tap on - Find "your search keyword(s)"-

This will lead you to the website with the found keywords highlighted in yellow.

The "Next" button will bring you to the next spot where the keyword appears.