Here is a quick how-to on how to connect to your work’s VPN on the iPhone and use it on your laptop. Special thanks to Nutbar on HowardForums who helped me with the last trick about the connection order.
- Jailbreak your iPhone ( http://www.quickpwn.com/2008/09/jailbreak-iphone-2… )
- Install PdaNet from Cydia
- Get PdaNet working by setting up an AdHoc Wifi network on your laptop. Then connect your iPhone to it, start PdaNet.
- Test the connection on your laptop by browsing a few websites through the iPhone.
- Disable PdaNet and Wifi for now.
- Try connecting to your IPSec VPN from your laptop. It *MIGHT* work but will probably not. If it does work, you’re done here!
- If it didn’t work, setup the VPN connection on your iPhone. Most types of VPNs are supported, I tried with IPSec but others such as L2TP and PPTP should work (Some providers apparently do not support PPTP/GRE unless you pay an extra fee.. *cough* Rogers *cough*)
- Test the VPN connection on the iPhone by connecting to it and then loading an Intranet page from Safari to confirm that it is indeed working. If your VPN uses a second authentication page, like some Checkpoint setups do, open that page on the iPhone and authenticate again.
- Enable Wifi, connect to your AdHoc network. Start PdaNet.
- Enjoy your tethered VPN from your laptop. It might be a bit slow but you don’t have to get a card for your laptop, and if you’re on Rogers/Fido, the 6gig data plan allows for that. It can be a hell of a life saver when there’s that big problem at 2am and you’re in the middle of nowhere!*
- For very simple tasks that don’t require a lot of work and can be done over RDP, WinAdmin is a remote desktop program for iPhone that will work well over the VPN. Get it from iTunes ! (Not Available in Canadian Store yet, find it somewhere else!)
WinAdmin screenshot
*note that Rogers doesn’t have coverage decent enough for that yet
*not tested on Edge but should work the same, just even slower.
*intensive data transfer actually drains the battery faster than it can charge over USB – don’t expect to be able to work 8hours in a row.
It happened a bit faster than I was hoping it to!
Someone patched Fring so it works over 3g instead of forcing you to go to Wifi. I have not tried it extensively yet, anyways, 3g around here is really bad for the moment, but this is great news to anyone hoping to use their Skype account more often!
Your iPhone needs to be jailbroken and you basically replace some files with the patched files. Hopefully there’s no backdoor in them!
1) You must be running a Jailbroken iPhone / iTouch
2) Install original Fring via iTunes App Store.
3) Now SSH into your iPhone / iTouch; remember root / alpine
4) Find Fring.app under root var/mobile/applications
5) To find the Fring.app, you then need to click on the most recently installed folder which will be your original Fring and inside should be the Fring.app
6) Unzip the files
7) Delete or rename the original Fring.app on your iPhone / iTouch
8 ) Copy the extracted 3g Fring.app from the zip folder across to your iPhone / iTouch either via the WinSCP (PC) or Yummy FTP (Mac).
9) Now you need to set the permissions. This is easy so please do make it more complcated for yourselves. ALL the files within the 3g Fring.app replacement must be set to 755 (Yummy) or 0755 (WinSCP). You should see all the files being altered as it goes through the process of changing the permissions.
10) When I tried it, it worked immediately after changing the permissions without a reboot but if it does not work then please reboot.
Google for “Fring Patched for 3g” – it should be on some popular torrent sites right now.
Screenshot of Fring over Rogers 3g allowing SkypeOut
You have probably noticed that the “New” category in the App store is..well.. not that new.
Pinchmedia has started aggregating info from the app store to compile it into RSS feeds.
http://www.pinchmedia.com/your-view-into-the-app-s… for all the info.
For the lazy ones (*cough* efficient *cough*):
New app feed
New free app feed
Shamelessly stolen mp3 from http://www.modemsite.com/56k/trouble3.asp
Took the Crank one for somewhere I can’t remember.
Converted to m4r for iPhone goodness. Import to iTunes straight away and enjoy. Click on Ringtones tag for more!
Crank Ringtone
Modem Handshake Ringtone
Get it here – Coupon at bottom of post
I received my invisibleSHIELD for iPhone 3g.
It came in a nice box, with the little squeegee and some spray to apply it. I read the instructions, watched the guide on their web site, and got to work.
Applying the front and the button piece was a piece of cake. I did it first, but I think it is a better idea to do the back first, let it try for a few hours, and then do the front. When doing the back, you apply a lot of pressure on it and you might ruin what you have done on the front, which thankfully did not happen to me, but came pretty close.
Applying the rear was easier than I expected it to, after reading comments of people who were “not able to get the corners to stick” etc.
I aligned the back piece with the headphone jack and the power/volume buttons, then folded it on its back and made sure the camera hole lined up. Then, I “squeegee’ d” it a bit to get the rear slightly glued.
Making the corners look good was not hard, but takes a while (half an hour maybe). The reason for that is that at first, the flaps are too soft and not sticky enough. I shaped the corners by stretching the flaps and applying some pressure with my palm, while breathing hot air on it. I did not get it perfect but I’m confident if I had to do a second one I could. There are some slight imperfections in the corners, and the alignment of the plastic on the chrome trims is not perfect either.
However, I usually carry my iPhone around in a Griffin Elan Clip so as long as the front is perfect, that is great. And while the back might not be perfect, it is still awesome to be able to carry it in my pockets without being afraid to scratch it.
Will post a follow up with close up pictures as soon as it is done drying !
*note that this is an actual unbiased review and that none of the links I posted send you to sites where I get referral money when you buy it. However if you do order one here are some coupons I found. They may or may not work, worth a shot:
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