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AT&T Tethering on iPhone 3G
Jul 16th
SpeedTest result from Tethering with iPhone 3G
Ironic that the day I finally get my home Internet installed (Verizon FiOS) I also find out that my iPhone 3G does indeed support tethering on AT&T’s 3G GPRS network, and that it works surprisingly well and easily.
Here at my home, it’s not particularly fast — about half of the rated throughput I should be getting, but it beats the pants off of the slow wifi I’ve been using at coffee shops and such. Now, at least, I can go wherever I want to and work — not just the places that have Wi-Fi.
How does one do this? Just use your iPhone Safari browser, and browse to this address. You’ll want to check your contract to make sure that if you use data, it will indeed be free. For me, I’m already paying for unlimited data, so no worries there.
But you just install the configs for your provider, and blam — you’ve got tethering.
Now, all of the sudden, the money I’m shelling out for this AT&T service is seeming a lot more worth it!
First Refresh of Flickr & Flickr Map
May 26th
I’ve just started loading all of my trip photos to date into my Flickr Account, now that I’m at a hotel with some zippety-quick wifi. I have to drive all day tomorrow, though, so I only got up through Las Vegas. But, you can see what I’ve got on the map here:
Sorry if some of you aren’t map fanatics like I am, but the whole geo-tagging of photos, and then browsing them with a map interface just does not get old with me.
We’re in Kansas right now, so I have a lot more photos to load up, but let me know if you liked these. My favorites so far are these two, both in San Francisco:
Parade of Videos of our Trip through Utah/Colorado
May 26th
While my wife & I are on our way across the country, I finally was able to stop at a place that’s got wifi, so I’m finally able to upload and work with some of the photos & video that I’ve been taking over the last 48 hrs. (Sorry, yet another opportunity for me to dig on one of the iphone’s only faults — no video).
We’ve been driving through Utah, Colorado and Kansas over the last 2 days, and have gotten to travel on what I feel are the most breathtakingly beautiful stretches of U.S. Interstate highway that there is.
Here’s a little sampling:
This was a rest stop in Utah on the I-70, not even marked as a “scenic turnout” or “vista” or anything. Just a bathroom stop.
And this is Glenwood Canyon in Colorado, part of what is the newest stretch of I-70, completed in 1996. Unfortunately, I left my wide-angle lens in the car!
And then here’s driving through the Eisenhower Tunnel on the I-70, at around 9,500 feet in altitude:
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