T-Mobile HotSpot

Registration To get your login credentials, you have to send a SMS with the word open to 9526 (at least in Germany). After that you’ll get a SMS in return containing your login data. Bookmark You can add a bookmark to Safari with the following link: (Replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your data.)

Flash in Safari

(Found here.) You need to have a jailbroken iPhone for this. Add the repository http://d.imobilecinema.com/ to Cydia and find the iMobileCinema. After installing it, you should be able to watch Flash movies in Safari (most of the times).

Develop iOS Apps

real Apps Pseudo-Apps Pseudo-Apps is what I call the apps which are actually a bunch of HTML pages with JavaScript and some JavaScript-API for accessing the iPhone internal features. These open in a WebKit-control so that they are basically some spiced up websites. Web-Apps

Appulous

Appulous is a special AppStore for jailbroken iPhones. The problem of the original AppStore is that you can’t test the applications. You are mostly dependent on the reviews – if there are some. Appulous lets you test drive most applications from the AppStore. To install it, add the following source to Cydia: http://cydia.hackulo.us . Then… Read More »

Apple iPhone Jailbreak

See Wikipedia for a description of WHAT a jailbreak is. Jailbreak from Linux You’ll need SUN VirtualBox with working kernel modules and a working Windows VM. Repositories for Cydia There is a long list at alltechrelated.com with plenty of repositories for Cydia. Noteworthy apps Some interesting apps from the Cydia Installer:

SIEMENS Gigaset M34 USB 🇩🇪

Der Gigaset M34 USB-DECT-Adapter von SIEMENS funktionierte von meinen getesteten Basisstationen nur an der Gigaset SX440isdn in vollem Umfang. An der Gigaset SLX740isdn funktioniert er nur als drahtlose ISDN-Karte und an der Gigaset SL100 nur als VoIP-Telefon. Folgende Features bietet der Adapter: Remote control Mit dieser Funktion kann man vom Telefon aus bis zu 12… Read More »

CruzerSync

For the SanDisk cruzer Titanium U3, there is a sync-software called CruzerSync which really is an OEM version of DMailer. In the SanDisk U3 Download Central you’ll find a link to CruzerSync 6.2.042.1 which is ancient. Then I somehow found a link directly at DMailer.com, which serves CruzerSync 6.3.130.0 (which updates itself to 6.3.134.0 after… Read More »

Jamba Downloads 🇩🇪

Vor etlicher Zeit hatte ich mal 100,- € Guthaben bei Jamba gewonnen. Beim Versuch, ein Programm auf mein Samsung Z300 zu laden (das Z300 gibt’s bei Jamba nur unter der T-Mobile-Bezeichnung ZM60), zeigte mir Jamba, dass mein Handy angeblich keine Software downloaden könne. Der kleinere Bruder, das Z500, hingegen unterstützt das merkwürdigerweise. Früher hatte es… Read More »

mail-notification

Keyring error If you get the following error message: The password of IMAP/POP3 mailbox xxxxx could not be saved to the keyring. Check whether gnome-keyring-daemon runs. If not, just run it once and the mail-notification should work again.

Mixed Locales

I personally like English language operating systems. So I have set my Ubuntu to English language. But I still want German curency, decimals and time. With most applications, you can define the formats to use inside the application. But I stumbled at Evolution which lets you define 12/24-hour setting for the calendar, but doesn’t use… Read More »