Month: October 2008

65 Bits Episode 92 and 93

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Yeah I know I had been slow with the posting and stuff, but am really engrossed in trying to find a way to get one of the “bricks”, either the smaller one or the bigger one.

They are just so, so, sweet.

Anyway, these days I have been, thanks to the kind invitations from the dudes at Tech 65, been on their 65 bits podcasts relatively regularly. Have been on the past 2 weeks, on episodes 92 and 93, and before that, on episodes 87 and 85.

Do check out Singapore’s own Revision 3 at tech65.org.

The Easiest Ways to Disable Data on your iPhone 3G / 3GS

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This is for those poor souls who got served a 200SGD bill from Singtel because they didn’t read my article on the dangers of getting an iPhone without a data plan or read it way too late.

To disable data on your iPhone if you don’t have a data plan, the easiest way is to install bossprefs via Cydia and turn off edge and 3G, if you have a jailbroken iPhone.

For those of you purists who rock original unmodified iPhone software, the best way is to mess up the APN settings.

Under Settings>General>Network>Cellular Data Network>Advanced, change the settings from this;

APN: e-ideas
Username:
Password:

to something like this;

APN: xxxxxx
Username:yyyyyyyy
Password: zzzzzzzzz

Remember, it is not enough if you just turn off the 3G in the settings. All it does when you turn off the 3G is to revert to Edge/GRPS in order to save battery power.

Edit: Ever since iPhone 3.0 came out, many iPhone users, particularly Starhub ones, have complaint that changing the APN settings no longer stop the 3G/GRPS data from working. The only way is to call up Starhub, and tell them that you want to cancel your GPRS service with immediate effect.

Why people should stop whining about getting their apps rejected from the App Store

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Great article by Applematters on just why people should just stop whining about having apps like Mail and iTunes alternatives rejected from the iPhone App Store. If you want to complain so much, let me offer you some alternative platforms, the darkside platform called Windows Mobile, the only-just-recently-caught-on-despite-so-many-years-of-development Symbian platform, and the we-want-to-be-apple-and-we-hate-microsoft Google Android platform.

You can find the article here.