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Update: Native Tethering To IPhone On Linux

I missed out something important in my previous post on the native tethering on Linux. Turns out my tethering works only after I kick off the tether from Windows (Which resides in a VM on my machine). Further digging led me to the following site.
http://giagio.com/wiki/moin.cgi/iPhoneEthernetDriver
In order to get tethering to work, you need to ‘pair’ [...]

Native IPhone Tethering On Linux (Debian)

For some reason, I can get tethering to work natively on Linux after I did an upgrade on my unstable Debian.
This was not possible previously. Now the kernel detects a new device called ipheth (IPhone USB Ethernet device). This is the magic that made the tethering possible. And the best part is that it works [...]

IPhone Tethering – Use and Abuse!

This is the geeky sequel to my last Linux to IPhone tethering episode where we used and abused the IPhone tethering function.
Some background, I’m one of those people who contracted (and got stuck) with the 50G SingTel Mobile Broadband Plan before the days of 12GB IPhone plan. My usage was about 4G per month, so [...]

Linux to IPhone Tethering In 5 Mins

Tethering from a mobile phone is not new to me. I started from the days of having to script the ppp chat scripts to wvdial to finally having Network Manager recognizing my mobile phone as a 3G modem.
IPhone is new. I have been reading about tethering on Linux as soon as I bought it. Painful [...]

Getting The Wii Motion Plus? Hold Your Horses!

Wii Motion Plus replacement coming soon in March! A new device that combines the Motion Plus and WiiMote into 1 single controller.

Update – Cost of Nexus One For Singapore Buyers

The actual cost for shipping the brand new Google Phone / Nexus One to Singapore

Nokia N79 Active with Polar Heart Rate Monitor

As part of my effort to improve my physical fitness (and appearance), I have been getting into more activities. I’m jogging more regularly and bought a new mountain bike. And being a geek, naturally I would want to visualise the efforts in a geeky manner. So now I’m plotting my routes and paths with Nokia [...]