Today’s Links (07/11/08)
- BBC NEWS | Politics | Shops may take ID card biometrics
‘Supermarkets could be asked to take people’s fingerprints as part of the government’s identity card scheme.’ What. The. Fuck? - Barack Obama: How He Did It
Fascinating, sometimes gossipy behind-the-scenes look at the Presidential campaign. The fact that the reporters ‘were granted year-long access on the condition that none of their findings appear until after Election Day’ is pretty dubious, though. - Podcast Downloading Confirmed in iPhone Firmware 2.2 | TheAppleBlog
Cool. (For some reason I’ve got really into listening to podcasts on my iPhone, though I never did on my iPod.) - PdaNet — Use your iPhone as a Wireless Router for your PC/Mac
If there’s no official way of tethering in the next month, I’m going to have to jailbreak my ‘phone for this. - AT&T-sanctioned 3G tethering on the way for iPhone
Fingers crossed O2 follows.
I’m sure you’ll know this as I seem to recall you had a N95 at some point.
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/02/05/turn-your-s60-device-into-a-wifi-hotspot.html
not sure if Jaiku has an iPhone version yet? I reckon Apple will release their own on-board version with the next iPhones.
Posted by Luke at 10am on 10.11.08
joikuspot not jaiku :)
Posted by Luke at 3pm on 10.11.08
Yeah, I used to use that with the N95. I did the jailbreak thing, and PdaNet works perfectly. Even if Apple/o2 do provide an official solution, it’ll no doubt involve paying extra for tethering, so I’ll probably stick with the naughty illegal method…
Posted by Jack Mottram at 3pm on 13.11.08