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Taking photos with the iPhone

Posted by d_tremblay 232 days ago iPhone Tips
Have you ever tried to take a self-photo (or a MySpace type of photo) with your iPhone, but couldn't find the virtual button once the phone is backward? Well, there is a solution to that problem. Did you know that the iPhone actually takes the picture when you release the button, not when you press on it. So what you do is simply press and hold the button while the screen is facing you. Then you Read More
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Changing the root password on your iPhone!

Posted by ftremblay 295 days ago iPhone Tips
There has been a lot of talk about iPhone viruses for jailbroken iPhones lately, so here is how to secure your iPhone. The latest viruses aren't actually exploiting a vulnerability in the iPhone's firmware, it is just using SSH that has been left open combined with the default password "alpine" which Apple uses on all iPhones. The main reason why non-jailbroken iPhones aren't vulnerable is that Read More
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Push Gmail on the iPhone

Posted by ftremblay 327 days ago iPhone Tips
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252 — Google has finally added Push support for the iPhone. Obviously Apple is pushing Mobile Me, so Google didn't get Apple's collaboration on this. They bypassed Apple by using Microsoft Exchange to make push work. I've been using it for a few days and it seems to be working pretty well. I also kept the IMAP account setup because it seems as though the Exchange server is down occasionally.

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