Yesterday Telstra turned on internet tethering for the iphone! (I think they are the only carrier in Australia to do this.)
Tethering is where you use your iPhone as a wireless modem to connect your computer to the web. It’s useful if you are out with your laptop and you don’t have access to the web. Just plug your iPhone into your laptop via USB and it acts as a wireless modem! Here’s how to get it going.
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A blog is like an online diary or journal, where you type entries and people can read them. A blog site is designed to be easily updated regularly. There are various ways to set up a blog, here are a few, I have listen them in order of simplicity… Continue reading »
ShareWeb pages generally do not automatically appear on search engine results pages. To make your site appear in google and other search engines you need to manually add your site. This is called submitting your site to a search engine. You don’t have to pay to do this – it’s free. Read on to find out how to submit your site to Google.
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NOTE: This article is for iWeb 08 and earlier. Click here for how to do this in iWeb 09.
SUMMARY: iweb normally publishes your website to your .mac account. But it also has an option in the file menu called ‘publish to folder’ which means it saves the entire website onto your computer. (It puts it in your user directory in a folder called ‘sites’) To publish the site you then have to manually copy your site to the web with an ftp program so that others can see it. That information may be all you were after, but if you need step by step instructions on how to do that, read on!
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I just found this great guide to how to login to your mac from over the internet from anywhere.
http://howto.diveintomark.org/remote-mac/
ShareThe new Telstra USB Next G modems work quite well but a few problems with the bigpond driver for OSX. The auto setup has a few problems, it misses some steps and describes some steps wrongly, ,so best if you have an experienced mac user with you while you install!
1. Get a telstra bigpond external wireless USB modem, it looks like this:
ShareMaking a podcast is a lot simpler than I thought. Big thanks to Colin McKay for helping me out with this one.
A podcast is simply a small file called an ‘RSS feed’ that points to the audio (mp3) file that you want to podcast. This little ‘RSS feed’ file is then registered with a podcast site, like the apple itunes podcast site. Continue reading »
ShareHere’s a pretty good way to record speech on the macintosh, and have it sound OK for listening to over the internet. Continue reading »
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