Other than being able to put paid apps on a jailbroken iPhone, my favorite app is Backgrounder. It comes in handy soo much. If you don't know what it does, you hold the home button when you're in an app and it puts the app in the background so it will keep running. To actually quite the app you go into it again, hold the home button and it will close the proc. You can tell an app is running in the background because it will have a little black circle on the icon. Very useful app. Also iStat to free up memory occasionally. I dig the tethering when I'm out and about.
Dylan -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Bartosch Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:41 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] iPhone ssh app Yeah, I haven't found tethering to make all that much sense either. My gf has her iPhone jail broken, but honestly, I think she does it just because she can...I haven't seen her do anything with it that actually mattered. I haven't had a problem doing anything I needed (or wanted) to do without jail breaking. I also have a Droid at the moment, but damn, I'll tell you, it's a annoying as hell in comparison. And I really hate the little feedback vibration every time I touch one of the permanent keys (maybe that can be turned off-I haven't taken the time to delve too much into the options yet). I'll keep using it for a few more days but so far it doesn't compare, even though Verizon's 3G coverage IS a little but broader out this way (but, it's not as much broader as I'd thought it was supposed to be). However, if I didn't have the iPhone as an option, I'd probably love the Droid. Sure beats what I used to use, even if it doesn't quite meet (for me) the iPhone standards. As always with this kind of thing, I'm sure YMMV. Chuck On Mar 11, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Data Technology wrote: > Justin Wilson wrote: >> The only benefit I have seen so far of Jailbreaking an iphone is being >> able to tether it. Every App I have wanted to run I can find in the store. >> >> Justin >> > I had thought that would be a great thing to have, then I could connect > the laptop and have a bigger screen and kbd to browse with. > But around here I don't have 3g available, so AT&T is slow for the internet. > > I then thought that I could just use a wi-fi connection (surly I could > find one of those!) but then I thought, "you big dummy", if I can get a > wi-fi connection on the phone to tether to the laptop then I could just > connect to the wi-fi with the laptop ;) > > So I dont't think I really need tethering. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------- Chuck Bartosch Clarity Connect, Inc. 200 Pleasant Grove Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 257-8268 "When the stars threw down their spears, and water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile, His work to see? Did He who made the Lamb make thee?" >From William Blake's Tiger!, Tiger! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/