Chris Carey

Category: iPhone

  • New link for iPhone firmware

    Updated link to find the iPhone firmwares: http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/

  • iPhone Google Calendar Sync

    So,  I upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0 and want to get the Google Calendar Sync up and running on the new OS. Search for “iphone google calendar sync” at Google. Not a single link on the first page has the instructions on how to do it. Had to search forever just to find the server…

  • Keeping PDAnet free on your iPhone

    Recent versions of PDAnet are no longer free. PDAnet changed to a $30 pay version as of version 1.40. Here is how to roll back to the old free version: http://www.virtuadave.com/2008/11/19/keeping-pdanet-free-on-the-iphone/

  • How to modify iPhone Calendar colors on Jailbroken iPhone

    *EDIT* updated for iOS5 here http://chriscarey.com/wordpress/2012/01/07/changing-calendar-colors-on-a-jailbroken-iphone-running-ios-5/ After installing Google Sync for iPhone, I had a problem that the iPhone Calendar colors did not match the colors of the calendars in Google Calendar. I am republishing a post by michael.ansel. I found a post by him to be the best way to change calendar colors. One…

  • Curse words on the iPhone

    Here is a trick to stop the iPhone from autocorrecting your favorite curse words: Create a contact with a name that contains only curse words. The iPhone will actually HELP YOU type these words now since contacts are at a higher priority with autocorrect.

  • PdaNet tethering app for iPhone is a winner

    I tried PdaNet for the first time today. It worked great. On your PC you create an ad-hoc wireless network. On the iPhone you connect to the ad-hoc network, and launch PdaNet. Now you can surf on your laptop. Yes, it is that easy. You don’t have to set up proxies on the phone or…

  • Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone 0.12 Released

    This should be much more simple to install than previous versions. http://chriscarey.com/projects/asterisk/iphone/

  • Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone updated to 0.12, then 0.20

    I worked a lot on Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone today. I added a bunch of great icons and cleaned up the code a lot so that the next release will be the easiest ever to install. Here is a screenshot of v0.12: I got so motivated that I decided to rewrite the frontend in a…

  • Free Call/SMS filtering app for iPhone

    I found a *free* Call/SMS filtering app for iPhone 2.x . Its called Pysl http://code.google.com/p/pysl/ and available through Cydia (Jailbroken iPhones only). All ones in AppStore are $7 and up. Those pay filters go by the names such as: iBlacklist, MCleaner So if you are getting phone calls from (000)000-0000 or other annoying numbers and…

  • iPhone Firmware 2.1 is a winner

    After upgrading to iPhone firmware 2.1, the device is performing much better. All of the items claimed to be fixed in this version are. Great job Apple!