How to Make Personal Hotspot Using iPhone 4

Do you know that you can make personal hotspot using iPhone 4? Turning your iPhone 4 as a wi-fi access point is a feature that iPhone lovers were waiting for. Personal hotspot using iPhone as your modem can also be achieved by jailbreaking it. But now Apple has answered our pray and add this awesome feature in iOS 4.3. So if your iOS is not 4.3 then upgrade it right away. But remember iOS 4.3 is only available for iPhone 3GS and 4, iPod 3rd and 4th generation and also iPads. So for user with iPhone 2 and earlier unfortunately this feature will not be available for you. Okay, enough with the introduction let's get to the bottom of making personal hotspot using iPhone 4.

Setting Up Personal Hotspot Using iPhone 4

Setting up a personal hotspot using iPhone 4 is very simple and straightforward. Here is what you need to do:

1. Open Setting > Personal Hotspot. 

2. Turn on the Personal Hotspot option by tapping "On".

3. If your Wi-Fi and bluetooth are currently turn off then there will a message saying that you must turn on your Wi-Fi and bluetooth.

4. Type the password that you want to use and you are ready to go.

5. Connect your laptop using the wi-fi connection or bluetooth. You can also use iPhone 4 as a modem by connecting it to a computer via USB cable. If there is a connection made to your iPhone then there will be a blue message on top of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes for Making Personal Hotspot Using iPhone 4

• On iPhone 3GS you can only use only connect the iPhone using USB cable.
• A maximum of five connections can be handled at one time.
• The personal hotspot will be turned off automatically after being idle for one hour.

The Meaning of iPhone 4 Serial Number

Have you ever wondered what information is contained on your iPhone serial number? What do those eleven alphanumeric characters mean? These questions have been lingering around in my head for quite sometimes until I decided to ask Google what it really means. To my surprise iPhone serial number in general has really important meaning especially if you want to jailbreak your iPhone. The success of your jailbreaking process really depends on an information contained on your iPhone serial number. So are you ready to find out the meaning of your iPhone serial number? If you are then just continue reading this article.

Where Do You Find Your iPhone Serial Number?

Okay before we discuss the meaning of your iPhone serial number just answer this simple question first: do you know where to find your iPhone serial number? It is really easy, just open Settings > General > About. You can find the iPhone serial number right there among other information such as your network status, total songs in your iPhone, total number of applications that you installed, iOS version etc.

Tell Me The Meaning of My iPhone Serial Number

As I said earlier there are eleven alphanumeric characters in your iPhone serial number in this format "aabccdddeef". The meaning of these characters are:

• aa: the code number for the factory in which your iPhone was assembled.
• b: your iPhone's production year.
• cc: your iPhone's production week number.
• ddd: unique number.
• ee: the color code of your iPhone.
• f: the size code of your iPhone.

There are many opinions about the meaning behind iPhone serial number, but experts agreed on the meaning of the first five characters. The remaining six characters are still arguable. Now suppose your serial number is 86047xxxA4S. This means that your iPhone was produced in factory number 86, on week 47 of the year 2010. The last three characters which is A4S, A4 means that the color is black and S is the code for 16 GB iPhone (S=16 GB, T=32 GB). What is the relation between your iPhone serial number with jailbreaking? As you all probably know by now, jailbreak software is specific to the type of your iPhone including the week and year that it is produced. So before you decide to jailbreak your iPhone please be very careful in choosing the software that matches your iPhone week and year production. On general iPhone 3GS which is produced in week 0-40 is easier to jailbreak thus the right type is untethered. As for week 45 and above the iPhone is much more difficult to jailbreak thus you should choose tethered. Between week 40 and 45 the result of the jailbreaking process will vary. Ok now that you have understand the meaning of your iPhone serial number be sure to check it before you jailbreak your iPhone.

Yet Another iPhone Prototype Gone Missing

Apple seems to have a habbit of losing its newest iPhone prototype. Just a year ago right before iPhone 4 was launched, its prototype gone missing when one of its employee brought it to a bar.

The employe's name was Gray Powell who was celebrating his birthday the day the iPhone 4 prototype gone missing. Gray was working at Apple as a Software engineer. He was responsible for developing iPhone baseband software which enable the device for making phone calls. Gray and some friends got into a bar and start drinking to celebrate his birthday. He then updated his facebook status using what looked to be a regular iPhone, probably a 3GS type. I guess it was his last update from the device because he forgot to take it when the celebration was over.

Another drunk man who was sitting next to him found the iPhone and saying to a man next to where Gray was sitting if the iPhone was his. The other man said it was not his so the man who found the iPhone it was probably the drunk man's friend who left it there and suggested that he should keep it. The drunk man then asked everybody who was at the bar at that time if anyone was missing an iPhone. But no one did. So he sat there for a while in case the owner come back.

To make the story short the drunk man then sold the iPhone prototype to Gizmodo for a fee of $5000. Not bad huh for a one day job of sitting and waiting for the owner to get back. Now the same story happened again with the next iPhone prototype (probably called iPhone 5). I guess history did repeat itself. Another Apple's employee lost the prototype also at a bar. What is it with Apple employee's, bar and iPhone protoype? I think there is a pattern here from which me might conclude that Apple's security is slightly decreasing due to the fact that their employee's managed to smuggle the prototype and lost it. This story has not reached it conclusion yet as Apple tried to find the prototype by searching a man's house who allegedly has the prototype. Apple also had the help from the San Fransisco police department who escorted Apple's employee in doing the search. The man who had his house searched then accused Apple of impersonating a police officer when they came to his house.

The story might still has some twist in it which is very interesting to see. Where will the prototype end up? Will the employee who lost the iPhone prototype be fired? How will Apple handle its employee's habbit of smuggling the prototype and then lose it in a bar? Let's just wait for the conclusion of the story of Apple and its lost iPhone prototype.

Apple Store Indonesia to Shutdown

Just read twitters from many Apple followers in Indonesia and got this shocking (probably not surprising) news: Apple is going to shutdown their store in Indonesia. One of the main reason is because they have many complaints from buyers in Indonesia saying that they haven't received their items. Apparently their items got held up in our customs! Many buyers who filed complaints have been offered refund immediately as Apple tries to save their good relationship with customers. But I think that buyers from Indonesia do not want a refund instead they want their items delivered to their door right away. So until this "problem" with Indonesian custom has been resolved unfortunately Apple will close their shop in Indonesia. It is really a shame that Indonesian buyers could not in Apple store online due to custom problems. This problem should be cleared by the Indonesian government right away otherwise many international vendors could face the same option as Apple did.

How to Make Screenshot on iPhone 4

Have you ever wanted to make a iPhone 4 screenshot? I have been dying to make iPhone 4 screenshot since I bought my iPhone 4 at the beginning of this year but to no avail. I thought that there was no easy way of doing this other than taking the screenshot using another phone. I wanted to take my iPhone 4 screenshot to show off to my friends applications which I have bought and installed. This need then took a really sharp turn when I started sharing my experience on using my iPhone 4 through my blog. In some of the post which I have written before especially on "tips and tricks" section, the need to take screenshots was immense otherwise my reader would not get what I was trying to explain. So I asked all of my friends who have much more experience on using the device how to do it. But, surprisingly none of them knew how.

Taking Your iPhone 4 Screenshot

To answer my curiosity, I turned my attention to my favorite search engine, Google. After typing the keywords "screenshot iPhone", I finally found the answer to my question. So how do you take iPhone 4 screenshot? It is really simple. First navigate your iPhone to the screen which you want to take the screenshot. Press and hold the "Power" button which is located on the top right of your iPhone 4. Then quickly press the "Home" button twice. Your screen will flash a couple of times and there is a "click" sound such as when you are taking a photo with your camera. The screenshot which you just took will be located on your Camera Roll. It is really easy, isn't it? It turns out taking iPhone 4 screenshot is not as hard as looking for a needle in a haystack.