iHeaven
Apple fans should just cough up and not complain, after all ever penny spent gets you a step closer to iHeaven.
Posts by Julian 3
70 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Aug 2009
Brits lose out as iTunes prices jump
Microsoft kills Windows Vista SP1 support
News of the World TO CLOSE
Nokia: When pigeons fly home to roast
Thursday 2nd June 2011 15:46 GMT 
Sleeping on the job
Microsoft's development of their Windows Mobile platform was abysmal and half hearted at best. They are trying to play catchup by doing some actual work on Windows Phone 7 rather than letting it wither away like they did with Windows Mobile. Nokia have been resting on their laurels for years thinking past glory's will keep them alive. Much like Motorola and look where they are now.
MS announces Windows Phone 7.1
Everything Everywhere accused of lining pockets with charity cash
4G über-auction coming next year
AT&T ends illicit handset tethering
Saturday 19th March 2011 00:02 GMT 
The Solution!
For all you wondering how they can tell:
All IP packets have something called a TTL associated with them. It stands for Time To Live. Every "hop" along the network from one router to the next reduces the TTL by one. When it reaches 0, the packet is dropped. This was introduced to keep routing problems from overloading the network. If for example, by some error a packet was going around in a circular path, the TTL would eventually reach 0 and prevent a packet storm.
The thing is, ALL routing devices do this. OSes use standard TTLs. For example, let's say both your iPhone and laptop use 127 for the TTL. AT&T will receive packets from your iPhone with a TTL of 127, but since the packets from your laptop pass through your iPhone first, they arrive at AT&T with a TTL of 126. They can detect a tethered device this way.
Apple uses a TTL of 64 for the iPhone, by the way. So change the TTL on your computer to "65" and there should be no problem. Here's how to do it:
1. Click Start - Search and type “regedit”. This launches the WIndows Registry.
2. In the registry, navigate to the following registry key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Services
\Tcpip
\Parameters
3. In the right pane, right-click and select New – DWORD (32-bit value) and set its name as “DefaultTTL” and set its value anything between “0? and “255?. The value sets the number of Hops or links the packet traverses before being discarded.
Kudos to Ryan Laster1. I don't have an iPhone to test this.
Antennagate Redux: Consumer Reports condemns Verizon iPhone 4
Car immobilisers easily circumvented by crafty carjackers
Blu-ray barely better than DVD
HTC HD7
MS pledges Windows Phone 7 '1.1' update early 2011
Humax HDR-Fox T2 Freeview HD DVR
Samsung backs Windows Phone 7 for the duration
Thursday 30th September 2010 11:52 GMT
@IT specailst
"As nobody is going to buy a handset that is missing the most basic of operating system features, such as Copy-Paste and full multitasking."
Early versions of the iPhone didn't allow you to that but it never stopped mases of mugs.... sorry fanbios from going out and buying it anyway PMSL!
Pressure mounts on Apple to recall iPhone 4
Windows Phone 7 - what's in and what's out
Tuesday 16th March 2010 21:10 GMT
Its all about the marketing
Microsoft are aiming this at low to mid end consumer market. Will probably look nice but do very little out of the ordinary on a technological basis to distinguish itself from any other platform. I'm guessing Microsoft will do a big marketing push. It worked for Apple. Lets hope it doesnt have the same oppressive licencing regime as Apple have.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
