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PrinterShare is an awkward app to set up; besides installing it on your Mac, you also have to register an account. After that, on your Mac, you have to specify which printer (or printers) you want to share, whether you want to hide your printer from search results (more on this in a moment), find the remote printer as registered online, select the printer (which is now displayed in two panes of the main Mac application window, and then configure the printer (paper size, “notify me on job completion,” encrypt or not, and so on). In addition, a third window appears when you click on the Mac application’s “incoming” button, and that provides you with a variety of options, including setting default permissions (automatically download and print from approved users, wait for approval, remove, and so forth).

This all makes sense, in a way, because PrinterShare is designed to enable you to print remotely, over the Web, and to allow multiple users to print to the same machine remotely. (For example, employees can all remotely print to a shared printer.) However, there’s no apparent option for simply printing over a local network. And although you can choose to hide your printer from search results (when you are searching for a printer from the iPhone app), it seems that the only way for users to find their own printer is to make it public and find it; then, once that’s done, they can hide it from search results. It’s a confusing process, in part because developer Dynamix Software attempts to protect users from having their printers hijacked by unknown users. It seems, however, that the first option should simply enable you to link your iPhone to your printer by using your user ID, and that “searching” for printers should be a secondary option (because it would probably be unnecessary for most users).

Via Pcworld.com

Even if it is not yet within reach of everyone! Planetbeing, the Dev Team released this week the video below, which shows an iPhone 3G can run alongside the iPhone OS, a working version of mobile operating system Google’s Android.

Those who follow the news iPhone is a long time may remember the pseudo Planetbeing. In late 2008, it was he who had managed to launch the iPhone a Linux kernel. At the time, handling was within mere technical prowess but could not give rise to any practical application since no Linux system could seriously be used this way. It showed, however, the operation of openiboot, a boot utility to select, start the iPhone, which OS to boot.

Recently, Planetbeing tackled Android, and the proof is much more convincing. Using openiboot always, it is well managed to coexist on a single iPhone, a version of Android and the phone’s original OS! Thus, at startup, the user can choose which of the two systems he wants to run.

The most impressive case is that the installation of Android is functional! Of course, everything does not work exactly like a smartphone with the Google system natively, but it is possible to use the WiFi and the mobile layer. We can make and receive calls or send SMS from an iPhone with Android, but also play music, and of course use the touch screen!

In line with the jailbreak tools will be found soon so perhaps methods to install Android and exploit the full functionality on iPhone. The best of both worlds on a single terminal? That might not appeal to Apple:)

The good news is that installation image, accompanied openiboot and sources of software, is available for download via this link. Be warned, this only works with an iPhone 2G. Of course, if you decide to run, be sure to carefully read the Readme that accompanies everything and do it prudently, knowingly manipulations are not simple and is reserved for those familiar with Unix environments .

Whether it’s a carefully orchestrated leak by Apple or a real chance of fact, the U.S. site Gizmodo has published Monday that could well be the first batch of pictures of the future iPhone 4G or iPhone HD that Cupertino company should formalize all expectations by June 22 .

The device, hidden in a shell of iPhone 3G would have been lost by an employee of Apple in a California bar. Apple’s lawyers have already contacted Gizmodo, which suggests that the site has actually laid hands on the prototype of a future iPhone.

So this is what the terminal would look like: a flat back, made of plastic or ceramic, metal clad with angular edges, breaking with the rounded shapes of the current iPhone 3G (S). Off Apple Remote, the device has not been used very long, but it would have revealed a much higher screen resolution for generations already on the market.

Among other innovations, Gizmodo also notes the inclusion of a camera larger and a flash back of the unit. A sensor would also entered the front. The edges are now adorned with metal buttons, one of which could serve to trigger the device in question.

The interior of the terminal for its reveal components acronyms Apple – a feature that could confirm the hypothesis of a sample of pre-production – smaller and better integrated so as to leave more room for the battery. The latter would issue 5.25 Wh, Wh 4.51 cons for the battery of the iPhone 3G, so no doubt provide a gain of empowering individuals to better manage the increased consumption induced by the new screen selected by Apple .

Among other innovations, Gizmodo also reports the integration of a micro-SIM card, a format for the moment that employ very few American operators.

The Dev Team has put online a few hours a beta version of its tool that allows to operate RedSn0w jailbreak firmware 4.0 beta 1 now have access to which application developers iPhone. Beware, however: it recommends to use it only if you are a software developer unofficial third. Explanations.

The videos showed on OS 4.0 Cydia said therefore true. RedSn0w 9.5 makes it possible to operate the jailbreak of the first beta of firmware 4.0. To do this, the Dev Team states have exploited a loophole that existed in the days of firmware 2.x. The publication of his tool therefore not learn anything new to Apple.

For now, the tool is in beta, which means it can not work perfectly on all machines. The official support is limited also to the iPhone 3G, the first beta of firmware 4.0 and a Mac OS X to perform the jailbreak.

It is strongly recommended not to attempt the run if you’re not a developer of applications for Cydia. The idea here is indeed simply to allow software developers to start testing their applications work correctly on OS 4.0 when it is made public and a public jailbreak tool has been made available . The Dev Team also states that one should not use RedSn0w 9.5 If you used a Desimlock unofficial!

If you’re an application developer unofficial or curious ready to spend a few hours to lock up your iPhone if something goes wrong, you can still download the software via this page. To use it, you will have the file of the firmware 4.0 beta 1, as well as an Apple developer account allows you to validate installation.

In Mac OS, then run RedSn0w. Find the location of your firmware 4.0, select the option to install Cydia, and follow the software instructions to place your iPhone in DFU mode and thus load a modified firmware on your iPhone 3G. Caution: once again, the software is a beta version, restricted to amateurs. It should be used only by people who know exactly what they are doing all that for now, many of the software found on Cydia does not work on OS 4.0!