<![CDATA[..:::TuNguyen Blog:::..]]> http://tunguyen.name/home/index.php en-US http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?123 <![CDATA[21 Things To Try With Your New iPhone OS 3.0]]> TuNguyen <admin@yourname.com> Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:02:12 +0000 http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?123
The List:
1. Send an MMS
2. Scrub a song
3. Rate a YouTube video
4. Record a voice memo
5. Download a movie
6. Landscape support everywhere
7. Cut/Copy/Paste
8. Shake to undo
9. Call up AT&T and try to convince them to enable MMS
10. Copy a link out of Safari
11. Search in mail
12. Sync your notes
13. Sync with Google Calendar
14. Search in the iPod
15. Listen to your songs in stereo - wirelessly!
16. Tether
17. Check out the Safari fixes
18. Set up parental controls
19. Spotlight search
20. Resend failed text messages
21. Play with all the new content in third party apps

So that's MobileCrunch's list. What would you add to it?
]]> http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?121 <![CDATA[Iphone 3GS Tech Specs]]> TuNguyen <admin@yourname.com> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:22:08 +0000 http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?121 ]]> http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?120 <![CDATA[iPhone 3G S Unboxing Pictures!]]> TuNguyen <admin@yourname.com> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:20:20 +0000 http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?120
Poor lighting likely makes the trim look gold trim; however, this is usually caused by incorrectly set white balance on the photographers camera or a reflection. (as suggested by commenter Rob).

Take a look at the pics below or hit the link for the full gallery

]]> http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?105 <![CDATA[Photoshop Online]]> TuNguyen <admin@yourname.com> Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:11:34 +0000 http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?105

Photoshop Online

]]> http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?76 <![CDATA[Icon for Iphone - Park 1]]> TuNguyen <admin@yourname.com> Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:32:15 +0000 http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?76
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]]> http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?60 <![CDATA[Skype for iPhone Now Available in App Store]]> TuNguyen <admin@yourname.com> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:34:28 +0000 http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?60
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Skype is free calls and instant messages. And you can call landlines and mobiles anywhere in the world at great rates. Skype is free to download and easy to use.

*Free Skype-to-Skype calls

With Skype on your iPhone or iPod touch, simply sign into Skype from any WiFi zone, and call friends and family on Skype totally free.

*See who's online and instant message them

Sign into Skype via 3G, Edge, GPRS or WiFi and check who's online - then instant message them whenever and where the mood strikes.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=304878510&mt=8


]]> http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?43 <![CDATA[3G Unlock December 31st, 2008]]> TuNguyen <admin@yourname.com> Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:05:48 +0000 http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?43 Open in new window ]]> http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?41 <![CDATA[Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.6]]> TuNguyen <admin@yourname.com> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:39:01 +0000 http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?41
The 10.5.6 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.

For details about the update you can visit the support document found here

You can install the update by selecting Software Update from the Apple Menu at the top left of your screen.

What's new in this update?
Address Book
- Improves reliability of Address Book syncing with iPhone and other devices and applications.

AirPort
- Improves the reliability of AirPort connections, including improvements when roaming in large wireless networks with an Intel-based Mac.

Client management
- Improves reliability of synchronizing files on a portable home directory.
- Fixes an issue in Mac OS X 10.5.4 and 10.5.5 in which managed users may not see printers that use the Generic PPD.
- Client computers that use UUID-based ByHost preferences now respect managed Screen Saver settings.

iChat
- Addresses an issue that could cause an encryption alert to appear in the chat window.
- Setting your iChat status to "invisible" via AppleScript no longer logs you out of iChat.
- Resolves an issue in which pasting text from a Microsoft Office document could insert an image rather than text.

Graphics
- Includes general improvements to gaming performance.
- Includes graphics improvements for iChat, Cover Flow, Aperture, and iTunes.
- Includes fixes for possible graphics distortion issues with certain ATI graphics cards.

Mail
- Includes overall performance and reliability fixes.
- Improves Connection Doctor accuracy.
- Fixes an issue that could cause messages identified as junk to remain in the inbox.
- Fixes an issue that could cause Mail to append a character to the file extension of an attachment.
- Addresses an issue that could prevent Mail from quitting.
- Improves reliability when printing PDF attachments.

MobileMe
- Contacts, calendars, and bookmarks on a Mac automatically sync within a minute of the change being made on the computer, another device, or the web at me.com.

Networking
- Improves Apple File Service performance, especially when using a home directory hosted on an AFP server. Important: If you are using Mac OS X 10.5.6 (client) to connect to a Mac OS X Server 10.4-based server, it is strongly recommended that you update the server to Mac OS X Server version 10.4.11.
- Improves the performance and reliability of TCP connections.
- Improves reliability and performance for AT&T 3G cards.
- Updates the ssh Terminal command for compatibility with more ssh servers.

Printing
- Improves printing for the Adobe CS3 application suite.
- Improves printing for USB-based Brother and Canon printers.

Parental Controls
- Addresses an issue in which a parentally-controlled account could be unable to access the iTunes Store.
- Includes general fixes for time limits.
- Resolves an issue that prevented adding allowed websites from Safari via drag and drop.

Time Machine
- Fixes issues that could cause Time Machine to state the backup volume could not be found.
- Improves Time Machine reliability with Time Capsule.

Safari
- Improves compatibility with web proxy servers.

General
- Includes Mac OS X security improvements.
- Addresses inaccuracies with Calculator when the Mac OS X language is set to German or Swiss German.
- Improves the performance and reliability of Chess.
- Improves DVD Player performance and reliability.
- Performance improvements for iCal are included.
- Fixes an issue when running the New iCal Events Automator action as an applet.
- Adds a Trackpad System Preference pane for portable Macs.
- Improves compatibility with smart cards such as the U.S. Department of Defense Common Access Card.
- Updates time zone data and Daylight Saving Time rules for several countries.

Open in new window ]]> http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?39 <![CDATA[Nokia Releases Its N-Series QWERTY-Slider Smart Phone Nokia N97]]> TuNguyen <admin@yourname.com> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:41:43 +0000 http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?39 Nokia has released its latest N-Series QWERTY-slider smart phone, Nokia N97. Nokia N97 features with a touchable 16:9 widescreen display and Symbian S60 OS with a UI improved for touch input as well as home pages widgets of favorite web services with social networking sites. It also supports Flash Lite 3.0 and Flash Video.
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Nokia N97 also introduces the concept of ‘social location’ which integrated with A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass that able to understand where it is. With ‘social location’, Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real time information such as ability to know their friends available status and shares their pictures or video.

Apart of that, Nokia N97 also supports up to 48 GB of storage including 32GB built in memory and expandable 16GB micro card for music, media and etc. This also complemented by excellent music capabilities, full support for Nokia Music Store and continue playback up to 1.5 days. It also come with 5-megapixel camera with high quality Carl Zeiss optics.

Nokia N79 is expected to be available in the first half of 2009 with the estimated retail price of $700.
]]> http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?31 <![CDATA[Unlocking iPhone 3Gs--the Vietnamese way]]> TuNguyen <admin@yourname.com> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:50:11 +0000 http://tunguyen.name/home/read.php?31 Open in new window
Tuan Anh Do shows off an unlocked iPhone 3G at one of his cell phone repair shops in Hanoi.
Editor's note: CNET editor and Crave contributor Dong Ngo is spending the next month in his homeland of Vietnam, and plans to file occasional dispatches chronicling his impressions of how technology has permeated the culture there. Click here for more of Dong's stories from abroad.
HANOI, Vietnam--Every obstacle presents an opportunity. I saw this firsthand in Hanoi.

Tuan Anh's shop on Nguyen Du street.
(Credit: Dong Ngo/CBS Interactive)
The obstacle in question: the iPhone 3G. Since its launch, it has proven a much tougher nut to crack than the original iPhone. Without a viable software-based unlock solution, the only way to make the phone work with any GSM carrier has been the use of a proxy SIM. Put this piece of very thin circuitboard in the iPhone 3G atop the carrier's SIM, and you can make calls and text on a new network.
(I did experience some problems using the proxy SIM, including short battery life, instability, and, most seriously, incompatibility with iTunes.)
Unfortunately, the recently released 2.2 software update, for now, has made the iPhone 3G impossible to unlock--unless you happen to be in Hanoi. Here, I met a man who takes the job quite seriously and gets it done the hard way, literally.
His name is Tuan Anh Do, and he's a 29-year-old businessman who owns five cell phone repair shops. A big part of his business is servicing the iPhone and iPhone 3G, and that often involves getting those devices unlocked at the hardware level.
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One of his shops is on Nguyen Du street, a relatively small, quiet block in Hanoi. It's located in a typically narrow four-story house, with one floor serving as a reception area, and another holding the accounting department. The top floor is the workshop, where the magic happens.

Here I witnessed a brand new iPhone 3G getting its hardware unlocked and was really impressed. This is how it happened.
First, a technician opened up the phone and stripped it to the motherboard. In his skillful hands, the device seemed much easier to dismantle than I expected.
The technician then extracted the baseband chip, the component that controls the connection between the phone and the mobile network, from the motherboard. (This is a painstaking task as the chip is strongly glued to the phone's motherboard. A mistake during this process could brick the phone completely.)
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A technician opens up a brand new iPhone 3G in one of Tuan Anh's Hanoi shops.
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The phone's motherboard with the baseband chip at the bottom and marked with a red X for viewing's sake.
Once the chip was extracted, it was Tuan Anh's turn. He used a chip reader to read information into a file. He then used a Hex editor to remove the locking data from the file, and after that, the chip got reprogrammed with the newly altered file. Now it was no longer programmed to work with only a specific provider.
The chip then got reassembled into the motherboard, another painstaking process.
As a last step, the technician put the phone back together, and it looked like nothing had been done to it.
However, the phone is now unlocked and can be used with any carrier's SIM. It can also be synced with iTunes and used with the original carrier and it can perform all other functions without any problem. But it's not yet jailbroken, which Tuan Anh will do for free. He'll even add lots of applications and utilities at no additional cost.
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The baseband chip (which I marked with a red X to make it more visible) has been extracted from the motherboard.
Each such unlocking job takes about an hour to complete and costs 1.2 million dong (about $80), a small fortune over here. Tuan Anh said that so far, his business has unlocked hundreds of iPhone 3Gs and thousands of first-generation iPhones.
He also said that if an iPhone has been unlocked under the firmware version 2.1 or earlier, upgrading to version 2.2 will lock it again. This is because the 2.2 update is the first update that alters the baseband chip, a clear move by Apple to counter the software-based unlocking solution. In this case, Tuan Anh is willing to re-unlock it for a discount price of $50.
In case of mishaps, Tuan Anh said he would give clients a new phone. Considering that an iPhone 3G goes for somewhere between $800 and $1,000 in Hanoi, this is a bold statement, but so far, he has yet to brick a customer's iPhone. He did, however, lose two iPhone 3Gs while mastering the unlocking process in the phone's early days, a $2,800 investment at that time.
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The chip gets glued back onto the motherboard.


The demand for the iPhone and iPhone 3G in Vietnam is amazing. Prior to my trip here, a few friends asked me to bring one for them from the States. Some even offered to pay me extra. I didn't have time to take up any offers and obviously missed an opportunity to get my trip partially paid for. Still, I've seen a lot of people here with the iPhone. Tuan Anh said most iPhones 3G in Hanoi come from the States and Australia.
Tuan Anh's shops also take care of repairing other kinds of cell phones from any vendors, especially those without a support office in Hanoi. And the shops are faring well. When I was at the Nguyen Du street business, all of his technicians were busy working on different phones, two of them iPhones. The workshop's atmosphere was professional and quiet; I figure a job like this requires a lot of concentration.

The phone is now unlocked and working with a Vietnamese provider.
(Credit: Dong Ngo/CBS Interactive)
It's striking to witness the amount of work these skillful workers get done, considering how modestly equipped the workshop is. The most sophisticated equipment I could see were a Pintex Oscilloscope and a couple of microscopes. The rest of the tools, such as solderers, tiny screwdrivers, tweezers, alcohol, and towels, are the sorts of things you could find at most hardware stores.
Tuan Anh now has about 30 employees, paying them $300 a month on average. That's a very good salary considering the average income of a Hanoian is just around $100 a month.
Asked why he decided to get into this business, Tuan Anh, who holds bachelor's degrees in history and journalism from Hanoi National University, traces it to a passion for computers and electronics, an interest he shares with many other Vietnamese.
He hopes that what he's been doing with the iPhones wouldn't be considered "illegal" in the States. Oddly enough, his dream is to become an Apple partner officially supporting the company's products in Vietnam.
But illegal or not, Apple's idiosyncratic policy has in a weird way given this bright man an opportunity to do more than just make a living. He's proven that we really can be the master of our tools, not vice versa.
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