Posts Tagged ‘support’

Doubletake Clothing – Help Haiti $20

Help Haiti with a Twenty Spot

The horrible earthquake in Haiti is more unfortunate than I can even venture to imagine.  It’s no secret that they are already a poor country and need all the support they can get, anywhere they can get it. The twitter/social communities have already been buzzing about it, and I’ve seen some pretty amazing celebrity endorsements too, talk about social responsibility in action.

I wanted to give to the cause but just hand’t had the chance for the past couple days, however being a T-Shirt guy, myself, I found this as an awesome way to give a little and promote the best of it.  Doubletake Clothing (in a matter of hours) put this together and as of today they’ve already collected over $1000 for the cause.  It’s $20 flat, and they will even ship it to you for free.

Doubletake Clothing — Help Haiti $20.

Given the catastrophic events that occurred in Haiti, Doubletake Clothing wants to do something to help the 3 million people affected by the earthquake. No words can describe what the Haitian population is going through right now.

All proceeds will go to several Haiti Earthquake Relief Organizations including the UNICEFDoctors Without Borders, and CSI Ministries. Doubletake Clothing is taking care of all domestic shipping costs (free shipping!) and reduced international shipping to $5. We’re working with suppliers to reduce the costs of materials to maximize the donation to Haiti. We will periodically update our total estimated donation.

This is a pre-order item, so we will get the shirts to you as fast as possible (typically 2 weeks after sales close). At this time, we plan on closing sales Jan. 22, 2010.

Our prayers are with Haiti.

Well done guys, you’ve got my order, and my support.

MMS & Tethering Enabled, Today.

I was pretty bummed to hear that it was going to take till the end of summer to get two of the hottest features coming with iPhone OS3, Tethering and MMS.  However after some digging I found out that it’s a simple case of upgrading your Carrier settings. All OS3 3G phones already have the features integrated and after this quick 5 second process and a reboot on the phone, everything magically appears.

The working process can be found here:
How to Enable MMS & 3G Tethering on iPhone OS 3.0 GM Build 7A341

The above blog mentions this is for Windows machines, however I’m running the following version of iTunes and it worked just fine with the GM Developer Release.

I have not yet tried the process on windows, however on mac, I simply downloaded this file, renamed the file to remove the .zip extension, and did an Option + Restore click to select and apply the new carrier file.  After a quick reboot, teathering works flawlessly and MMS is still spotty, but all the features are there.  Note I also tried this on a 2G phone and it did not work, the phone still works fine but the features are missing.  I plan on doing this with my new 3GS when it comes in the mail tomorrow as well.  Here are some screenshots below.

Tethering Active over 3G

Tethering Active over 3G

Notice under carrier: AT&T 5.0 (vs the normal 4.0)

Notice under carrier: AT&T 5.0 (vs the normal 4.0)

Error sending, but all the features are in place.

Error sending, but all the features are in place.

Enjoy this at your own risk, I’m not responsible if you create an Apple Paperweight or rack up 5 grand in fees, but as far as I can tell, this seems like a harmless tweak.