Working with my friends in France on their website, it’s a lot of fun, what is also fun is trying to give interface ideas to the Shopify team in Canada. I am looking forward to getting back into software/UI/web/design so I thought I’d share ideas that I posted for them.

Technology is so crazy sometimes I have been coming to realize that we always do so much then forget how we did it, that’s why I have been blogging things like how to network a Mac and PC or hack an iPhone without WiFi or things like that because usually after you do it once, you forget!

Wow.

As anyone who has seen my internet 3G woes, today is a happy day. I bought a new chip the other day in the hope that the APN kolbi3g would help me get faster upload speeds, but this sort of voo-doo networking has come to an end now that they have kicked off all of the freeloaders getting the high speed for cheap and people like me who recently signed up for the high one finally are getting 340kbs upload as opposed to the 120kbs throttle I had been experiencing, I am so happy, just in time, too, since I am finishing up a website and it is great for me as I need to get some stuff done!

I kind of love the transition we are technologically right now with the smartphones, Facebook, privacy and the net.

I found this article and kind of agree with a lot of it. The Apple iPhone is an amazing tool and will be. Being in a country outside of America for a year struggling to get internet has been educational and lovely for me. A lot of pain, but I have learned a lot as a result of it.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331

I spent a ton of time reading for this solution and am finding more and more that Youtube is the solution because if it’s a Mac solution they don’t show you the PC side and if it’s a PC soultion, it’s usually useless and doesn’t work.

1. From the PC side to get it to work is best here: It’s BRILLIANT found after hours of trying!

How to share Mac OS X Leopard files on a Windows Vista Network

The PC side of this video above is amazing, I never would have hit Refresh!

2. This is from the Mac to get to the PC side:

A little less descriptive but hey, it was working for me! I found in the comments that you have to use ipconfig in dos to get the IP number of your wireless network (as opposed to your net connection, a good distinction).

So in your PC you go to Start-> Run (WindowsKey+R) then type CMD then you are in DOS and you want to enter ipconfig and then hit return. Be sure to type on the mac side the ip number for the sharing connection (i.e. wireless/ethernet vs. your connection to the internet).

I find that these Youtube videos are way easier then all of the text sometimes!

Now if only I could figure out how to get Internet sharing to work from my PC to my Mac, I am using a WAP access point on 3G network on my cell phone. The quandry is I just want to use my Mac, but I can only get the cell Windows Mobile 6.1 sharing to show up via Bluetooth (which is extremely slow) as opposed to USB sharing which on this PC which is pretty acceptable! Ugh, I will succeed!