Watch TV Shows streamed to the iPhone x iPod x iPad in HD for free!

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iPhone skinns not only shows TV shows but also it organizes the latest movie streams and sports events. The streams are quick and allow you to watch shows immediately after they air.
If you have the iPhone or iPod TV adapter you can enjoy gorgeous HD streams on your big screen. Once the iT V hits the streets, this site will be a perfect companion.

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How to fix the iPhone 4 wont stop vibrating issue

We received a tip, that a handful of users are experiencing their iPhone 4 stuck in vibration mode, most users say its happening randomly not during an incoming call or text. The video above shows that the iPhone does not show up in iTunes. If your phone wont stop vibrating here is how you can try to stop the vibration.

1. Try to turn off the phone by completing a hard reset, Press the home button and power button for roughly 10 seconds. The iPhone will turn off and reset.
2. If the phone does not reset after a 10 seconds, continue to hold both the power and the home button until the phone eventually resets. Users are reporting it could take up to 2-3 minutes for the hard reset to be final.
3. If the phone does not reset after 4 minutes, allow the battery to drain, just leave the phone in a secure location and let it vibrate itself to death. Feel free to add any girlfriend vibration jokes now.
4. If your phone did not turn off by trying out the the hard reset technique from step 1, we advise to take the iPhone to the genius bar. Apple will replace it and run diagnostics as to see what is the real culprit of the Death Vibration.

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WB Mason has the worst commercials ever made, and I like retarded people

Before I start with my W.B. Mason hate, I want to first talk about people of retarded descent. I have nothing against slow people. Sometimes I even envy them – often they have no concept of life’s problems. It doesn’t bother them if they don’t have a date to the upcoming box social, and they don’t care if they sharted themselves on a long drive home from their sisters house in Harrisburg after eating Keebler cookies on an empty stomach. Retardation is bliss. Regardless of these wonderful accolades i’m giving the mentally challenged, I do everything in my power to avoid them.

I’ve worked at a couple of companies that had those “retard for hire” program. This is where there are jobs given to simple-minded folks- lobs like collecting recyclable containers in an office or wrangling carts at Target. I fully support this program; they have every right to try to be as miserable as us normal folks. If they can perform a task and carry an entry-level conversation, give them all the jobs they want. But you run the chance of ending up in the following situation. I was fairly new at a company, and I got into an elevator with a guy with a dolly-full of paper. I small talk it up (cause thats what y’all white folks do in elevators I assume):

Me: “Hey how you doing?”
Slow guy: (No eye contact, and in an unneccessarily loud voice) “HOW…. How… HOW ARE YOUUUU ?” (starts inexplicably clapping hands together)
Me: “I’m fine. That’s a lot of paper you got there.”
Slow guy: “I MAKE DOODY IN MY PANTS” (weird grunting chortle sound)

Or something like that. The convo spilled into the office, and I felt like everyone was watching me to see how it played out. It’s awkward. Everyone tries to act like its normal, but its not. I wouldn’t have a problem with carrying on with this conversation if I could ask real questions like “seriously, paper all day?” or “My boy said he walked into the bathroom while you were peeing once, and you turned around your whole body to see who it was and you ended up peeing all over the floor. What’s up with that?” But of course, i’m wrong if I steer the conversation into that direction. Then next thing I know, i’m at my desk and he’s stopping over for a chat. What if he asks me to go to lunch later? I can’t just say that i’m hungover, or tell him how someone I know just sharted themselves on a drive home from his sisters house in Harrisburg after I ate those delicious chocolate shortbread cookies on an empty stomach, and there’s really no rest stop for about 20 miles. Like I said, it’s awkward.

The next time I shared a job with a slow person was when I worked at Target, and by then I already knew what was up. I tried my hardest to avoid conversation with him. He would sit next to you in the breakroom and eat his lunch not say anything to you. You just gotta keep eating like it’s normal.

I would see customers ask him a question, not knowing of his condition. I would watch out the corner of my eye like “oh shit it’s about to go down.” He’d answer in the customary unneccesarily loud voice. It’s funny watching the customer’s facial expression change when they realize what’s taking place. He always knew where every Target product was located though, i’ll give him that. I imagine that he’s the rainman of cart collecting, and could tell you things like “I collected 6273 carts since Tuesday at 11:00am.”

As you can see, I have nothing against those special guys. Hold onto that thought for a minute, I’m coming back to it.

I hate W.B. Mason. I hate them and everything they represent. I have dreams where I become president of a huge company that has been using W.B. Mason for years, and I come in and switch everything to their competitors, thus putting them out of business forever. I imagine their mascot guy closing the doors forever and walking away with his head down, peeling off his fake mustache and tossing it into a wastebasket or some sort of hair recycling bin. It’s the future in my dream, and the future apparently has hair recycling bins. I wake up from these dreams with newfound inspiration and an erection.

The reason for my hate is that they’ve severely damaged my ability to enjoy watching a Phillies game. They are single-handedly responsible for the most annoying series of commercials I’ve ever seen. I’m pretty sure they only play these commercials during baseball games, and they play at just about every commercial break. And from what I understand, these commercials are shown in the Boston and NY area as well, so any MLB loving fan in the northeast region knows what I’m talking about.

It’s a series of (at least) 6 commercials that take place during the overnight shift of some strange company.  I think. You would think the company was a W.B. Mason news studio because of all the logos, but all of the people in the commercial are so happy to get their products delivered from W.B. Mason, it can’t be their news studio. I’m probably confusing you but that’s really what this bullshit is. Rather than hear it from my words, lets go to the tape.

First commercial:

I’ve watched this commercial more times than I can count, and the only thing that I know for a fact is that our main character, Stanley, is clearly retarded.

He comes into the “office” recklessly, slamming his lunchbox onto the expensive equipment and doesn’t even care or notice. He says in a soft infantile voice, wide-eyed and to himself,“it’s green mountain coffee time!” He takes out each item in his lunchbox while naming them. “Apple… yogurt… toothbrush…” I almost expected him to dip his toothpaste in the yogurt and smear it all over the table or something. So Stanley is obviously somewhere on the functional retard level – they apparently gave him keys to enter in the middle of the night alone, he’s amazed by coffee, but he takes inventory on his lunch items as soon as he arrives to work – which indicates either he didn’t pack his own lunch or he needs to verify that whatever he packed, probably right before going to work, is still there as soon as he gets to work.

Now here’s the twist – some assholes are watching Stanley from their bed. Then the studio door creeps open and Stanley perks up with fear and caution, because apparently, he’s the only one working and there can’t possibly be anyone else scheduled to work. We’re left with a cliffhanger!

Part 2:

Whew! No threat here – just Alice and “boss” who apparently orders Stanley to stand every time he enters the room.

Stanley sure is happy to see Alice (which leaves out the idea that it could have been his wife who packed his lunch):

but he undoubtedly craps his pants when he sees his boss:

Boss then does what any night shift boss would do – orders Stanley to get him a cup of coffee, and begins to sexually harass the hottest female co-worker in the area. Stanley actually mumbles the phrase “inflated gas bag” about his boss, which he either got from Looney Tunes shows (the only shows for his intelligence level) or his grandmother, the primary caretaker and the person who packed his lunch.

Before Stanley can even finish drooling into his boss’s coffee, the door creaks open again! Everyone is shocked, because they’re the only three people working and there can’t possibly be anyone else scheduled to show up or work. This studio must have been the scene of a horrific crime in the recent past, because no one would normally be this frightened from a door opening. Why not just lock it?

Of course we can’t wait to see what happens next in part 3. Luckily WB Mason purchased every available advertising time slot during Phillies games, so we don’t have to wait long.

Did I mention there are (at least) 6 parts to this?

Part 3:

I was only going to link to the first two commercials and use screenshots for the rest, but you gotta hear these wacky sound effects. Listen to the slide whistle when these turds open their laptops.

So somehow there’s now 30 people in the studio, even though the latest person to open the door seemed to be some asshole who only came in because he heard there was green mountain coffee in the studio. We also find out that boss isn’t sexually harassing Alice because he’s clearly already banging her. When asked “you like your coffee flavored, right?” she responds, “oh, you know what I like” with a face that implies, “I want you to rub the green mountain coffee grinds on my clitoral hood.”

And just when you think that everyone who could be in the studio is already in there, and that its so busy that they wouldn’t notice a door opening, the door creaks open again and everyone stops what they’re doing. With 30 people in the room, they should be able to fend off any danger that’s coming through the door at this point.

I’m just going to post screenshots for the rest of this, because I can’t in good consciousness subject you to the rest of these videos. I like you guys too much.

In chapter 4, the latest interruption is some salesmen from the 80’s trying to sell a crappy coffee machine from the 70’s.

Somehow the guy on the right already has a half brewed pot of coffee. Did they plug the machine up in the lobby and brew a pot? Or was it brewed before they arrived at the studio, and this guy has been taking swigs of it on the car ride over? NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE.

Luckily Stanley takes the initiative and literally shoos them out of there. Like flies!:

Much to the chagrin of boss, Alice likes retards with initiative.

Chapter 5’s intruder is a…. commercial host?!?!

Who interrupts “Stanley’s story” to do a…. WB Mason commercial!!?!?

Yes, this guy does a “live” commercial for WB Mason products. He throws it back to boss, where we learn his boss is named Marvin, and Marvin asks Alice, “do you have a thing for Stanley?”

Marvin, clearly insecure with Stanley’s initiative to remove the salesmen, must require constant praise. That’s probably why he makes his subordinates stand when he enters the room.

Stanley gets excited and embarrassed when he hears that question about him and Alice:

Because women love when a grown man has the embarrassment of a 8 year old when he’s around women. Oh yea, these assholes are still watching from home:

The final(?) interruption comes from a character who resembles Nicey Nash from Reno 911. The only problem with this is that she’s not funny, and she looks like Nicey Nash from Reno 911. She says, “Everybody hands up!” Finally, the drama we’ve been waiting for! No, she’s just kidding.

She says that this happens every night. Apparently all those people aren’t supposed to be in there, and they’re only there for the coffee. She clears them out. But, when nobody’s looking, Alice steals a kiss from Stanley.

Remember this is minutes after she all but admitted to sex with boss Marvin and was probably giving him a hand job under the table. What a slut. And Stanley reacts how any grown slow adult probably would react:

by being amazed, stunned, and ejaculatory all at the same time.

Its here that we learn the big M. Night Shamalamian twist:

The guy in the bed is actually the WB Mason dude! Whoaaaaa!!!!! What a twist! It all makes sense now!

Each chapter is filled with the same dopey clown-like theme music, which only has a pavlovian effect on me when I hear it. Any joy I had to that point is instantly sucked out of me when I hear it. Coupled with slapstick sound effects like Stanley’s heart fluttering every time he gets an erection or the slide whistles when laptops open, there’s no doubt that the person responsible for this commercial was in a coma or frozen since the days of silent movies. He was probably given the job of making these commercials as soon as he was revived and didn’t have any chance to watch any recent commercials or cinematography. I expected Stanley to climb onto an old time high wheel bicycle bid everyone adieu.

So there it is, the worst commercials ever made. They go in a direction that nobody understands, follows a story line that doesn’t make sense, and fails the ultimate goal of any commercial – making people want to buy your crap. What’s worse is that this is obviously a high cost production – the visual quality is surprisingly good, and i’m sure all those actors and background equipment wasn’t cheap. This is the ultimate fail for everyone involved with this. The final chapter will be me coming through the door with a pillowcase of used green mountain coffee disks and beating everyone to death with it. Well, everyone except for Stanley. He’s retarded.

That concludes my segment on worst commercials ever. Black guy from Kia of West Chester, you’re next on my list. Watch yourself.

Update: Actually they’ve stopped showing these WB Mason commercials during the games, and replaced them with WB Mason commercials several years old. Did they pull the plug after realizing how horrible they were? Did they finally respond to all of those angry letters from me? I need more info!

Watch AppleTV videos in glorious 1080p with Broadcom CrystalHD card

Excuse me for being late to this CrystalHD party, because apparently this came out late 2009. But I’m guessing you guys never heard of it either, because if you did and you never told me about it, we ain’t cool no more.

I can finally watch high quality 1080p movies on my AppleTV! I used to foolishly try to watch 1080p movies every month or so, in the hopes that my AppleTV would get its life together and be able to play them on their own. I’d spend 3 days downloading a 10gb movie, only to have it get all stuttery and skippy. Now they play smooth as a shaven baby.

All you need to do is buy this Broadcom CrystalHD card for about 50 bucks. It’s easy to install – however, you’ll have to remove the wifi card inside of the AppleTV and replace it with this card. That means no more wifi. Luckily I had an Airport Express laying around, which I used to extend my wireless network and give internet to the AppleTV.

Between this Broadcom card, a hacked AppleTV, and XBMC, I have a full high quality video watching studio setup on the cheap. Here’s a quick rundown of what to do, and how much it costs.
1. Get an AppleTV – you can grab one for like 60 bucks on eBay. You only need the 40GB hard drive one too, the cheapest. We’ll be able to put movies on an external HD and the hacked AppleTV will play from there.
2. Hack the AppleTV with a patchstick – pretty easy, and there’s a ton of guides on the internet. All you need is a USB thumbstick and I know you have some of those laying around.
3. Enable USB storage access on AppleTV – a factory AppleTV will not play from a USB drive, but it will after you hack it. What it allows is for you to plug an external HD into the back of the AppleTV and it will recognize/read from it. I know you have an external HD you can use.
4. Buy/Physically install the Broadcom card – really simple stuff. 50 bucks for the card from logicsupply.com. You’ll either need to run an ethernet cable for internet access, or do like I do and use an Airport Express (60 bucks on ebay).
5. Install the Broadcom card softwarically – you have to install some drivers but the automated method is really easy.
6. Get the latest build of XBMC, which supports the Broadcom card – You’ll have to download and install a nightly-build version of XBMC – these are the versions that support the new card.
7. Enable the card in the XBMC settings.
8. Enjoy Blu-Ray rips and movies in 1080p on your television screen.
Instead of spending hundreds of bucks on a media center to play 1080p movies, you can use this method and do it for as little as 50 bucks, depending on what stuff you already own. The AppleTV isn’t the most powerful machine, so sometimes there’s some stutter when you come in and out of  pauses during the movie, etc. But its not a huge problem.
Added bonus: XBMC is worthy of it’s own post. I thought Boxee was the way to go – boy I was way off on that one. Boxee is great on a fast machine, but the AppleTV isn’t powerful enough to run Boxee reliably.  XBMC is perfect. And once you combine XBMC with the 3rd party Add-on Sick Beard, its the greatest way to download and watch shows. Sick Beard will scan your folders and find what TV shows you have, which episodes, and download all the cover art and descriptions for you. THEN it’ll give you the option to download the shows that you’re missing from the series. It’ll download the show, transfer it to your external HD or wherever, and update XBMC with the new show listing.

How to fix all of your iPhone 4 FaceTime Not Working problems

FaceTime is truly awesome, it feels like pure magic. However, there’s a handful of users not able to make FaceTime work due to some mis configured settings. The below steps is how I fixed all of my Facetime woes.

1. If you do not see the FaceTime icon when you make a phone call, it usually means that FaceTime is not enabled in the settings section. Go to settings -> Phone -> Make sure that the FaceTime switch is in the ON position. Also, ensure that is says “Your phone number will be shared with people you call with FaceTime”. If it says “Waiting for FaceTime activation” contact your official iPhone carrier.

2. If you are still having issues reset your iPhone settings, note this will wipe out your passwords so make sure that you a recent backup in iTunes, if not sync your phone first.  Go to Settings–> Reset your settings and Content. Then re enable FaceTime in the setting sections, you should see the FaceTime Icon next time you place a call.

3. When you call your contacts who have FaceTime you should see a FaceTime icon on the iPhone call screen, if you see a question mark that generally means that the phone number you are calling is not an verified carrier number (AT&T, Vodafone etc). FaceTime will not let you initiate FaceTime calls unless its a verified carrier. Google Voice numbers will always have a question mark icon, and it will prevent FaceTime calls from being placed, if the contact number is a Google Voice number.

FaceTime only works over Wifi, unless you have Jailbroken your iPhone 4 and use MY3g. Both parties must have an iPhone 4 and must have a verified carrier numbers.

How to use iPhone 4’s FaceTime over 3G or 4G

FaceTime on the iPhone 4 is truly awesome, but unfortunately it’s only
limited to wifi due to cell phone carries not able to provide
efficient bandwidth over 3G. Apple for good reason chose to not offer
this feature, video calling over 3G is choppy in most areas.  Well
that’s not going to stop us here at GMTV, we love being first and
don’t mind the growing pains. Below I will outline two methods for
using FaceTime over 3G.

The expensive, yet completely safe way.

1. Purchase a personal mobile hotspot like the Mifi from Verizon,
Sprint and Clear have similar offerings which can do 4G/3G. *requires
a monthly premium

2. Connect to your iPhone 4 mobile wifi hotspot device.

3. Make a FaceTime call, the iPhone is using wifi so it will not give

you the pesky FaceTime error.

The Free yet risky way, that will void your AppleCare Warranty

1. Sync your phone with iTunes to ensure that everything is backed up.

2. Visit JailBreakMe.com, and once the page loads, follow the

instruction and just simply slide to jailbreak.

3. Once you are Jailbroken, ensure that FaceTime is operational over
wifi.

4. Open up  Cydia app, click Sources, Edit then add: http://apt.modmyi.com then search for My3, download and install. It will trick your iPhone into thinking that is on wifi.

5. Make a FaceTime call, the call quality may not be as crisp as you
are used to that’s to be expected, as it was not designed for the
current 3G bandwidth pipes.

How to jailbreak Unlock a iPhone 3G iOS 4.0.1 on OS X

If you have a iPhone 3G with 4.0.1 installed follow the steps outline below to jailbreak your phone. After attempting to follow some of the other guides Posted, I noticed some failed to mention that not all versions of Redsnow work with the iOS 4.0.

1. First sync then Upgrade to 4.0.1 using iTunes

2.     Download the Redsnow 0.95 beta 5-4 Make sure that its Beta5-4, others will give you an error when processsing the iOS 4.0 firmware.

3.     Download the firmware for 3G iOS 4_.0 This is the only one that works with your RedsnOw 0.95 beta 5_4

4. Now that its all downloaded. Open RedsnOw browse for the IPhone 4.0 firmware, you just downloaded and open it with the browser. Redsnow will take some time processing the firmware

5. Now Follow along with this video

To unlock:

1. Go to Cydia Pick users Make sure that you have Wi_FI for  the next steps

2. Go to Sections

3. Look under All applications  and search for the “U”

3. UltrasnOw open it and UNLOCKED

Enjoy!

Clear Personal 3G x 4G Hotspot Review

Recently, GMTV acquired the shiny new Clear 3G/4G wireless hotspot to fufill our mobile broadband dreams. The router is tiny and packs a sleek shinny black iPhone inspired design. The face has a small color LCD that serves as a window into the devices critical information such as 4G/3G connection stregnth. The pager like device allows up to 5 Wifi devices to share the glorious 4G connection with litle to no setup. It’s small enough to drop in your denims and scream out, “I got a pocket filled with internet holla if you feel me.” However all that juice comes at a small price.

Power

The Clear Personal 3G/4G Hotspot comes with a charger, and a usb cord to connect to the laptop. Clear claims 5 hours of battery, I have only been able to achieve 4Hrs on a cool day. It takes about 2 hours to fully charge the device from a an empty battery while connected directly to a wall socket. One of the major drawbacks of the Sierra Wireless manufactured device is that its not capable of being used while its charging. Due to all the radios inside this tiny box, the battery drains quicker then it could be refilled. I constatnly find myself monitoring the battery level, powering down and charging while the device is not being used helps ease the limitations of the battery. Another major design issue, is due to the size of the device it will become extremely hot upon full use, which is not a big deal if your into keeping your arse warm. In the blazing hot Philadelphia summer its not ideal for pocket use, in this situation I keep stash in my bookbag or a shaded area in the car.

The Service

Clear’s Wi-Max connection in  Philadelphia is awesome, I can easily grab 1.5mbs to 2mbs down in the heart of the Hood. The connection is where clear shines, in terms of pricing and connectivity. They offer a 4G package for only $40 a month, and 3G/4G package for $55 a month. The 3G/4G makes sense if you travel outside of Clear 4G coverage area, the device is smart enough to switch between 3G and 4G amesly. However, it does tend to interrupt network connection when it switches between 3G and 4G. Unlike the iPhone OS that is able to magically switch between Edge/3G/Wifi without interupting the browsing experience, the Clear device typically knocks you off for a few minutes until its able to reconnect. The device comes with an internal speaker that will chrips out strange cryptic sounds everytime that there is a significant connection related event. The sounds reminded me of the old portable Tiger handheld games, user connected, Chirpy Chirpo, user disconnected, Chirpy Cherpa, Connection lost, Cherpa Cherpa, and so on until you find yourself slapping the silence button.

iPhone 4, iPad, Computer networking

Using this Personal hotspot device with the iPhone 4 is magical is as if you never left your glorious Wifi. My voip calls come in instantly, the broadband like Clear connection allows me to have clear VOIP calls using Fring on the iPhone 4. I now find myself using the YouTube app to stream some of my favortiate tunes since it can switch and long song between 4x times faster then on AT&T 3G. If you have a mac computer connected to device and your iPhone you are able to use all the remote feature becuase your devices are all essentially on the same network. The device acts as a portable router, it allows all the local networking operations that you could traditionally do on home network you can do on the road. Pretty convinient if you want to transfer files between computers at the PARK! Why?!!? I dont know, but you can. The device router provides all the normal ecryption methods to restric unathorized used of the router, clear provides a web interface fount at http://192.168.1.1 or by simply typing your SSID into your browser. Using the admin section allows your to administer the device, it also provide a realtime dashboard that that mirrors exactly what is being displayed on the LCD, pretty cool.

I recommend the device but wish that Sierra Wireless and Clear will adress its short commings in a new version. The battery life is just not enough for any serious road warrior and the ability to not be able to charge and use simoutaneously severly limits the effectiveness of the device. Aside from the battery and heat issues, the device is simple and effiecient, and I highly recomend it if your constantly on the road. The clear connection provides enough juice to handle of my heavy multimidia downloading and uploading. Our production crew is dying to connect the devuce to the tricaster to try out live streaming, maybe that will be the next review.

How to fix the iPhone 4 camera not working shutter is stuck issue

A few iPhone 4 users are reporting issues with the iPhone camera software shutter stuck in the closed position. I came across the issue first hand with a friends iPhone 4 and here is what we did to resolve the problem.

Follow these steps to fix the iPhone 4 camera shutter stuck problem

1. Sync your iPhone

2. Close all the background running apps on your phone, by double clicking the home button, touch and hold the running app till it jiggles, then close.

3. While your on the stuck shutter camera app do a hard reset, hold the power button and home button at the same time till the phone resets. Usually 15 seconds. You may have to do this a few times, and try to shake the phone as well.

4. If your camera app is still stuck try to restore the iPhone in iTunes.

Update: Users who still experience camera problems after restoring may have a serious hardware problem with the digital camera sensor. Schedule an appointment with the genius bar from the simple Apple store app. The genius will replace your iPhone 4 no questions asked if you followed the steps above, an your camera is still stuck.

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iPhone 4 x Google Voice x CLEAR 4G Personal Wifi Hotspot is the Road to unlimited free minutes

The iPhone 4 is the most advanced smartphone to date, I call it the cheapest and fastest computer I have ever owned. If you have a Google Voice account follow the steps below to achieve Unlimited free minutes minus ATT. Why would anyone want to do this, since ATT signal is currently under contruction in Philly, I drop roughly 10-15 calls a day, which is bad for business.

What you need

1. iPhone 4 or iPhone 3gs (recomend iPhone 4 says its super fast and sexy)
2. A Google Voice account (grab one here)
3. Gizmo5 (registration is currently closed but you can snag an invite from Ebay for a few dollars)
4. The Fring app from the app store
5. Clear 4G service and the Personal WIFI Hotspot (optional, but highly recomended if you want to have service in the streets) $40 a month.

After you registered for all the above services, proceed to set up google voice.

1. Login into Fring and retrieve your Sip number, it should begin with a 747
2. Go to the google voice website, and configuere  the call settings to forward to your new Gizmo5 sip #, select gizmo from the drop down menu, and make sure the settings are saved.
3. On your iPhone configure the fring app to connect to your Gizmo account. First load up the Fring app, then select more, then select addons, and select SIP. Enter your Gizmo5 credentials. Your Google Voice number should now forward to your fring account, call yourself, while I stretch my legs.
4. Now setup the Clear Personal Wifi Device, essentially all this liltle pager like device is a tiny 4G router that allows you to share your Clear pipe withup to 5 Wifi enabled devices. Connect the iPhone to the Clear Wifi personal hotSpot device by going into settings and selecting the Clear SSID name, I named my “GrownManTV” and I suggest you do the same.

Now when somoene calls your Google Voice number it should forward directly to your fring app on your iPhone, and it should ring regarless what program is currently running. Fancy! The Fring tone slightly disturbing and I wish there was an option to change it.  iOS 4 has backgrounding processes that allow for all app VOIP apps to take advantage of this feature. If you are using the Clear Wifi device, then you should be able to receive calls anywhere within the 4G service area. I have tested the device for almost a week now and have to say I am extremely impressed with the service, the calls sound clear and I have only dropped one call, and that was probably due to the fact that my laptop was downloading files at the same time at around 300K plus.

Placing a call

Currently there is no clean way to do this, thanks to Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice App on the iPhone. However, Google has created a Web app, that allows you to place calls and listen to messages. Visit Google.com/voice from your iPhone an save the site to your home screen for easy retrieval. Every time you want to make a call you have to invoke the web app. Also, you can use VoiceCentral BlackSwan which is another web app that allows you to invoke calls. VoiceCentral feels a bit more iPhone native then the Google app, however its also a lil slow, and its somewhat buggy.

My only complaints in this last 7 days of testing is that the fring app tends to still have some rough edges, for example, everytime somoene sends me a instant message, the app feels that it needs to vibrate which its a serious problem. Fix this Fring, allow me to turn it off. Also, the app has the worst ringtone I have heard to date its sounds like a DJ through his turntable at old rotary phone.

Share your experience with the serivce in the comments