iMobiMac tethering for Blackberry hits private beta

Lo, and the cries of the Mac Blackberry faithful went up, and indeed they were a fractious multitude: "Where is our dial-up networking?" they wailed. "We are paying for data service on these things, and it's EVDO, and everyone else is doing it!" And they saw that those with Intel Macs could tether their Blackberries within Parallels or VMware, and did get online after a fashion, but they said "This is a silly hack, not good." And they saw that Pulse would give them a proxy server and Bluetooth, but they cried "This is slow, and we crave USB!"

And the developers of iMobimac did hear this loud kvetching, and did indeed release upon the multitudes a private beta of a new, USB-based DUN tool. No way to gauge final performance yet, and the beta release notes warn that Safari may not detect the proxy server running on your machine, but it's a start. You may sign up for the beta at the iMobimac site, and may the broadband be with you.

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Zack

best kept secret about this puppy it will save data charges on most carriers. So let's keep our heads up! You gotta love it. I'm help them with beta testing. There should be another beta version coming soon within a few days. I'll post more results soon.

August 22 2007 at 4:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sladuuch

Hey guys, it's Fusion powered! Get it? Alpha Centauri? Anyone? *chirp chirp* Yeahhhhhhâ€¦

August 21 2007 at 3:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Colin Nederkoorn

I wasnt able to get iMobimac working with my pearl. It never saw my BB. I did however get bluetooth tethering working. That was really slow and would drop a lot. I am on t-mobile so the network isnt as fast as Verizon etc...

August 21 2007 at 9:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chase

i used to work for at&t and personally used the pearl, then 8800, and the curve...about 6 months ago, when i got the 8800, i looked into tethering on my intel-based macbook and found a little script that was relased that allowed the macbook to use the unlimited data plan through my 8800 - through bluetooth...free download, and relitively easy to setup...the cool thing was that the profile worked with the curve as well, it just knocked the browser out on the phone itself until you performed a hard reset, but not on the 8800...check it out, because its an option that would very well work for most.

August 20 2007 at 9:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply