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The things I love about iOS5 – the first 24 hours of playing

iOS5 was released at 6pm GMT yesterday (12th October 2011) – if you haven’t already upgraded your iPhone and iPad, then you should.

If you’re having issues because you’re getting “resource not found” when trying to upgrade to iOS5 or something similar-sounding, then fear not – it’s just apple’s servers being under a bit of strain, you can download the offline copy straight from the web site and then within iTunes simply do a backup and then shift-click “Restore” to browse to the offline file (remember to upgrade iTunes first though).

If you’re in charge of a fleet of iPhones I’d always recommend downloading the package first and then using it again and again on all devices to save time and internet bandwidth. You can either download it once in iTunes and then get it from:

C:\Users\smd\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPad Software Updates C:\Users\smd\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPhone Software Updates

(or the equivalent place on your own system), or you can find out the URL from somewhere else such as this helpful article on osXdaily.
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Quick: iPhone Tethering without iTunes

Just a quick link for reference really, spent ages hunting around the web for how to do iPhone tethering (i.e. using your iPhone as a 3G modem/datastick) without having to install iTunes on every single machine (because, of course, most enterprises don’t want iTunes on every laptop they’ve got).

Found the following site which has a messy workaround, but at least it works, and I’ve just confirmed it still working today with iOS4.2: iPhone USB Tethering without iTunes

In short, you need to open up the iTunesSetup.exe (using something like 7zip) and…

Install AppleApplicationSupport.msi (must be installed before AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi)
Install AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi (do not change the installation directory)
Copy QTCF.dll, QuickTime.qts, QuickTimeVR.qtx (from QuickTime) to C:\Windows\System32\

Only tested on Windows XP 32-bit, I’ve yet to try this on Windows 7 64-bit machines, but I’ll do that later and let you know what I find, it might be different because there is indeed a “AppleMobileDeviceSupport64.msi” in the setup.