Today I faced a problem on my iPhone where I couldn’t get push notifications to work using Go and STC routers. I have finally found a fix. It turned out to be a DNS problem and all you have to do is to set the DNS on your iPhone. I hope this will be useful to anyone having this problem. ...

Google has announced their own public DNS server which will be available for everyone on the Internet. Google’s main goal is to increase the speed of web browsing for users and is a good alternative to OpenDNS. I have faced many problems with STC‘s DNS servers and many Saudi users are complaining from Go‘s DNS as well. So it’s a ...

One of my favorite hobbies is assembling computer hardware. I also prefer to upgrade my Macs by my own without relying on a service center. I’ve found two useful web sites that provide guides on how to repair and upgrade your Mac: iFixit and OWC. iFixit specializes in selling spare parts for Macs and provide free guides on how to ...

“SMS Delivery Report” is a small feature that is available on almost all phones. However just like call forwarding it is missing from the iPhone. Don’t bother yourself by calling Mobily and asking them about it, they said that it is “NOT SUPPORTED“. Just add the following code right before the rest of your message: *N# So your message would ...

To download iPhone/iPod touch applications you need an iTunes account. That account will be needed to access iTunes U and review podcasts. We talked about the steps before but now it is easier to create one. Saudi Arabia and US iTunes Store accounts I recommend creating two iTunes accounts: a Saudi iTunes account and a US iTunes account because there ...

We are always happy to help iPhone owners, unlike Mobily who doesn’t seem to know how to handle the iPhone 3G. Here are the iPhone 3G data & MMS settings for a prepaid Mobily number: Access Point Name (APN): web2 MMS settings: APN: mms2 Username: blank Password: blank MMSC : http://10.3.3.133:9090/was MMS Proxy: 010.003.002.133:8080 As for postpaid Mobily numbers, the ...

One of the limitation of the iPhone software is the lack of real call forwarding controls. The iPhone only has one call forwarding option: “forward all calls” and you cannot set call forwarding if busy or if not answered. Call forwarding commands are standard so you can perform these codes easily. Just dial the following numbers to enable call forwarding: ...

Mobily Connect is Mobily’s broadband Internet service which is available for all Mobily customers. The current iPhone 3G bundles are very limited so it’s best to increase the bandwidth by adding Mobily connect packages. You can add packages to your current iPhone 3G packages. So if you have a 99 package (99SR monthly and 200MB bandwidth) then added a 1GB ...

UPDATE: We just added a guide on how to enable tethering on iPhone 3G with Mobily (and even STC). iPhone 3.0 software was finally released yesterday and one of the new features is “Internet Tethering”. Enabling tethering with Mobily is not possible according to this image: I contacted Mobily’s support and the employee told me to install “pdanet”! PDAnet is ...

The new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models are now equipped with an SD card slot instead of an ExpressCard slot. Apple released a knowledge base article about the SD card slot and it included the following information: – Supports MultiMediaCards (MMC). – Supports SD, SDHC, MiniSD, MicroSD. – The Mac recognize the SD card as a USB device. – ...