It made a controversial appearance in the AppStore in the middle of the week, was unceremoniously removed after just after a day (or even less), made a return today, and now is gone again. The tethering app NetShare from Nullriver allows you to share the 3G/EDGE connection of your iPhone by creating an ad-hoc network for others to connect to. Connecting to it may seem a bit too technical for some, but its all a matter of configuring your browser to connect using SOCKS proxy. Macrumors has detailed instructions on how to make it work for Windows XP, Safari, and FireFox/Camino. While its currently unavailable at the moment, something tells me we won’t be seeing the last of NetShare.
[via Engadget]
September 13th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
[...] will be true with other capable devices. Don’t go looking for this app in the App Store, as the last tethering app we saw there was unceremoniously yanked of the shelves before anymore interested users could [...]