upgrading to snow leopard on machine purchased sept 2009

Elevator

Hi all, i thought i seen somewhere that i could upgrade my os for free fi i purchased my machine after snow leopard came out?? cant seem to find it on mac website now that i wanna take advantage of it.

also i posted on another forum looking for an app to connect my cydia unlocked 3gs to my i mac, is it possible? atm i cant even get them to pair through bluetooth, i'm no expert when it comes to apple products but i would have thought the i mac and i phone were going to be able to connect

Sad Professor

Elevator wrote: »

Hi all, i thought i seen somewhere that i could upgrade my os for free fi i purchased my machine after snow leopard came out?? cant seem to find it on mac website now that i wanna take advantage of it.

The Snow Leopard Up-to-date program is over now. Afaik it ended last year.

Elevator

ah dammit to hell!! thought i only seen it recently tho will be paying for it next week so

Elevator

also i posted on another forum looking for an app to connect my cydia unlocked 3gs to my i mac, is it possible? atm i cant even get them to pair through bluetooth, i'm no expert when it comes to apple products but i would have thought the i mac and i phone were going to be able to connect

no takers?

J-blk

Elevator wrote: »

also i posted on another forum looking for an app to connect my cydia unlocked 3gs to my i mac, is it possible? atm i cant even get them to pair through bluetooth, i'm no expert when it comes to apple products but i would have thought the i mac and i phone were going to be able to connect

It isn't possible with Bluetooth. The iPhone's Bluetooth support is crippled and does not support file transfer so you have to do it over WiFi (with third party apps like Air Sharing) or cable (iTunes or again, third party apps to get "proper" file browsing support).

AFAIK, the only Bluetooth profiles that the 3G/3Gs support are:

Hands-Free Profile (HFP 1.5)
Phone Book Access Profile (PBAP)
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)
Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP)
Personal Area Network Profile (PAN)

But if you're happy to use WiFi for file transfers, look into Dropbox, Air Sharing, etc.

thecommander

Elevator wrote: »

also i posted on another forum looking for an app to connect my cydia unlocked 3gs to my i mac, is it possible? atm i cant even get them to pair through bluetooth, i'm no expert when it comes to apple products but i would have thought the i mac and i phone were going to be able to connect

no takers?

Elevator

thecommander wrote: »

ya funny fiend P, phone is unlocked now tho so no itunes for me, think me got a virus now or something too, some icons disappeared and turned to question marks in the dock (apps just disappearing and cant be found!?!)

things running slugish so me thinks get rid of parallels to run xp and be done with windows!! any body recommend some quality free system scanners for mac so can see if i've been hit with something?

tia

J-blk

Elevator wrote: »

phone is unlocked now tho so no itunes for me

Um, why? My iPhone has been unlocked since day one and using it with iTunes is no problem. It never updates your firmware automatically, it always asks you and in fact, the first time it asks you about a particular firmware (e.g. the current 3.1.3), you can select an option to not be asked again... What firmware are you currently on? Anything from 3.0 onwards supports apps from the App store...

Elevator

I'm on 3.1.2, i just thought better stay away from I tunes incase they brick the phone

J-blk

Nah, you'll be fine... just never accept the update . What are you trying to sync over bluetooth anyway? Documents, etc? Dropbox gets my vote, it's a great way of keeping files in sync on multiple computers and the iPhone.

As for virus scanners, try ClamXav, it's a Mac OS X port of ClamAV:

http://www.clamxav.com/

Can't vouch for how good or not it may be though, I've never had issues with viruses on my Mac...