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what's up i'm brian tong and welcome to the Apple byte it's all the good and bad inside the world of Apple so let's get to the stories the iPhone 3GS is here and has sold over 1 million units its first weekend on sale now that beats out the iPhone 3G launched even more impressive was the fact that it was available in 8 countries on launch compared to 21 countries for the 3G now pre-sales surely helped out that number but it's still impressive now Steve Jobs made his first public remarks since he's been away from Apple saying customers are voting and the iPhone is winning now this after the Palm Pre made its debut selling somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 units in its first two days speaking with Steve it's been confirmed that he did in fact get a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital in Tennessee now they won't say when the surgery happened but SJ has been seen at Apple headquarters this past week and doctors gave them an excellent prognosis this is great news and we're happy about it so you know how we do it here at the Apple bite we did some investigative work of our own and got the scoop on the I liver Steve's gallbladder now produces twice as much bile it cleanses body toxins with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and it's preloaded with the App Store that thing is one-of-a-kind now in the aftermath of the 3GS launch Apple is giving a $30 iTunes store credit for customers who experienced activation delays in some cases the delays were more than two days now you know I could rip on Apple because shouldn't they have been ready this time around but I have to give them some props because they're one of the few tech companies that gives back something when they've goofed in this case it's iTunes credits and when they lower the original iPhone 200 bucks only a few months after it came out they gave a $100 store credit to people who paid the full price they even took care of me when my laptop ran too hot and burned my lap they actually helped pay for the aloe vera limit that I had to apply to my inner thighs right here Brian what he am I know doodoo it's healed it's all it's all good just get back to the show please fine I'll show you that later okay all right Apple biters if you're looking to tether your iPhone and you can't wait for AT&T I've got the hack for you Apple announced that tethering your iPhone will be available to 3.0 software users later this summer in the US what if you need it and you want it now I could never get Wi-Fi there has to be a better way i'm brian tong with cnet.com and i'll show you how to activate tethering for your iphone without jailbreaking it now for those of you that aren't familiar with it tethering is connecting a phone to a laptop or similar device and using the phone's data connection as your internet connection first off here's the disclaimer this feature is not yet officially supported by AT&T in the United States and it potentially breaks your agreement with AT&T or your carrier internationally so you guys have to do this at your own risk now tethering plans normally cost an additional amount on top of your cell phone plan so we don't know how long this will work or if they will bill you anymore but it's here for now it's really easy and it works for most people so first step let's launch your Safari browser on an iPhone running the 3.0 software and go to this website it's called the iPhone Help Center by Ben m80 you want to scroll down to tethering and internet settings and press on the download link select your country then your carrier and you'll get to a final page where you'll press the install button and it will download specific profile settings for your iPhone and it only takes a few seconds once that's done we'll go to the home screen jump to our settings then general then network and you'll now see an internet tethering option to activate it turn it on and you have the option to tether over Bluetooth or a USB cable plug in the USB cable to your iPhone and your computer and we're here on a Mac and if you can see it automatically detects it select it as the connection you want to use and boom like that you are tethered the process works the same on a Windows XP or Vista machine so just plug it in the operating system detects in your network connection and you'll be surfing in no time what's up Oh Brian what's going on why so blue loosen up I can't get Wi-Fi you can't get Wi-Fi and you're crying like a baby check this out I got my iphone all set up to tender you could do that yeah you can okay let sticks out cnet.com boom like that there we go right thanks buddy yeah no problem I'm Brian Tom for cnet.com with your hack for tethering your iPhone user wise for good times and bad times oh yeah focus lock in okay I got it got it okay next story here we go the iPhone 3G S stands for speed but just how fast is this thing media let's recently released their JavaScript benchmark test results using the SunSpider test suite on the iPhone and its competitors like the Palm Pre and t-mobile g1 and the results the iPhone 3GS was three times as fast as the pre three times as fast as the iPhone 3G running the 3.0 software and over five times as fast as the g1 so yeah you can now start calling it Speed Racer now in some quick bytes push notifications are now seeing the light of day in apps like AOL Instant Messenger and B jive I am which supports multiple IM services apple also dropped a bunch of updates of their own with a Final Cut Pro update time capsule and airport firmware updates and Apple TV goes to 2.4 with no exact changes listed yet but it now supports gesture controls for Apple's remote app on the iPhone and iPod Touch and a little tidbit I found myself just to let you know the iPhone 3GS now fully supports the Apple headphones with remote and its volume control from the actual headphone I rip them to shreds on this one so you know when they listen to us and fix something just like putting firewire back on the 13-inch MacBook Pro I'm gonna turn that bad apple into something sweeter like homemade apple pie alright that's gonna do it for this week send in your emails to the Apple bite at cnet.com i'm brian tom thanks for watching and come back next week for another bite yeah