March 2011 – The Blog of Lee

Getting around Three’s (3UK) ‘Porn’ Block

Mar 072011

Anyone who has a cellular / mobile contract with Three / 3 / 3UK will have likely stumbled across their ‘porn’ block at some stage. Good goal in theory, except it doesn’t just block porn. I’ve had some really random websites blocked because of it. There is a workaround that you can use (depending on your handset I’ll leave you to figure out the specifics), but the jist is quite simple:

Create a new APN and call it ‘3 Routed’ or something. The name is irrelevant.

APN: 3internet
Proxy: <not set>
Port: <not set>
Username: <not set>
Password: <not set>
Server: <not set>
MMSC: http://mms.um.three.co.uk:10021/mmsc
MMS Proxy: mms.three.co.uk
MMS port: 8799
MMS Protocol: WAP 2.0
MCC: 234
MNC: 20
Authentication Type: <not set>
APN Type: *

Save this, and activate it as your active APN. This will temporarily disconnect your data connection and renegotiate a new one. It will give you handset a public routed IP address (minor security issue), break sending and receiving of multimedia messages (MMS). But, it will give you unrestricted, unfiltered internet access. When you’ve finished, simply switch back to your other original APN to restore normality for everything else.

Simple!

Photography in Brighton

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Mar 012011

Since moving to Brighton at the end of last year, I’ve been taking photos of my new City. Brighton and Hove is one of the more photogenic cities that I’ve visited; the buildings, people and features are incredibly diverse and open to so much interpretation that can be well-captured in photography.

I post maybe 0.1% of the photos I take to Facebook. 50% ends up in my Picasa Galleries, and the other 50% are either just interesting to me, or are not quite good enough to publish. Either way, that other 50% sits on my computer alone. The absolute best of the best and of potential public interest get posted on my photoblog Sussex in Focus. I’ve set up a page on this blog that lists all the different places you can find my ‘work’.

Click any for a full-size image..