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- Revisiting iPhone's app kill switch
- The saga around Apple's alleged App Store kill switch gets more curious by the minute. Remember Apple's ability to nuke software remotely on the iPhone? Well, the findings and the forensic code analysis from the source of the ruckus--Jonathan Zdziarski--are being called into question Techmeme. ...
- Tags: apple iphone, apple inc., app, revisiting iphone, gruber, tools & techniques, management, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Attack journalism: an iPhone example
- Here's a comment from cnet contributor ripragged in response to a Macalope blog entry responding to an article about DRM - but entirely applicable in a different context: the essentially unanimous rejection of the iPhone by the paid IT analyst community: I'm trying...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Attack, Gruber, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Digital Music, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
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- Apple notebooks to be fabricated from a solid "brick" of aluminum
- The term "brick" was mentioned in a 9-to-5 Mac rumor piece on 10 September 2008 when their source said that the MacBook update is "all about the Brick." 9-to-5 Mac now claims that the "brick" isn't a specific Apple product but rather a manufacturing process that uses lasers and jets...
- Tags: Brick, Apple Inc., BW, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Backgrounder extension for jailbroken iPhones
- In a recent piece for Daring Fireball Jon Gruber writes: background processing is the one factor that unites the four dock apps. Phone, Mail, Safari, and iPod all continue running in the background; no other apps, including those from Apple, do... ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Application, Backgrounder Extension, Wiki, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Digital Music, Digital Media, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Adobe actively developing a Flash Player iPhone
- Flash Magazine reports Adobe Systems' Senior Director of Engineering Paul Betlem confirmed that Adobe is developing a Flash Player for the iPhone at the Flash On The Beach FOTB conference in Brighton, UK. The only problem is that Apple controls which apps get approved for distribution in the App...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Flash Player, Apple Inc., Games, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Apple notebook refresh rumored to arrive October 14 (updated)
- Daring Fireball's Jon Gruber posted an interest mention in his Notes and Observations piece after Apple's Let's Rock event on Tuesday. Buried at the end of his third paragraph is this little gem that predicts the date of the upcoming MacBook revision: Those of you holding out for a...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Trackpad, AppleInsider, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Apple releases iPhone 2.0.1 software (updated 4x)
- Apple this evening posted updated iPhone 2.0.1 software (249MB, build 5B108) via the Update feature in iTunes (iPhone > Summary > Version). Not much information is offered beyond Apple's ridiculously lame "bug fixes" description but I'm sure that details will start to trickle out soon. ...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Tools & Techniques, Backups, Digital Music, Digital Media, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- MobileMe drops subscribed calendar syncing
- Jon Gruber points a piece the troubling news that you can't sync read-only iCal subscription calendars to your iPhone, as confirmed in Apple knowledgebase article TS1213. What's worse is that Apple took this feature out of their US$99 subscription service, but it's still available when you sync your iPhone (for...
- Tags: Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- Software we'll never see in the App Store
- I recently published lists of my most anticipated iPhone applications and my App Store wishlist. But what about applications that we'll never see in the App Store? There are certain kinds of applications that Apple will most likely never offer in the App Store because they conflict...
- Tags: 3G, Apple iPhone, Application, Business Operations, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Corporate Law, Digital Media, Digital Music, E-mail, GPS, jason D. O'Grady, Networking, Online Communications, Personal Technology, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Telecommunications, Telephony, Web Development, Software
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Is Apple hording .me domains?
- Daring Fireball via Mac Rumors pointed out that Apple may have secured the domain Me.com in December of 2007, lending credence to the rumor that Apple my re-brand their Mac.com service as "Mobile Me" or some variant thereof. There are a couple of decent theories about Apple...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., Domain Name, Domain Names, Domain, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates
- Last summer, I looked at Apple's announced plans for its Safari web browser and wondered out loud, Is Steve Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop? Apple's decision last week to begin aggressively pushing Safari to any Windows user running iTunes (in other words, anyone with an iPod or an...
- Tags: Security, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iTunes, Updates, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Digital Music, Software, Management, Personal Technology, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- iPhone SDK downloads surpass 100,000
- Apple today announced that more than 100,000 developers have downloaded the beta version of the company's iPhone Software Development Kit SDK in the first four days since its launch on 06 March 2008. "Developer reaction to the iPhone SDK has been incredible with more than 100,000 downloads in the...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, SDK, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- iPhone SDK release rumor roundup
- According to an online report, sources say the forthcoming iPhone SDK — coming out this week — will feel the heavy hand of Cupertino. The software feature some heavy constraints by Apple in distribution and in support for hardware peripherals. Apple announced the SDK release date last...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Idea, SDK, Apple Inc., Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Attack journalism: an iPhone example
- Attack journalism: an iPhone exampleZDNET is the worst abuser of attack journalismOver the last several months, I have watched ZDNET descend into simple attack journalism. As a matter of fact, journalism should not even be used in the same sentence with ZDNET since the two appear to be diametrically...
- Tags: journalism, iPhone example, attack journalism, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-01-07
- Using Internet phone to communicate with loved ones in Iraq this Christmas? Send me your stories
- (photo by Jack Gruber, USA Today) A story in Wednesday's USA Today about soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan using Internet-based phones to see and speak with loved ones this Christmas got me thinking about fashioning this post. Are you, or...
- Tags: Phone, USA Today, Iraq, Skype Technologies S.A., Story, Internet Phone, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Tiger update brings Safari headaches
- Tiger update brings Safari headachesBut it IS Apple's fault[i]Some commentators, such as John Gruber, say we should know better than rely on such hacks. And I agree to a point. It’s not all Apple’s fault when it introduces something that breaks an “unsupported” feature provided by a third-party developer —...
- Tags: Web browsers, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Safari headach, Web browser, headach
- Discussion threads 2007-11-16
- Tiger update brings Safari headaches
- Customer experience with this week's Tiger Mac OS X 10.4.11 Combo Update is mixed. Some users may be happy with the update's switch to Safari 3.04. But for many, trouble comes with the update's breaking of compatibility with popular browser plug-ins and hacks. I encountered this issue...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Will Leopard thrill or disappoint?
- Will Leopard thrill or disappoint?Two wordsTime machine. That's going to be the big innovation for Leopard. It's typical Apple. Take something that has traditionally been complicated and difficult and turn it into something elegant and actually practical to use.For $130 price, it needs to offer more.But hey, the Mac faithful...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Now IT, Leopard, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- Will Leopard thrill or disappoint?
- Today I came across two pieces about Leopard which I found really interesting; one by John Gruber of Macworld and the other by Hadley Stern of Apple Matters. I came away with the feeling that both were saying the same thing, but coming at it from different directions. ...
- Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, John Gruber, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- The real question about Mac security
- The real question about Mac securityNext place over and wake the dormouseI'm a Mac user and I'm a tad skeptical as to how diligent we are. Mr. Gruber, who I think says a lot of insightful things, may have been talking about the Apple independent developer world and there, he...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Mac Community, malware
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
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