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Getting started with iPhone development

I've been doing Android development for some time, and before that I experimented with Palm and Blackberry, so I figured it was time for some hands-on iPhone programming as well. In this article I'd like to share a few of my initial experiences. Apple released the first...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Ralf, Apple Developer Connection Site, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-13

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iPhone 2.0 keyboard hack, sans jailbreak

One of the hottest iPhone stories of the past several months was Ralf Ackermann's Bluetooth keyboard hack where he connected a standard Apple Bluetooth keyboard to an iPhone. The problem with the Ackermann hack is that it requires you to jailbreak your phone and perform other acts of voodoo most...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Getting started with iPhone development

Getting started with iPhone developmentPretty Negative Spin there EdFor pretty basic stuff a programmer should be able to figure out.Re: Negative spin?I figured it out but it just took longer than I expected based on my experience with other mobile platforms. Locking everything down so hard (Mac only, 2 levels...

Tags: Blogging, iPhone development, Getting Started, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Student Technology Day: your questions to the presenters

I received an email this morning about the opportunity to participate in sending questions to the speakers at the Microsoft Student Technology Day tomorrow (that's Wednesday, for those who have yet to understand the Gregorian calendar). Whilst I'm not allowed to publish the number to text in your questions for...

Tags: Speaker, Microsoft Corp., Question, Keyboards, Internet, Games, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-09-30

Scamming the scammers: Web vigilantes work hard to bait email thieves

Internet users are outscamming the scammers in a competition for who can be the wickedest Internet vigilante, reports the New York Times.Scam-baiters are taking glorious revenge on the mostly African scammers who take advantage of the unwary typically by offering millions of dollars in payoffs for helping them wire...

Tags: Web, International

Blog posts 2007-07-04

Exploit these useful IP Accounting features in Cisco IOS

IP Accounting is a very useful accounting feature in Cisco IOS, but it is not as well-known as other features, such as NetFlow. However, compared to NetFlow, IP Accounting offers some advantages that make it an interesting feature to investigate. For instance, easy results retrieval via a MIB...

Tags: Accounting, Cisco IOS, IP, Cisco Systems Inc., IP Accounting, Network Technology, Networking

Book chapters 2007-06-15

WEP - Gone in Sixty seconds!

Every time I mention how WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy protocol used to secure wireless networks needs to die, I always get at least one comment from someone who, for one reason or another, obviously still uses WEP and wants some false hope that its better than nothing. Well, it...

Tags: Links, Security

Blog posts 2007-04-05

German researchers put final nail in WEP

A group of German cryptographic researchers (Erik Tews, Andrei Pychkine and Ralf-Philipp Weinmann) at the cryptography and computer algebra group at the technical university Darmstadt in Germany have come up with a new statistical attack against WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy that works an order of magnitude faster than anything ever...

Tags: Security, Microsoft, Infrastructure, Hardware, Desktop

Blog posts 2007-04-05

Why the Sharp languages still matter

Why the Sharp languages still matterWe use all the Sharps here...My rep got me pre-alpha versions of F# and X# way back. It was unreal. I pulled two of my top-Top-TOP MCSDs off their projects and told them "reinvent all of our applications in F# pronto". The edict was delivered...

Tags: .NET, Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, Sharp Corp., C#

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

Learn about filtering e-mail in Postfix

This sample chapter from The Book of Postfix explains a couple of ways you can filter messages using your Postfix MTA. The Postfix home page offers this official characterization of the Postfix mailer: 'Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same...

Tags: Message, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications

Book chapters 2005-09-12

NGASM 8086/8088 Assembler 1.3 (Windows)

NGASM 8086 / 8088 Assembler simplifies learning Assembly Language with a 7000-line long manual that elaborately describes exact usage of Assembler Instructions. You understand any Instruction in a single reading. Lots of small routines and unbelievably tiny ready-to-assemble-and-run programs are provided. If you are someone who likes to write your...

Tags: Systech Software, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2005-08-08

Court refuses to lift California e-voting restrictions

Court refuses to lift California e-voting restrictionsComputers + Voting = Ralph Nader DominationThink about it. A couple motivated computer scientists hack this flawed system and just for fun, get Ralf Nader elected. I'm from Minnesota and I've seen first hand what can come out of a Joke candidate....

Tags: e-voting

Discussion threads 2004-07-07