iOS

John Dvorak claims that itis time for Adobe to fight back against Microsoftis Silverlight initiative by porting its flagship apps to Linux. Itis the right kind of thinking, just the wrong platform. Mr. Dvorak, in a well considered editorial took a look at the emergence of Silverlight, the situation with the NBC coverage of the…

A co uple of quick notes about today’s release of an iPhone (and iPod touch) 2.0.1 bug-fix update: • Updating a jailbroken device. I applied the update to my jailbroken iPod touch. It updated the device without any glitches. The presence of the jailbreak software/firmware did not cause the update to fail. Nor did installing…

It’s official. Thanks to the “iphone-dev team” folks, you can now jailbreak an iPhone (or iPod touch) running 2.0 software. As to why you might want to do a jailbreak, given that iPhone’s App Store already provides the ability to download third-party software, check out my most recent TMO column. To jailbreak your iPhone or…

I’ve made no secret of my overwhelming enthusiasm for the iPhone, and have sung its glories here and elsewhere many times. That doesn’t mean that I never get irritated with the device. I do. And, by far, my most frequent annoyance is with Safari — especially when using it with the EDGE network. The problem…

ref=”http://blogs.macobserver.com/userfriendly/2008/02/13/wait-on-iphone-jailbreakingfor-now/”>Recently, I recommended against jailbreaking an iPhone running the latest software, unless you were in a risk-taking mood, especially with the SDK’s arrival expected so soon. If you were already using a jailbroken iPhone, running iPhone software 1.1.1 (as was the case for me), I recommended sitting still, again until after Apple’s SDK release. However,…

Hereis how: Select the text for any document that you want to include in your email. Select the text you want to send in an email message.

The update fixed a flaw where subscribing to a maliciously crafted photocast could allow a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on your computer. It also improved overall stability, and fixed several other minor issues. iPhoto is part of the iLife suite which is priced at US$79. The iPhoto 7.1.2 update is free for all…

AppMarks is easy to use. Just point your iPhone to the AppMarks Web site, and youill see a pre-built list of popular iPhone Web applications. Tapping an icon opens the associated application in a new Safari browser window. Build your own iPhone app list wit AppMarks.

Appleis Open Directory for Mac OS X Server is a powerful, capable directory services system that uses open standards like Open LDAP and Kerberos. Despite its capabilities, there are still some methods to secure it over and above the default settings, according to Ryan Faas at Computerworld on Friday. Mr. Fass, who has written an…

iPhone Apps Widget is a Dashboard widget from InnermindMedia that catalogs iPhone applications complete with descriptions and links to developer Web sites. The interface is as simple as the iPhone itself, and it also includes a link so developers can add their applications to the iPhone Apps Widget database. Find iPhone applications with iPhone App…

DoubleCommand is a Preference Pane and kernel extension combination that gives you far more control over keyboard remapping than Appleis Keyboard & Mouse Preference Pane. While remapping my MacBook Prois Enter key to work as a Control key made my left handed world a little easier to work in since I donit have to reach…

Mr. Munster commented “Of the 9 developers we spoke with at the conference, all 9 indicated that the web-based method Apple will use for iPhone applications is less complex, but more secure, than allowing developers to deploy their own built-in iPhone applications.” The developers also told Mr. Munster that preventing coders from writing and installing…

Keywords are a great way to help keep all of the picture you store in iPhoto organized. You can quickly narrow down a long list of images to just what you want – as long as you remember to assign keywords ahead of time. Hereis how: Click the keyword button in the lower left corner…

Apple, Inc. has released a security fix for iPhoto on Tuesday which addresses CVE-2007-0051. The fix brings iPhoto to version 6.0.6. The news was posted on the “security-announce” list at lists.apple.com. The announcement provided these details: Impact: Subscribing to a maliciously-crafted photocast may lead to arbitrary code execution. Description: A format string vulnerability exists in…

Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam. Without the aid of SpamSieve, Iim sure my eyes would bleed and angels would wail in despair every time I checked my email. For those not already in the know, SpamSieve is an add-on application that uses a Bayesian filtering algorithm to learn what types of…

With the release of iTunes 7, Apple made it very clear that its music management application was now a full-fledged multimedia manager. It now manages movies and TV shows with the same style that itis been handling music for some time. Along with that movie support, iTunes 7 now sports a familiar, yet different, interface.…

For example, letis say your email account is [email protected], and [email protected] forwards to that address. Any email sent to [email protected] appears in your [email protected] mailbox, but you want the replies you send for Fordis email to actually show Fordis address instead of Zaphodis. Although itis easy to do, Apple didnit make it easy to find…

Like so many other applications, Appleis Mail in Tiger has some hidden features just waiting to be discovered. For instance, you can check your .Mac and other IMAP email account mailbox quotas. Hereis how: Select Get Info from Mailis Action button to open the Account Info window.

The update also gives QuickTime 7 Pro users the ability to "create video and audio files that can be played back on compatible iPods." The update notes in Software Update also specify that it will disable QuickTime Pro functionality in prior versions of QuickTime (i.e. QuickTime 5 or QuickTime 6). You can find the update…

The security issue patched in the update was a fairly serious one, at least in terms of the damage is could do. A malicious person could create a QuickTime movie with a Quartz Composer object that could both gain access to local data and "send it using an encoded URL to an arbitrary web location."…