Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category

Automating iPhone & iPad Deployment

The iPhone Configuration Utility is used to “image” iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The reason I quoted image was because you aren’t laying bits down as you would in a traditional imaging scenario. Instead, you are sending a profile and possibly some applications to the device. This is done through a configuration profile, which is [...]

Posted on August 31, 2010 at 6:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Managing Active Directory from iPhone

AD HelpDesk is a tool that can be used to manage certain aspects of Active Directory user accounts. Using AD HelpDesk, you can configure an iOS based device to connect to Active Directory using an administrative account (or an account that has been delegated administrative access). Using the tool, you can then find a user. [...]

iTunes and Mass Activation

In order to use an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you need to activate the devices. If you are setting up a large number of mobile devices, this can be a tedious process. When you start talking about thousands of them, it can be down-right overwhelming. However, you can reduce the number of clicks, taps [...]

Peachpit Books

Now that all of the Peachpit books are available for 10.6 Certification purposes I thought it might be a good time to post a link to all of them. Here goes: Or for ACMA (the Final Cut below could be swapped out with Support Essentials, Directory Services or Deployment):

Posted on May 7, 2010 at 10:22 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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ePub and iPad

As an author, I’m pretty interested in the changing face of the publishing industry. Tim O’Reilly was on the cover of Inc magazine this month and I’ve been following his musings about publishing for some time. But this whole digital publishing thing has to make an author think about what it means for us. But [...]

Posted on April 30, 2010 at 8:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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iBook iPad Video

Perhaps it’s time to write a book for the iPad?

Posted on April 3, 2010 at 7:28 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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The iPad’s A4 processor

The iPad is leveraging the new A4 chip from Apple, the first time Apple has released their own chip. Running at 1GhZ, the A4 is an ARM-based chip. The A4 is similar, if not the the ARM Coretex-A9 MPCore processor with graphics brought to you by the ARM Mali 50, capable of 720p hi-def video. [...]

Posted on February 6, 2010 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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iPhone 3gs Encryption?

Following an argument I recently had over iPhone security I thought I would post easy to access links that any fanboy can get to regarding the full disk encryption of the iPhone 3gs. En garde, I’ll let you try my Wu-Tang style.

Posted on January 31, 2010 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Apple Finally Finds YouTube

Apple has been interfacing with YouTube for some time. They have provided YouTube integration into a number of their consumer applications and clearly understand how to aggregate content from YouTube and interface with the YouTube API. Apple also has some of the best marketing of the past 10 or more years. But until now, Apple [...]

Posted on January 30, 2010 at 11:01 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Apple Tablet Chassis Design

Posted on January 26, 2010 at 11:09 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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