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 [...]
In: iPhone · Tagged with: creat, iPhone, iphone configuration utility, mobileconfig
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. [...]
In: Active Directory, iPhone · Tagged with: Active Directory, ad domain, ios, iPad, iPhone, Mac OS X, Password, reset ad password, SMS, unlock accounts, username
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 [...]
In: iPhone · Tagged with: activate iphone, defaults, genius mode, ipad mass deployment, itunes activation mode, StoreActivationMode, StoreGeniusMode
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):
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Mac Security, Mass Deployment, iPhone · Tagged with: 10.6, ACSA, Peachpit Books
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 [...]
In: iPhone · Tagged with: ebook, epub, howto, ibookstore, iPad, iPhone
iBook iPad Video
Perhaps it’s time to write a book for the iPad?
In: iPhone · Tagged with: ibook, iPad
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. [...]
In: iPhone · Tagged with: A4, chip, iPad, Mac OS X
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.
In: iPhone · Tagged with: Forensics, iPhone, jailbreak, Video
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 [...]
In: Mac OS X, iPhone · Tagged with: Apple, Channel, youtube
Apple Tablet Chassis Design
In: iPhone · Tagged with: Apple, Apple tablet, Mac OS X
