• iPhone,  Mac OS X,  Microsoft Exchange Server,  MobileMe

    Missing Sync for Android, iPhone, Pre Mobile Phones

    “Trumpy, you can do stupid things!” So an Android, an iPhone, a Blackberry and a Palm Pre walk into a bar in sync. Get it?!?! Not gonna’ happen. Or is it? If you’re a Mac or a Windows user and you don’t mind the ole’ cradled sync, and you’re an absolute gadget-head, then the Missing Sync is for you. We’ve used it for years with Blackberry and back in the days before Microsoft purchased and summarily hastened the already upcoming doom of the Sidekick platform. But now, it supports Android! So if you’re like some of us and you need to always be accessible and therefore travel with 2 mobiles,…

  • iPhone,  Microsoft Exchange Server

    iPhone + Locked Down Exchange

    Some iPhones can have a problem with some Exchange servers due to the fact that they are not fully manageable using ActiveSync Policies. The New-ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy commandlet is can be used with the -Name parameter to assign a name to the new ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy, which we’ll call iPhone. To allow devices that are not fully manageable to use ActiveSync, an ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy needs to be created where  -AllowNonProvisionableDevices is set it to $true. For example, if we were to create such a policy and call it iPhone we would use the following command: New-ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy -Name iPhone -AllowNonProvisionableDevices $true

  • iPhone

    iPhone Worm is Crap

    Sorry, I can’t help it. That whole “iPhone Security Problems” thread I’ve seen on a few sites recently due to that worm. Oh, then there was a second worm that did the same thing. Really? Did these awesome security gurus realize that the device has to be jailbroken? Oh and they have to still have the default password used for SSH? I would hope that if you know enough to jailbreak the device without bricking it that you know enough to change the default SSH password. Interestingly enough though, an estimated 6 to 8 percent of iPhones are jail-broken… If there have been 21 million sold, that provides an attack…

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X,  personal

    Prepping for Ski/Snowboard Season?

    If you’re addicted to your mobile device, be it an iPod touch or an iPhone, and you’re heading out to the slopes for some fun in the cold sun then consider a few little toys that might help facilitate that cold weather use of your technology. The first is the Burton Audex jacket. I have one of these with the soft switch tech built into the arms and it works exactly as advertised. The only thing I don’t like about it is that I need to keep an older iPod around for the switching to work. But what if you crave using the touch devices without taking off your gloves.…

  • Articles and Books,  iPhone

    Advanced iPhone Development

    While it’s not one of my books, my publisher does have a new book coming out right now called iPhone Advanced Projects, which I’ve been perusing and must say that I am pretty darn impressed with. In the publishers words: iPhone Advanced Projects, the third book in our project series, takes on the more advanced aspects of iPhone development. The first generation of iPhone applications has hit the App Store, and now it’s time to optimize performance, streamline the user interface, and make every successful iPhone app that much more sophisticated. Paired with Apress’s bestselling Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK, you’ll have everything you need to create…

  • iPhone,  Network Infrastructure

    Testing Speed

    www.speedtest.net is a nice site that allows you to test the speed of your Internet connection for free. They also have a free companion iPhone app that allows you to test the speed of an Internet connection without actually opening up your laptop.

  • Business,  iPhone

    Danger Mousing @ Microsoft

    I really have no comments on this one: Microsofts_sidekick_pink_problems_blamed_on_dogfooding_and_sabotage Well, OK, of course I have something to say: the word sabotage is libelous. Dogfooding I would assume Every organization wants to run the solution they can best support and extend, whether they write that solution or not. But sabotage? Human errors can happen, no matter how many processes you put in place to keep it from happening. That’s life. To then say that loosing data for most SideKick users is sabotage is an unsubstantiated (yes, I read the whole article and saw no proof) and dangerous (no pun intended) statement, likely made as a result of a disgruntled and ultimately…

  • iPhone

    Tether Thy iPhone

    iPhone Firmware 3.1 is great, unless you want to tether, which the tethering page at Apple will tell ya’ is not supported in the US (it’s not fine print but it’s smallish). The instructions at http://help.benm.at/help.php can get you able to tether in Firmware 3.0 (where it’s also not officially supported) and the video link on the site is also able to downgrade the firmware from 3.1 to 3.0 as you can see here: http://www.benm.at/tutorials/howto-iphone-3g-firmware-3-1-downgrade-os-x

  • Business,  iPhone

    Danger Will Robinson: SideKick + Microsoft

    Occasionally Blackberries go down. Not one or two, but all of them. Sometimes (albeit rarely), Google Apps are unavailable. The Mac community got so frustrated with MobileMe during the .Mac transition that Apple released an official apology of sorts. But nothing that is as dangerous as the recent SideKick data loss. In a move that is characteristic of the battle that has been brewing between the makers of mobile devices and the carriers that provide access to those devices, T-Mobile released the following statement: Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts,…