There is a nice review of my iOS in the Enterprise book up on MacDirectory. It is available at: http://www.macdirectory.com/component/option,com_reviews/task,viewDetail/review_id,504 Overall the review was good. I understand not liking the font choice for the book. Luckily this type of thing isn’t something we authors have a choice about, so I take it as an overall good review!
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MacTech Bootcamps Coming To A City Near You!
I’ve been watching the MacTech Conference and then Boot Camps for some time. After hearing of the resounding success of the Conference last summer I was then stoked to hear that the January Boot Camp went extremely well. A MacTech Boot Camp is a regional, single-track seminar designed specifically for consultants and techs. MacTech Conference is a multi-day conference for IT professionals with a focus on enterprise and development whereas the Boot Camps are for consultants and techs focused on home users and small to medium sized businesses. Both are going really well. https://krypted.com/ is now a media sponsor of MacTech Boot Camps! This means I get discounts to offer my…
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Finding iOS Device PINs
Each time you sync an iOS based device, a backup is made (unless you disable the option). These are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. Here you will find a number of folders, each beginning with the UDID of the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch that has been backed up. The contents of these folders can be used to restore a device in the event that the device falls outside your control. Within the folders are a bunch of files with alphanumeric names that look garbled, even though some can be viewed using a standard text or property list editor (while others are binary). But there are also a bunch of other…
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iTunes High Contrast Mode
I like to use my laptop on the beach. Not that I get out much these days, but one of the things I often do is to flip my machine into inverted, or high contrast, mode. Recently I’ve been looking for ways to not switch the whole machine over. This can be as simple as throwing the background for Word to blue, which makes me feel all kinda’ AmiPro-like, or most recently, I’m using High Contrast Mode with iTunes. High Contrast Mode switches the background for the sidebar and the library to black. This isn’t for everyone, but I like it at times (just make sure to kill the Ping…
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iPhone, NFC & A Few Hundred Billion Dollars
Many of us now use our phone to check our email more often than we use our computer. Our phones go everywhere with us (although please hang up when you’re in the can as few things are more disgusting than listening to someone talk to their mom when they’re droppin’ the kids off at the pool in the stall next to you or hearing someone you’re talking to dropping’ a deuce in the pooper on the other end of the line). Many no longer have land lines and some have even dumped desktop and laptop computers in favor of smart-phone or tablet based digital lives. Few skipped the computer altogether…
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Securing iOS Based Devices Paper
The CIRCL (Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg) has cited my Enterprise iOS book in a paper title Security of iOS Based Devices. It’s only a few pages so a pretty quick read. But what is interesting about it is that in the second edition of the book I’ve already started to replace the Applications chapter (which I wasn’t really happy with in the first place) with a chapter on securing the devices. These days, with a two year old around, I’ve been thinking about adding something on physical security, but I think that might just be superfluous (and ever changing)… Also, in preparation for 2nd edition, I would like to…
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iPhone Life Article
An excerpt-turned-article of mine just appeared in iPhone Life Magazine. IT’s called The Inevitability of the iPhone in the Enterprise: http://www.iphonelife.com/issues/2011March-April/InevitabilityIPhoneEnterprise Hope you enjoy!
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New 318 Press Releases on iOS
We put out 2 press releases at work on Friday. Fun stuff! http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Challenged-by-Deployment-of-Apple-iPads-in-Your-Enterprise-Tips-From-318-Consulting-1371111.htm http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Leading-Enterprise-Class-Apple-Consultancy-318-Becomes-iPad-Reseller-1371114.htm
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iPhone and iPad Admin Guide Now Shipping
The Enterprise iPhone and iPad Administrator’s Guide is now shipping (and rapidly moving up in Amazon’s rankings)! There have also been a couple of sightings in Border’s. Apress also sent out a press release and an email blast regarding the book in the past week. So, feel free to buy it using the link below! 🙂
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iPad + Box.net = Win
Box.net is a cloud-based file sharing service that I used extensively in my last book. Similar to dropbox.com, Box.net allowed my publishers and I to automate our workflow with regard to the publishing process, but more importantly, I was actually able to do much of the review and exchange of files from the iPad, which was really nice given that the book was on iOS. I’ve been working with a few companies over the past few weeks on coming up with various strategies for cloud interoperability, and Box.net has come up a few times in this regard. Looks like I’m not the only one!