A number of videos I’ve been working on for Snow Leopard Server topics. My first time experimenting with YouTube playlists so please be gentle if it’s weird looking… They’ll be posted individually into the 318 TechJournal shortly. These are mostly covering the new features of Mac OS X 10.6 Server, although some of the older videos might be on other topics.
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RSA Makes a Case for iPhone in the Enterprise
Tired of carrying around that RSA SecurID token thingie from 1994, all beige and chewed on routinely by kids and dogs alike? RSA now has an iPhone app for that. Using the SecurID token you can have the exact same functionality using the iPhone that you would otherwise have to use a keychain dongle for. If you’re like me and have been trying to reduce the items you carry on your person for a long time this is a fantastic new option. And in a way, RSA is just helping to make a case for using an iPhone in highly secured Enterprise environments (not that they’re not helping to make…
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App Store Humor
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Bypassing the iPhone Passcode
Cellebrite has a solution that can unlock the passcode on an iPhone or iPod if you have a computer that has synchronized with it. iTunes generates a Security ID for each iPhone or iPod that is synchronized with it. This ID is used to synchronize just in case you loose or forget the passcode. Cellebrite can use the Security ID file from iTunes as well. Cellebrite isn’t the only tool, there are others as well, many of which will allow you to mount the device with or without actually writing data to it. But what if you don’t have the passcode or a machine that the handheld has been synchronized…
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Sync Bookmarks Between IE, Firefox & Safari
If you are a Safari user and you have a MobileMe account then you can already synchronize Safari bookmarks between multiple Macintosh computers. But what if you want to synchronize to that corporate sanctioned Windows XP machine in the office that runs only Internet Explorer? What if you also want to synchronize to Firefox, running on another machine? All three can synchronize together in one harmonious bookmarking ménage à trois. How is all of this made possible?Xmarks. Formerly Foxmarks, Xmarks now supports more browsers and runs on more platforms. You store a backup of your bookmarks in the Xmarks cloud (which, yes, means that you’ll need to create an account) and then you…
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iPhone: Restoring Lost Applications and Their Data
I just can’t help myself. The first thing I do with a new toy is brick the darn thing. I have to unlock it, I have to remove certain sandbox restrictions, I have to basically break it. Why can’t I leave it alone? Because I’m just plain stupid. That being said, I like to think that no matter how deep a hole I dig myself into, I can pull myself out. So when I brick the phone of course I jump into issues and the next thing I know, I’ve got an empty iTunes library and a freshly reimaged phone sitting in front of me, completely empty. Regrettably an empty…
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iPhone Apps for OS X Server Admins
There is a really nice app for Mac OS X Server admins from Harlekins called Server Admin Remote. You can see more information about it at the Server Admin Remote website, here. Basically, Server Admin Remote is a nice front end for a few serveradmin commands, showing which services are installed and the status of services. It also looks at server host names, CPU, network loads, service logs and some of the more important stats per service (ie – concurrent connections for AFP. Overall it’s a great little app for the Server Admin to quickly be able to restart a service or just look at statuses of services. It runs over…
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Using JavaScript in iPhone Applications
I’ve been tinkering with using JavaScript (.js) in iPhone applications. Using the libraries posted here http://ejohn.org/blog/iphone-javascript-apps I was able to get the following script, which runs on my local webserver in OS X ported from Java to Xcode for iPhone: The script runs online or offline since the .js files actually live within the Xcode project. This is only a library for a much larger network utility application I’ve been considering. There are also JavaScript libraries out there for ping and nslookup, although they haven’t proven to port. Also, Dashcode projects typically won’t port so seamlessly…
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10 Million iPhone Users
The economy seems to continue to get less and less optimistic. Meanwhile, 10 Million iPhone Users have now been sold. This means that there is an entire economic model behind iPhone application development. There’s also a huge market in creating mobile skins for otherwise non-mobile-friendly websites and building out iPhone applications for companies to use internally. In the midst of all of this I keep trying to decide, do I just GPL my apps or do I go ahead and try to monetize them. I finally got my application approved, so the apps will likely be up within the next few days whatever I choose to do with them.
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iPhone App: USC too
Due to the fact that I got a lot of email from the USC fans who apparently read this site I went ahead and ported my iPhone app for the UGA schedule to USC. Until my app store account is ready here’s the proof…