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 as a geek, I’m stuck in the technical, wondering if I were to self-publish something straight to the iPad, what would it look like? Not the content, but the files. ePub seems to be the main focus of e-book devices and where the industry is going to go. ePub is a format ratified by the…
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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.
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Bypassing iPhone Encryption
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Good iPhone, Enterprise Ready
The only thing I can think of that I would change about the iPhone is to have the ability to add a layer of full disk encryption. In lieu of that, Good, the makers of GoodLink, have reinvented themselves as the iPhone in the Enterprise front runner in my book. They did this by duplicating much of the functionality of the native iPhone applications, but did so in a manner that stores its data in an encrypted disk image. Communications to the iPhone from the Good servers are also encrypted with similar fervor. And if you have Domino instead of Exchange then you have equal functionality, great for a number…
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Voice Commands on the iPhone
In case you hadn’t heard, it’s been cold in Minneapolis the last week or so. As such I have found myself wearing gloves when I go outside. And when you are wearing gloves, sometimes you do things you maybe didn’t mean to do. I had a moment like that with my iPhone this morning. While holding the phone I was pressing down the home button (the button on the front of the device). After a time I heard a tone. That tone meant that I had opened Voice Control. It doesn’t stay open long, so first I had to figure out what I did to get it back. Once I…
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iPhone: More Juice Please
One of the things that has plagued me since my first phone is that I seem to pretty much always be on it. Annoying as that is for those around me, it seems to take the most toll on the battery of every mobile device that I’ve ever owned. The iPhone is actually one of the better of the devices that I’ve had, but I could just use a little more juice. Which is why I got a Mophie Juice pack. The Mophie is an iPhone case, but it also has a battery in it. The battery can give it up to 4 and a half more hours of talk…
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iPhone and Address Bar Icons
When you visit certain websites you may notice a new icon appear in the address bar of the site. I never really wanted one. But by default, when you add a site to the homepage of your iPhone (click on the plus sign in Safari and then click on Add to Home Screen), it will use that icon. Why do I care? I mean it’s not like anyone is likely to actually add this site to their home screen. But juuuuuust in case, I wanted it to have my spiffy new icon. You know, the one I spent at least 15 minutes building. Otherwise, when you add a page to…
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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,…
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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
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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…