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VLC pulled from Apple app store

Jan08
2011 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Matthew Humphries at geek.com informs us that Apple has excluded VLC player form Apple store due to supposed terms of licence under GNU (full article at http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/vlc-media-player-pulled-from-the-app-store-2011018/).

Could be for this or to avoid that the service for renting and selling films is put under discussion by the ability to read divx films inside Apple devices?

I really love iPhone, iPad and Mac, though I use mainly Linux and windows for work. But is not with this kind of things (or by trying to exclude porn) that Apple can reinforce the position against competitors.

This post as a comment also at  http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/vlc-media-player-pulled-from-the-app-store-2011018/comment-page-1/#comment-3968386

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Open culture delivers ebooks for free

Jan08
2011 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

The guy at Open culture are linking a Kaplan initiative for giving access for a limited time to around 130 useful ebooks (full article at http://www.openculture.com/2011/01/130_free_ebooks_from_kaplan_publishing.html).

Is a good initiative worth a read.

Books are available for most common ebooks readers and platforms.

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iPhone alarm failure

Jan03
2011 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

I read from many sources Apple has declared that will fix the bug that didn’t make the alarm ring.

Ok, is a bug that can cause problems and should be fixed. What sounds strange to me is that is exposed worldwide with quite the same level of coverage of Facebook and Skype outage.

I think that more “weighting” of news should be done in the internet, as well as in printed paper.

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Developing apps on iOS, a free Course

Nov27
2010 1 Comment Written by hotrao

The guys at Open culture gave the link for 20 free lectures from Stanford University on how to develop applications on iOS (full article at http://www.openculture.com/2010/11/developing_apps_for_iphone_ipad_a_free_stanford_course.html), direct ItunesU link at http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=395631522.

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iOS 4.3 coming in mid december

Nov26
2010 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Chris Foresman at Ars Technica reports that “[...] iOS 4.2 took a little longer than planned to roll out; a last minute WiFi bug in the 4.2 golden master caused a delay of a few weeks to rev up to the 4.2.1 version that was released on Monday. Despite this, Apple is rumored to have iOS 4.3 already waiting in the wings for a mid-December release. That update is said to bring a new subscription billing API for in-app purchasing, according to MacStories, enabling app developers to collect recurring charges directly through iTunes for print, video, or other content. [...]” (full article at http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/11/ios-43-rumored-for-mid-december-with-in-app-subscriptions.ars).

Same does Brian Barrett at Gizmodo (full article at http://gizmodo.com/5697563/is-ios-43-just-around-the-corner).

Ok. I agree that the market is demanding and the continuous release of new versions is a way to adapt the system to developments and market needs.

But in my opinion would be a little better to have a unique realse in december than having two separate ones at the distance of less than a month.

Is not a matter of complexity, of course, but is a matter of being pragmatic.

This post as a comment als at http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/11/ios-43-rumored-for-mid-december-with-in-app-subscriptions.ars?comments=1&p=21058072#comment-21058072 and at http://gizmodo.com/5697563/is-ios-43-just-around-the-corner

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Transforming an iPhone into an Android one

Nov12
2010 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Adam Frucci at Dvice reports a trick that allows transforming an iPhone 3G into an android powered one through Cydia availabe bootlace (full article at http://dvice.com/archives/2010/11/turn-your-iphon-2.php).

Worth a read if you have a spare one.

 

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AppMakr, a good iPhone development application

Oct30
2010 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Adam Dachis at Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com/people/adachis/posts/) writes an article on a site called AppMakr that helps you building you iPhone app in WYSWYGstyle (Full article at http://lifehacker.com/5673309/appmakr-helps-you-create-your-own-iphone-app-for-free-no-coding-necessary)

Hope that Apple doesn’t go through this site and decide to do some legal mumbo jumbo on this, because though app store is really rich of apps, new ways of development are welcome.

This post as a comment also at http://lifehacker.com/5673309/appmakr-helps-you-create-your-own-iphone-app-for-free-no-coding-necessary

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iOS 4.1 security flaw

Oct26
2010 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Brian X. Chen at Wired (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/author/brian-x-chen-2/) reports a security flaw that allows bypassing iPhone code lock: simply “[...] tap the “Emergency call” button, then enter three pound signs, hit the green call button and immediately press the lock button. That simple procedure gives a snoop full access to the Phone app on the iPhone, which contains the address book, voicemail and call history [...] (Full article http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/iphone-snoop/).
:-) also Apple has some funny things to do without jailbreaking…

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Unlocking all stages in Angry birds

Oct24
2010 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Casey Chan at Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/people/caseychan/posts/) gives a possible scape in my last game obsession, Angry birds.

Casey suggests to “[...] 

1. Go to a World Select Screen
2. Center a locked world on your screen
3. Hit the back button on your Android phone until you exit Angry Birds
4. Load Angry Birds back up
5. When you see the ‘Play’ button, tap the button repeatedly
6. You’re now inside a locked world

[...] ” (full article at http://gizmodo.com/5671609/how-to-unlock-all-the-stages-in-angry-birds).

While I decide to use it or not, at the moment the cheat is checked only in android.

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Preventing iTunes updating jailbroken devices

Oct09
2010 Leave a Comment Written by hotrao

Whitson Gordon at Gizmodo (http://lifehacker.com/people/Gyroscope352/posts/) reports a trick to prevent jailbroken iPhones from being updated (full article at http://lifehacker.com/5659226/prevent-itunes-from-updating-jailbroken-devices-with-a-bash-script and original article at http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100912150621603).

I’m not sure it will last forever, but in the mean time…for those who need it, here it is.

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