Privacy Change: Apple Knows Where Your Phone Is And Is Telling People – The Consumerist

Apple updated its privacy policy today with an important and dare we say creepy new paragraph about location information. If you agree to the changes which you must do in order to download anything via the iTunes store you agree to let Apple collect store and share “precise location data including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device.”

Apple says that the data is “collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you ” but for some reason we don t find this very comforting at all. There appears to be no way to opt-out of this data collection without giving up the ability to download apps.

via Privacy Change: Apple Knows Where Your Phone Is And Is Telling People – The Consumerist.

Apple – HTML5

Every new Apple mobile device and every new Mac — along with the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser — supports web standards including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. These web standards are open, reliable, highly secure, and efficient. They allow web designers and developers to create advanced graphics, typography, animations, and transitions. Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today.

via Apple – HTML5.

The site also has examples showing you the difference between HTML 5 and Flash

myPhoneDesktop

# Call any telephone number from any application or web browser…

# Send complicated url with Map’s location or route to your iPad or iPhone in seconds…

# Simplify sending a long SMS to your friend, colleague or a client…

# Bring your notes or large amount of text with you in seconds…

# Send Images or Photos to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch from any application or web browser…

Best of all: desktop clients for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux

via iPhone on your Desktop | myPhoneDesktop.

Type n Walk

Finally! In the right direction! Someone has changed email ‘n walk to type ‘n walk, which allows you to type whilst you walk, then copy the text and then paste it into your application. Which is not quite the same as answering your SMS messages directly, but is getting there…

Home (Type n Walk).

Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty

Looks like Jobs will do anything to avoid repairing that overpriced piece of equipment you bought from him: not only are the repair times shocking, but the lame excuse that tar clogs up your computer, creating a biohazard – whilst not mentioned anywhere in the AppleCare contract – voids your warranty is a bit ridiculous, no?

Smoke Gets In Your Imac: Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty.

iPhone 91 PC Suite

The PC Suite is also available for Windows Mobile and Android and offers and alternative way to handle your phone. For the iPhone it offers a way out of itunes and gives you the ability to mass SMS, back up your entire iphone (including cydia apps), a ringtone community and maker, a file explorer and a whole lot more.

In order to make it English, you may have to rename some language files in the directory C:\Program Files\NetDragon\91 Mobile\iPhone\LangPack (all except the en-US.lang – if you don’t rename, the updater will try to redownload them)

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Apple screws iphone customers… some more

It turns out that the 3.1 patch for the iphone removes tethering for any carrier that isn’t a partner of Apple. This means that if you own an officially unlocked iphone and run it on another network, you can’t use the iphone as a modem for your laptop any more.

Well done, Jobs – keep fucking your customers up the arse! They’re your fanboys, they LOVE it!

Apple – Support – Discussions – no tethering on officially unlocked ….

Back up your iPhone’s SMS Message Database

The instructions are here – a good plan to do this before you update. Anyway, it turns out that they’re kept in a sqlite3 file in

/var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db

if you want to do this on the iphone itself through terminal you need to apt-get install sqlite3

Then you need to convert to CSV:

sqlite3 -csv -separator ',' sms.db "select * from message;" > output.csv

rowid: A unique identifier for each message
address: The telephone number of the sender / recipient
date: The Unix Timestamp of when the message was sent / received
text: The message content
flags: 3 Indicates that the message was sent, 2 indicates that it was received
group_id: Indicates the conversation the message belongs to (messages are linked together via groups and the group_member table).

If you use SSH to back up and replace the files, make sure you keep the permissions right:
-rw-r--r-- 1 mobile mobile 61440 Sep  2 22:35 /var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db

Exporting your iPhone’s SMS Message Database to a CSV file | Geekology.