iPhone Configuration Web Utility 1.0 in Rails
July 10, 2008 (evening)
The Apple iPhone Configuration Web Utility 1.0 for Mac is written in Ruby on Rails. The web-based utility builds config files for enterprise deployment. How about that?
dfbills.com blog
Apple posts iPhone Enterprise Support Page
July 10, 2008 (evening)
Apple has posted the iPhone Enterprise Support Page. Included is the 58-page iPhone and iPod touch Enterprise Deployment Guide. Something tells me this is going to get a lot of traffic.
iTunes, App Store, MobileMe… oh my
July 10, 2008 (edited since original posting)
Apple started what promises to be a torrent of news and updates last night with the release of iTunes 7.7, the App Store, MobileMe and an AppleTV update.
iTunes does have the apps available and I’m ready to load some:
Apple claims more than 500 apps online and there sure are loads in there.
As for MobileMe, apparently it won’t go live until later in the day although some users were able to install it late last night.
Fake Steve Jobs to step down
July 09, 2008 (mid-afternoon)
Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ), aka Dan Lyons, is finally calling it quits. He says:
“I know you’ll miss FSJ. So will I. But rest assured, Fake Steve is not really going away. He’s just taking on a new form. As Jimi Hendrix once said, If I don’t see you no more in this world, I’ll meet you on the next one, but don’t be late.”
He’s selling a Blurb book as a “greatest hits” of some of the posts as keepsake. I wonder what the sales will look like…
DS homebrew Mac
July 07, 2008 (mid-morning)
How cool- someone has developed a Mac System 6 emulator for the Nintendo DS. Ken Fager has a shot on Flickr.
About that “Huge, Crazy, Ridiculous OS X Security Hole” (updated)
June 25, 2008 (late evening)
So what about this “Huge, Crazy, Ridiculous OS X Security Hole” that has been making the rounds on the news sites?
Well, it’s very simple. There is no security whatsoever in place to prevent AppleScript messages between users on a local machine. This means that any user can tell an app running as root to do something malicious. And, according to Charles Srstka, author of the popular Pacifist program, this security hole was reported as early as 2004! Wow.
Rixstep has an excellent writeup on the issue entitled “Huge, Crazy, Ridiculous OS X Security Hole.” It’s a must-read for anyone interested in the issue.
update: Rixtep’s followup article has even more gory details.
iTunes breaks the 5 billion song barrier
June 19, 2008 (edited since original posting)
Today, Apple announced that the iTunes Store has crossed the five billion song barrier. These sales figures put the Apple digital download service firmly in the number one music retailer space. iTunes also features the largest music catalog available with more than eight million songs for purchase.
Apple also revealed that the movie and television segments are doing quite well- now renting and purchasing more than 50,000 movies daily, These figures make iTunes the world’s most popular online movie store. The video catalog includes more than 20,000 TV episodes and 2,000 films, with approximately 350 in HD.
Mozilla blog reports success (updated)
June 18, 2008 (terribly early in the morning)
Once the software became available at 10am PDT, it was off to the races for Mozilla. From their blog:
“It’s been an awesome morning and afternoon here at Mozilla headquarters. We launched Firefox 3 this morning and immediately felt the love from millions of people all over the world joining us to set a Guinness World Record for most software downloaded in 24 hours.”
I guess so- they exceeded the first day downloads of Firefox 2 after just five hours with 1.6 million downloads and were serving 9,000 downloads a minute at the time of posting.
Final numbers for the first day are not yet available, but expected to be in the 5-7 million range.
Update: Firefox 3 was downloaded 8.3 million times over 24 hours. That’s 83 terabytes!
John Lilly, Mozilla Foundation CEO, says that equates to a 4% market share of browsers worldwide on day one.
Safari 4.0 developer seed emerges
June 10, 2008 (evening)
Apple has unleashed the Safari 4 developer seed. This release is available to all members of ADC.
New features include:
- latest WebKit build trunk
- SquirrelFish JavaScript engine
- ability to save webpages as “Web Applications”
WWDC keynote impressions
June 09, 2008 (lunch time)
I always find it odd how watching liveblog of the WWDC keynote is both exciting and painfully slow at the same time.
The iPhone AppStore demos are giving me the feeling that this is a transformative moment in time. Like we’re on the tipping point of something incredibly new and that we’re really only just scratching the surface.