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Posted by natetrue 22 weeks agoI'll be hanging out in ##iphone and #iphone-hackers over on irc.freenode.net . Check out the Freenode IRC instructions if you're new to IRC.
##iphone is for general stuff, and #iphone-hackers is specifically for people who want to create applications for the iPhone (SDK or hacked).
Oh, and I will be talking at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies conference about iPhone development (with a brief history, and a how-to). The conference is March 3-6 this year, and I'll be speaking on Monday morning. Check out ETech today - spots are filling fast.
Posted by natetrue 23 weeks agoSo the new iPhone 1.1.3 firmware allows you to put icons on your home screen for websites, but I know many of us want to put phone numbers on there for a Speed Dial screen.
I've put a little hack together that lets you have a (somewhat) speedy speed dial icon. There's no jailbreaking required for this one - it can all be done using Apple-approved Web Clip creation.
Check the images below for a walkthrough.
Posted by natetrue 26 weeks ago
 I hate it when someone SMSes me, and I miss the vibration, and I go for hours without checking my phone. Thus I created SMSNotify, a script that vibrates your iPhone every 15 seconds when you have an unread SMS.
The script is quite simple - it just queries the SMS database for unread SMSes, and if there are any, it calls the 'vibrator' utility that vibrates the phone for a short time.
It's written in shell script so if you want it to do other things it's easy to modify.
Now it's not perfect - when your phone is asleep it won't be every 15 seconds but will wait until the phone silently wakes up (to check your e-mail generally) before it can vibrate again. I'm working on that.
Download it at http://devices.natetrue.com/iphone/smsnotify.zip or just wait for it to appear in Installer.app - my good friend Shaun Erickson is packaging it up. Note that if you manually install it you need to start it by running "launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/net.ations.cre.smsnotify.plist" but if you use Installer that will be done automatically.
Happy texting.
Posted by natetrue 32 weeks ago
 So now that it's out that Apple is spying on you, people have been clamoring for a way to hide your IMEI from the all-seeing eye of Apple's Stocks and Weather applications. These apps send your IMEI as well as your iPhone firmware version to Apple for their nefarious usage statistic processing.
This is a big deal, because the IMEI is sent in plaintext, over any Wi-fi network you may currently be connected to. So anyone listening on that network will be able to grab your IMEI and do stuff with it, like, um, yeah, I'm not sure they can do anything with it.
Until now you just had to avoid the Stocks and Weather apps and/or wrap your phone in tin foil to prevent them from reading your thoughts.
Concomitantly, I have produced a simple command-line utility to patch out the nefarious code from Stocks and Weather allowing you to check your portfolio and the weather without worrying about sending your IMEI to Apple.
What the utility does is scan for the URL that the app uses to talk to Apple, and zeroes out the part where it includes your IMEI.
Download now (binary and source)
Source is included because open-source is the bomb. It also makes backups because you may want to start sending your IMEI again. You know, if they get to you.
Right now the patcher does not prevent Stocks or Weather from functioning but as the Stocks and Weather functionality is served from Apple, they could easily disable patched applications remotely. So if they stop working you'll have a fair idea why.
And while you're installing dangerous 3rd party software onto your iPhone, why not also try some hilarious 3rd party software too? You won't regret it.
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