maxjg

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by maxjg 12y ago
Both are correct (unrelated). MAC address is randomized when scanning for wifi networks, and if you ask iOS for the device MAC address, the SDK will return a fake MAC.
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by maxjg 12y ago
Xcode project files are still saved in this style of plist.
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by maxjg 13y ago
That is the convention officially endorsed by Apple ( https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/... )
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by maxjg 13y ago
Worth noting that Letterpress is not implemented in UIKit, it's pure OpenGL ( http://www.imore.com/loren-brichter-talks-opengl-tweetie-let... ).
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by maxjg 14y ago
As frustrating as it may be, an app that has that type of low-level access would probably be just as abused (if not more so) as push notifications. I can't blame Apple for not wanting to be blamed for the inevitable app that phones home you
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by maxjg 16y ago
Soon enough we'll find out if most people _would_ 'steal' a car.
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by maxjg 16y ago
I've got nothing against your point on using the tools you know, but I can at least see where Apple is coming from with disallowing write once, run everywhere, especially regarding UI (think Java apps on OS X).
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by maxjg 16y ago
Just a brief description (hit up the website for more/tons of screenshots): This is an iPhone weather app that allows for a bunch of neat things like custom layout for pages (ie, see data where you want to), iOS 4 features (like background
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by maxjg 16y ago
So I think what you're trying to say is that it's an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids?
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by maxjg 16y ago
> iPad is far superior for heavily formatted text True in theory, not so much in practice. After having read a couple of books in iBooks, the books mostly seem like hasty OCR jobs (Ender's Game, while a fantastic book, definitely showed
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by maxjg 16y ago
Look at the price discrepancy between the 3G iPad's plan and an iPhone. I think if they did this, people (especially those in areas where dropped calls are frequent) would simply get a data-enabled iPod touch, with the reasoning being somet
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by maxjg 16y ago
Just out of curiosity, when an android app is updated, how are permissions handled? Do you receive a prompt to allow new privileges, or does it assume you approve of it already? You bring up an astute point on the vague "network access" per
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by maxjg 16y ago
Understand that it's fetching the data from the system's address book, but obviously this is going to be the same data it would remember if you entered it elsewhere. Keep in mind that this is a feature of Safari being exploited, it's not li
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by maxjg 16y ago
Your contacts are pretty much completely unprotected as well. As an iPhone developer myself, I don't think it's unreasonable to have the device ask for permission to use this data (in a similar manner as location data access is approved).
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by maxjg 16y ago
Get on forums like macrumors.com and post a few promo codes. Sites like that are also great for feedback too.
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by maxjg 16y ago
My (admittedly shallow) knowledge on Android's speech recognition is that it's being done server side. In other words, I suspect the reason Apple's not doing native voice recognition on the iPhone is that they don't have the processing powe
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by maxjg 16y ago
Sort of. There are two probable ways it would happen. The first, and most likely, is that the government could order all ISPs to stop the flow of data through their pipes. Theoretically, they could also shut down some of the root nameserver
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by maxjg 16y ago
Potentially feasible, but I don't know that anything good will come of it. Speaking as a coder, I definitely think of the code as the heart of a project, and outsourcing it never even occurred as an option to me, personally. What you're des
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by maxjg 16y ago
I do like the feel and design of the 3G model better (much easier to tell if it's silenced in your pocket), but on multiple occasions, the switch on my 3GS has switched from silenced to not. The new one seems a lot less prone to that.