May 2008 Archives

Whenever the iPhone backs up to your Mac, iTunes copies certain files to your computer. These include your settings files, from the preferences library, and databases, such as your calls, notes, bookmarks and so forth.... read more

A lot of people have been asking about using the existing open SDK for 2.0 application development. A few betas back, my answer was "Hey, no problem". But with the last two betas, I'm not quite so sure. We haven't seen pwnage compatibility since the third beta and there hasn't been a concerted effort that I've seen to upgrade the open headers to match late frameworks. (I know I haven't documented headers because of NDA concerns. That's probably goes for many other programmers.)... read more

An odd kind of cottage industry has grown up out of the handling of iPhone and iPod touch error messages. Error 1015, which arises from downgrading to earlier firmware from a later version, is the "good" error message. Get it and you know you're safe. Just connect your iPhone or touch to iBrickr, iLiberty+, or one of those Zi-packages and you can reboot out of recovery mode into a fully working system.... read more

Quite a few readers have asked me whether I intend to continue programming for 1.1.4 firmware. In a nutshell, the answer is "no". And here are my reasons why... read more