Erica Sadun
erica at ericasadun.com
Erica Sadun | 9:55 am | August 4, 2009 | 3.0, AppStore, iPod touch, iPhone
PasteCatcher lets you copy things like pictures, text, and urls on your Mac and serve them to your iPhone. PasteCatcher copies them to your iPhone’s pasteboard. (iTunes link). See this page for more details.
Erica Sadun | 8:51 am | July 9, 2009 | Update, 3.0, Documentation, Coding, iPod touch, iPhone
3.0 docs are up. And if you didn’t see this, when it was first released in Beta ?3?, it provides a clear (and vaguely hilarious) view of Apple’s take on App Store and undocumented APIs.
Update: Craig Hockenberry has filed a radar insisting on more flame effects (and sending a thank you to Apple)
Erica Sadun | 9:38 am | March 31, 2009 | 2.2, Update, Utilities, iPod touch, iPhone
Uploaded to the modmyi repository (thank you Kyle): App Flow for 2.2.x, Freemoji, and iBrowser.App Flow offers an easy-to-use application launcher that works in portrait (list) and landscape (coverflow) modes.iBrowser creates a web server that allows you to view your iPhone files from your computer’s browser.Freemoji (rejected from App Store, written for an Ars post) enables Emoji support on your phone.
Erica Sadun | 12:25 pm | June 22, 2008 | AppStore, 2.0, Software, iPod touch, iPhone
I’ve wavered back and forth recently about what to do about XLaunch. It simply got too big and complicated, so I’m breaking it down into three components: AppFlow offers application launching both from a list and from a coverflow viewpoint. iPocket lets you capture data onto your iPhone and share it out to the world, via Bonjour, FTP, and the WWW. I’m thinking of releasing XLaunch with the complete feature set (launching, badging, file browsing, file sharing) as well, kind of as the Godzilla of iPhone file management. Any thoughts on this?
Erica Sadun | 6:48 pm | April 28, 2008 | Feature Requests, 2.0, Update, Applications, iPod touch, Software, iPhone
The new 2.0 SDK version of XLaunch combines all the features you use and love in the 1.1.4 version plus several new options. I’m pleased that I was able to upgrade the application without losing features along the way–and especially happy that I was able to merge MakeItMine and Banner in without destroying the simple interface.
You can still launch webclips and badge apps, and assign applications to the home key for double-taps. You can still browse in both table or coverflow modes.
Now you can also set carrier text and the banner text via the Customize options. And I’m considering adding other customization features there as well. If you have any other suggestions or feature requests, please speak up! Now’s the time to jump in while the design remains fluid.
Erica Sadun | 2:32 pm | April 27, 2008 | Experimental, 2.0, Feature Requests, Applications, iPod touch, Software, iPhone
So I’ve been hard at work on the new SDK and have been developing an application that more or less merges a lot of the functionality of SendSong, SendFile, SendPics, etc. Some features have been ellusive–Apple apparently disabled email attachments from the iPhone–others work well, such as Bonjour file sharing.
Here is the current feature set along with planned areas. Now’s the time to speak up if you’d like to see a feature added or have questions about how the program works. It’s basically a file browser that allows you to walk through the entire UNIX Application tree–wherever Apple’s sandboxing allows, that is–preview, inspect, and share files.
Erica Sadun | 7:00 pm | April 14, 2008 | Test Requests, 2.0, Update, Utilities, iPod touch, Software, iPhone
Here they are, ready to be downloaded as individual utilities. I compiled these within the last few weeks based on reverse-engineering but I haven’t had the ability to test them out until today. Some work well (deviceinfo, badge, ip-print, plutil, restart). Others need some TLC (itmsSearch, mailFile).
These utilities are pretty much useless unless you have an ipwned developer 2.0 release. I had to do a lot of updates, particularly on appLoad, which uses a new way of loading applications.
So, yay to the dev team and if you have any specific requests, let me know. So far I have not been able to make anything run that uses windowing. If you have any tips or hints about getting around this do let me know.
Erica Sadun | 6:21 pm | March 6, 2008 | Admin, Documentation, Coding, iPod touch, iPhone
Man have they *ever* cut back on the public headers. More about that later. Thanks to asap18 (I don’t have the SDK downloaded yet), the 1.2 “Aspen” framework docs are uploading now. When they go live, I’ll add a link on the left. For now, let me add that class-dump is *not* working on these stripped frameworks and that Apple has put nearly every *interesting* framework into /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks. Fortunately my dear friend UIKit is in business but with 31 headers instead of 300-odd. Please ignore the fact that I mistook the 1.2 release for a 2.0 beta. I’ll be fixing the link at the side and renaming the folder but all the docs are going to be screwed up because doxygen puts the name on every single page. Apologies.
Erica Sadun | 10:12 am | March 5, 2008 | Update, Admin, Utilities, iPod touch, iPhone
There’s a new version of findme called firefindme in the TUAW findme folder. This version allows you to report your location to Yahoo’s new FireEagle location service. In order to use this utility with FireEagle, you’ll need to run two utilities: start with authtoken, which will launch Safari and ask you to log into Fire Eagle and authorize the FindMe application. Then run authcheck to retrieve your authorization certificate. You’re then golden to start using the -F option with findme.
I have a bunch of FireEagle invites, so leave a comment if you’d like one. I’ll need to respond to your comment so make sure you registered with a valid email.
Erica Sadun | 6:43 pm | March 4, 2008 | Test Requests, Update, Utilities, iPod touch, iPhone
By request, deviceinfo is in the individual Erica Utilities folder. It returns the platform (iPhone or iPod), code, serial number, imei, and model number from the command line.
./deviceinfo : options -p platform -c platform code (e.g. M68AP or N45AP) -s serial number -i imei -m model number