Erica Sadun
erica at ericasadun.com
Erica Sadun | 3:44 pm | August 26, 2010 | Test Requests, Utilities
I’ve opened up the APIkit beta, so feel free to download the utility and test it out. Please leave comments about how well it works for you, suggested improvements, etc.Usage is apiscanner path-to-appname.app
Erica Sadun | 1:32 pm | July 13, 2010 | Misc, Macintosh, Utilities
Just posted a little utility that I use for switching between tiff, png, and jpeg screen captures. Thought it might turn out to be useful to others — do let me know in the comments. Cheers!
Erica Sadun | 10:08 am | June 27, 2010 | Macintosh, Utilities, iPhone
Hey all. I’m getting lots of e-mail requests to help with iPhone 4 units displaying their MakeItMine prefs. You restored from backup and the prefs traveled with that backup — and now you’re worried about bringing in your iPhone 4 to Apple.
So what do you do?
First, you can always restore your iPhone 4 and not restore from backup. That will allow you to bring in your iPhone to a genius bar without having a custom carrier. Alternatively, you can eliminate your com.apple.springboard.plist files from your backup folders. That allows you to restore from backup without bringing along the customization.
If you need to do the latter, download a copy of mdhelper from my Macintosh utilities folder. Run it at the command line as such:
./mdhelper -files com.apple.springboard.plist -list
The output includes “Matched File” listings, e.g.
Matched File: /Users/ericasadun/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/c4473bce90c232de9e1676fd10456b8c13b2029f-20091023-145902/662bc19b13aecef58a7e855d0316e4cf61e2642b.mdinfo
Those are the files you need to delete, that contain the com.apple.springboard.plist entries. Make sure you delete both the mdinfo file and any matching mddata file, which otherwise has the same name but the other extension.
An iPhone 4 jailbreak should be on the way momentarily and that will allow you to run MakeItMine directly.
For those of you who asked for a copy of the program, for self-signing and running, I’m afraid that won’t work for you. An iPhone needs to be jailbroken to be able to modify the com.apple.springboard.plist file, which lives outside the application sandbox. A self-signed standard app cannot update that file.
Good luck all, and let me know how it goes in the comments.
Erica Sadun | 8:04 pm | June 30, 2009 | 3.0, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, Utilities
I’ve put up a new version of Light that bypasses the sandbox issues that were preventing the app from reading the previous backlight level. To use, you must be a dev and need to sign the app. Both the app and the signing script are here
Erica Sadun | 7:45 pm | April 16, 2009 | Macintosh, Update, Utilities
Find the universal binary here. Source code at github.com/erica
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 | 2:45 pm | September 19, 2008 | 2.1, Update, Admin, Utilities, Software
All thanks to Jay “Saurik” Freeman, who figured out how to get launching to work under 2.1. Thanks Jay.
Erica Sadun | 5:53 pm | September 14, 2008 | 2.0, Update, Utilities
Confirmed to work: restart, itmsSearch, appSearch, ip-print, openURL, plutil, sbar, Make It Mine; Needs fixing: appLoad, App Flow, launch; MIA: findme, tweet
Erica Sadun | 12:16 pm | August 6, 2008 | 2.0, Test Requests, Update, Admin, Utilities
Just added tweet to the updated 2.0 Erica Utilities. Pass it three arguments: your twitter name, your twitter password and your tweet (use quotes to keep it as one argument). I’ll be writing this up over at O’Reilly for Friday.
Erica Sadun | 10:07 am | August 5, 2008 | 2.0, Test Requests, Utilities
I’ve just posted a new version of the Erica Utilities with an updated findme. Please give it a try and let me know how it works.