Posts by twunt

Beware

I went to install a game yesterday, only to find that it wanted permission to access my SMS Messages. Cancelled the instal.

Surely

The RELEASE CANDIDATE comes after the Beta?

Who mentioned problems?

Skeptical - I don't understand your point - what 'problems' are jailbrakers having?

This story is about the same vulnernability that allowed users to jb on iphone now being patched on OSX.

Quite easy to make it less annoying...

Options>General>TICK Temporarily allow top-level sites by default (base 2nd level domains)

This allows scripts to run on sites that you visit - but not those from other domains.

I'm assuming that if you have decided to visit, say theregsiter.co.uk, and you want it to work properly, then you want to allow scripts from that site but not any third party sites.

This will allow most sites to run without user interaction. I think its a fair balance between security and convenience.

New Rumour

At some point in the future, Apple will release a slightly improved model of an existing device!

Spotted this yesterday

When the site was busy it was just serving up the list of pdfs - a different one for each model and firmware version.

Javascript is not Java

Bryan and Richard - you do know that don't you - or did the similar names confuse you?

To everyone complaining about three

Do you really think that any of the others are any better?

They're not.

@David Love

Rather than mess about - just take a photo with the lens covered up with your finger and set that as wall paper. No light into the lens = plain black image.

Because it isn't a Monopoly,

Apple doesn't have a monopoly in the phone market, or even the smart phone market.

Do you understand that?

Not Warez

Matthew - unfortunately those are legitimate download sites.

I expect the rogue downloads will be removed pretty soon though, if not already.

The answer...

Craigness, the answer is no - its not even being used after 2 days on my iphone- its rubbish.

It renders pages badly - text can't be read at all without zooming in, and zooming is jerky and impossible to control. Tap to scroll to the top of the page doesn't work, its ugly, and no use for secure sites.

What's the problem here?

The figures show that most 10.4 users are still haven't updated to 3.6 anyway.

Yet they moan that future versions might not work on their out dated OS.

See the problem?

Knocking one out....

They never should have allowed this kind of crap into the store anyway - if I want to knock one out I'll just point my iphone browser towards spankwire.com, balance it on the toilet cistern and enjoy....

That didn't last long did it?

Not content with releasing the N97 (symbian) followed weeks later by the N900 (Maemo) Nokia wants to confuse and annoy users even more by annoucning yet another Smart Phone OS.

No doubt they'll drop this in a couple of months too.

Oh Deat

SynnerCal why are you lying about DRM? No major retails sells DRM'd music any more - not itunes, not amazon, not play, not emusic, not 7digital - Stop complaining about something that isn't even happening!

Makes sense

If 1.5 million haven't even bothered to updgrade to 3.6, why should care about getting future version to work on 10.4 either?

Why should someone with a out of date OS feel the need to run the latest browser anyway?

Just get Leopard or Snow Leopard you arsewits

...theres an app for that...

Regarding the google blogger problem - why not just use Blogpress lite to edit your blog?

Lets face it - no one gives a sh1t about your blog any way.

Attention Dunces!

There are a number of dunces on here who seem to think Apple is involved in this. You have really failed to understand the point haven't you?

The email isn't to warn to people that unlocking and jailbreaking is illegal, but that they have been duped in to paying someone else to unlock it when they could have done it for free.

The beef here is that someone stole to Dev Teams FREE unlocking tool, and is making a profit from it.

Why would apple want to highlight that the could unlock their phone for free instead of paying some shyster to do it for them?

How about a 'skip this upgrade' option for apps too?

This can also be annoying if a developer decides to release an update that adds things you either don't need (eg additional language support), or don't want (ad feeds fro example).

If you upgrade to find that adware has been inserted to one of your apps, you are stuck with it. If you choose not to upgrade, you will permenantly be stuck with an update badge on your App Store icon, and you can never use the 'Update All' option again.

spankwire

just type that into safari on your iphone, and you are good to go.

doubltwist again

just use doubletwist - works with loads of other devices - like what Handle said.

Keith Lard!

He interfere's wi' dogs!

Who are these cretins..

Who search for a webpage they already know the URL of?

This affects only the braindead.

Stupid Pirates

Why would anyone download software from anywhere other than the official source?

Far easier to download a legit 'trial' copy and then enter a serial from a certain 'box' than to torrent the whole thing.

@Michael Brown

What rubbish. Jailbreaking and unlocking is a piece of p1ss. Anyone who can follow simple instructions can do it in half an hour.

Jailbreaking doesn't make your phone unstable at all - thats just what Apple claims to put you off. As for firmware updates - every single version has been broken so far - usually within a couple of days of the official release. Just wait for the jailbroken version before you update.

Norton....

The moron's choice....

There already is one

'Better Privacy' is the firefox extension for this.

Wake up, freetards!

@ElNumbre - Are you a moron?? Anyone who thinks that the Pirate Party could win a seat a general election needs to consider that they would need to gain between 10,000 and 20,000 votes in a single consituency for this to happen. Bear in mind that around 90% of voters choose from the main 3 parties and you'll start to understand that the idea that they could ever win even a single seat is utterly ridiculous.

Pyrrho Huxley is a moron!

Great idea! Make up a number! Then when they send me the confirmation SMS it will never arrive!

Moron.

what kind of moron

uses their ISP's email address anyway?

And why would you use POP3 instead of IMAP - you people are morons.

wayne tavitt doesn't live in the real world

Wayne - NoScript is a real world solution to the problem, unlike your solution which would render many sites unusable.

you may not like it, but far better to have a secure solution (NoScript) that you can actually use rather than yours which would leave you unable to carry out most of the things many of us do online.

MMS

Attention Morons! There is an MMS application available from the App Store that makes viewing MMS much easier and even allows you to send MMS (at a price).

Just saying.

Serves you rigth you theiving morons.

I think my mac is pretty safe:

Router firewall, OS X Firewall, Virus Barrer x5, Little Snitch, Firefox with No Script.

But more importantly I do not download stolen software, use torrents or other illegal file sharing network.

And do not enter your admin password without thinking you MORONS.

Anyone who got this trojan deserved it.

But...

Here:

http://www.find-dvd.co.uk/

Play is usually up there on price, but it doesn't excuse them sending misleading email ads.

@Dominic Kua

Dominic - getting one of these would make you a prize idiot. Just because it looks like an iphone its nothing like one - no multi touch, no OS X, no app store.

Worked fine for me

PPC G5 1.9 - used auto update as usual.

Talk of increased 'snappiness' is bullshit though - its the same as before.

Tramission

@Dabooka - why don't you just use Tranmission like any normal person? Azureus is awful