Erica Sadun
erica at ericasadun.com
Erica Sadun | 2:18 pm | July 21, 2008 | AppStore, 2.0, Software
For those of you devs who want to create ad hoc distributions or for users who need to send unit identifiers to apps, download this free app. Just tap on the icon. It will create an email with the relevant info. Address it, tap “send” and you’re good to go.
Erica Sadun | 2:17 pm | | 2.0, Utilities
A few new utilities available today! abquery lets you search your address book by name. deviceinfo uses your ioregistry to return information about your device, including UDID. ip-print shows your current ip address. launch will run applications. openURL does exactly what the name suggest, including tel:// addresses. urlclip creates regular and tel clips on the springboard. Enjoy!
Erica Sadun | 9:39 am | July 20, 2008 | Test Requests, 2.0, Update, Admin, Utilities, Uncategorized
In the Test folder. You need to install by hand at this time and fake sign (ldid -S) them so they’ll run on the 2.0 command line. The first set includes:
appLoad load or unload applications without respringing.
restart respring
sbar add/remove items from the status bar
sb interactively update your springboard prefs
plutil my iPhone-based expanded plutil
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.