Erica Sadun
erica at ericasadun.com
Erica Sadun | 9:50 pm | October 2, 2008 | Admin
I’m always happy to help answer questions when and if I have time and knowledge. It makes me extremely uncomfortable when someone donates to the site and then puts a request for technical support on the tails of that donation. Seriously, please don’t do that. Thank you.
Erica Sadun | 6:17 pm | September 22, 2008 | 2.1, AppStore, Admin, Applications
…at least it does for the moment.
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 | 1:55 pm | September 15, 2008 | Admin
I keep getting requests to port picSnap to 2.0. Can you people who want this please explain to me how you plan to use it? I’m getting a little weirded out. No reasonable explanation == no program, so it’s in your best interest to convince me why this would benefit the platform.
Erica Sadun | 8:20 am | August 22, 2008 | Admin
Mark writes: “I’ve had the bad luck of not being able to restore my iPhone-data with an iTunes backup, a common known problem by now for 2.0+ users…
But then I came across mdhelper and have seen on a couple of forums that it can extract all the lovely data right back out of the nasty mdbackup files - but only if you’re on a mac!
Do you have a Windows version coming out?? There are a lot of people who would be extremely grateful… I, myself, lost all my vacation pics, including pictures of my distant girlfriend in Germany (I live in Denmark), which is tearing me up inside… So please, please help.”
Hi Mark,
I mostly write iPhone software because it’s fun. No one is paying me for all the Erica Utilities, etc. Porting the software to Windows would involve buying a Win machine, starting up on OpenStep development, etc. In other words, it would be arduous if I were being paid and unthinkable for a hobby.
Sorry that I don’t have better news for you.
That having been said, you can buy a used Mac Mini, copy over your mdbackup files and use mdhelper on a Mac.
Best regards, — E
Erica Sadun | 8:16 am | | Admin
Today’s Friday post at O’Reilly discusses how to find all those notifications that are used by my notificationWatcher app. The post is here for the curious.
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 | 1:33 pm | July 31, 2008 | Admin
Source: The last Jobs keynote. 4,000 developers admitted, 25,000 developers applied.
Erica Sadun | 9:09 am | July 27, 2008 | Admin
Just want to say another public “Thank You” to Gad Hayut who has been tirelessly helping with the 1.1.4 and earlier mail support. Without him, there would be no support whatsoever for users.
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