Erica Sadun
erica at ericasadun.com
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.
Erica Sadun | 10:47 am | July 31, 2008 | 2.0, Test Requests, Update, Utilities
Version 12 is on the way, but 11 is here and now includes notification watcher. With it, you can scan for standard and/or core telephony notifications.
Erica Sadun | 10:30 am | July 22, 2008 | 2.0, Test Requests, Utilities
Minor bug fixes plus recAudio audio recorder. For some reason, I could not play my recordings back from /var/root but if I moved them into /var/mobile they played back fine. Recordings are automatically timestamped. Also added itmsSearch, command line iTunes store search and appSearch for the App Store. All the new items are now back in the Erica Utilities 2.0 folder.
Erica Sadun | 2:17 pm | July 21, 2008 | 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 | 9:04 pm | April 16, 2008 | Update, Utilities
Play any audio file from the command line with “play”.
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 | 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
Erica Sadun | 6:06 pm | March 2, 2008 | Test Requests, Utilities, Software, iPod touch, iPhone
I’ve placed a much better version of the findme utility into the TUAW folder. Run it with -h to see all the options. You can now output a single google maps URL, request just the latitude/longitude, submit your value to Twitter.
I’ll be adding Yahoo ZoneTag support soon as well. If you have any special requests, speak now because I don’t have a ton of time to devote to this project.