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“And Now For Something Completely Different”

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

This week, Apple launched their newest product: the iPad. The sleek iPad is a revolutionary new look at the NetBook, but able to run most of the 140,000 applications that are in the App Store for the iPhone. Given the popularity of the App Store so far and the new development methods introduced for the iPad you can rest assured that even more feature rich applications will be developed for the iPad as time goes on. Not that Apple hasn’t led the charge in using the new iPad APIs: iWork has been ported to the iPad. This means that you can create rich Pages, Numbers and Keynote presentations in addition to interacting with a number of cloud based services and leveraging those existing iPhone applications.


The iPad is aluminum and glass, comes with up to 64GB of space, a multi-touch LED screen, 802.11n, Bluetooth and can have a 3G data connection for only $29.99 per month. All of this in a secure, easy-to-use interface that we’ve all grown accustomed to!

Want help integrating the iPad into your Enterprise? Let 318 know if you have interest with mass deployment, purchasing or development: our developers are on hand to work with you on commercial and enterprise applications as needed!

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Background Checks? There’s an App for That!

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Apple’s App store is a veritable wild west movie of products; business, pleasure, pleasure disguised to look like business, useful tools that are free and do-nothing apps that cost $999.99.

Beenverified.com has released a “free” app that allows you to run background checks right from your iPhone. While this isn’t a new idea, the app is well designed and you get three free searches a week. Since it’s just been released, you can only run one search at a time due to high server demand, but the searches are accurate and in-depth. It was able to produce not only basic information about those of us that have tried it, but also gave a complete histories of houses, including past owners, past occupants and the house’s current market value, amongst other things!

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The iPhone USB Jump Drive

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

When you plug in the iPhone, iTunes opens up automatically as does iPhoto if you have any images in your Photo Roll. But what if you want to use your iPhone as a regular old USB jump drive? Run this little program:
http://code.google.com/p/iphonedisk/

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Google Latitude, GPS and Development

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Google Latitude is a fairly new service from Google that allows you to find your friends. But Google Latitude is more than just that. Using Latitude’s API you can do a number of other tasks. You can pull location information and display it on a map of your own, which enables you to pull from multiple users. You can also export a “badge” from your Latitude account that shows you where a single device is at any given time, as can be seen here.



The API and the ability to embed data opens up the opportunity for a variety of custom mashup portals. Maybe you’re a delivery company looking to keep track of where each of your trucks are, or maybe you are an airline curious as to why your pilot is not at the plane, ready to fly or even tracking the location of each person on location at a production (ie – directly from RepTools). Google Maps has been an insanely successful tool for custom development opportunities for organizations. Adding Latitude to that mix goes beyond exporting an address from a database and displaying it on a map but instead gives you real time statistics on the location of your devices.

Google Latitude is supported by most smart phone’s and a number of other devices. There is also a Google Latitude app for the iPhone coming soon. For more on integrating Google Latitude into your solutions, contact your 318 Professional Services Manager today.

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iPhone Tethering How-to

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

You can now tether your computer to the iPhone. The iPhone tethering option is available here (amongst other locations). Once downloaded, run a quick defaults command (I know, I sure do use a lot of defaults commands on this site), writing a boolean value into the com.apple.iTunes domain for carrier-testing:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool true

Once you’ve done that go into restore mode in iTunes (option-click the Restore button) and choose the ipcc file you just downloaded.

Alternatively you can just click on this link from your iPhone to run through a quick generator to enable tethering. Doing so will generate a property list file with a .mobileconfig extension, similar to what you create in the iPhone Configuration Utility (if you’re like me you’ll want to see what this thing is doing before you cut it loose). Because the file is compatible with the iPhone Configuration Utility, you can actually download it onto your computer and double-click on it to add it into the iPhone Configuration Utility library and see which keys the payload will install. You can also open with your favorite plist-friendly editor and view the keys directly.

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