Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/14
Interesting: HotspotShield VPN to surf from a USA IP address.
There is a free version with ads, and a payed version without ads.
Probably more services like this exist, but this has been working for me.
Yup there are:
–jeroen
via: Download Free VPN for iPhone, Mac and Windows to Access Blocked Sites & Surf Anonymously.
Posted in Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/24
Last week, Apple fixed the so called #gotofail bug for iOS devices. Other devices (Macs with OS X 10.9 Mavericks, maybe earlier versions and I also suspect Apple TV to be vulnerable) will follow soon.
I thought that Old iOS devices would be in the dark as the updates are for iOS 6.x and 7.x only. So any device that can only run on iOS 5 or lower might not be supported.
So I thought these devices would be unsupported, but found out an iPad 1st generation would pass the gotofail.com test.
So if you have any of these, please let me know if they fail or pass:
- iPhone 3 or earlier,
- iPod Touch 3rd generation or earlier,
- iPad 1st generation: passes.
Please watch any security announcements carefully with using Apple equipment, as the bug can highly facilitate a man-in-the-middle attack.
Some other site with background information (it hit the news wildly): Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Apple, Development, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Software Development | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/26
Where last year it would still work on iOS 5 and 6, this year Apple has upped the requirements to iOS 7 leaving many users in the dark: iOS 7 only works on very recent iOS devices.
Too bad:
Incompatible with my 4th Gen IPOD Touch
by Valorian Nova
I spent quite awhile trying to figure out why this won\’t install on my Ipod and when I finally look it up it\’s because my IPOD is capped at IOS 6.1.5 and this needs IOS 7. Really puts a damper on this app for me.
via 12 Days of Gifts on the App Store on iTunes.
Posted in iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/19
I wrote before on How to solve stuck iPad keeping asking for Exchange password: reset your iPad (or iPod/iPhone if it happens with those).
Actually, you should first verify if your Outlook Web Access still works with the same password, and if it does, then try to restart your iPad/iPod/iPhone, and if that fails, reset it:
Restarting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red “slide to power off” slider appears, and then slide the slider.
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Note: Reset your device only if you are unable to restart it.
Resetting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
–jeroen
via iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Turning off and on (restarting) and resetting.
Posted in Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/20
Any geeks that already have this one?
If so, please let me know what you think of it.
Pebble: E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android

–jeroen
via: Pebble.
Posted in Android Devices, Apple, iOS, iPhone, Power User | Tagged: android, gadgets, geeks, iphone, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/05
Chrome, Opera, etc are all rated as 17+ for “mature content” ans such by Apple.
So they think nobody with Safari will see any mature content?
What a laugh!
–jeroen
via: Is Apple Restricting Google Chrome For iOS Out Of Spite? | WebProNews.
Posted in iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Opinions, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/29
If I read Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate my conclusion is that anything signed by the Adobe Code Signing Certificate since 2012-07-10 potentially can be malware.
As a precaution, I will manually revoke the certificate on all my systems (that’ll take a while!). If anyone knows how to automate that process, please post a comment showing how to.
Hitching on a trusted certificate of a big software company comes close to the ultimate hack: trojaning signed malware in the distribution of an OS vendor.
–jeroen
via: Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate « Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) Blog.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/24
Posted in Geeky, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, LifeHacker, Opinions, Power User | Tagged: Apple, google, iOS6, Maps, technology | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/24
The missus had a stuck iPad that kept asking for her Exchange password (which worked fine in webmail).
Turns out this is a known bug and has a simple solution: Reset your iPad.
That solution works for both iPad, iPhone and iPod touch as lllaass answered:
Re: My Ipod touch is stuck in the password screen and I can’t turn it off or cancel. The screen that it is stuck at says :enter the password for the exchange account “exchange”
Dec 20, 2011 10:15 AM (in response to amy29)
Try resetting the iPod. Nothing will be lost.
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears
–jeroen
via: My Ipod touch is stuck in the password…: Apple Support Communities.
Posted in iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Power User | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/01
Since the auto-update nor manual update feature of Philips devices over the internet never seems to work:
Today is Philips firmware using USB stick and app update time (:
One bummer is that the “firmware installation instructions” do not mention that you have to start with a cold boot one time before updating the devices. If you don’t, then the devices (especially the TV’s) do not recognize there is an update available.
So: always start with cutting the power (either by switch or by plugging the cable) then enabling power again. You only need to do this once before plugging in a USB stick with the update.
Another bummer there is that Philips does not publish direct links on their site either, so you have to browse through pages, select languages, then download the stuff. But the actual files are still static.
So below are the URLs of the pages and download links I used.
Note the links have been static, even over firmware versions.
Some tips on the links of the Philips site above:
- Replace the 42 in the URLs with the screen size of your TV to get the download specifically for your TV.
- Replace DEU or ENG in the URLs with your own language abbreviation to try getting it in your language.
This is the list of language codes and languages that Philips uses: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Android Devices, HTC, HTC Sensation, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, LifeHacker, Power User | 1 Comment »