Rocket Silence

For quite a while, I’ve been an advocate of the wallet/data security application “Wallet” by Waterfall Software for OS X. It has a quick and simple interface with great security and is very reasonably priced at $14.95. However, over the two years or so I’ve used it, it’s been a smooth ride other than for [...]

Oh, on second thought, don’t allow. I opened the mapping application and clicked the locate button because I actually wanted to be asked if I want to allow this application to know where I am. Yes, thanks. Apple recently mocked Windows Vista’s UAC security implementation, but the quirks of the new location-based are adding a [...]

    
‘iPhone Dev Team‘ released the latest version of their Pwnage Tool yesterday which meant that I could finally upgrade my iPhone 2G to the 2.0 firmware. With the 2.0 firmware comes the biggest addition, the App Store – which allows third party applications developed through the iPhone SDK to run on users [...]

Are you having an issue where the PwnageTool from the iPhone dev-team simply will not launch on your computer? For many, it just bounces in the dock for about three minutes and then does absolutely nothing (it sticks around in the dock except you will not see the open application indicator under it). This seems [...]