We’ve all been reading about how bad Maps for iOS is. A few of us have also discovered that there is functionality for reporting errors on the maps to Apple. Late October I reported several errors in Csongrad county back to Apple. Among them Mindszent, Szegvar, Martely, Bács, Csanytelek, Tömörkény and Pusztaszer. More then a month has since gone by, why has Apple not fixed any of the errors? Apple has been using OpenStreetMap other places, why not also in Hungary and for this area […] Continue reading →
In March this year we got an unpleasant surprise that the certificate that Apple embedded in various Apple software installers expired. When using Installer.app in OS X’s GUI, people started getting warnings about the certificate being invalid but were given the option of installing the package anyway. The problem was bigger for us sysadmins as the command line installer tool didn’t have the option of “certificate invalid, install anyway”. The installer tool simple just […] Continue reading →
This cannot go uncommented! New York Times yesterday posted that Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn A. Britt admitted he is unfamiliar with Apple’s AirPlay technology: Glenn A. Britt, the company’s chief executive, said in a group interview on Friday that the challenge for digital video was that there was no simple way to get Internet-based video onto the television screen. He wasn’t familiar with AirPlay. “I’m not sure I know what AirPlay is,” he said, though he noted that he was […] Continue reading →
It is rare that I get spam in my Gmail inbox, but when I saw that I had gotten an email through iTunes Store I was pretty sure that it had to be spam. But WOW, this one looked real. So I ended up checking its headers: Delivered-To: frankps@gmail.com Received: by 10.76.166.164 with SMTP id zh4csp84257oab; Mon, 14 May 2012 02:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.228.195 with SMTP id sk3mr20938705pbc.20.1336988530538; Mon, 14 May 2012 02:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: […] Continue reading →
iBooks Author is a WYSIWYG app for creating digital books for the iPAD. It is available free on the Mac App Store. iBooks Author is Apple’s tool to win the battle against Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes and Noble’s Nook, and Apple aim to revolutionise modern textbooks by bringing interactivity to the learning experience. The iBook format is very similar to the ePUB 3 standard, not only can you add images to your pages, the reader can zoom in or out of them. You can insert […] Continue reading →
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