I think this was more an issue of ‘how long’, not ‘if’ it happens, but Apple’s FairPlay DRM has been cracked for the applications they provide via the AppStore, which means that tutorials exist on how to get cracked versions of any application on iPhone. Yes, you need a jailbroken iPhone (the jailbreak has code that will bypass the signature check, allowing us to run apps not distributed through the AppStore) with SSH access to the device enabled, although that process is bound to get easier. Meanwhile, I am quite curious to see how Apple will now justify the $99 tax to their developers.

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The first app to have been removed from Apple’s AppStore is Aurora Feint, an exciting and well-done (and free) game. The reason is that AF did something weird and insecure with your contact list, submitting it to a centralized server, unecrypted and without user intervention.

Apple pulled it for the time being, and very good that they did, until the developers manage to fix the issue. There are, however, a few other points worth making.

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Another issue I ran into after upgrading to 2.0 was that Mail.app was crashing, no matter what I did. Again, not content with simply resetting the phone¹, I set to investigate. Again, log into via SSH and delete the /private/var/mobile/Library/Mail folder. Then sync again, so that iTunes will re-add your mail account information to the phone. Back in business.

Unfortunately, if you have not jailbroken your phone, this fix does not work for you — rather, it is rather impossible to delete the folder. You need to reset the phone. Since these settings are saved by iTunes’ backup procedure, they should be someplace on your filesystem, and theoretically you should be able to change them there and restore from that backup, but I have not attempted to do this.

1. Setting iPhone up as a ‘new phone’ instead of restoring from a backup [↩]

So very eager to update my iPhone to 2.0, once Pwnage Tool was released, I forgot completely I had disabled my EDGE from BossPrefs (seeing how I was at home, with Wi-Fi) and proceeded with the update. This had the unpleasant effect and completely leaving me without any way of enabling EDGE, post-update. Well, most of ‘any way’. If you have done something similarly stupid (out of, I am sure, excitement) here is my quick and dirty fix for the problem, inspired by some older posts from ModMyIfone.com¹

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1. You can also simply set-up the phone as a ‘new phone’ after restore, and you should get the same result [↩]

I very much hope not. It would be a pain to have a dozen or more applications carefully crafted for the iPhone, only to be used as a gateway to some site or another. It may make sense to have a Flickr client, a bank app or a blogging tool¹, but I do not really think more is better in this case.

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1. Oh yes, how happy I would be! [↩]

Since some people seem to be reaching an older post of mine trying to figure out how to unlock a passcoded iPhone, I thought of sharing a few thoughts on the matter.

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Because I can be rather hasty sometimes, I have overlooked one important aspect that makes the free NetNewsWire (and its Windows counterpart FeedDemon) even more enticing as a favoured RSS reader: feed syncing via NewsGator is free as well¹. Which may not be news for some and not that big a deal for others, because FTP syncing was obviously free before.
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1. The obvious was pointed out by a blog post from one of NNW’s developers, via Daring Fireball [↩]

While it may be a bit of a nuisance to enter it as often as you unlock the device, the iPhone passcode might become more than just a guard against the prying eyes of one’s curious-for-gossip friends - lately, there seems to be indication that sooner or later policemen may be able to simply take a look in your smartphones and similar devices if they so deem appropriate. As Ars Technica puts it:

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January is upon us, a new month of a new year. And there will be a few new things going on that are worth looking forward to:

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Well it’s been enabled for my accounts, finally, so the first thing I did was to see how I can flag items from my iPhone so that I may review at a more convenient time. No further: simply move the mail into the ‘Starred’ folder and you’re done. Granted, it also removes it from the Inbox view, but as far as I am concerned that is quite all right.

Now, if only Apple’s Mail wouldn’t display these IMAP accounts so weirdly. I am uncertain if it’s a mistake on my part or not, though my other IMAP accounts look just fine.