aaron

Analyzing the iPhone Location Log File

Today at Where 2.0, two data scientists announced a discovery that iPhones are recording GPS positions into a hidden file on the device. I’ll save a summary for an update of this post, but go read the original article for now. I downloaded the logs from Amber Case‘s iPhone, and have been looking through them to see what’s there. Turns out it’s a lot more than just the cell tower...

aaron

How to Distribute your iOS Apps Over the Air

We’ve been using Apple’s Wireless distribution method for sending out beta invites of Geoloqi. It’s a much easier process for our beta testers than syncing with iTunes to install the app! They just click on a link from their phones, and they can download the app immediately! How, you ask? Apple has made this possible since iOS 4.0, but not many developers have noticed it’s...

aaron

I had a dream last night where I was an XCode project

I had a dream last night where I was an XCode project. Every time the alarm went off, that was running “Build and Run.” If I would fail to compile, I’d have to fix the errors and try again. The next time the alarm went off, I’d attempt to “run” again, and I kept failing to compile a few times when I kept hitting “snooze.” The last thing I did before I...

aaron

SSHfs on OS X via Samba

Why, you ask? Because sshfs on OSX’s version of sshfs is wonky. My solution is to use an intermediate linux server which does the sshfs mount, then serves that to os x over a samba share. Another benefit to this is that you only need one samba share to mount all your sshfs connections, since the linux server will be taking care of those. Also if you had a windows computer you wanted to use this...

aaron

Choosing a laptop for a graphic designer

This is primarily targeted towards graphic designers, although anyone can benefit from the information here as well. This post focuses on the hardware of a laptop rather than the software. I figure I’ll save a talk about software for a different day. To begin, I would stay away from anything that isn’t Dell or Apple. IBM and Toshiba are good too, but they typically market more to corporations...