Tag Archives: iphone

Are iTunes App Store Prices Too Low?

December 14, 2008 – 8:21 pm

If you sell something for $100 people will say it should be $90 you can sell the same thing for $90 and people will say it should be $70. Produce apps that are worth more than $0.99 and people will buy them.

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Japanese Dictionary for iPhone and iPod Touch

October 27, 2008 – 9:40 am

Because I needed a Japanese dictionary and the iPod Touch seemed to me to have the best array of options. It uses the same free dictionaries that many Japanese English dictionaries use, so that isn’t its selling point.

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Wipe That iPhone Before You Sell It

June 4, 2008 – 8:38 am

Now force both mount points into read-only mode: # umount -f /private/var # mount -o ro /private/var # mount -o ro / NOTE: The GUI will be non-responsive when /private/var is mounted read-only, so be sure not to try and use it.

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Read This Before You Sell Your Old iPhone for the 3G iPhone

May 19, 2008 – 7:22 pm

Unlikely, even Apple and AT&T don’t clean the iPhone properly.A verified detective from the Oregon State Police notified me this afterrnoon that an out-of-the-box refurbished iPhone he purchased contained recoverable personal data including email, personal photos, and even financial information which he was able to recover using my forensic toolkit.The image to the left is one piece of that personal info that was recovered, posted only because it doesn’t reveal extremely sensitive info.

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