sil3ntmac

Rolling your own solution isn't too tough, provided you have a server somewhere that has the correct ports open. Just takes a bit of work: regenerating device profiles and setting up the PHP script (there's some code floating around out there that will do what you want), but once it's setup, it's not a problem to maintain.

  $ traceroute lacehost.com

  traceroute to lacehost.com (67.225.243.15), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
  ...
  16  209.59.157.44 (209.59.157.44)  43.978 ms  46.390 ms  43.979 ms
  17  lw-dc2-sec2-dist4-po1.rtr.liquidweb.com (209.59.157.234)  45.439 ms  46.016 ms  50.775 ms
  18  dc2-vps1-302.liquidweb.com (67.225.247.217)  43.915 ms  49.835 ms  46.735 ms

He probably just has a WHMap account setup on one of liquidweb.com's dedicated servers. That'll work fine, but hopefully he really is able to move you over to a private server without any snags.

Hostgator shared accounts actually do have shell access, you just have to ask for it. Go into the live chat and ask a rep and they'll activate it for ya. They also have cheap dedicated servers called "unmanaged servers", they're kind of an unpublicized deal, its $75/mo for your own box, which I think has a 2.4 P4 and 1gb RAM, 5 IPs.

Yes, I recall that the actual apps sales cut for Apple is relatively small. Combine that withtheir seeming reluctance to create an app store in the first place (remember in the first year it was all about web apps), I'd say that the app store isn't that high on their priority list. But then again their business model has shifted (marketing iTouch as a game device) so things are probably a bit different

I've been looking for something like this, here are some suggestions:

- system-wide keyboard shortcuts (I believe there is a Carbon API for this that you could use). It'd be great if you could hook the default Pause/Play buttons on the Macbook keyboard, not sure if this is possible

- possibly some kind of current track menu item (I wrote one for iTunes here: http://silentmac.com/?p=470 ), requires Cocoa. Just to display the current song (some of my music has long, quiet intros, and I'm not sure what song is playing in the beginning), this might go against your idea of minimalist though

- shuffle functionality

But it looks great so far!

No, they care alright. Enough to suspend my iTunes affiliate account for using the word iPhone without the copyright on my site. </bitter>

I think you forgot one of the most important aspects: personal media hosting, being able to watch your movies or listen to your music from anywhere in the world.

As they state on http://www.redlaser.com/SDK.aspx :

"WARNING: 10/14/2009 The RedLaser SDK currently uses an unpublished function to access video frames. Very recently, others have indicated that this will likely lead to rejection of any application using this function, including any application with the RedLaser SDK. We are working hard to find a solution, as we believe there is great potential for this technology on the iPhone. Please take this into account when considering use of the RedLaser SDK."

So they probably analyze a lot of different video frames before finding an accurate one.

I do. Going to UT at the moment. Was about to post this same thing after seeing the SF post, looked down the page and there it was :)

"Over 10% of our testers gave us the wrong number as their UDID."

It's not that hard. There's a free app you can put on your device that will email your UDID to where ever you want, or you can just copy it over from iTunes/XCode. I haven't ever had a client give me the wrong UDID (they have given me the same UDID twice though, forgetting that I already have that device in the database). The hardest part usually is that it can sometimes take 5-6 tries of dragging the app into iTunes (on Windows at least) for it to work. But even that isn't too big of a deal, just quick and easy repetitive motion (once they get the profile installed).

I think the biggest pain in the ass is on the developer's side. Anytime you want to run the app on another device, you have to add another UDID to the device list on Apple's site, regenerate your provisioning profile, download it, delete the old adhoc profile from ~/Library/MobileDevices (good luck trying to find out which of the profiles in there is your old adhoc, the files are named with a random string of letters and numbers), install it to XCode, open your project, and change your adhoc build profile settings to the new profile.

Phew.

PizzaHut did a similar thing a while back:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/01/pizza-huts-delicious-ip...

Except it is more geared at remotely ordering a pizza to be delivered.

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>other developers are gaming the system with bad reviews in an attempt to assassinate their competitor.

Or the actual developer gaming the system with 5 star ratings of his own app.

Sounds like an idea Seth Godin posted a while back, iirc:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/11/an-iphone-ap...

Props to tptacek for his comment a few weeks ago, when discussing this exact issue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779099

He nailed it.

A very controversial post.

I do get tired of bloggers disputing what should be fact by mixing it with rumors or secondary sources...

[techcrunch quote]: "The first part of Apple’s argument, that they never rejected the application, is “a total lie,” according to many sources with knowledge of the Google Voice application process." ... "There is overwhelming evidence that Apple did in fact reject the application."

[daringfireball quote]: "Google’s initial statement regarding this did not use the word rejected either. Their spokesperson told TechCrunch: “Apple did not approve the Google Voice application we submitted six weeks ago to the Apple App Store.”"

Who is trying to mislead us here? Techcrunch throws unnamed "overwhelming evidence" and unnamed "sources" at my face, while daringfireball talks about Google's "initial" statement. Was there a second or third statement that cleared things up?

Anybody have the facts?

It's gotta be tough when your last name is a participle

+1 anyone go to summerfest last weekend?

I'm going to set the script up to tweet whenever I find a closer hash, and include the IP... you can follow me @silentmac

Yeah, my JS hamming distance implementation is pretty miserable. I'm no bit wizard, but I thikn I can modify the SHA1 function (before it returns the value as a hex string) and XOR the 5 vars with the hex value that they gave us, and then count the set bits. Couldn't get it working last night though so I switched over to this

Updated to 1ms! I'll work on the HTML stat updates

Edit: fixed and fixed

Thanks Phil :)

I added a word checker, so no more of this tomfoolery!

Haha, he left a message in my database.

"Oh but for your trouble I generated a few hundred thousand hashes for you. --Phil Freo"

Thanks Phil :-) Your message's hash had a hamming distance of 73

Nah, some script kiddie messin with me. Fixed and patching the hole now...

Just want to add that there is trick to make this incredibly easy to run in parallel - just open the page in a new tab!

I don't think there would be much point, hah - JS will definitely be slower than optimized C. It's the crowdsourcing aspect that gives us a chance - it is very easy for anyone to just pull up the web page.

Hopefully this isn't the new black hole that they're channeling the cut Defense department funds into...

Whoops, my bad. Fixed :)

Good point! I'll add that feature tonight. :)

The emails sent out are short (around a paragraph), and every email that is sent to you has an 'unregister' link at the bottom that you can click and you will stop receiving emails regarding that search result.