We've all heard about the how your iPhone tracks your location and keeps an unencrypted file of everywhere you have been. If  you upgrade to IOS 3.3 this will be fixed. I'm not going to go into the debates about this 'feature/bug' but before you upgrade, why don't you just download the iPhoneTracker application and have a look for yourself. It is amazing.

I tried the Mac OS X version from here: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/ but you can also download the Windows version from the same site.

Be prepared for surprises and whatever you do, don't look at your husband's or your wife's  or you kid's iPhone ;-)

• The iPhone does not need to be connected to the computer for you to analyse it!
• You can select a date or 'All Time'
• The playback feature is amazing

 

I received this email this morning and thought it was quite funny ;-)

Dear Jerry

We are currently searching for a JOB TITLE to work in CITY, COUNTRY for DURATION plus extensions. This is a fantastic contract opportunity for a large multi-national client.

The ideal candidate must have the following skills: SHORT JOB DESCRIPTION.

If you are interested in this position, please respond within 24 hours with a short motivation letter and your CV in Word format so XXX can contact you.

XXX do have a policy to fulfill job requests within 24 hours therefore a quick response is important.

Alternatively, you can call us on the number below.

XXX does apologise when this job does not match your profile. However, if you have any colleagues who may be interested in this contract opportunity; please forward this email to them. If they are successfully placed at our client site, we will award you with £150.00 (180 Euros).

Thank you for your time and we hope to hear from you soon,

Regards

Three desperately ill men met with their doctor one day to discuss their options.

One was an Alcoholic, one was a Chain-Smoker, and one was a Homosexual.

The doctor, addressing all three of them, said, "If any of you indulge in your vices one more time, you will surely die."

The men left the doctor's office; each convinced that he would never again indulge himself in his vice.

While walking toward the subway for their return trip to the suburbs, they passed a bar.

The Alcoholic, hearing the loud music and smelling the ale, could not stop himself.

His buddies accompanied him into the bar, where he had a shot of whiskey.

No sooner had he replaced the shot glass on the bar, he fell off his stool, stone cold dead.

His companions, somewhat shaken, left the bar, realising how seriously they must take the doctor's words.

As they walked along, they came upon a cigarette butt lying on the ground, still burning.

The Homosexual looked at the Chain-Smoker and said, "You know if you bend over to pick that up, we're both dead."

Thanks to Vassilis for this one.

http://www.psdgraphics.com/backgrounds/happy-new-year-2011/

I tried to upgrade my iPhone to 4.2.1 after it was jailbroken by Greenpois0n!

It refused the upgrade and then forced me to restore. I tried to restore and got unknown error 1013. I tried all the tips on the Apple page but nothing helped.

So I booted a notebook into Windows 7 and tried the restore from there.. NOTE: I usually only use Mac OS X and Ubuntu at home.

The restore worked on Windows when it had failed over and over again on Mac OS X.

Go figure ??? I thought I'd post the info here. I will have to re-jailbreak my iPhone but at least it works again.

NOTE: If it happens to you, don't do this, just google the error and you will find a work around! I should have google and I would have saved a lot of time!

I've never written this kind of script before and so I found it quite interesting.

This is a Python script that will connect to Facebook and download your friend's Email addresses and Phone numbers (if shared of course)

The script was written by Ruel and he talks about it here on his web page: ruel.me/

You can download the script from github:

https://gist.github.com/718149

If you jailbreak your iPhone then you must change root's and user moblie's passwords.

I'm posting this story because I did not see this warning when I jailbroke ;-)

Having said that, I didn't and ended up with the ikee worm.

What was happening is that I could not ssh into my iPhone. whenever I tried I got the error:

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

So I Googled it and found this link:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=831009

At the end of the day what had happened is that because I had not changed the passwords, the ikee worm was, amongst other things, removing my /usr/sbin/sshd daemon

So be warned, change the passwords!

These procedures worked for me: (I didn't use mobile terminal, I used ssh on the iMac)

http://cydia.saurik.com/password.html

I removed the worm using ideas from these procedures:

http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/lan-lounge/118975-iphone-ikee-worm-fix.html

You may also want to disable ssh (using SBSettings) when you don't need sshd.