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“ikee” iPhone Worm Progeny Not So Harmless

Written on November 12, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 3 people have commented

Earlier this week, we reported that the first iPhone worm had been created. It was called “ikee,” and all it did was change the default wallpaper on devices to an image of Rick Astley with “ikee is never going to give you up” printed across the top. It was relatively harmless, if annoying, and the [...]

Jailbreakers: First iPhone Worm Discovered, Features Rick Astley

Written on November 09, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 2 people have commented

The first iPhone worm has been discovered. It comes to us via Australia, and appears to be limited to that country for now, although it has the potential to spread. It also stars Rick Astley, so to speak. The work changes the iPhone’s wallpaper to an image of the 1980s pop singer, who’s enjoyed a [...]

iPhone Remote Control Apps: Reach Out and Touch Your Mac

Written on October 02, 2009 by Dave Greenbaum and 5 people have commented

Isn’t it the dream of every slacker to sit in bed, or at the beach, and make it appear like you are putting a full day at the office? Well, there’s an app for that.
Enter the variety of remote control apps for the iPhone, which let you operate your desktop Mac from your iPhone as [...]

My Holy Grail Of iPhone Apps Arrives: pTerm

Written on August 08, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 18 people have commented

Just this week I was posing the question of where are all the (no-jailbreak-required) ssh/terminal apps for the iPhone? While not the best platform for such a tool (the keyboard would – and does, as you will see – eat up some serious real estate), the platform has enough processing power to handle such [...]

Quick & Secure Network Filesystem Access With ExpanDrive

Written on February 26, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 7 people have commented

Magnetk – makers of SftpDrive for Windows – have brought their secure, remote filesystem magic to OS X with version 1.0 of ExpanDrive.
If you have a blog/site hosted on any flavor of Linux or BSD (including OS X) or do any amount of cross-platform management or development then you know how useful ssh is for speedy [...]