iPad By Davis: “Editor's desk: #TM13” plus 4 more |
- Editor's desk: #TM13
- Weekend iPad Wallpaper: Deep Carving
- Latest J.D. Power Report: iPad Repeats as Number 1 in Customer Satisfaction
- Apple declines to fix vulnerability in Safari's Web Archive files, likely because it requires user action to exploit
- What do you want to see in iMore app 3.0?
| Posted: 28 Apr 2013 09:52 AM PDT Last week was a whirlwind. We're in full on prep mode for #TM13 in New York City and that meant crushing it for endless hours every day. On the plus side, and it's a huge plus side, I got to crush it not only with the likes of Kevin Michaluk, Phil Nickinson, and Daniel Rubino, but with iMore's own Georgia and Peter Cohen, Mobile Nations luminaries like Marcus Adolfsson, Derek Kessler, Alex Dobie, Ashley Esqueda, David Lundblad, and Jose Negron, the always awesome Martin Reisch and -- oh yeah -- Cali Lewis and John P. of GeekBeat.tv as well. We've been doing a lot of teasing about #TM13 on Twitter, Google+, YouTube, and more, but for anyone who's been on this walk for us for a while, it should be fairly obvious where's we've been and where we're going. Back when we were still Smartphone Experts, we did the Round Robin for 3 years in a row. When Microsoft and BlackBerry got left behind for a while, it made that impossible to continue in a meaningful way. Now that Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10 have launched, everyone is firing on all cylinders again, and that makes things interesting. We're Mobile Nations now, however, and that means the old Round Robin has to give way to give way to something equally newer, better, and bolder. Enter #TM13. I don't want to oversell it. It's going to be a blast, and it's going to benefit all of the Mobile Nations communities in a lot of subtle yet cool ways for a long time to come, but we're not HALO dropping Phil with a pair of glasses on, or shooting Kevin out of a canon in Times Square to see how many characters he can type on a QWERTY before splat-down, or anything stunty like that. Now I did get hung off the roof of a 50 floor building, but the intent here isn't shock and awe. It's what Mobile Nations always does -- entertain, inform, and engage our awesome community. Speaking of which, Georgia, Martin, and I managed to knock this little video out at the Grand Central Apple Store. They have a rule that you can't use a tripod or monopod, so Martin had to shoot hand-held and we had to stabilize in Final Cut Pro X, which led to some background warp. I like to think it's just rocking out to the iMore theme though. (And by the way, if you haven't subscribed to the iMore YouTube channel yet, do that ASAP -- we've got some great stuff coming your way over the next few weeks...) I'll be in NYC for another week, but Peter starts full time tomorrow, so look for much more from both of us, and the whole team, as the week goes on. After that, it's full speed ahead to WWDC 2013 and what I hope is the first look at iOS 7 and OS X 10.9. It's been a long, long, LONG, time since an Apple exec stepped out on the Keynote stage. Any guesses what they have in store for us? 
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| Weekend iPad Wallpaper: Deep Carving Posted: 28 Apr 2013 09:11 AM PDT Today's iPad wallpaper pick is Deep Carving – shown off on my iPad mini home screen above. I'm not usually a fan of gold-ish or brown iPad wallpapers, but this one is too good to pass up. I find it powerful and striking looking, and app icons stand out very well against it. Once again, it's the creation of Brett Jordan – who continues to be one of the biggest contributors to our iPad Insight Flickr group. Check out the Flickr group to download this Deep Carving wallpaper at a range of high-rez sizes and browse through lots more great iPad wallpapers and some amazing iPad paintings. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us          Related Stories
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| Latest J.D. Power Report: iPad Repeats as Number 1 in Customer Satisfaction Posted: 28 Apr 2013 08:38 AM PDT In the latest Tablet Satisfaction Study from J.D. Power and Associates, the iPad remains at the Number 1 position in the overall rankings. In the survey of over 1,800 tablet users, the iPad got an 836 on a 1,000 point scale measuring customer satisfaction. It also was the clear leader, with a perfect 5 out of 5, on the J.D. Power Circle Ratings for Consumers – with 5 representing 'among the best'. All its rivals were at 3 (About average) or below. Tablets were graded in five key areas in the study: Performance, which was weighted most heavily; ease of operation; styling and design; features; and cost. © patrickj for iPad Insight, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us   Related Stories
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| Posted: 28 Apr 2013 06:48 AM PDT Metasploit software developer Joe Vennix has detailed a vulnerability in Safari's webarchive file format along with how it can be exploited. The post on Rapid7 says that after being reported to Apple back in February, the bug was closed last month with a status of "wontfix", indicating that Apple has no plans to address the bug. So what is it and why is that? In Safari, if you go to save a web page, one of the options for the format to use is Web Archive. In many browsers when you save a web page locally, it only consists of the HTML source code itself. This means that any images, embedded videos, linked stylesheets or JavaScript will be lost. When you open a copy of the locally saved page, it will be missing all of the additional content, often not showing much more than text from the page and broken images. Safari's Web Archive format works by not only saving the HTML of the page, but any linked content. When you open a Web Archive file, you will see the page as it would have originally appeared on the Internet, with all images, styling, and linked content preserved. The bug found in Safari's security model is a lack of restriction on what data can be accessed by files in a web archive. Normally a page like apple.com would be restricted to reading cookies that belonged to only the apple.com domain. It could not read cookies from another domain, such as gmail.com. This is critical because if all of your cookies were readable by any website, it would be trivial for a malicious site to send your cookies back to an attacker, who could then log in to your accounts on any number of websites. In the case of Safari's web archives, it's possible for a malicious web archive to not only access content stored by another site, but potentially any file on the victim's computer. With such a serious sounding vulnerability, you might be wondering why Apple wouldn't want to fix it. The answer seems to be that an exploit like this cannot be accomplished without user action. You couldn't actually be affected by this unless you were to download and open a malicious .webarchive file. Users can avoid being attacked by employing the age old advice of not opening strange files from the Internet (or anywhere else for that matter). That said, some people still do and surely will continue to do so. Given the potential impact of a vulnerability like this on users, it certainly seems like something Apple would want to fix at some point. If you're interesting in understanding more about how this bug works or can be exploited, Joe's blog post covers several real world examples of how it could be used. Source: Rapid7 
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| What do you want to see in iMore app 3.0? Posted: 28 Apr 2013 05:44 AM PDT iMore for iPhone version 2.0 only just launched but we're already in the early stages of work on iMore app 3.0 and one of the very first things we wanted to do was ask you, the iMore community, what you want to see? We'll be doing some obvious architectural things, like switching from Drupal-based authentication to our awesome new Mobile Nations Passport system, and moving things like text size selectors to a dedicated settings screen so your choice persists once you make it. But we'd love to hear from you on some of the other options. For example, would you like to see an iPad interface? iMore is a website and the iPad has a great, full-sized web browser, so would an app version of the site really make a big difference to you? Would things like the favorites, podcasts, and tab-based sorting make your iMore-on-iPad experience better? Search is something else that we get a lot of requests for. However, we wouldn't want to cache the entire 5+ years of iMore on your iPhone, so that means web-based search is the only practical alternative, and again, is that something that's better done in the browser? We currently push comments off into a second screen so loading them doesn't slow down the main article, but is that convenient for you, or just one extra tap too many? What about the iMore Forums? Right now they're in a separate app, but would it better for you if we bundled them together into one super iMore app? What about the overall design? Is there anything we could do there to make your experience better? iMore, Nickelfish, and everyone at Mobile Nations is dedicated to making the next version of the iMore app absolutely the best ever, so let us know -- what do you want to see?
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