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Maybe I did something I shouldn’t have….

Screenshot on Apple Store's Mac

After work on May 29,  I visited the Apple Store. I was trying to decide if I will be getting the 13″ CoreDuo MacBook Pro or the 15′ i7 to replace my stolen MacBook. I first played with an iPad for a while. I logged into my Twitter account through mobile safari, tweeted once, and made absolutely sure I logged out. I asked an Apple employee if it was O.K. to plug my phone in to charge while I looked at the MacBooks and they said “fine, totally”.

When you plug your iPhone in to any Mac, what happens besides iTunes recognizing it? Your photos pop up in iPhoto for import. Well, I looked through my photos and imported this screenshot of my Jailbroken iPhone, and left it on the desktop.

My iPhone with Pwned Elite Theme, original screenshot

I did it to be funny, and to push the limits of what is “safe” and what is not when it comes to Jailbreaking and Apple. I know it is not illegal to Jailbreak, Apple doesn’t even confiscate Jailbroken iPhones, and one is allowed to manipulate their own photographs on a demo Mac… I simply moved an image from my iPhone to their computer (it’s not like it was porn, Apple), and I left it up for the next person to see what an iPhone can look like.

Over an hour after I left the store, when I was at home with family, this was posted on my Twitter by someone at the Apple Store:

I have over 600 tweets and not once have I used the ":p" expression, you can search my feed.

This is my Twitter feed, you can clearly see I left almost 2 hours before the Tweet was posted. Apple could’ve easily tracked me; I plugged my iPhone into their MacBook. I’m sure iTunes keeps a record of all iPhones plugged in, especially mine, because I imported a photo.  Apple most likely VNC monitors all operations on their computers, so when you do fill out a credit application (like I actually, and possibly stupidly, did while I was there), you better believe it is not just between you and Barclays. Apple has access to all info that is received by their computers.

They watched me go from the iPad to the MacBook. After examining the MacBook, I am sure they went and checked the iPad and possibly dumped the cache, the iPad is on Apple’s WiFi network, they can monitor and store all data that passes through, these are ways they could get into my Twitter. I just can’t believe that they wasted the time to track down someone who leaves a photo and actually hacked my Twitter account!

I poked fun at them, and all they could do is poke fun back, unfortunately, what they (presumably) did was illegal.

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Hey this gonna be a review of a few apps in one since there are three apps you can use to stream to the web straight from your iPhone.

I’ll start from the one i think is most useful and has the best quality:

qik live which has the best audio and video quality it includes a live interactive chat and you can share (not stream) and announce your video on facebook twitter and youtube.

Ustream broadcaster is also great it has all the features qik has and it also has the ability to make a poll for you viewers to interact with problem is the quality is not as good.

Knocking live video this one is more for personal use because the user making the video needs to make a account like in the other two but whats special about this one is that the viewer also needs an account and needs to be in the app to be invited or to watch and also there’s no audio.

Summary: All three are free qik is probably best because of the quality even though the poll feature is really cool I would go with quality over polls for me knocking live video is not what I’d be using to stream live.

But thats just my opinion would love to hear yours in the comments,

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Hey I’ve been asked if it’s possible to create a itunes store (appstore) account without a credit card so here’s how to do it.

1. open itunes on your computer (never tried it from a iPod or iPhone might work dont know)
2. go to itunes store and on the top choose appstore
3. very important choose a free app
   
4. now press create new account and fill your info when it gets to your credit card info you will see a selection none choose that finish filling the rest of your info and enjoy

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