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iMessages reportedly still sent to stolen iPhones (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 20th, 2011)

Update: Daring Fireball pointed to this recommendation from Jesse Hollington: set a SIM PIN code, which will prevent your phone from registering with the cellular network after a reset or a SIM swap until/unless the PIN is entered. Be extremely careful, however, as the iPhone settings UI can be ...

Dev Juice: Help me generate unique identifiers

by Erica Sadun (Aug 21st, 2011)

Dear Dev Juice, Can you help me generate a unique identifier for my iOS apps? I don't want to rely on using UDIDs anymore. I'd say why but then you'd have to shoot me. Watm-ever Dear Watm-ever That sounds dire. Let's avoid the violence and focus on the Core Foundation. Here you go. If ...

iOS 5 deprecates UDID as identifier for developers, but it's not the end of the world

by Chris Rawson (Aug 19th, 2011)

Reading the headlines today, you'll see the usual exaggeration of half-understood factoids bubble out from today's iOS 5 beta 6 release. Thank goodness for that NDA, huh? As reported by our sister site TechCrunch, Apple is deprecating the use of UDIDs as unique identifiers for developers, ...

Reports of iOS developer account shutdowns may be erroneous (Updated)

by Chris Rawson (Aug 5th, 2011)

A report from Karthikk.net alleges that Apple has begun shutting down the accounts of iOS developers who have sold "slots" on their accounts to users wanting to run iOS 5 betas on their devices without paying the US$99 yearly development fee. For a while now, developers have been offering to ...

iPhone 101: Find UDID with a single click

by Cory Bohon (Aug 8th, 2008)

Apple has given developers a way to beta test iPhone applications with up-to 100 iPhones. Some developers have already started using this to their advantage by giving their software out as free public betas. However, you must supply a developer with your iPhone's UDID (unique device identifier) in ...

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