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xShots 1.3 has been released!
Dec 24th
xShots 1.3 has been released!
Today i have released a new version of xShots, this is release 1.3, there are several things that did not happen as planned, it was a very slow update cycle, i had expected to come out with tons of new stuff by now but due to complications of time and other reasons, this was not possible.
Following is a small list of things that didn’t make it on this release:
- Originally i had planned for this release to include the new XUI skin engine i have been working on, but due to some issues with a partnership and code ownership, i had to drop that and wait for a later release.
- There was a new component in the xshots installer, the ToolBox, which is a small utility that allows to customize the images taken by xShots, and allows batch modifications to those images, but this will also have to be included in a later release, because of dependencies on the same XUI library i can’t release right now.
For this release, there were a couple small changes and some bug fixes, i’ve fallen back to the 1.2 code, enabled FTP support on this release, and have fixed several small bugs that were found on the 1.2 release, this is a small update, but its worth the update trouble just because of the Ftp support.
The new release can be downloaded from the xShots project page.
External sites will probably be updated in a couple days, meanwhile you can also get it directly from this link: xShots-v1.3.zip
Apple plugs loopholes in iPhone OS 3.1… old iPod/iPhone users? who cares!
Sep 11th
Apple plugs loopholes in iPhone OS 3.1… old iPod/iPhone users? who cares!
“Policy Requirement – The account… requires encryption which is not supported on this iPhone/iPod”
Well isn’t that nice? all iPhone before 3GS will stop working with this update, if the Exchange server they were connecting has encryption enabled, they will get that error message, and that’s it, buy a new iPhone please, or ask your admin to disable encryption, and yeah, of course, he will not, and other thing, new 3GS devices won’t be able to connect unless encryption is enabled on the Exchange server, bad luck, anyway.. you can always buy a new iPhone right?
Apple has, me thinks, a very bad “don’t fix it, buy a new one” issue, and not only in this case, i don’t know if they will ever release a patch for old iPod and iPhone user’s, but i think they should have done it at the same time that they released this update, but, the thing is, i think they simply don’t care, they have enough rich customers to care about that obsolete bunch who refuses to buy new just because some little change in the OS will result in their devices being unable to do something they were supposed to do, out of the box..
Yeah, there was a bug, and how Apple fixes that bug? well of course by making obsolete who knows how many iPods and iPhones out there, granted, not everybody uses that feature, but i can bet tons of people do, and i just find it ridiculous that i need to buy a new iPhone or iPod just because Apple thinks so, or ask for the admin to turn off encryption on the Exchange server, just because i want to (which will never happen)
This “buy a new one do not fix the old one” thing really has become part of Apple’s identity over the years, consumerism at its best.
Fortunately, i don’t need that feature, but i feel sorry for those who do use it, i really hate it when i am locked out of something i use daily just because someone didn’t even care, and i mean it, they simply didn’t care, this is software, there has to be a way to update old devices, they just don’t care.
More info at Apple Insider
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