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Saturday, 14 September 2013
Touch ID: Apples fingerprint scanner on Apple's iPhone 5s How It Works.
iOS 7: First impressions
One of the best things about Apple's latest iPhones is the slick new iOS 7 software that runs the devices. But that souped-up operating system could end up hurting sales because the free software upgrade will also work on iPhones released since 2010, giving owners of the older models less incentive to buy Apple's newest products.
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Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Twitter Updates Android, iOS And Web With New Conversation View, Abuse Reporting.
Twitter has just released an update for iOS, Android and the web application with a brand new interface for conversations, as well as enhanced sharing and abuse reporting capabilities. According to the official blog post, the idea is to make it easier to follow and discover conversations.
With the updates, users will see full conversations in their timeline as opposed to standalone @replies that may be sent hours or even days after the original tweet (the conversation starter) was sent.
This always allowed for strange, context-free tweets in the consumption experience, but with the new update users will have a bit more understanding of what's being tweeted back in forth in a conversation.
Conversations are shown with a blue vertical line between them, with the first tweet in a conversation appearing on top, chronologically. If there are more than two replies, you can click into the blue line to see all the replies in that conversation.
This is a pretty major update to the way that Twitter works and is fundamental to getting a larger demographic on a social network that can be pretty scary and unfamiliar at first.
But that's not all. The update also lets you share conversations via email, as well as the ability to share individual tweets by email on either iPhone or Android. Android users even have the benefit of sharing tweets via PM within Twitter.
Past the conversations revamp, Twitter has also included the ability to report individual tweets for abuse or spam directly from the web and Android apps, which was previously unavailable. The feature, which has been available on iPhone for quite a while, will roll out slowly.
The updates are available now in the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Bug In Apple’s CoreText Allows Specific String Of Characters To Crash iOS 6, OS X 10.8 Apps.
A bug in Apple's CoreText rendering engine in iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 causes any apps that try to render a string of Arabic characters to crash on sight. The string of characters which can trigger the bug — which was discovered yesterday and has spread around the hacking and coding community — has made its way to Twitter, where even looking at it in your timeline will crash the app.
In fact, because it's a CoreText bug, any apps that access this font framework to render text are affected. This means that any apps that use WebKit like Safari are also affected because WebKit uses CoreText.
This is a picture of the string of characters, not replicated here for obvious reasons:
If you'd care to experience the bug for yourself, feel free to seek out the tweet in the pic above, I'm not posting a link. For the record: Tweetbot appears to be immune to this, though it also uses the CoreText engine.
The characters were discovered and posted on a Russian site yesterday morning. The site claims that Apple has known about the problem for 'six months' and has not reacted. The posting includes a request to click the crash report button on any apps affected and report it to Apple.
The issue affects apps on iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 but does not work on OS X 10.9 Mavericks and iOS 7 beta releases. So whatever bug the characters are triggering, they've already been fixed in future releases of the engine. This doesn't help anyone still on iOS 6 of course.
The malicious possibilities are simple, if you send the characters in an SMS, it can initiate a revolving crash of Messages on both OS X and iOS. We confirmed this on both operating systems. You can also deliver the string of text via a web link.
Even worse, you can change the name of a wireless network to the characters and it will crash any device that scans that network to connect.