iOS

Malware on the (Chinese) App Store

Here is a comment I wrote regarding the recent discover of apps containing malware on the Chinese App Store. 1. This is the first such event in over 7 years (and Billions of downloads) of the App Store’s existence, unlike the almost daily occurrence on other platforms. 2. You correctly didn’t echo the false and […]

iOS, Mac OS X

Solving iTunes 3014 Error

For whatever reason, probably because I do iPhone development and am always installing “stuff” on my computer and iOS devices, I’ve run into the dreaded iTunes 3014 error consistently when trying to restore my iPhone/iPad to put a new OS on it. I swear I tried this before and it didn’t work but I just

iOS, Programming

Encoding a URL in iOS 9

The typical way to encode URLs (e.g. turn spaces into %20) was to use NSString’s stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding As you may have noticed, that method has been deprecated in iOS 9. You now need to use stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters:NSCharacterSet which takes an NSCharacterSet as it’s argument. What NSCharacterSet am I supposed to use you may ask. I recently ran into

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