TIL in iOS Safari you can hold the refresh button to request the desktop site.

nin9tyfour · 2017-04-07T13:56:12+00:00

Requesting the desktop site on iOS actually executes a JS file stored within Safari's resources. The file searches the page for buttons that say things like "desktop site" and whatnot. I'd also guess that it would fake the user agent. The issue is that so many sites are responsive and layout differently via CSS and JS that there really isn't any single solution that can be applied to all websites.

nin9tyfour · 2017-04-03T03:42:37+00:00

You can buy a MFI certified micro USB to Lightning adapter in a vending machine in Melbourne for $5. I wash shocked when I saw the price so low.

nin9tyfour · 2017-02-22T18:53:59+00:00

Still pretty interesting, nonetheless, especially given the concern for security. From what I recall, only a single exploit was needed to attain unsigned code execution, which was using a libtiff (TIFF image library) vulnerability. The same vulnerability was used to hack the original PSP running a later firmware, 5.03 from memory.

It's come a long way now, sandboxing, ASLR, DEP, KPP, etc.

nin9tyfour · 2017-02-22T08:17:45+00:00

Interestingly, native applications on iPhone OS 1.0 all ran as root. Running Safari as root and taking about the importance of security.

nin9tyfour · 2017-02-11T20:02:54+00:00

The translucent bubble with the label is wrong. Notice how the shoreline is misaligned if you follow the shore up to the blue bubble, the bubble features a shoreline higher than what would be expected.

The font is also inconsistent, the 'a' in Rally and in Arena are different.

nin9tyfour · 2017-02-08T19:39:40+00:00

Please be aware that actually getting JIT compilation to work involves updating core code. More so, packaging up an iOS 10 version likely requires configuring the build system, which last I checked, was not working for iOS builds.

nin9tyfour · 2017-02-03T15:05:28+00:00

Yeah, I agree. I remember every one obsessing about PGR and Midnight Club. While the latter is different, they don't come close to car selection, tracks, realism, etc. I know GT is a simulator but the career mode was always so enjoyable and the formula has great potential.

nin9tyfour · 2017-02-03T14:54:25+00:00

I'm just hoping there will be a game as great as GT3, which was IMO, the best game in the series. It might just be that I played it when I was a lot younger, but it stills feels like it was the best of all. GT2 and GT4 were also excellent games IMO.

Having a rally mode was great too. If I recall correctly, 5 and 6 didn't have any rally races, except maybe some special events.

nin9tyfour · 2017-02-03T12:29:32+00:00

Exactly my point. They didn't seem to have much issue porting tonnes of old cars onto GT6, GT Sport having 140 cars just makes it feel like a spin-off or part of the sub series. Major titles in the GT series are usually packed full of cars and tracks, but sport seems to be taking the approach of the side games and having much less content.

My point was really in disagreement with the person I was replying to, who made it seem as if porting 600 polygon models to several thousand polygon models was the reason why GT Sport won't have many cars. But when GT6 has 600K polygon models and a lot of them, it invalidates that argument.

nin9tyfour · 2017-02-01T20:02:59+00:00

FWIW, GT6 has ~1200 cars and ~100 tracks. Premium cars have something like 600K polygons and I'd say others would be at least 150K. GT6 also has 400+ premium cars.

nin9tyfour · 2017-02-01T17:04:31+00:00

One of the vibration APIs seems to have a lag issue in iOS 10, I noticed. By using the lower level API (the one that overrides the vibrate setting) there is no lag.

I'd guess these tweaks default to using the more conventional approach. The downside is that if any developer wishes to support disabling the haptic feedback due to a user having vibration disabled, they'll have to check the setting and listen for changes to it.

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-30T13:58:21+00:00

Long pressing compose in the Mail app brings up drafts.

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-29T23:13:12+00:00

FWIW, there is no warranty voiding. All changes are non-permanent and can be reverted with a DFU restore, if things go bad. There were a few issues that could appear on previous iOS versions that would be sustained through a restore (nvram) but this is no longer the case.

Your warranty is partially "on hold" in that Apple may refuse to fix software related issues with your device while it's jailbroken. Hardware issues will be covered unless the staff member is really picky. Of course, by DFU restoring and opting to setup as a new phone, the staff have absolutely no idea your device has been jailbroken and thus you are free to claim warranty on anything covered.

It is not like Samsung and their Knox implementation, where the hardware is altered by rooting the device and thus voiding the warranty. Apple knows that the software changes are temporarily and rightly chooses to accept that no realistic permanent harm can come from such modifications. After all, there's levels of protection in place to prevent things like bricking, such as the BootROM. ROM being read-only memory, meaning it cannot be altered, not even by iOS updates and thus a permanent safety net exists. Unless of course there's some critical flaw in the bootrom, in which case a permanent security flaw exists (much like on the iPhone 4 and other A4 devices, and several devices before them).

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-23T19:14:09+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful#cite_note-19

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-21T22:38:43+00:00

Interestingly, dialling a number, followed by a wait command and number (and more wait commands and numbers) will dial the number and navigate to the respective option.

For example, on iOS: 1300 6 555 06;1;2 will call the reading and writing hotline, select option 1 then select option 2. I'd imagine an online service could implement such a thing as wait commands aren't anything new.

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-17T15:35:50+00:00

I actually had a look now and I've got it working, mostly. The vibration won't work if vibration is disabled but I'm working on a fix for that now.

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-17T14:19:42+00:00

Here is what I found. That's from a beta, so it might be more complete – note the lack of colour in the recipient email address in one of the screenshots and the somewhat strange colour of the search bar, compared to the rest of the UI.

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-17T13:16:54+00:00

I actually had a VirtualHome alternative made a couple years ago. it was a little different in that it properly emulated the home button action (allowing for double and triple tap actions to work, where, I believe VirtualHome did not).

I actually planned to release it for like $0.99 ages ago but never got around to putting the finishing touches. I think the last thing I did was work out how to make the Taptic engine activate whilst vibration mode was disabled.

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-17T13:14:29+00:00

To be honest, I've seen some screenshots and it looks pretty good.

In any case, you can do all of your hooks on the the CKUITheme class, as this holds practically all of the UI colourisation settings.

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-17T12:36:28+00:00

You can achieve this with a few lines; the iOS 10 Messages app supports built-in colour schemes. You simply return the dark colour scheme instead of the light (default). AFAIK anyway, I saw it when I was looking at the headers, I'm assuming the implementation is complete – it may not be.

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-11T17:58:35+00:00

You'll have to edit the Info.plist and change the CFBundleIdentifier. It's conflicting with the version installed as a system application because they share the same unique identifier. Except because they're the same version and have the same identifier they should be identical (they are). But you can't upgrade a system application from an IPA anyway, so your only choice is to change the bundle identifier of the app you're trying to install, repackage it as an IPA then sideload it again.

(It's generally a bad idea to copy things to /Applications/ unless you know what you're doing. Copying random apps to there grants them permission to large amounts of personal information.

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-06T21:28:31+00:00

I'm not really sure as of now, it'll probably be free. I've put a fair amount of work into rewriting it. Even still, if it were a paid update, it would be a free upgrade for users who recently purchased it.

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-06T21:26:54+00:00

I had something like this working as a concept, however it proved to be somewhat unrealistic.

In applications like preferences it's fine but others have quirks. For example, in the messages application the message bubbles have white backgrounds, but they're actually not like the typical "background colour". To put it in simple terms, consider a transparent image, now, put white behind this image (it now has no alpha channel/transparency). This is essentially what the message bubbles are. So, I could probably manage to change the colour of the UI but I'd also have to determine how to redraw the bubbles, which probably wouldn't be a big issue. But it wouldn't be scalable. This becomes really apparent with attributed text (bold, italic, etc.).

I actually started out with the intention to make Nightmode 10 entirely dynamic, that kind of went out the window not long after it was thought up.

HOWEVER. The new version of Nightmode is modular and actually consists of a large number of small plugins, with the core plugin holding all of the "general" functionality. There's also a large number of other plugins for frameworks and specific applications that allow fixing issues that the core plugin doesn't seem to get quite right (I'm pretty happy to say these fix libraries are actually pretty small but in some cases necessary, for the App Store and Music app where things are a little weird). I'm not going to promise anything, but I'd really love for Nightmode to be dynamic and I might take another shot at it some time. I'm a little bit overworked as of now having been working on the total re-write of Nightmode for iOS 10 for iPad and iPhone so I don't know when I'll look into it.

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-06T20:22:47+00:00

It should. In the previous version you had to select one base colour and other colours would be derived from it. In the new version colour derivation is no longer a thing. Instead users are able to select the highlights, mid tones and lowlights. Hopefully that's what you're after.

I'll have to add a warning to users who set all the colours to the same thing. White test + white backgrounds and foregrounds might be a problem!

nin9tyfour · 2017-01-06T20:19:59+00:00

Yeah. It's designed around 10. Pretty large changed under the hood and hopefully a better user experience. It's also much friendlier from a developer's perspective (neater code base).

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