Secret Browser v1.7.0 Submitted!
UPDATE: Approved and ready to download!
After quite a long wait, I’ve finally deemed version 1.7.0 of Secret Browser to be ready for prime time! I’ve been spending a lot of time tweaking and testing to make sure everything works great and now it’s time for you all to have a go at it. What does 1.7.0 have in store for you?
- Custom User-Agents! A very popular request is finally here! I’ve included a bunch of pre-made User-Agent strings or you can put together your own! You can, now, start tricking websites into thinking you’re using a different web browser or a different device all together! (Ad-Free Mode exclusive)
- I’ve rewritten a TON of code so things work more smooth under the hood.
- Cleaned up Secret Browser’s Settings page. All Ad-Free Mode exclusive settings can be found on their own page too.
- An optional Forward button has been added to the smaller screened devices. This was another big request. Flip the switch on in your device’s Settings.app.
- I’ve (probably poorly, I apologize) translated what few words there are in Secret Browser to 6 new languages. Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German.
- I’ve squished a LOT of little naggy bugs.
- Rewrote the entire front page! I know it was ugly. I’m sorry it took so long. But the new front page is already live so you don’t have to deal with it anymore.
Hopefully it doesn’t take an eternity for Apple to approve. Keep a look out! It should be available very soon!
Adding internationalization to XIB files in Xcode 4
I want to post a quick Derrr post about localizing XIB files in Xcode 4 since I just spent a good 2 or 3 hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong to find I wasn’t really doing anything wrong.
Localization of your Interface Builder files in Xcode 4 is a piece of cake, actually.
iOS consolidated.db “flaw”?
I’m kind of getting sick of the big hoopla about the recently discovered (even though it wasn’t recently discovered at all) consolidated.db file which sits quietly in a publicly available iOS directory and is backed up every time you sync your phone. The file in question keeps a running log of dates, times and locations according to your GPS and wifi radios. I am all for getting up in arms if Apple has been actually collecting and doing something with this data without anyone knowing about it but the fact of the matter is, they aren’t. What really sucks, is that I have a feeling that this “bug” will get plugged with a future version of iOS and I personally think it’s a neat feature! I just pulled up a map of the last 6 months of my life and thought it was pretty damned cool. I agree that there should definitely be some sort of opt-out system that would purge this cache every so often, but I don’t want to have to do that. I’ll worry about my own security and make sure my iPhone and it’s backups stay out of the hands of wrong doers (heaven for big they see the extremely vague representation of locations data that I just saw on the map I made).
Bottom line. This is probably some oversight bug where a line of code wasn’t written to purge old location data. That’s perfectly plausible. But the data is so vague that it doesn’t really matter much. And without access to your computer or phone, no one can get at this information anyways. So plug the hole, Apple, but how about an opt-out strategy? I like it.
Hooray, iPad!
I finally got my iPad 2 last week and this post is coming to you straight from it! I really love it for just about everything. My MacBook Pro hasn’t gottten a lot of love over the last week and I can see her getting delegated to mostly development work and gaming. I do, unfortunately, feel the sting from the lack of Flash a little more now than when I just had my iPhone, but that doesn’t mean I think the iPad needs flash, it just makes me want all videos to go to h.264 even faster than I did before since that’s the only thing that I run into flash for.
Anywho, that’s all I got for now. I’m going to be able to test Secret Browser out a lot more on the iPad now that I actually have one! More on that soon!
Prompt for iOS. Get it!
Anyone who needs to SSH to a remote server on any sort of frequent basis should really download Panic’s new app, Prompt. It’s $5, but well worth it because it just works. For those with jailbroken phones, you can even ssh to your own phone instead of using MobileTerminal! DO IT!
