Category Archives: Opensource

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Apple, Opensource

Simple OTA Configuration Profile Installation

Simple OTA Configuration Profile Installation

Deploying iPhones is always a challenge as it is a very user empowering product that changes how an organization looks at things. In some cases, organizations might want over-arching control of the use of the iOS devices and they choose to go with iPhone MDM solutions such as Afaria, Mobile Iron and similar products.

For most parts, however, SMEs or schools might find that while it would be nice to deploy iPhones, they would not want so much as to control these devices, but more to configure them.

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Apple, Opensource, Personal

SplitView in iPad Web Apps

I love webapps, but somethings gotta give… but not splitview. Split View is the thing in iPads that makes it different in navigating through content on a large touch screen device. It provides a way of allowing navigation with content browsing. However, this seems to be largely done only by a few companies/people, or through the use or large cumbersome UI kits. Continue reading SplitView in iPad Web Apps →

General, Opensource

Woes on UTF-8 plain text transfers

Some things that didn’t quite seem to work right in Chrome and Firefox. It seems that when reading text files from some servers, the reply for text files are UTF-8 instead of plain ASCII text. However, Safari seems to be able to understand that the UTF-8 BOM was not to be parsed as part of the data, but Chrome and Firefox doesn’t seem to know that.

This throws weird problems that would seem to be browser issues. This can be solved by stripping the plain text file of the UTF-8 BOM by removing the \xef\xbb\xbf pre-appended text.

Things should work across all browsers after that.