Here is a really quick and rough tutorial for enabling the Japanese keyboard on your iPhone, which allows you to type in hiragana, katakana, and kanji. For some reason, even though there is rumor that the iPhone will be making its way sometime not too far from now to Japan, the Japanese language keyboard is not enabled on the device, though its functionality is clearly working and arguably ready to go.

(Thanks to the info http://web.mac.com/mac_scott/ and some others for getting me the necessary steps to get this working.) This assumes that you aren’t afraid to get your hand a little dirty with some command line action on your iPhone. I also claim no responsibility for what *may* happen when performing this task. I’m not sure what damage you could do if things get ugly, so proceed with caution. This addresses the problem that I ran into, wherein I cannot login to the Term-vt100 app for the iPhone, so I had to get creative about how to change a file to enable the Japanese keyboard. My phone is running firmware version 1.1.4; it seems that somewhere 1.1.3 or later, this login problem arose.

The first steps are to jailbreak your phone, and install a few of the necessary apps, including BossPrefs, the BSD Subsystem package, and the OpenSsh client. Once you do this, you can disable Edge, make sure WiFi is enabled, and enable the SSH service. You will want to do both, as the “alpine” password is well known, and you might as well be as safe as possible about this.

I found the file I needed to change under the /var/mobile directory on the iPhone. When you have started SSH on your iPhone and connected to your wireless router, check the ip address in BossPrefs under WiFi. Fire up the Terminal on your computer also connected to the same network, and enter the following (replace xx.xx.xx.xx with the IP address of your iPhone):

scp root@xx.xx.xx.xx:/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist ~/Desktop/GlobalPreferences.plist

You will need to enter “alpine” when prompted for the password. Now check to see if GlobalPreferences.plist is now on your Desktop. Now you can edit this file in two ways. Most importantly, in this file, you need to change the “AppleKeyboards” node to also include a node for “ja” in addition to “en_US”. You can convert the plist to an XML text file by running the following in the Terminal, and edit the file in your favorite text editor:

plutil -convert xml1 ~/Desktop/GlobalPreferences.plist
Change the block of text that looks like:
AppleKeyboards

en_US

and add the “ja” node so it looks like:
AppleKeyboards

en_US
ja

Then to convert it back to binary (the format that it was in), run this in the Terminal:
plutil -convert binary1 ~/Desktop/GlobalPreferences.plist

However, the *easier* way to edit the file, is to double-click it, which in OSX, should open the file in Property List Editor. Once in there, click the triangle next to “AppleKeyboards”. You will see one String with the value “en_US”. Click the “New Sibling” button in the editor and type “ja” in the new field provided. Then save.

Once you have edited your prefs file, you need to stick it back on the phone. Run this in the Terminal:
scp ~/Desktop/GlobalPreferences.plist root@xx.xx.xx.xx:/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

You will again be prompted for the same password. Once the upload is complete, go to BossPrefs, and turn off SSH and turn back on Edge. Restart your iPhone. You should now be able to type Japanese characters. Go to Notes. You should see a little globe icon next to the space bar. If you click this it will squash the keyboard down some and when you type, you will see options in Japanese charaters for what you are typing. It behaves similarly to typing Japanese on your Mac keyboard. For example, when you type “hanashimasu”, you will see “?????” as an option in the space above the keyboard. Click the globe to toggle between modes.

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iLibertyX is the OS X version of iLiberty, an incredible app built to jailbreak, activate, and unlock your iPhone. It works with 1.0.2 and up, and is extremely easy to use!

All right, lets get started. Download iLibertyX. You must connect your iPhone to iTunes before opening the app. Don’t worry if iTunes says its an unsupported iPhone, etc, just let it see the iPhone.

All right, double-click iLibertyX to open it. It will automatically shut down iTunes and iTunes helper when it runs, so you don’t need to worry about manually doing that.

Now you’re greeted with the iLibertyX screen. Check whichever things you’d like done. Jailbreak prepares your iPhone for modding, and installs Installer.app for you as well. Activate activates your iPhone by bypassing the iTunes activation process, useful if you are unlocking your iPhone or don’t want to use the iPhone as a phone/SMS device. If you have AT&T you don’t need to do this since you can activate through iTunes just fine.
Unlock lets you use the iPhone with GSM carriers other than AT&T.

Now click the Payloads tab in iLibertyX, and choose your extras. BBinfo installs an app to your iPhone which lets you see which bootloader, IMEI, SIM # and more your iPhone is using. SSH lets you access your iPhone’s filesystem remotely. For each one you want, click Download by it. It will then download, and go from being grayed out to being available.

Check the payloads you’d like, and then click Free my 8GB iPhone! NOTE: If you have a different iPhone (4GB or 16GB) it will note that instead.

iLibertyX will then run through a bunch of status reports.

At this prompt, you will see a bunch of text scrolling on the iPhone itself. This is normal. Give it a minute or so.

Still waiting… different screen on the iPhone, which has just rebooted…

Assuming all went well, which it should have, you will now get the Enjoy! message, click OK, and the Free my 8GB iPhone button will now say Success!
That’s it – you’re done! Huge props to the guys for making this, including the iPhone Dev Team, pepjin, aviegas, francis, geohot, and more.

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As part of its monthly “Patch Tuesday” schedule Microsoft has issued a number of bulletins about 12 security vulnerabilities in its software. Seven of the vulnerabilities affect Microsoft Excel, and could allow a hacker to gain remote control over a user’s computer by a maliciously crafted spreadsheet. Alarmingly, the vulnerability is not just found in the Windows version of Microsoft Excel, but also for Mac Office 2004 and the recently released Office 2008 for Macintosh.

Experts note that the Excel flaws were discovered in January, and recommends that organizations roll-out the patches as a matter of urgency, as some of them could enable hackers to access data on a vulnerable PC or Macintosh, or run malicious code such as a worm.

“Windows users may be fairly accustomed to installing patches from Microsoft — but this a timely reminder that Apple Mac users need to be just as diligent when it comes to matters of computer security,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. “Whether you run a PC or a Mac it’s important to take these latest security bulletins from Microsoft seriously and ensure that your business is properly protected.”

Other flaws detailed in the Microsoft security bulletins affect other components of the Microsoft Office product suite. Home users of Microsoft Windows can visit update.microsoft.com to have their systems scanned for Microsoft security vulnerabilities.

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The explosive growth of the iPhone market signals a shift from home and office based communication to communication on the go. With the recent release of their latest service VPN Mobile, Secure-Tunnel.com offers this segment of wireless users the highest level of identity protection available for mobile devices.

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Since Apple’s iPhone and other smart phones have the capability to join countless networks and are always mobile, they are constantly in search of different wireless connections, leaving the door open for data intrusion. Wireless devices like the iPhone have limited in-transit data security options and can lack the ability to secure information sent wirelessly from one machine to another. VPN Mobile provides the additional level of security needed for protected information transmission.

Designed to enable the quick delivery of multimedia and broadband data, EDGE, the Apple iPhone wireless service provider, is historically known for its vulnerability to intrusion. Secure-Tunnel VPN for iPhone is able to encrypt all EDGE data, ensuring a comprehensive privacy and data security solution for mobile users.

The abundance of wireless options like EDGE, Wi-Fi, and email on the latest mobile devices poses a genuine security threat for users, given the multiple communication features available.

The Secure-Tunnel VPN Mobile solution protects otherwise vulnerable mobile communications through strong encryption that works on both Wi-Fi and cellular data networks. The software is simple, easy to configure, and is ready within minutes and contains an email account with SSL webmail.

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PayPal warns: Steer clear of Apple’s Safari browser. Safari doesn’t make PayPal’s list of recommended browsers because it doesn’t have two important anti-phishing security features. If you’re using Apple’s Safari browser, PayPal has some advice for you: Drop it, at least if you want to avoid online fraud.

Safari doesn’t make PayPal’s list of recommended browsers because it doesn’t have two important anti-phishing security features, according to Michael Barrett, PayPal’s chief information security officer.

“Apple, unfortunately, is lagging behind what they need to do, to protect their customers,” Barrett said in an interview. “Our recommendation at this point, to our customers, is use Internet Explorer 7 or 8 when it comes out, or Firefox 2 or Firefox 3, or indeed Opera.”

Safari is the default browser on Apple’s Macintosh computers and the iPhone, but it is also available for the PC. Both Firefox and Opera run on the Mac.

Unlike its competitors, Safari has no built-in phishing filter to warn users when they are visiting suspicious Web sites, Barrett said. Another problem is Safari’s lack of support for another anti-phishing technology, called Extended Validation (EV) certificates. This is a secure Web browsing technology that turns the address bar green when the browser is visiting a legitimate Web site.

When it comes to fighting phishing, “Safari has got nothing in terms of security support, only SSL (Secure Sockets Layer encryption), that’s it,” he said. Apple representatives weren’t immediately available to comment on this story.

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StyleTap, the company that develops a Palm OS environment for Windows Mobile devices, has posted a video of an experimental version of StyleTap running on a iPod Touch. According to the company, the video is more of a proof of concept and not an actual product at this time. StyleTap is also not saying definitively whether or not they will release a official version.

In the video the Touch is shown running a variety of native Palm OS applications. Bobby Chew, a developer for StyeTap says “This experimental version can run ARMlets and because of the screen size, uses hi-res (double density) bitmaps and fonts. If Apple’s security and application installation and distribution scheme isn’t too restrictive, it looks like StyleTap will be able to run the same applications on the iPhone/Touch, Symbian and Windows Mobile/CE platforms.”

Since there is no Apple approved method at this time to install any outside applications on its mobile devices, it is likely any release would have to wait until Apple releases their official iPhone/Touch SDK. The model shown in the video has been “jailbroken” in order to modify it to run third party applications. Apple previously promised to put an SDK in developers hands by the end of February, however as of this writing they have not posted any further details.

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Apple today introduced Xsan® 2, the first major upgrade to its easy to use, high performance, enterprise class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system for Mac OS® X. Combining enhanced performance with Apple’s legendary ease of use, Xsan 2 makes it easier for first time users to set up and quickly deploy a SAN; introduces MultiSAN, allowing users on a single workstation to access multiple SANs at the same time; is fully integrated with Mac OS X Leopard™ and Mac OS X Server Leopard and is now qualified to work with third-party RAID storage.

Administration tools have been completely redesigned in Xsan 2, making it easier than ever to set up and manage a SAN file system. Xsan 2 intelligently handles different data types, file sizes and usage scenarios for ideal performance. For example, administrators have the ability to pre-set volume workload settings for optimal streaming of all file types, from very large files, such as uncompressed HD video to small data center files. Xsan 2 includes a new feature, MultiSAN, for users who need to access multiple Xsan volumes from the same workstation or server, such as in newsrooms with separate SAN volumes for production and broadcast.

Xsan 2 is fully integrated with Mac OS X Leopard and takes complete advantage of core Mac OS X features, such as Spotlight™ to search across multiple SAN volumes. Xsan 2 also works seamlessly with Server Assistant in Leopard Server for easy setup and configuration of SAN volumes. Leopard Server features, such as iCal® Server, Mail Server and Podcast Producer, can now integrate with Xsan 2 to support clustered file systems, improving performance and scalability and reducing the impact of a service outage from the loss of any one server.

For the first time, Xsan 2 has been qualified with third-party RAID storage hardware. Along with Apple’s Xserve® RAID, Xsan 2 supports third-party RAID solutions from Promise Technology in configurations tuned and optimized for Xsan, Mac OS X Server and Apple’s professional applications.

Pricing & Availability
Xsan 2 is available immediately through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com) and through Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $999 (US) per node.

Apple has qualified Xsan 2 with Xserve, Mac® Pro and Apple Fibre Channel PCI-X cards. Xsan 2 requires Mac OS X version 10.5 or Mac OS X Server version 10.5 software installed and will support qualified Fibre Channel switches from vendors such as Brocade, QLogic and Cisco, and RAID storage hardware including Xserve RAID and Promise VTrak E-Class RAID subsystems.

Apple today introduced Aperture™ 2, the next major release of its groundbreaking photo editing and management software with over 100 new features that make it faster, easier to use and more powerful. With a streamlined user interface and entirely new image processing engine, Aperture 2 also introduces new imaging tools for highlight recovery, color vibrancy, local contrast definition, soft-edged retouching, vignetting and RAW fine-tuning, and lets users directly post their portfolios on the .Mac Web Gallery* for viewing on the web, iPhone™, iPod® touch and Apple TV®. At a new low price of $199, anyone can easily organize, edit and publish photos like a pro.

“Many of the most respected photographers on assignment all over the world trust Aperture to organize, edit and deliver their images,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of Applications Product Marketing. “With its simpler interface and lower price, anyone can take full advantage of Aperture’s power.”

“At the end of the day, it’s all about the quality of the image,” said Sports Illustrated contributing photographer David Bergman. “Even before I begin making adjustments, Aperture’s new RAW processing gives me better images with more visible detail and better color rendering than any other program I’ve tested.”

“I used to have so much stress about post-production on a shoot, having to juggle multiple applications to make sure they all worked,” said Bob Davis, PDN Top Knots Wedding Photographer 2007. “With Aperture that’s no longer a factor. I can do everything all in one application.”

Featuring a new, easier user interface designed to be more intuitive and accessible, Aperture 2 now lets users navigate between Viewer and Browser modes with a single key command. Screen real estate is maximized for images with an all-in-one heads up display that allows users to toggle between library, metadata and adjustment controls in a single tabbed inspector. The All Projects view, modeled after iPhoto’s Events view, provides a poster photo for every project and the ability to quickly skim through the photos inside, and the integrated iPhoto® Browser offers direct access to all the events and images in the iPhoto library.

Performance has been enhanced in Aperture 2 so it’s faster to import, browse and search large volumes of images. Embedded previews let photographers caption, keyword and rate images as they are being imported, and with the ability to export images in the background, photographers can continue working while images are processed to JPEG, TIFF, PNG and PSD file formats. Quick Preview allows users to browse RAW images in rapid succession without having to wait for files to load, and the Aperture library database has been re-architected to provide fast project switching and near instantaneous search results, even when working with extremely large libraries of 500,000 images or more.

Aperture 2 delivers powerful new imaging tools for getting the most out of each photograph. Apple’s next-generation RAW image processing is at the core of Aperture 2 offering uncompromising image quality and precision controls that let users fine-tune the image profile for each of their cameras. New tools for improving and enhancing images include Recovery for pulling back “blown” highlights, Vibrancy for selectively boosting saturation without adversely affecting skin tones, Definition, which offers local contrast for adding clarity to images, Vignette & Devignette filters for providing professional visual effects and a true soft-edged Repair and Retouch brush for quickly and easily removing blemishes, cleaning up sensor dust and cloning away problem areas.

Aperture 2 works seamlessly with Mac OS® X, iLife®, iWork™, .Mac and Apple print products, so any image in the Aperture library can be accessed directly from within other applications, such as iMovie®, Keynote® and Pages®, and even from within Leopard™ Mail. Now with .Mac Web Gallery support, Aperture users can publish their photos once to view them on the web, iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV. Books in Aperture 2 feature new theme designs, layout tools, customized dust jackets (including full-bleed) and foil stamped covers.

Even after being on the market for less than half a year, more iPhones sold in the fourth quarter than Windows Mobile phones in the U.S., according to research from Canalys.

Canalys researchers estimate that the iPhone had 28 percent of the U.S. converged-device market in the fourth quarter of 2007. Research In Motion, with 41 percent, had the largest share of the market. Windows Mobile phones had 21 percent share of devices sold in the quarter, falling into third place behind Apple.

Worldwide, the lineup is a bit different. Nokia, which typically dominates around the world but not in the U.S., sold 52.9 percent of smart phones worldwide in the fourth quarter. RIM grew its share of converged-device sales to 11.4 percent, up 121 percent over the same quarter in 2006. Despite its limited availability around the world, Apple took third place with 6.5 percent of the market, just barely squeaking ahead of struggling Motorola.

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MyNetDiary provides a special version of MyNetDiary.com optimized for iPhone and iPod Touch.
Your food log is always available on your iPhone – enter foods you just ate in a restaurant, or exercises you did in a gym. No more evening sessions trying to remember what you ate today!
And you can keep using the regular MyNetDiary.com with your favorite web browser from the ultimate comfort of your laptop or desktop.

MyNetDiary for iPhone is much more than a calorie counter – it’s a full-featured food and exercise diary, helping you to plan your diet and nutrition first, and then track daily foods – with only a few taps!
MyNetDiary for iPhone is the ideal food journal, perfect for entering daily foods and exercises anywhere, anytime.
iPhone Home – Your Day at a Glance

The iPhone Home page shows the summary of your day – how many calories you consumed, burned with exercises, and most importantly – how much more you can eat. It even calculates how fast you would lose weight if every day was like today.

Few tips:
After becoming a MyNetDiary member, plan your diet on the main site using personal computer or iPhone – just enter your target weight and date, and balance your calories and exercises. Then, you can use iPhone to enter and track your foods and exercises anywhere, anytime.
Turn on “Remember Me” on the iPhone sign in page and bookmark the iPhone Home page – and you’ll get right to the Home page.
Meal Pages

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snacks pages show foods you ate and their calories. Tap “+” button to add more food entries, or tap a food entry to see its details and to edit the food entry.
Food Entry

This is the page where you enter foods. Simply start typing food name and MyNetDiary will show foods found as you type. Then tap the food in the list and you are done. This is really fast and easy with iPhone. Try it and you will believe it.
But this is not all. Next time you eat the same food, you only need to type few first letters to find the food – it will be shown at the top of the list, in blue. Type first few letters and tap to select – you are done.
MyNetDiary provides the quickest way of entering foods taking only few seconds a day. Accessing your diary from iPhone anywhere and anytime makes MyNetDiary a fun way of losing weight.
Entering Food Amount

After you selected a food on the Food Entry page, MyNetDiary shows you available serving types of the food. Tap a serving to select, or enter an amount and tap the serving.
As always, MyNetDiary remembers your choices, so the next time you eat the same food, the amount you ate will be shown on the top of the list in blue – such as “0.5 cup” on the screenshot. Just tap the amount and you are done – it doesn’t get any easier.
Food Label

For any food, you can see the full food label with all nutritional information – just tap the Nutrition button.
In a restaurant? Quickly check nutrition facts of your meal or choose a meal fitting in your daily nutrition plan.
Custom Foods

Having your own recipe or a food that is not yet in our huge food database? Quickly enter key information from its food label on Custom Food page.
Use MyNetDiary for estimating calorie content of your recipe based on nutrition labels of ingredients and save the result as custom food.
Once entered, your custom food descriptions are always available for your future daily food entry.
Exercise Entry

Enter exercises and activities on the Exercise Entry page with the same ease and convenience as foods.
Next time type only a few first letters to find the exercise and tap to select. Then tap on the amount – either time or exercise intensity and you are done.
Weight Page

Keep track of your weight loss on the Weight Page – enter your weight after each weigh-in. MyNetDiary understands both english and metric units – enter whichever you like.
MyNetDiary calculates your BMI automatically.
Weight Chart

Finally, the Weight Chart page shows your weight loss progress as a simple chart – see how fast you lose weight.
See ultimate charts and nutrition reports on the main site using personal computer or iPhone.