Friday, July 31st, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentBy now, you’ve heard the horror stories. Developers put their heart and soul into building an application for the iPhone App Store only to have it rejected by Apple. And sometimes apps are at first accepted and then later pulled for odd reasons. And sometimes app updates are rejected, even though there isn’t much difference with the version accepted. We get a half dozen or so stories sent to us now every single day.

Posts about Om Malik as of July 30, 2009 – thedailyparr.com 07/31/2009 Posts about Om Malik as of July 30, 2009 – thedailyparr.com 07/31/2009 “Unusual” Character Hack May Put All iPhones in Peril – theappleblog.com 07/30/2009 Cybersecurity researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner claim they can bring down your iPhone by sending it just a single “unusual” character, according to Forbes , which first published news of the exploit earlier this week.

By now, you’ve heard the horror stories. Developers put their heart and soul into building an application for the iPhone App Store only to have it rejected by Apple. And sometimes apps are at first accepted and then later pulled for odd reasons. And sometimes app updates are rejected, even though there isn’t much difference with the version accepted. We get a half dozen or so stories sent to us now every single day . It’s no wonder that a lot of mobile developers are growing wary of the App Store.

Cybersecurity researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner claim they can bring-down your iPhone by sending it just a single unusual character, according to Forbes , who first published news of the exploit earlier this week. A single square character or a series of invisible messages can be used to confuse an iPhone, leaving it open to hackers. The exploit affects all models of iPhone, running all versions of the iPhone OS. The only way to protect the phone from attack is to shut it down.

For a product as cool as the MacBook Pro, it sure does get hot. Too hot, sometimes. Ive had many laptops in my time, and Id never go back to plastic IBM compatibles as long as Apple keeps churning out these beautiful aluminum machines. But heat dissipation is a real problem for anyone who makes their MacBook work hard. Its important to keep temperatures as low as possible because a hot CPU is a stressed CPU, and if a processor runs too hot for too long, it runs a higher risk of becoming damaged.