If you restore your iOS (iPhone or iPad) from a backup in iTunes, you’ll find you need to re-enter your usernames and passwords for all your email accounts.
Simply tick the Encrypt iPhone Backups option in the device summary tab in iTunes and enter a password to secure your backups. iTunes will now backup and restore your sensitive data, usernames, passwords and MobileMe data, and do so securely.
A cool and little known JavaScript function is .link() available to all string objects. Calling string.link(url) returns an HTML string for an anchor tag with the URL in it. For example:
var text = 'the best website ever';
var html = text.link('http://bencollier.net/');
html === "the best website ever" //true
A great way to quickly make links without having to do:
var text = "the best website ever";
var url = "http://bencollier.net/";
var html = "" + text +"" ;
html === "the best website ever" //true
iOS File Template Selector - unable to click an item
Using a firm clicking click or the arrow keys seems to work around this. Tapping just seems to deselect anything currently selected.
What a strange bug!
If you’ve got a password saved, but can’t remember what it is, you can use this bookmarklet to reveal it.
Drag the image to the bookmark bar:
Click the button above to try it out:
If you’re interested in the JavaScript source:
javascript:Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll("input[type='password']"))
.map(function(el){el.setAttribute('type','text')})
It gets all password inputs and turns their type to text; and should work in modern browsers (like Safari, FF4, Chrome etc) that support ‘querySelectorAll()’.
In PhoneGap 0.9.5 they’ve updated how the Android back button works. Here’s what to change.
Before in 0.9.4:
BackButton.override();
document.addEventListener("backKeyDown", function() {
someBackButtonHandlingFunction();
}, true);
Now in 0.9.5:
document.addEventListener("backbutton", function() {
someBackButtonHandlingFunction();
}, true);
In 0.9.5 and later you no longer need to override the back button, as it’s assumed when you’re adding the event listener that you want to handle the button yourself. Make sure if the user is at the root view of your mobile app, the back button closes the app.
To exit the app in 0.9.4 you’d use:
BackButton.exitApp();
Now, in 0.9.5 you need to use:
device.exitApp();
Good to see PhoneGap advancing to a more device agnostic syntax.