Posts by mspritch

Apple pilfers rips off student's rejected iPhone app

So the rule is...

if you write a genuinely useful app, which Apple then rejects for some whimsical reason or other, release it on Cydial and PATENT IT.

May be worth patenting now anyway. According to Wikipedia the US follows first-to-invent not first-to-file, so even if Apple beat him to it their application should get thrown out.

Microsoft finally says adios to Autorun

Recognised method?

Double-click the AUTORUN.INF file (just called AUTORUN if Windows is hiding the extension). It should open in Notepad, where you can see what it tries to run when it's inserted (look at the open= line).