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I’m sure you’ve heard all the cool children talking about SSH in the cafeteria during lunch, but you had no idea what it was. Be ignorant no more, because Devanshu Mehta is writing a series of posts about using SSH for Apple Matters.

The first in the series explains the basics of SSH and what you’ll need to setup before you can start securely tunneling like a spy.

Here’s the really short explanation of SSH: it allows you to create secure connections between two computers. The protocol is a standard, so you can SSH into nearly any kind of personal, assuming it is running SSH and you’ve the proper credentials.

I’ll be keeping my eye out for the upcoming parts in this series, because who can’t use some more secure connections in their life?

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Earlier today, the Associated Press launched an iPhone-optimized news site that really is pleasant to use. To check it out on your iPhone simply visit http://apnews.com. Once there you’ll find AP articles, of course, but also local events (in fact, you can enter several zip codes and follow events from several locations) and more from many different outlets.

The preference pane looks like that of a native iPhone application (Save the orange sliders instead of blue) and the photos and videos render pretty swiftly, even over EDGE. Plus, they’ve got a cute web clip icon. What more do you need?

It’s nice to see the AP catering to mobile users. We say, “Well done.”

[Via iPodNN]

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Using the port of lighttpd on his jailbroken iPhone, Mark Hoekstra of GEEKtechnique offers real-world proof that an iPhone can, indeed, function as a web server. He put up a static page and served 411 very special visitors during the time his server was offline for maintenance. Obviously, that’s not battle-testing for a busier server, and the lack of database queries certainly aided the capacity of the little server, but it’s definitely a fun example of the capabilities of a (hacked) iPhone.

Apache has also been ported, along with Python, vim, curl and other tools web servers can make good use of. There’s a good possibility we’ll see similar scenarios as time progresses, especially as the hardware capabilities of the iPhone improve. So, is that a backup web server in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Thanks, Mike!

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Let’s get this straight. It’s May 2. Springtime, right?

Sort of. Snowbird, Utah got hit on May 1 by 18 inches of new snow, and Bryce Roberts (O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures), Fabrizio Capobianco (Funambol), and I just had to try it out.

Verdict? Heaven. Check out some …

Source:The Open Road

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Google’s AppEngine looks great. It’s a way to build web applications and run them on Google’s “cloud” infrastructure.

The downside? Your applications effectively become Google’s applications because there’s no simple way to move them elsewhere. You have to run them using Google’s authentication engine, framework, file system, APIs, etc. etc. Free as in Google’s.

Enter Morph Labs.

[Morph] claims to have done all the back-end cutwork to make it easy for developers to get their software up and running as a service on Amazon’s Web Services (AWS), freeing them from Google’s Microsoft-like vendor lock-in….

… Source:The Open Road

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Pierre advocates that dual-licensing hurts community. Jonathan Schwartz boasts that Java has the world’s largest community. MySQL and Sun retreat (a little) from plans to offer closed extensions to the MySQL database because the community gods get angry.

What, exactly, is this “community?” Who gave it so much power? And why do we care about it?

As we’ll be discussing on Monday at Sun’s Community One conference (note the name?), companies are judged as good or bad based on the strength of their communities. But what’s a company’s community? In one breath we assume community relates to the number of outside developers that contribute to a project. In the other breath (as Schwartz does in the link above) we advocate that community is all about the gross number of users of a project.

Which is it? Does it matter?

… Source:The Open Road

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