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  by TidBITS Staff <editors@tidbits.com>
  article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/10756>

**Jeff Carlson Takes Control of Your iPhone Apps on MacVoices** --
  It's difficult work controlling everyone's iPhone apps, but if Chuck
  Joiner of MacVoices says I'm taking control of your iPhone apps, I
  must oblige. Actually, I had a great talk with Chuck about my new
  ebook "Take Control of Your iPhone Apps," why the built-in apps are
  overlooked in favor of the 100,000 third-party apps available in the
  iTunes App Store, and how you can learn to use them better, whether
  you're using an iPhone or an iPod touch.

<http://www.macvoices.com/wordpress/macvoices-9117-jeff-carlson-takes-control-of-your-iphone-apps/>


**Rogue Amoeba Suffers Latest App Store Idiocy** -- The latest in a
  long series of embarrassments for the iPhone App Store has been
  described by long-time Mac developer Rogue Amoeba. In short, it took
  over 100 days to get a 1.0.1 update to the already-approved Airfoil
  Speakers Touch app approved because the app displays "Apple-owned
  graphic symbols" that are provided by a public function in Mac OS X
  expressly for this purpose. Shameful.

<http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/2009/11/13/airfoil-speakers-touch-1-0-1-finally-ships/>


**Macworld Suffers App Store Approval "Process"** -- Our friends at
  Macworld found themselves deep in the surreal world of Apple's App
  Store approval process - if it can be called that - during their
  attempt to publish an iPhone app version of their "Macworld iPhone &
  iPod touch Superguide" ebook. Once again, negative publicity turned
  out to be the eventual solution. When will Apple learn?

<http://www.macworld.com/article/143677/2009/11/iphone_superguide_iphone.html>


**Jailbroken iPhones Susceptible to Worm** -- TUAW reports on a worm
  that changes the background wallpaper of jailbroken iPhones whose
  users failed to change the default password after installing SSH.
  It's not much of a hole, since few people jailbreak their iPhones,
  and hopefully most of those who do are sufficiently aware to change
  the default SSH password. But it's a reminder that if you leave the
  door open, someone just might come in and do something unpleasant.

<http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/07/jailbreak-worm-rickrolls-the-unsecured/>

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