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Most of the headlines I have seen discussing this app are a bit on the paranoid side: "Parents Should Be On The Lookout!" "District Attorney Warns of Hidden Photo App!" "Kids Using Secret Apps To Hide Photos From Parents!" On the naughty side, it's not hard to imagine how hormone-driven teens might be using the app. Modern phones carry all sorts of private information, photos, banking apps, and other things one might want to keep private. On the pragmatic side, have you ever lent your phone to a friend so they could make a phone call? Are you certain all they did was make a call? Early cell phones did little more than make calls, so the only danger in lending a friend your phone was they might make an unexpected long-distance call. Why might someone want to do this? I can think of many reasons, some pragmatic and some naughty. 1234.), the app reveals a second function: it allows the owner to hide documents and image files so they are not readily accessible to someone that does not know the passcode.

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However, if you enter a secret code (a four-digit PIN between two periods, such as. On the surface, it is a basic (and functional) calculator app. This app is titled "Calculator%", hence the apparent typo in the article title. iPhones, iPads, and iPods) that has a hidden purpose. There is a calculator app for iOS devices (i.e. The other is a Twitter persona that I know only by his (?) alias asking a question from the perspective of digital forensics.īetween the two, my curiosity was piqued. One is a high school teacher I have known for years, mentioning it from the perspective of a teacher or parent that might want to know of its hidden features. In the past week, two people have brought an unusual iOS calculator app to my attention, each coming from a different perspective. The CoreRestore feature is just one component highlighted for this particular article.This is one of those rare times when I get to write about two of my favorite subjects at the same time: parenting in a digital age, and digital forensics. Note: MobileSyncBrowser also provides the means for backing up and restoring things like call logs and SMS messages.

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Given that Apple’s current stance is that iPhone and iPod touch can do all sorts of things the PSP and DS can’t, it’s a huge shortcoming that the thing most important to many gamers-the safeguarding of game data-is one of the weakest aspects of Apple handhelds. Already, some developers get around the problem of app deletion/reinstallation by housing scores and progress online via user accounts, but I’d sooner see Apple provide a simpler back-up process itself. What this most highlights, though, is the simple fact this kind of thing shouldn’t be necessary. And although it was brown trousers time during the restore process (which took well over an hour-seemingly, the iPhone did a total restore, with the CR back-up then adding specific files), it did enable some ‘lost’ scores and progress to be ‘rescued’. There’s no guarantee you’ll pick the right files, nor even that a game’s save data is within the Preferences folder, although this was the case with the games I tried.

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Overall, I’m impressed a developer has taken the time to figure out how to create partial back-ups, notably of game data, but the process leaves a lot to be desired (which isn’t really the fault of the dev).

If your iPhone explodes, or-worse-you lose your Peggle saves, too bad.

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If something goes wrong, you can switch your copy back and do a full restore.

I highly recommend you take a full copy of your back-up folder in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup before mucking about with partial back-ups.

There is a workaround, however, using the shareware app MobileSyncBrowser, but it’s not for the faint-hearted… For a platform Apple’s pushing as the best solution for handheld gaming, it’s asinine that you cannot export and import videogame progress and save states. It’s like 1980s arcade games after the plug has been pulled, or cheap, miserly Nintendo DS games that lack a battery back-up in the cartridge, erasing progress and high scores when the device is powered down. Spend hours making headway in Peggle and then, for whatever reason, delete and reinstall Peggle (by accident, or through having a restore go wrong), and your progress is gone-you have to start again. IPhone and iPod touch don’t allow such things.

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Unless you use an uninstaller to remove an app or game from your Mac, you can usually pick up where you left off after a reinstall savvy Mac owners can also fiddle around with preferences, moving them between Macs to ensure consistency across machines in app environments or videogame progress.

One of the dumbest decisions Apple made regarding iPhone and iPod touch is devices wiping all traces of an app when it’s deleted, but providing no means for saving preferences and progress.