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You should have iOS SDK and your iPhone/iPad developer certification installed on your Mac before trying this script.

#!/bin/sh
SAVEDIR=`pwd`
WORKDIR=/tmp/ipa_$RANDOM$RANDOM
WORKIPA=/tmp/ipa_$RANDOM$RANDOM.ipa

echo unpacking $1
mkdir -p $WORKDIR
unzip "$1" -d $WORKDIR  > /dev/null || exit
cd $WORKDIR
for f in $( ls Payload ); do
	echo Processing $f
	rm -rf Payload/$f/_CodeSignature
	cat >Payload/$f/ResourceRules.plist <<XXX
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>rules</key>
	<dict>
		<key>.*</key>
		<true/>
		<key>Info.plist</key>
		<dict>
			<key>omit</key>
			<true/>
			<key>weight</key>
			<real>10</real>
		</dict>
		<key>ResourceRules.plist</key>
		<dict>
			<key>omit</key>
			<true/>
			<key>weight</key>
			<real>100</real>
		</dict>
	</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
XXX
	codesign -f -s "iPhone Developer" -vvv Payload/$f
done
echo repacking
zip -9yr $WORKIPA * > /dev/null
cd $SAVEDIR && mv "$1" "$1.$RANDOM$RANDOM.bak" && mv $WORKIPA "$1" && rm -rf $WORKIPA

Only tested with a few .IPA files myself so far, use it properly at your own risk.

There were two famous funny abbr about Chinese internet industry:
ICP = Internet Copy Paste.
C2C = Copy to China.

Today, we seems to get a new one: TCP = Tencent Copied Perfectly.

Mu Rongjun, a staff at MeiTuan, complained on his twitter about their website being copied pixel-by-pixel by Tencent.

Following images shows how identical their pages are in both texts and screen shots.

Help page about “how to avoid false spam alert in GMail” on meituan.com:

Help page about “how to avoid false spam alert in GMail” on tuan.qq.com:

By take a careful stare to the fonts in the two screen shots, you can see the email address in the second shot, which is from Tencent, is definitely handcrafted by image editing not a real screen shot.

The fun part here is: MeiTuan is one of the earliest clones of groupon in China; Tencent, the 3rd largest internet company in the world(by mkt cap), joins the clone war of groupon recently; so it turns out Tencent has just done a clone of clone.

Since China is a Harmonious Society and MeiTuan is just a small startup, I think this story will just end up nowhere. On the other hand, because most people in this society are all comfortable with downloading and consuming digital content for free, there might not be any powerful moral motivation to accuse others for cloning and pirating.

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shuffle : shuffle or skip to next song
current track : title of current track → text
current album : title of current album → text
current artist : name of current artist → text

For ppl who ask features like updating Last.fm/MSN/Gtalk/Twitter status, you can now do it yourselves.
Here’s a small piece you can start with, in case you are new to AppleScript.

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Add the script to crontab so that backup scheduled everyday.
Python code follows.

#!/usr/bin/python
import cookielib, urllib2, urllib, sys
cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

def export(url, login, passwd):
	u = "wp-login.php"
	l = {"log":login, "pwd":passwd}
	r = urllib2.Request(url + "wp-login.php", urllib.urlencode(l))
	v = urllib2.urlopen(r).read()
	r = urllib2.Request(url+"wp-admin/export.php?author=all&download=true");
	v = urllib2.urlopen(r).read()
	return v

def main(argv):
	if len(argv)<4:
		sys.stderr.write("Usage: %s http://your.wordpress.com/ user pass\n" % (argv[0]))
	else:
		print export(argv[1], argv[2], argv[3])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))