I was looking for information on whether the Genius Bar would fit SSD drives, and found this Ask Me Anything with a 5 year veteran of Apple’s Genius Bar.
Apple’s changing malware marketing message
Here’s an example of how Apple changed its marketing regarding malware
Apple //e Owner’s Manual
Just in case you need to refer to the Apple //e Owner’s Manual, here’s a copy (of the text at least)
Apple’s Battery Cycle specs
Just in case you want to know how many times you can sit on the couch and run down your laptop’s battery before having to take it to Apple to get it replaced, here are Apple’s battery life specs (hint, <= 1000 cycles).
Crush, Kill, Destroy your hard drives
When you absolutely, positively need to destroy a lot of hard drives, check out these solutions from eDRsolutions and Bow Industries . Or BBQ your hard drive above the Curie point (taking precautions against the fumes of course!), or drive a nail through it (safety goggles and or face shield).
Get a handle on your iPad
Need to be able to wave your iPad around? Why not try FreeOneHand
Back from the void
So, having finally decided to resurrect the blog, I discovered that I didn’t in fact have a backup of my own blog.
Checking my backups showed I seemed to have backups of everyone else’s blog I’m responsible for, but not my own!
Eventually after trying several hard drives I tracked down a disk image, in which was a mysql file, in which the data lurked (I’d ported the blog to wordpress multisite at one stage, so all the data was in the multisite table format, whereas I’ve now decided I’d like each blog separate. So a quick MySQLdump, some munging of sql in BBEdit and a reimport via PHPMyAdmin and the site was basically restored. Then a bit of an upgrade to WordPress 4.0 and here we are! Some formatting oddities are still being sorted out, as you may be able to tell 🙂
Even though I haven’t been blogging, I have been taking notes, so hopefully there’s still some good stuff to share with you all, assuming you’re not all over on facebook by now!
AUC Xcode workshop
The AUC are running Xcode workshops in Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. AUC Xcode training Apply before 29th June.
Making the leap to iOS 5
So, the time finally came to move the iPhone 3GS to iOS 5, given that it’s my primary communication device and I couldn’t afford to install Developer betas on it and risk being incommunicado.
First up, I tried to sync my photos with iPhoto ’09. There were some problems with this as it kept complaining about missing photos. My eventually solution to this was to grab a copy of Phone Disk and back up all the files on the phone.
Next I set Contacts to sync with iTunes, and synced it a couple of times.
Selecting syncing of apps seemed to indicate that everything was going to be deleted. So I option-clicked on the phone and chose ‘transfer purchases’, which seemed to eventually solve that problem.
Then I tried to sync. Unfortunately I kept getting an “Error -50”, which wasn’t particularly informative. I eventually worked out that iTunes was doing a backup before the update, which meant that it was wanting lots of disk space.
So, lots of disk space cleared I proceeded to update the phone. Hmmm… all my apps are missing from the phone.
So then I option click the device name again and use the ‘Restore from backup’ option. Two hours later iTunes has restored everything to the phone (I’m sure my Newton restored faster. Hopefully over the air syncing will speed this up now rather than relying on the slowness of USB).
Except that now all my Apps are on the phone, listed as “Waiting…” for download. So I go into the phone’s App store and choose to redownload my purchases. One by one… as every time I choose to download it the App store app returns to the launchpad screen. I suspect I can probably fix this by doing another sync (I’ll try over the air this time).
Apple adds to its mapping technology
According to Gizmodo, Apple have purchased 3D mapping company C3 technologies. They’ve previously purchased at least two other mapping technology companies.