Tag: iTunes

  • Working Backwards

    Sometimes I find myself working backwards up a tree of errors to fix a problem. Today was a case in point. Since I’ve been doing a bit of WordPress grooming, I have the development build checked out locally. Previously I had run phpunit against the unit tests included in the code, but for some reason…

  • Moving to GMail on your iPhone

    After moving from a hosted Exchange service to GMail, you need to set up your email client on the iPhone so that it will receive the push notices. To do this, you need to add a new Exchange service on the device. There’s a nice step by step of this at http://support.google.com/a/users/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740 Alternatively, you can use…

  • Adventures in iPhone beta land

    …Or how to brick your phone with an upgrade, and recover… Earlier this month, Apple released the fifth beta of their 3.0 firmware for the iPhone. As usual, I raced to the site to download it. I became very excited by the email that I got saying that submissions to the Apple store have to…

  • How to Downgrade Your iPhone (or iPod) Operating System

    On the first day of 360iDev, I was in a session to learn about programming an iPhone, and somebody mentioned that a friend of theirs had updated their iPod firmware, and couldn’t figure out how to reset it back to the prior version. Since I had recently done this, I thought I could write this…