I was holding off saying anything. But looks like I jumped the gun a bit with DL 2. Shipley is testing the site first to make sure it’s ready and it’ll stand up to load. I guess I just assumed updating the site would be the fast and easy bit.
And yes, I already trying putting a 2 at the end of the current .dmg file and going to the uploads folder to see if I could nab it early. No dice. =/ *wait wait wait*
I’ve been harping on Wil Shipley on Twitter to finish Delicious Library 2.0. After replying to me to let me know it was indeed ready now. He twittered this to everyone:
wilshipley Right now I’m finishing upgrading the store, then going to ship DL2, then I’ll immediately launch Golden-Braeburn with the improved store.
Woo hoo! Break out that extra 20 bucks!
If you’ve upgraded to Speed Download 5 from 4 and you notice that it’s not as snappy as you remember 4 being, you’re not alone. I was wondering what was going on and a did a little poking around. At least for me the download speed was throttled by default to 64k.
Click that little bar graph icon in the lower left of the window and adjust it there. I went for unlimited, if I’m going to download something let’s get it down as soon as possible and get it over with.
So you’ve decided that the iPhone SDK was either too little, too late or both. And so you’re going to jailbreak again. Perhaps you’ve downloaded iNdependence and you’re going to give it a whirl. Well, if you’re like me the app will crash the instant it goes into recovery mode and won’t start properly while it’s attached to the system. So enjoy that restore in iTunes.
While you’re waiting for the phone to finish restoring you might poke around at other options. Maybe you’ll take a friends advice and try iPlus. After googling and digging around looking for the actual files and not just blog posts about how teh awesome it is. You’ll eventually find this download page. And you’ll download the whole package and give it a shot now that your iPhone has finished restoring to 1.1.4 and synching all your stuff.
You might freak when it says it’s just going to go ahead and jailbreak AND unlock your phone. Whoa whoa whoa… you’re already paying AT&T and people who unlock often get screwed with firmware updates. So you go back to the site and find the download that says it’s for jailbreaking ONLY.
Unzipping and looking at the jailbreak only it doesn’t seem much different but you give it a shot. Seems to go well. But… then it sits saying you’ve successfully completed the jailbreak and it’s rebooting. Only, it’s not. Just spinning away. You look at the message on the iphone screen and it says it can’t find the reboot script. Because it’s in the payload that’s not in the jailbreak only bundle. Doh!
So you force a reboot of the phone and yup, no jailbreak. By now of course you’ve found the guide that takes you through the install and you note the point that at which is says
“If you only want to jailbreak your iPhone (you have an AT&T account set up as an iPhone and you don’t want to unlock your iPhone), type ./iplus -j instead.”
So you go back into the first iPlus package you downloaded and you run iPlus with the -j option. Woot! It works! Right on.
But wait. No YouTube. I know, I know. Who cares. Well… you do because you paid for this thing and you want to use it all and then some. So you have SSH on there and Terminal and being a security minded individual you make sure to hop right into the shell and run passwd and get that default password (alpine) changed and fast.
Then you set about getting a few good apps installed. One of which is a handy tweak you found that will fix the YouTube problem. You exit the installer and reboot. WHOA.. wait.. where did all the bookmarklets on the spring board go? Why is it telling me how to move and delete icons from the spring board? Why is it rebooting?! And again? And again?! And… (You get the picture).
Well, crap. Is it a brick? No. Digging around you find that if you connect the phone to the computer and then fire it up holding the power button and the home button (not just the home button like you found earlier) that it’ll go into recovery mode and you can begin the tedious process of restoring your iphone through iTunes. Phew, your ass unpuckers.
While you’re waiting for the restore you go over what you did wrong. Perhaps that “fix” for YouTube wasn’t such a good deal after all. You vow to skip that this next go around and after getting some coffee and going to the bathroom you come back to find the restore finished. You launch iPlus again and go to put the kids down.
Coming back you’re ready to go. Drop to shell, passwd away the security problem. And you set about checking that everything is working. Hrmm well no.. the browser crashes. What gives? Well, maybe you need to reboot to kinda flush things out. Oohh ooh! Yup.. you’re in that loop again. Well, crap.
While you sit and wait for the restore (how many has that been?) you’re online with your friend who is currently running Mono on HIS jailbroken phone. And he suggests maybe ZiPhone. Hrmm okay.. why not? It’s not like you’re the type to learn your lesson. You grab it while your phone is still restoring and get ready for some command line fun. But.. it’s an .app. Okay ready to go… iPhone is restored. You run the app. You click jailbreak. And like that you’re done.
But now YouTube works… everything seems to work. You go into the installer app. Start to set things up, apparently the BSD subsystem isn’t installed by default. As it installs it warns you NOT TO CHANGE THE PASSWORD WITH PASSWD, because it’s borked and it will make your iphone reboot over and over and over…. GAH! That would’ve been nice to know! Wish someone would’ve blogged that, eh?
So, now all is good with the world. You install your apps. Though VTerm won’t install. But you can just grab that here. And you find a site that explains how to change the password if you need to and suggests installing Services so you can turn off SSH to save battery life and keep from tempting folks when you’re not using it.
Phew… well, that’s over. Good job! Now let’s see about Mono.
I haven’t been able to get a good answer to my question about loading data files onto the iphone for a new app. Not data files that are part of the app, mind you. But let’s say you’re working on a viewer of some sort for a particular file format – no I’m not going to mention which. How do you get those files on the iPhone?
I sent an email off to Erica Sadun. If anyone knew – out side of Apple’s secret cabal – it would be Erica. But even though I got a fast and polite response, it looks like there are no obvious methods other than to possibly hit a url and save the file to your storage space on the iPhone.
Hrmm… not everyone is going to have access to hosting to get/post file from. This seems like a less than optimal solution, to me. And it certainly seems to lessen the value of my particular application if the user has to jump through hoops to get their files on the iphone and if they also have to put up files they might not want to share with everyone.
I wonder if you can get access to email attachments. I better alternative. I’ll look into it and see what I find.
I’m looking at writing a viewer for the iPhone with the new SDK. But I’m trying to hunt down how I can get files to view on to the iPhone. Nothing is very clear there. If I can’t synch the files on to the phone, as I’m guessing I can’t, then do I have to grab the file off the web or something?
Anyone have the skinny on this?
Well, I got Singularity ( MS’s new mostly managed OS ) built. But now the ISO doesn’t want to boot in Parallels. Of course, no one said that it would. I was just hoping. Parallels throws a hissy fit and wants to report the failure back home. Hrmmm *keeps tinkering* Wonder what’s up.
Last week I downloaded desklickr and started using it on my BlackBook. I ran it for a few days having it update every five minutes and was over pretty pleased with it.
Recently while I was searching in vain for some thing to delete so I could free up a little space on my all too small drive. I was using Disk Inventory X and eventually I stumbled across what appeared to be a cache for desklickr. I found nearly a gig of image files store there.
I don’t know why the app would need to cache image files, or at least more than say the last one or so. I was going to write that I didn’t see any options to clear the cache in the application and I was wrong. I just double checked the preferences and on the Advanced tab there is a File Cache: Clear It option.
So, that said… if you’re looking to clear up a little space have a go at clearing your Desklickr cache. It’s amazing how much builds up when you’re updating your desktop every five minutes for a week or two. But Desklickr is definatly cool for keeping my desktop fresh and interesting. I suggest downloading it from their site and giving it a try.
I’ve been using MacFusion for a few months now since most of the machines in the cloud of the computer world are linux boxes. Recently I finally got around to changing a password on one of the systems and MacFusion started refusing to mount it (stop laughing).
In MacFusion there’s no place to set the password for the system you’re connecting to. If you’re running into this problem bring up the “Keychain Access” application and find the address of the target system under Passwords -> Application and change it there. That should get you back on track.
I was having problems getting iTerm to work well with irssi.. specifically.. using the alt/option key to swap between tabs in irssi. Alt wasn’t doing it..even when set to Meta or +esc. So I dug around and found this in some comments to someones post about needing a new term app.
If you’re on a MacbookPro laptop, and using irssi with screen on a remote machine via ssh; heres what works (for me)
To switch between irssi windows (normally alt+1 etc.) – use;
Press Esc, let go – then press number, 1, 2 whateverTo pageup/pagedown – use this keyboard sequence (must be in this order)
Press (and hold) Shift-key, now Press and hold fn-key, now with these keys pressed (in that order) – press the pageup (arrow up) or pagedown (arrow down) keys to pageup/down
If your backspace key is acting as a ‘delete’-key in irssi in screen, Hit command+I, in terminal to bring up your window preferences, under the Keyboard settings, tick ‘Delete key sends backspace’ – that should fix that.
So, slightly more tricky on the laptop, but achievable none-the-less
Matt
Thanks, Matt
Who ever you are.
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