I’ve been looking for a new video hosting service for a while. Lately I’ve been oscillating between Google Video (my first forays were here), YouTube, and Brightcove. I’ve always found the YouTube interface to be highly cumbersome and the focus on the community surrounding the video rather than the video itself really rubbed me the wrong way. Google Video’s larger default size (it’s even larger now) was of much more interest to me. I couldn’t care less about what people have to say about my video—I just want to make sure it looks good. I also want to be able to embed my videos into my various websites and social networking platforms and so I began using Brightcove both for its high quality video and it’s nice embeddable player. A recent problem uploading a video to Brightcove has led me to explore other options. In fact, it led me straight to Vimeo.
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Did anyone really believe that I would wait for a non-downgrade jailbreak? Heck no. Maybe that’s not even possible. With that in mind, I tried once again to do the downgrade-to-jailbreak procedure and I was finally successful. My recent Twitter posts will reveal that my primary sticking point was getting the iPhone to kick out of “DFU” mode (whatever that means). My understanding of the process is that putting the phone in “DFU” or recovery mode is something that Apple technicians might use to service the phone. However, using it to install a previous firmware over the current apparently throws an error and leaves the phone in the recovery state without kicking back out to “normal” mode. There is a tool—iNdependece—that supposedly is able to accomplish this mighty feat. Unfortunately, I had no idea how to get this program working, especially since it doesn’t support the “MobileDevice” framework that comes with iTunes 7.5. It was made to work with the framwork included with 7.4.2.
Read on to find out how I found out…
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I thought the old blog might be getting a little boring with all of those Twitter aggregations posting every day. The nice thing about the Twitter posts is that they encourage me to post on other topics.
Last night I decided it was time to manually update my iPhone to 1.1.2 (iTunes was telling me it wasn’t yet available). I waited because I wanted to make sure that a working jailbreak was available. The update worked and the jailbreak worked—but not without a few moments of panic.
More after the jump…
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There’s a useful table located on Google’s help pages that explains the relationship between Gmail and what happens when you do certain things on a local client that is hooked in to Gmail via IMAP. One example is that when an e-mail message is “flagged” in an e-mail client (in this case Apple Mail), Gmail interprets this as “starring” the item. Similarly, a message that is “deleted” from a client inbox isn’t really deleted at all—the “inbox” label is simply removed. This may seem weird but there’s a couple ways to get syncing work a little more smoothly. This tips apply to Tiger’s Mail.app but I’d imagine there are similar settings in other mail programs such as Thunderbird and Apple’s own Mail 3.0.
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