nerd evening
Having a bit of a nerdy night sitting on Debbie’s couch. Just as an aside, she’s cooking dinner, so it’s almost heaven. :)
I recently moved my email address across to be hosted by Google Apps. Basically, I can take advantage of Gmail’s pretty good spam filtering, but also their free hosting and IMAP compatibility. IMAP is quite cool – kinda like exchange, but without the “push” side of things. It two-way synchronises email on my iPhone and my computer. So now I am moving my email back to Mail.app (after realising that it’s better then Entourage – no one is allowed to say “I told you so.”), and setting it up for IMAP.
Then on the iPhone front, I updated it to the new software now that the jailbreak software has updated as well. But since doing that, it wouldn’t sync with iTunes – everytime it was plugged in, it just pops up the “restore from a backup” or “set up as a new iPhone”. I looked around on forums and it seems to be a pretty sporadic error that a few people get when they’ve updated – even if not jailbroken.
Turns out the fix is quite easy. Seeing as I’ve already restored it from a backup, and the data is already on my iPhone… I can just now “set up as a new iPhone”, and it doesn’t really affect anything at all… except that it obviously makes the iPhone and iTunes happier to talk! So that’s what I’d be doing right now, except that the iPhone’s battery is dead.
I can smell a very yummy dinner… and can only hope that good smell means that it’s very close to being ready.