The economy is bad, everyone in the family has an iPhone and we do not use traditional phone anymore.

Actually we had a landline without the cord for the past four years. Vonage provided the service. I explained to the customer service guy that we had a great service, no problems. He offered free month, free six months, $10/month. I said that I do not want to call again after six months to discontinue the service.

Cut it now! So he did. Not even waited for the remaining five days of the current, paid for month, and there was silence – forever.

Finally, I got the iPhone SDK!

Above is my first simulation. This stuff is great!

I installed and ran the classic Hello World example on my Mac mini.

Please notice that Mac mini is not a serious software development platform.

I have used other development tools in the past, but the Apple tools are not comparable to anything that ever existed. Did I mention that this tools are free?!

Updated.

Below is the real time view of the above post using the Aspen Simulator. I am not making this up. This is real. Try it yourself.

I wanted to sign up to be an iPhone developer for some time. I could wait no longer. Now together with the other 100,000,000 developers I am waiting to download the iPhone SDK. Unfortunately all I get is the wait and refresh page. From what I have seen watching the demo, the tools are worth waiting for.

You have tried to update iPhone firmware 1.1.3 to 1.1.4 and you got the picture above with the error text below:

The iPhone “Your-iPhone-Name-Here” could not be updated. An unknown error occurred (1602).

The solution shown here applies to iTunes on Mac running Leopard.
I believe that the new firmware requires more strict control of user privileges. The proper way to solve the problem is to login to user account owning the iPhone. When you login to new user account, open iTunes and plugin the iPhone, the message informs you about downloading and installing new firmware. Each user must have the new firmware in a file named /Users/user-name/Library/iTunes/iPhone\ Software\ Updates/iPhone1,1_1.1.4_4A102_Restore.ipsw

The simplest way is to have each user download and install the firmware. The file is large – 160 MB. If you have a lot of users, downloading is a waste of resources (time and space). The firmware update file can be downloaded once and copied to users folder. The firmware file iPhone1,1_1.1.4_4A102_Restore.ipsw must reside in /Users/user-name/Library/iTunes/iPhone\ Software\

Make sure that folder and file ownership are set to the current user.

For me the simplest way to copy files and folders between user accounts is from command line. Below are the Unix commands executed from Terminal. There are only three lines. I know you can combine them into one, but that would be cheating and complicating things. Substitute user1 and user2 with your values.

Explanation shown below.
1. (su -) switch to root user account
2. (cp -R) copy folder and its contents from user1 to user2
3. (chown -R) change permissions for the folder and its contents from user1 to user2

Unix commands shown below.
Direction of the slashes is important. Second line is long and may show here as being broken. It should be typed as one line. You can reduce size of your font untill the line has no break and copy and paste it.

Your-Mac:/ root# su -
Your-Mac:/ root# cp -R /Users/user1/Library/iTunes/iPhone\ Software\ Updates /Users/user2/Library/iTunes/
Your-Mac:/ root# chown -R user2 /Users/user2/Library/iTunes

I have upgraded four iPhones using this method. Let me know if this works for you.

A cup of tea and rest before delivering kids to their afternoon ventures. Then we tackle changes to web layout. I promised myself and my daughter to use iWeb because Photoshop is not my favorite program.