Shudder..

God only knows what this would look like had it taken place in the Trafford Centre Apple Store..

iPhone is back

Yeah ! My iPhone is back from the dead. I upgraded to 2.0 rather hastily and of course everything was reset. Which means I was back in authorization land for a while. I’ve been too busy to bother until last night when I read up on pwnage 2.0.1 and watched a CNET video on doing the whole thing. Having done it I can honestly say it’s a breeze, those guys have done a great job. (no wonder zibri has resorted to writing rubbish on his blog).

Anyway, iPhone is back now and I’m posting this using the wordpress app which is freely available. I also like the remote control app too…

Anyone got any idea if napster will ever allow subscription via mac or iPhone client ? That would make my week 😉

Kudos to OpenDNS

strange how you learn to live with things that you should really deal with sooner rather than later..

it’s a common theme which has cropped up in my life time and time again.. getting a new job, fixing the leaking shower, finishing the painting in the bedroom etc etc; you get the picture ?

one of those moments has just happened to me where I wish I’d spent some time sorting it out and then I wouldn’t have wasted hours sitting looking at a damn blank screen..

sorry if this gets a bit technical but someone may learn from it..

I run Mac’s and of course (being a fanboi) immediately upgraded to Leopard when it was released.. (upgraded the GF’s Mac too – more on that in a bit). Ever since upgrading to Leopard I’ve been getting weird errors in my browser (mainly Firefox, but Safari too) along with that (now I think about it in hindsight) some weird connectivity errors and issues when connecting to different services on the web.. (FTP, webdav etc)

Mainly the issues occurred when searching google or navigating to google pages.. There was a definite slowdown of the web as far as I could see.. I hang my head though when I say it wasn’t slow enough to make me go and sort it out..

Now the GF has been moaning vociferously about the performance of her Mac when browsing and TBH I didn’t give it much brain cycles cos it didn’t directly affect me.. “Try Safari” I told her and other helpful things like that but it didn’t stop the moaning. I thought perhaps it’s a wireless issue so I hardwired the mac to a devolo EOP device… which helped NOT..

Then today I reverted back to my iphone (been using my blackberry on holiday) and I couldn’t get the wifi to work it just would not connect to the internet – connect to the wifi yes, but I couldn’t browse anything or twitter or email or flickr or any of the things I’ve come to rely (?) on with mr jobs toy..

Anyway, so I restore it to virgin 1.1.4 then ziphone it, (nada) then restore and try iLibertyX same result… hmm, must be fcuked thinks I (after all I did drop it the other day)

In the middle of all this, GF comes in an announces that her Mac is unusable and (horror) she’s having to use her work (windows) laptop to do her hotmail (don’t ask).. and “her laptop is 10 times faster than the stupid mac”.. OK OK I give in..

I make a cup of tea (still off alcohol – boo), and employ a spot of judicious googling..

“firefox mac os x slow”

is all it takes to get me started on the thread..

I read this interesting article about IPV6 and DNS which got me thinking about DNS in general..

(I tried turning off IPV6 resolution with little effect)

..in the comments at the bottom of this page was a link to discussion forum about Verizon and it’s slow DNS servers..

..which gets me thinking..

OK, so I pay £18 a month for “lightning” fast broadband from bethere.co.uk – the quotes are mine, the claim is theirs – which is supposed to upto 24mbps but never exceeds 6mbps not that I mind cos thats plenty fast enough for me.. however.. I got to wondering if their DNS servers are upto snuff..

Guess what, I updated my system preferences to use the Open DNS settings mentioned in the Verizon discussion and it was an instant improvement.. did a little testing (i.e. navigated to three sites) and proceeded to proclaim my brilliance to the GF.. I changed her settings too which had the same effect.. My status as an IT deity was restored (at least for today)..

Upside to all this.. I updated my router so that it uses Open DNS and provides those IP’s to DHCP clients and guess what.. all of a sudden my iphone can connect to the web !

Happy days…

iphone

iphone, iphone I want an iphone..

I know they are sadly lacking in many ways but I really want one, if only for the ooh-aah factor..

but I refuse to pay the UK �900 bill over 18 months..

so, do I import one from the US and then crack it or…

decisions decisions