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Scoopz has finally had some success, although not for everybody.
In a new blog entry Scoopz has documented what needs to be done: http://blog.scoopz.com/2008/10/11/fix-for-iphone-and-bmw-idrive-address-book-not-synchronising. It seems to work for many people but not all, it hasn’t worked for me.
In summary, he creates 2000 contacts and add them to the iPhone, this then allows the BMW to synchronise the contacts list.
Hopefully, BMW/Apple will come up with a correct solution soon, my iPhone stability seems to have got worse with the 2.1 firmware release. Although it hasn’t really been useful since purchase.
After a little more digging, i found this interesting comment by John Gordon, the suggestion in simple terms is to reset the iPhone and restore immediately, followed by a re-sync.
Full instructions can be found on Johns blog here: http://tech.kateva.org/2008/09/iphone-21-does-not-fix-unknown.html .
This is done using the latest version 8 iTunes and iPhone firmware.
So far, so good, all data is back, unfortunately all the icons have been repositioned, its a shame apple can’t retain the position of the icons. Data and passwords seem to have been retained.
Everything seems updated, so this is probably the best solution at the moment, i’ll give some more feedback after a few applications have been updated. The true test.
[UPDATE 20th Oct 2008]
Looks like this has worked, i upgraded 5 applications over the weekend, everything is still working correctly.
[UPDATE 28th Oct 2008]
All still working fine, more updates have been aplied – looks like this does resolve the issue.
In the news today are plenty of references to the National Debt Clock in america, its been there for years but has now run out of digits.
As a temporary solution, the ‘$’ sign has had to be removed, to make way for an extra ‘1′.
The owners are apparently going to add another two more digits to the clock – that would then allow it to show what is in effect a massive number. A quadrillion dollars. A huge debt.
Theres a good article about this here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4910883.ece with a good decent picture of the clock (missing it’s $ sign)
new Apple macbook review/comment
October 15, 2008 in Comment, News | Tags: aluminium, apple, case, gesture, glass touch pad, hardware, macbook, new macbook, review, software | Leave a comment
Yesterday, Apple released their latest incarnation of their Macbook range.
Cut from a solid piece of aluminium it has the looks, certainly the bottom end of the range 13″ laptop looks much better than its black/white plastic forerunner. Slightly slimmer in height, with improved processor, graphics and few other components the machine looks nice.
One nice feature, is the glass touch pad, technology from the iphone. This is probably the laptops best new feature, supporting 1, 2, 3 and 4 finger gestures. The back lit keyboard is nice too.
But probably not enough to want me to upgrade from by current macbook. It is my second laptop anyway so new features don’t really give enough.
Apple seem to be singing the praises of the new build technique, milling the case from solid aluminium, it is nice, but since when was the case the most important technological achievement when talking about a computer. Surely the Hardware and Software are the key components. Maybe I’m missing something, lets make it Hardware, Software and Case in future.
Don’t misunderstand me, I do like it, but can’t we concentrate on what’s inside.
What I would really like is an Apple Tablet. Their has been lots of talk about the tablet over the last couple of years, but still no sign. I can dream…
Video available at www.apple.com