Tip 'n' Fart 4th in Search List on the App Store!

I was pretty excited yesterday to see on both my own iPhone, and on an iPhone which had never searched for my Tip 'n' Fart application before, that when typing in "tip" in the search field "Tip 'n' Fart" comes up in the suggested search phrases. And not just in the list, it's visible immediately as the fourth item in the list! Yey! It doesn't seem to be making me rich though.

Unfortunately if you search for "fart" it doesn't show up, which would probably have more success for me :).

Marketing Fail

This is a Guest Post by Oz Donut

This interesting email arrived a couple of days ago from Amazon.... as you can see, the recommended DVD seems highly appropriate given my enjoyment of Scooby Doo.

Worth Watching

Hehe, this is well presented, but a good uncovering.


Short, simple and the focus you should have, and you should instill in your kids.


A little longer, but I agree with the fact that we, me, you and us are too attached to a way of life that isn't making society better for our kids.

iPhone OS 3.0.1 Update Development

If you've just updated with the iPhone OS 3.0.1 Update and do development on the iPhone, you'll soon discover you won't be able to load up your apps onto your iPhone anymore. But there's an easy solution, as detailed in Apple's iPhone OS 3.0.1 Advisory, you just need to execute the following command in your Terminal to be back up and running.

ln -s /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/3.0\ \(7A341\) /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/3.0.1

Most developers will know what that does. But for those that don't and are curious, it will create a symbolic link "3.0.1" pointing to the existing "3.0 (7A341)" directory. To XCode it will appear like you have a 3.0.1 SDK and a 3.0 SDK installed, even though the 3.0.1 directory just points to the contents of the 3.0 directory. Since 3.0.1 is exactly the same as 3.0 in terms of the SDK, that's exactly what we want.

iPhone/iPod OS Update Error 3014 SOLUTION

Update: If you are getting a 3014 error updating to iPhone OS 3.1, or any other version, or even an iPod Touch instead, this fix will work as well.

I attempted to install the iPhone OS 3.0.1 update for my iPhone today with great disappointment. For the past few hours my iPhone has been a useless brick. The update started normally until iTunes tried to verify my iPhone with Apple. It failed displaying a "3014" error and taking me to a generic "somethings gone wrong" page.

I took a hint that while it doesn't make total sense, it must have something to do with my network, as I have the latest version of iTunes (6.2.1) and it's what everyone keeps tlaking about. I fiddled with my ADSL modem, router, firewalls, everything, with no success.

The Solution
I almost resorted to using iRecovery, an application that goes into your iPhone and changes something so I could go back to using my phone with plain 3.0, but I don't like the idea of having non-Apple software stuff around with my iPhone. Luckily I discovered an easy painless solution: Use another network!

I couldn't really use another network at home, so I downloaded AnchorFree's Hotspot Shield that lets me use their VPN network free of charge, tunnelled through my own internet connection. It worked, I installed Hotspot Shield, started up iTunes and away it went, no problems at all.

What is Hotspot Shield?
Hotspot shield is a piece of software that tunnels your network traffic through Anchor Free's network and back out to the internet, encrypting all the data sent between your computer and their network. This type of technology is called a VPN, or Virtual Private Network, and is primarily used to ensure the data between you and a work network or public wifi connection is secure. In this case however we are taking advantage of the fact that being connected through a VPN is like being connected to a different ISP or network all together. For those of us who have ISPs that are incompatible with Apple's servers, it is the perfect solution.