Photo 365 - A photo a day.
One of my New Years Resolutions is to take a photo a day. Yesterday, I went ahead and bought a new domain and began to work out how I wanted to display the photos. I finally decided to go with a Wordpress install with the YAPB plugin and the Grain theme. You can find the results over here. Be sure to let me know what you think and give me any tips regarding anything related!
I’m also going to be posting the shots on Flickr as a backup and possibly a couple of other places. Feel free to contact me if you would like a link to your site.
Enabling Add-ons in Firefox 3 beta.
Having problems with your add-ons not working in the latest Firefox betas? The solution is simple: Nightly Tester Tools
The only add-on that doesn’t work for me is TabGroups, due to it not being able to do a secure update (which I guess is a good thing, the Firefox team have stepped up security on add-ons).
I also recommend using the Portable version of the Firefox 3 beta, as if anything happens, it won’t affect any of your current profiles you have on the previous installs of Firefox.
Downgrading Apple iPod Classic Firmware (1.0.2 > 1.0.1)..a quick update.
Apple has now released 1.0.3 firmware which includes several bugfixes to the previous situation. I can confirm that the menus are now faster and more responsive, photos load faster, shuts down correctly and there’s now a progress bar when ejecting.
Be sure to update your iPods firmware to this latest update instead of rolling back.
Downgrading Apple iPod Classic Firmware (1.0.2 > 1.0.1). *UPDATED SIGNATURE LINK*
Having read about issues facing the 1.0.2 firmware that’s been pushed out, here’s a quick guide to downgrading to 1.0.1.
*NOTE: Downgrading firmware will format your player, so backup your data before continuing. Also, this guide is solely for the iPod Classic.
Windows:
1, Firstly, reset your iPod. To do this, hold down the menu and centre button until you see the Apple logo appear.
2, Open iTunes, head to Edit > Preferences > General and untick ‘Automatically check for updates’. **CLOSE iTunes**
3, Head over to X:\Documents and Settings\*YOUR PROFILE NAME*\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPod Software Updates where ‘X‘ is your drive name (example, C:\). Alternatively, you can do: Start > run > %appdata%
4, Delete the files ‘iPod_24.1.0.2.ipsw’ and ‘iPod_24.1.0.2.ipsw.signature’.
5, If you don’t already have ‘iPod_24.1.0.1.ipsw’ and ‘iPod_24.1.0.1.ipsw.signature’, download them here: Signature | Firmware
6, Put the downloaded files into the directory above.
7, Plug in your iPod and start iTunes.
8, Head over to ‘Devices’ and select ‘Restore’. A dialog box will appear asking if you want to check online for updates, click ‘Don’t check’.
9, Another dialog box will appear asking if you want to use an older version, select ‘Use Older Version’.
10, You should have successfully downgraded your iPods firmware.
Mac (courtesy of comment poster ‘Dem’):
1) go to spotlight and do a search for .ipsw
2) in the results click on “show all” this will open the results in a separate spotlight window.
3) right click (ctrl click) on iPod_24.1.0.2.ipsw and select “Reveal in finder” this will open the folder where the files are kept.
4) simply drag the iPod_24.1.0.2.ipsw and the iPod_24.1.0.2.ipsw.signature files to the desktop or another folder or to the trash, wherever you want.
5) in iTunes click the restore button making sure you don’t have the option to automatically update your ipod with the latest software turned on and this will restore your ipod to 1.0.1
WARNING: as i’m sure you’re all aware this will delete all the songs from your ipod, so you’ll have to re-sync to put them all back on..
Note to Apple: Bugtest your software before you put it out to the masses!
Congratulations!
Yes indeed, congratulations to my girlfriend who passed her A-levels with excellence. She’s heading off to the University world in October. Best of luck to her and well done everyone that has passed their A-levels!
