Steve Jobs announced it’d be out in February and so far no sign. The ever reliable rumour mill is churning as normal with Apple and ranges from a 3G version of the iPhone, a 1.1.4 firmware (seems logical to support the SDK) and a big Apple event to actually launch the SDK itself.

It will be good to get it out there, I think custom apps will make the iPhone even better than it is already and will allow people to fix things that are irritating. Like for instance about 5 taps to turn bluetooth on, not friendly when you want to turn in on before setting out on a car journey!

Got a text from O2 saying that my tariff is being upgraded… woo! Instead of 200 minutes I now have 600 and 500 texts from 200.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7217184.stm

Hopefully they’ll release a 3G version and give us all discounted upgrades.

With the release of the iPhone/iPod touch 1.1.3 firmware you can now save webclips, basically thumbnailed bookmarks, to your homepage. That’s cool, but, what if you want a custom icon, just like a favicon?

Look no further and go check out this article (VIA).

Well I was close. A new Macbook “Air” which for business people or those who travel a lot looks awesome… I want, but, don’t need one. An update to the iPhone firmware which was expected along with movie rentals in iTunes so all in all nothing really shocking. The Apple TV upgrades look kinda cool.

To update the iPhone though looks like you have to get iTunes 7.6 first because before I did it didn’t work.

Had my iPhone about 2 weeks when through no dropping, hitting or otherwise obvious force the screen cracked. Not the top screen but the underlying layer rendering it useless.

I took it back into the O2 store where I’d got it and showed the manager who said they’d send it off for repair. OK, that’s fine 7-10 working days turn around, not great but at least I’ll get a phone back. 2 working days (plus a weekend) later my replacement iPhone arrives in store.

Once I’d got it home I plugged it in to sync it up and iTunes asked me if I wanted to restore my settings, so, yeah I do. All seems fine, go through an activation process of my mobile number, mac account and email and all is well and I carry on.

Next time I plugged the phone in to sync it I was asked to put my mobile number and mac account etc. After the third or forth time this gets quite annoying. Apple support were 100% useless. I was told the only fix was to reinstall iTunes and that they’d email me details. Twice I rang and twice nothing.

After some googling and trying every option until the last one of choosing the restore option I went for it and I’m pleased to say it worked. It backed up my settings, downloaded the firmware, did it’s thing and restored and activated all fine.

O2 store great, Google great, Apple’s phone support definitely needs some work though.

Macworld is coming up on Monday (14th) and as usual the rumour mill has been rife. My predictions aren’t that shocking but hopefully I’ll get a clean sweep.

• New Macbooks with 13.3 LED displays
• iPhone firmware 1.1.3
• iPhone SDK
• Leopard 10.5.2

The mill was in full flow last week with numerous posts about a forthcoming iPhone update, 1.1.3. As is often the case these all basically pointed back to one source website saying it’d be the weekend just gone, but, nothing. I plugged in my iPhone a few times across the weekend and saw no updates.

That said, I hope it does come soon as a voice recorder would be pretty handy and allowing some form of disk usage would be good, even if via iTunes. What I’d really like of course is ability to install applications, but hey ho.

A few people have posted that newly bought iPhones over this weekend have got 1.1.3 on, but, no proof so we’ll see if it comes out this week.

Slow to the game on this but been busy working! If you want to get in on the 64bit / Leopard beta check out Kristen’s blog.

Apple has released the first general OS update for Leopard. Full information on their site and available via Software Update.

So last geek post on a Saturday night before I go out.

Trying to get a site running which uses a lot of rewrite rules. Enable the module in the /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file, configtest and restart. That should be it, erm, no. All I saw when browsing the site was a nice 404 page. Checking in the /var/log/apache2/error_log I see the following line:

[Sat Nov 10 19:13:24 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Negotiation: discovered file(s) matching request: /Users/ianwinter/Sites/domainname/public_html/content (None could be negotiated)., referer: http://www.domainname.co.uk.local/

Now I already knew that apache2 handles the Order directive for allow & deny differently so I’d already changed the main directory block to the following to allow everything:

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

Turns out after unsuccessful Google searches and me going back to trying all sorts (good old chmod -R 777 included) that unless you specifically setup a directory block for the /Users/ianwinter/Sites path it doesn’t listen.

<Directory /Users/ianwinter/Sites/*>
Options All
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

It doesn’t do this on Windows but I seem to recall having to do something on a RedHat system before. Maybe it’s a *NIX thing.