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Recovering your UDID without iTunes or XCode

Matt — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:49:05 +0000

Let’s say you’re a moron like me, want to upgrade to the new iOS beta, just bought a new iPhone and forgot to add your UDID to the Provisioning Portal before updating to the new beta. When the install is complete, iTunes will error out. Oh, right, it’s because you didn’t add the UDID to your developer account. It gets worse.

You can’t recover the UDID through iTunes when the phone is in DFU mode. You can’t recover it from System Profiler when it’s in DFU mode.

But, if you’re not a complete moron, you made a backup before you installed the beta os. Right? Right. You’re in luck!

If you have a backup of your iPhone somewhere on your computer, you can easily grab the UDID from there…. The UDID is simply the name of the backup folder itself, which is stored under~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backups You may also be able to find it in a registration PLIST file in your ~/Library/Lockdown folder, since a copy of your iPhone “activation” credentials are stored there. Again, the name of the file is your UDID. (source)

Thank you, Google. I owe you one. Apple Tech Support didn’t know that trick, Apple Developer Support didn’t know that trick, but now I’m sitting pretty.

Sprint 4G vs. AT&T 3G [Chicago]

Matt — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:47:44 +0000

I had to pickup a Sprint Overdrive 4g/3g card for work recently and put the two networks head to head using Speedtest.net. Here are the visual results:

Sprint 4G

Sprint 4G (Test #2)

AT&T 3G

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AT&T 3G [Test #2

So who is the winner? AT&T?

Sprint: $60/mo for unlimited 4g, 5gb of 3g.
AT&T: +$20/mo for tethering, unlimited if grandfathered in [source].

The real test will be reliability and whether or not the AT&T / iOS tethering actually happens.

Twitter: JetBlue vs. SouthwestAir

Matt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:45:47 +0000

A brief example of good vs. bad. Better luck next time, Southwest.

America’s Got Talent

Matt — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:19:08 +0000

Rishad Tobaccowala of VivaKi shook up the room by insisting that agencies need to start going after (and paying for) good talent. A brief snip is below, but if you’re looking for more, be sure to read his notes.

The State of the Internet

Matt — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:02:56 +0000

DICE 2010: Is Life one big RPG – by Jesse Schell

Matt — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:01:24 +0000

Whatever, mostly hot air. People aren’t really that big of suckers for games, right?

Devolution – Hey, it’s OK!

Matt — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:06:04 +0000

Hello, friends.

Great news! Devolution has returned, thanks to the wonderful people at Warner Brothers and award-winning advertising agency, Mother. Â Please refer to this graphic to understand the benefit of such a strategic partnership:

Again, that’s great news! To learn more, let’s listen to the COO of DEVO Inc.

To learn more about the findings of Devolution, please refer to this Internet broadcast channel.

#sb44

Matt — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:13:00 +0000

OMG, so cute. First time watching the big game as someone “in” the “ad world.” Ok, maybe like peering in, but not “in” in. Any rate.

#brandbowl – ad people critiquing ads. Good times.
brandbowl2010 – the other half of brandbowl, with a pinch of technical failure. Whoops.
#sb44 – Notice how many are about the ads. Hockey doesn’t have this problem.
#sbads – Non ad people (also known as “consumers”) critiquing ads.
Squawq.com/superbowl – Tracking the chatter from all of Twitter. Interesting. Unrelated: taking over/under when they get a takedown notice from the NFL.

Super Bowl Shuffle: Why Marketers Will Shift to ‘Platforms’

Crowdsourcery Potions 101

Matt — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:00:18 +0000

Go go gadget Alchemists.

Wanted: Technologists for Agencies

Matt — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:01:02 +0000

Call me crazy, but this is starting to look like a pattern.