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Andrew Grant has a great write-up on how to sync your iPhone with two iTunes. I followed it and everything worked – at least almost.

There is one thing that he doesn’t remind you to do, which is quite important if you don’t want to lose your apps. Remember to authorize the new iTunes before syncing the first time!

I didn’t remember to authorize my new MacBook’s iTunes, so with the first sync I lost a majority of my apps. And then I screwed around with restoring and syncing with the old computer and lost data from my backups as well. Urgh.

Luckily most of the apps I use to store data automatically sync with various online services (Evernote, RTM etc.) My only real headache came from the several hours of lost audio notes, that I hadn’t synced onto a computer yet. And since I deleted the app and then resynced on both computers, I lost the data from the backups as well.

But if you ever need to extract data from a iPhone backup, I really recommend using Erica Sadun’s mdhelper. True, it’s a command line tool but I’m also a command line type of guy.

To those visitors coming from the Photonovice results, this is my primary blog with written content.
The statistics were gathered from the Life of Jalo, which is our dogs photoblog. The pictures are taken by myself or Anna.
My own photoblog with pictures of whatever (including the occasional dog ;) is at shutterclicks.

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I’ve always respected The (London) Times and the writers it uses. But today I can’t help but be amused by the commentary of the Jokela shooting (massacre ?) by Roger Boynes. Oh, he sure does use all of the correct clichés when writing about Finland: its darkness, sparse habitation, suicide rates, gun ownership, and our [...]

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PhysicsWeb reports about a study done on how the number of via). The studies results are interesting, if fairly logical, results. Naturally, my mind went immediately into overdrive in thinking on how the results affect website design.
At least based on the PhysicsWeb article, the researcher have come to the conclusion that the average half-life of [...]

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I just ran into one of the best, if obscure, geeky quotes that I’ve seen so far. The source for the quote is unknown to, but here it is.
My PID is Inigo Montoya. You kill -9 my parent process.
Prepare to vi.
(If you don’t get it, you have to know *nix commands and the Princess [...]

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