iPhoto / iPhone madness

Yesterday Ange needed some help to get some photo's for a project that she was working on in iMovie. Simple I said... just shoot what you want on my iPhone and I'll suck them in. I figured since were talking all Apple hardware and software the whole proces would take ten minutes and she's be ready to go.

Wrong...

It appears that somewhere along the line apple has done a number of updates to some combination of IOS (Which being a developer I keep fully up to date.) iMovie, OSX and / or some bit in between. Now at the time I connected the iPhone iTunes helpfully informed me that there was a new IOS update. I had just performed the last update a week or so ago to IOS 4.3.2 and considering we had people arriving at out house I didn't have time to get everything done.

So I skipped the IOS update and plugged my Phone into the PC, Started iPhoto to pull down the photos, and... nothing. The iPhone didn't appear as a device and had no option to connect to iPhoto. Did a search on the internet and apparently a lot of people have had that issue as well. I ended up doing things the round-a-bout way of sending the photo's and video's to Mobile Me and then syncing them down to iPhoto.

As it turns out after downloading updates for all of my IOS devices, iPhone, IPad, iPod, and updating my iMac, I was finally able to pull the rest of the photos and video's over to my iMac via the USB connection cable.

Another week down

Another week down. Less then three weeks to go before we head out to the US. We've managed to clear almost all of the pavers out of the area to prepare for the new liquid lime stone. After that is done we have the back breaking job of moving sand to try and level out the area.

IOS Updates

Plugged in my iPad, Apple wants to update it.
Plugged in my iPod, Apple wants to update it.
Plugged in my iPhone, Apple wants to update it.

Now in the progress of updating the iPhone. Hopefully everything goes smoothly and everything resolves without problems. Of course the only people that I recall having issues with iPhone updates have been people doing updates on Windows. Of course Apple has a vested interest in making sure that everything goes smoothly on all Apple hardware. Anyway if things don't go well then I'll be none to happy.

Getting ready for the trip

Well the trip is about 30 days away. There is now less tim to go till the trip then I will spend in America. Every day brings the trip closer and closer. So I decided to give the web site a new facelift, and a new blog to populate some stuff.