iTunes 0xE800007F Error: Wifi Sync Problems
First off, I don’t have a fix. I wish I did. If you have a fix PLEASE send it (via comment or contact form).
The problem has been annoying me since I setup WiFi sync.
From all the research I’ve done, I haven’t found any fixes. The problem seems to be caused by the use of WiFi syncing. I think it relates to the WiFi device becoming unavailable while doing a wifi sync. A problem that wouldn’t occur on a normal sync, and that would be unique to WiFi.
You should be able to prevent this by disabling the Wifi Sync (in iTunes click on your device, uncheck WiFi syncing).
There was a fix floating around that had you deleting iTunes folders, and restarting. That didn’t work for me.
As soon as I find a fix, will post a link to it here, and will post it on the blog.
Jailbreaking: Own Your iPhone
In 2010, the US Copyright Office said that jailbreaking smartphone isn’t illegal according to the DMCA.
That statement will expire in 2012.
Jailbreaking isn’t illegal, and it shouldn’t be.
If the exemptions expire, it could be illegal to jailbreak your software (and you won’t be allowed to jailbreak or unlock your iPhone).
What can you do?
You can help the EFF get the exemptions renewed, and extended to include tablets and gaming consoles.
In order to get the renewals, the EFF needs to know how you depend on the ability to jailbreak devices. How you use it to write software, to develop apps.
First prepare a statement that says (in notepad or something similar):
- Who you are (developer, researcher, security professional, user, etc)
- Which exemptions you support (would directly support your role) such as the mobile (phones/tablets), game consoles (not sure if this includes Apple TV like devices) or both.
- Which device you need to jailbreak
- Why you need to jailbreak that device
- What would happen if you couldn’t jailbreak the device
Visit and fill out the official form. Make sure the uploaded comment includes your name, the type of works, and all other information on the comments form.
5 iPhone App Development Tutorials/Resources
So you want to get into iPhone development?
There are tons of great resources sitting out on the web right now. Here are some of my favorites resources and tutorials on iPhone application development:
Apple iOS Dev Center
Apple provides the best, obviously, resources for iPhone App development. There are many resources that are free and available for anyone to use.
You can check out the iOS Dev Center to get set up, and follow up by checking out some courses on iTunes U on Developing Apps for iOS.
No matter what you do in iOS development, you’ll need to get acquainted with the iOS Dev Center.
MIT: introduction to iPhone Application Development
MIT puts a ton of their courses online, and you can check out the one-week course on iPhone SDK development.
Gigabit WiFi: 802.11ac
In recent news (past few weeks) 802.11ac has been popping up quite frequently.
802.11ac is the emerging standard for gigabit wifi. The standard is still a draft, but just like 802.11n, there are already products that support this “draft” standard. 802.11ac will support up to 6.9Gbps (and in lesser forms down to 433Mbps). It is sometimes being marketed as “5G” as the public has become used to the term.
Higher bit rates for 802.11ac tend to use multiple (up to 
antennas to get the full bandwidth.
Broadcom announced a full family of 802.11ac chipsets at CES.
Microsoft Apologizes for IE6
This has been circulating around the internet for the past few days. I wanted to post it here:
From the poster:
Dear Web Developers,
We are so very sorry about IE6.
Come, talk to us during one of the sessions, and we will show you why Internet Explorer 9 is way better.
Jailbreak for iPhone 4S / iPad 2 Untethered on Windows
Yesterday it was announced, that Absinthe A5 was available to jailbreak your iPhone 4S / iPad 2 on Mac OS X.
An untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S / iPad 2 was just announced compatible with Windows.
You can download the file:
Then just follow these instructions:
- Download the file
- Extract it
- Shift+Right Click on the folder, Open Command Window Here (or Start->Run, type cmd, and navigate to the folder
- Type:
cinject.exe -i payloads/jailbreak.mobileconfig - Install, and use no password for the pod2g server
- Type:
cinject -j paylods - Type:
cinject.exe -w - Turn on VPN: Settings->General->Network->VPN-> ON
You should be jailbroken. If you have a mac, then simply follow the easy instructions here to do an untethered jailbreak on Mac OS X.
Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2
pod2g and the Chronic Dev Team have released an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 called Absinthe A5. The jailbreak is only for the Mac OS X right now, but we should see a Windows and Linux one soon.
The site is on and off available due to the large demand for it.
The following devices can be jailbroken with the Absinthe A5 jailbreak:
- iPhone 4S with iOS 5.0
- iPhone 4S with iOS 5.0.1
- iPad 2 with iOS 5.0.1
If you need to jailbreak iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0.1, you can check out the iPhone 4 jailbreak here.
How Can I Delete Photos from my iPhone’s Photostream?
I’ve gotten a few people asking this question. How can you delete photos from your Photostream?
In reality you can’t. You can “delete” the entire album, but not photos individually. This is because Photostream is meant to make your photos available on all of your devices.
I don’t agree with it, but that’s how it is.
You can, however, reset your Photostream if you want to remove all the photos (and start fresh):
- Go to iCloud.com
- Log in (with your Apple ID, probably your Email address, and the password you have to type every day on your iPhone)
- Click on your name in the top right corner to bring up the Account options
- Click on Advanced
- Click “Reset Photo Stream“
You can also turn Photo Stream off, if you want to do that:
- On your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)
- Open Settings
- Click/touch iCloud
- Click/touch Photostream
- Toggle On/Off
Hope that helps achieve whatever you wanted to achieve.
Apple ‘Education’ Event Today in NY at 10am
Finally those of us on the east coast don’t have to wait until 1pm for an event to start.
Apple will likely be unveiling an effort to work with textbook publishers to create interactive eTextbooks (iTextbooks?).
You can follow the event live at TheLoop.
The initiative is rumored to be inspired by the immersive “Our Choice” app. You can see the video below:
SOPA Protest Today
It seems like quite a number of sites have joined in the SOPA protest.
Some interesting one’s that I’ve seen have been:
- Google
Given their high profile, I was happy to see the logo was blacked out today in protest of SOPA. - Ars Technica
I like the way they blended a protest, with staying functional. Personally I’d prefer to show the site “down” as in “black”, but they were creative with an inverse color scheme. - Wired.com
This is one of my favorites. It looks much more like “censorship” than any other just black site. SOPA is about both censorship, and the shutting down of innocent sites.
If you want to join in the protest against SOPA and PROTECT-IP (remember, they are BOTH problems, not just SOPA) you can check out instructions (it’s very easy):
- SOPA Blackout JS – My quick writeup on how to deploy the SOPA Blackout javascript utility
- SOPA PHP snippet – pop this in the header of your includes, and you can participate too
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