Well, if there’s one available at one of the local AT&T stores, the Best Buy, or the Walmart, I’ll be the proud owner of a new iPhone 3GS. I think my first stop will be Walmart… nobody is brave enough to camp out at a Walmart are they? Not with all the trampling fiascos over the past year…. besides, you can’t beat their return polices.

What I’m looking for is the best way to migrate from one iPhone to the latest and greatest – hopefully taking as many of the settings with as possible. I’m looking for saved SMS messages, email accounts, photos, notes, and other personal settings… everything. Here is my plan.

First, make sure to have the latest iPhone OS 3.0. You don’t want to try and install iphone 2 on the new iPhone 3Gs because, well, it isn’t supported.

The next step also falls under preparation, backup my current iphone. To make sure it’s been done, I’ll plug in my iphone 3G. Right click (control click) on the Phone in itunes, and choose backup.

Your Backup will be stored here:
On a Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/

On Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

On Windows Vista: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

I anticipate that I’ll need to enter email account passwords again, but if all goes well, all my junk will all be there.

Update: Well I strolled into my local AT&T store at about 8:00. Fully staffed and no line. They had a 32 Gig, and five minutes later I was out the door. Connected to the wifi at the starbucks next door from my truck and restored from backup. Basically, iTunes walks you though the entire thing and this post is for nothing. Apple is cool like that.

Tucker appears to be getting some cabin fever… The sub zero temps are really cutting into his outdoor energy burning time.

If you haven’t heard, Apple Computer has just released a PC version of there wonderful iTunes application and online music store! Its an MP3 player, ripper, streamer, and cd burning application that will run on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It’s identical in every way to the Mac version. Now is your chance to find out what using an Apple product is like without switching to the Mac. It allows for high quality ripping and a ton more than many paid mp3 applications – plus it’s FREE. It’s worth at least a look.

At work we just got in our new G5, the dual 2 Ghz model. This photo doesn’t do it justice. If you haven’t seen one close up in person, it’s hard to tell there’s a clear plastic cover over the side of the case so you can leave it like this all the time – no mods necessary (add neon to taste).

It’s under my desk for now, but it’s not my machine. I’ve got my 15″ Titanium and my trusty g4 desktop. No, the G5 will join the rest of the bread winners in the mac farm as soon as we get another cable punched down.

Yesterday Apple announced a new zero-config chat client with audio and video capabilities called iChat AV. When everyone else has been saying video conferencing – Apple is saying, call you grandkids and see them on video. It’s a super easy to set up, and it delivers a high quality video stream right through your chat client. Not a real big deal, but they’re doing it better and easier than I’ve ever seen.

iChat AV supports Apples new iSight, as well as “any firewire ready camcorder.” This got me to thinking, what if I had a Dazzle analog to firewire converter? Could I stream from whatever analog video or audio source I want? If I had a buddy in say South Carolina who wasn’t able to get the Vikings game, I could patch it through my Dazzle (that I don’t have) and stream the game down to him. I believe the answer is yes you can, but of course not without the written consent of the NFL. Too easy.

I broke down and ordered a refurbished 5 GB iPod from Apple the other day. Well it missed it’s ship date because they ran out of stock. So Apple happily canceled my order and replaced it with a 10 Gb iPod – or so I thought. Then an hour later they canceled that order and set it back to a 5 GB. Boo.

Update:[6/18/03] Now it’s delayed until July 7th. Boo hoo.
Update 2:[6/25/03] I just got my “shipped” confirmation email, and it said it was a 10GB shipped – guess I really wont know for sure until it shows up.

I installed the nightly build of Mozilla on my XP box and my Mac last night. Here is the first thing you see upon download. Which is the hard way? 304 to one XP wins as most complicated.

 
Almost all of the exact same jar files are used to create these two applications, the mac just hides them from you. If you really want to see the pile-o-files, just “right click” (yes that works on a mac) or control-click the icon and choose show package contents. Jar yourself out.

Apple has announced that the inventor of the Internet has joined it’s board of directors.

I have to remove 8 torx t8 screws from the back of my TiBook to put my airport card in. That sucks because Sears, Home Depot, Menards, Fleet Farm, and Minnesota computer don’t carry a torx bit that small, and my alan wrenches and screwdrivers don’t work either.

Tethered.

I just discovered that my dynamicly loading, java script sliding menu, cache enabled, RSS parser/reader page has the smoothest sliding efects if you use the Safari browser* on Mac OS X.

I’m not usuing it regularly yet because it’s just not as handy, or complete as the Chimera browser.