blogitech from Chris Maddern

Nightmare.

Wireless N adapters never seem to work with Windows 7 x64. I have now, however gotten my F5D8051 to work so I thought I’d post a quick guide.

1. Download the drivers from here for the Ralink chipset

2. Install the package

3. Update the driver for your Belkin N1 adapter to the driver

4. Click ‘Let me pick from a list of device drivers…’

5.  Untick ‘Show compatible hardware’

6. Select ‘Ralink Technology, Corp.’ (if there are two, pick the second)

7. Select ‘802.11n USB Wireless Card’.

8. Install the driver and watch your network stop dropping out!!!

Good luck! When in doubt; get the chipset manufacturers driver!

Chris

Windows 7 Build 7106 leaked earlier this week and there was a huge amount of excitement around the forums because of the obvious large gap between 7077 and 7106; seems like a lot of builds!

The truth is, they’ve just branched the code base this week; checking out build 7076, and relabelling it as 7106, ready to work on towards the RTM build, while 7076, 7077 onwards, will be polished to ultimately be released as the RC (probably at build 7100?).

So.. 7106 is actually 1 day older than 7077. Anyone thinking about rushing out and sourcing a chinese iso and a language pack can probably hold out for either the RC or a later RTM branch build; possibly with some of these exciting new surprises??

Chris

The 2nd Beta build of 3.0 was released yesterday and is now happily sitting on my iPhone. Build 3.0 Beta 2 is significantly faster and more stable than 3.0 Beta 1 and push notifications actually work.

Most of the bugs listed in my original post are fixed :D.

Also, the folks over at the iPhone Dev Team have released a Jailbreak. This means that we can finally use unofficial tether applications (PDANet being my preferred) on the 3.0 OS.

In order to Jailbreak.. head on over to http://www.quickpwn.com/downloads and download the latest version. If you have an ‘activated’ contract iPhone, do not select ‘Activate’ in quickpwn or it will kill your baseband (you will get no signal).

Hope you guys enjoy as much as I am!

Chris

I realise that the 3.0 Beta was a development Beta; intended for use to test out the iPhone SDK 3.0 and aid in development. However, I am an Apple iPhone developper, I am also an iPhone user. I have one iPhone. This means that I test on my day-to-day phone so I would appreciate that it still remains usable in this capacity with the software I’m asked to install on it.

3.0 is great. It’s a considerable step forward, there are lots of wonderful new features (I’m not going to document them; google iPhone 3.0 beta walkthrough ), instead I’m going to focus on the issues in these features, what I think they’re going to fix, and what they’re in danger of leaving in place!

Copy and Paste: Wonderful feature that’s been missing for a *very* long time. The implimentation is excellent, except that it activates far too often. For example single clicking almost anywhere in the SMS text box will invoke the Select, Select All, Paste bar. It’s often broken in safari and seems to cause you to loose the ability to move the cursor using the single finger hold in multi-line text boxes. continue reading…

After installing the iPhone 3.0 Beta you’ll find that you’re unable to sync your iPhone without having your iPhone’s UDID listed on an Apple Developer Connection account. The only problem is, if your UDID wasn’t previously listed, there’s no obvious way to find it with the 3.0 Beta software installed on your iPhone.

On OS X you can use XCODE’s iPhone browser window to get the UDID. On Window’s it almost as easy:

Windows XP: Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Apple Computer\Lockdown

Windows Vista: Browse to C:\Users\%username%\AppData\roaming\Apple Computer\Lockdown

The file found in that folder is entitled with your UDID. Enjoy 3.0 :D

Chris

Update: This can be found on OS X in the following directory: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backups

I think that this video demonstrates enough of a reason for everybody to seriously consider using this browser. This is intuitive and I have wanted it for *years*!

You can drag a tab off of a window… and it creates a new window, seemingly keeping the process that the tab was running in consistent! …