Okay. That may be a little harsh … but you would think after paying for a system upgrade, that was supposed to be rewritten from the ground up … a major bug like the IMAP/PHP bug would have been fixed. I know this problem is still effecting people. They are still logging complaints at Apple’s Discussion Groups. I was hoping … but no go!

This post is no more than what it is. Another mile marker showing that this bug has driven me and other crazy through Mac OS X 10.5 and now 10.6.

I’ve already documented the entire thing in three other posts:
A process to a kill
Mail.app & IMAP Process Update
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update (No IMAP Fix)

There is nothing more that I can do. None of the Mac blogs out there have picked up the story. Not TUAW. Not MacWorld. Not MacNN. No one.

So unless something else breaks … oh like Apple’s resolve NOT to fix this problem. Or one of the Mac news sites reports on the problem or fix … I think I’m done here. Well at least with this issue.

Good luck!

You have to love these guys. They are modern day heros. Now Apple might think contrary, but you have to admire the Dev-Team’s vibrato. Their stamina. Their commitment. This disparate group of programmers, hackers, telecom industry workers, et al, from all over the world, doing what Apple should have done all along. Make the iPhone open to any and all GSM networks around the world. There might be those who would brand them thieves and hacker-thugs. But I commend them.

Having been an early adopter of hacking my iPhone, I am in awe of these guys. They have taken the task and turned it into an art form. They’ve taken the time to find the vulnerabilities of the iPhone and the OS to deliver their payload through any available vector. And then they wrap what use to be a terminal command line nightmare, into the slickest Mac and Windows applications I have seen so far, to accomplish the task. Thank you all for the hard work you do. And thanks to Apple for not trying to rain on the Dev-Teams achievements.

I spent maybe 30 minutes total this morning using PwnageTool and iTunes to get my custom 3.0 .ipsw file built and onto my iPhone. Once that happened, the Pwnage payload did its “magic” on the iPhone by auto configuring itself. While this was going on I Tweeted about it. (Okay I’ve become a TwitterNerd or perhaps a TwitWit now). Then I did a restore from the backup I did before starting all this, like a good little iPhone citizen should do. While that was happening I made my Peet’s coffee and breakfast. I knew it would take a bit of time to load all my iPhone apps, music, etc back on the phone.

The next step is to get all my Cydia apps and hacks loaded … WinterBoard, Five Icon Dock, Open SSH, BossTools, TMobile Carrier Logos, etc. These things are the icing on the iPhone cake. So now it’s time for me to SSH into my iPhone and load my custom desktop, and dock I’ve created. It’s a job … but someone has to do it.

I know. I know. It’s just a phone. Get a life! But hey at least … I pwn it!

There has been a huge ramp-up for the release, starting long before last weeks “World Wide Developers Conference” (WWDC). The fan-boy blogs and the Twitter-verse has been on fire. But Apple has also been pushing hard too. This is their cash cow, their baby. That and all the iPhone apps that will now have to be updated and OS 3.0 compatible by the OS 3.0 release date tomorrow? We’ll see.

Well actually I have seen. I Tweeted earlier tonight in two separate tweets :

Those #iPhone #apps are just pouring out. I got 4 just today. Seems like everyone is trying to get their apps 3.0 ready. Keep ‘em coming. 10:19:19 PM June 16, 2009 from Tweetie


#app #iphone updates:
iTV http://bit.ly/xiL4J
Amazon http://bit.ly/158j1y
Twitterific P http://bit.ly/VBHkG
Trip Cubby http://bit.ly/o9BS8
10:16:14 PM June 16, 2009 from Tweetie

@MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev-Team did a live broadcast and demo of “UltraSnow” the new iPhone OS 3.0 jailbreak. You have to love these guys! The software isn’t officially released and already they have a jailbreak written and ready to go for the new OS. You can find out all the particulars on the Dev-Team Blog.

So I’m ready with my 1st-gen iPhone for the Dev-Team to deliver PwnageTool and QuickPwn their two wonderful jailbreak apps … for the rest of us. Oh how I’d love a new shinny iPhone 3G S … but alas … I’m poor. And seeing how I use T-mobile I can’t get a subsidized iPhone from AT&T. I paid full price for my original one. Not again. But then again I’ve heard that before too. I’ll just take a wait and see attitude. I know I’ll get enough of the new OS benefits. But will they be enough? Only time will tell.

So iPhone enthusiasts, fanboys/fangirls & the uninitiated … start your engines! 3.0 is coming! 3.0 is coming!

Apple just released Mac OS X 10.5.7 update. Being a consultant I always have to do updates on the day they arrive. I do this to try to see what my clients might have to deal with if they choose to do it on their own. Though most of my clients will wait for me to “feel the pain” so they don’t have to.

This update, I did feel the pain! Since I bought my new MacBook Pro, I have been doing updates via Software Update. This time around I chose to download the Combo Updater & give it a whirl. Once downloaded I opened the image and started the process. When the 729 MB update was finished, I restarted the computer. Or at least tried to. On completion the update stayed at the “blue screen” with the progress indicator spinning and spinning. After about 15 minutes, I just forced a shut down, and restarted, After about 2 reboots of its own, the computer started up and booted into the Finder. Once there, I rebooted once more for good measure, to be certain things were working okay.

I looked around for any obvious “newness” but didn’t see anything I could identify as new. So my first stop after that was to launch Safari and go to my BlueHOST cPanel. I started the process manager and finally launched Mail.app.

I was hoping that the infernal and internal IMAP process bug was fixed. Upon going back to Safari and refreshing the process manager, to my horror and profanity, there they were … the 16 IMAP processes that I hoped would not be there. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

So the one thing I was hoping to be fixed was not. I immediatly went to the Apple Forum and posted to the “Topic : Mail is killing the processes on my server with IMAP” thread and posted my findings. I also wrote up the issue AGAIN and sent it to MacFixIt, who also promptly ignored my eMail and did not report the issue. And today I made a comment on the Troubleshooting Roundup: Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update article on TUAW about the issue. With any luck they will look into it further.

I’m not going to deal with any of the other bugs introduced, or not fixed, because so many of the other online mags & blogs have covered these ad nauseam. I have my axe to grind and this IMAP issue is mine. Double Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

At this point I feel like I’m talking to myself. Though there are those on the Apple Forums who are also feeling the pain … because Apple’s not listening. I guess I could switch eMail clients, but I WANT to use Mail.app. I even looked into a few other mail applications … but none have the features I can get with Mail.app and 3rd party plug-ins. So I’ll bare my cross and stick with my mission … to get someone else to lay into Apple to fix the problem.

Startly Technologies has released an update to its venerable macro utility QuicKeys X. With this upgrade comes new features and OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility. It’s a free update for QuicKeys X 3.x users.

I’ve use this automation utility since Mac OS 7. It’s sounds cliché, but I don’t know how I’d get along without it. If you are not a programmer or fluent in AppleScript, or using Apple Automator … or even if you are … QuicKeys can help you automate repetitive tasks. Something that would normally require … five … six … twenty or more steps can be turned into a simple one step shortcut. Automate anything from launching programs, mounting servers, selecting menus, and running UNIX commands to typing text or shutting down your Classic environment or your computer all with a single key combination.

If you own an earlier version of QuicKeys the upgrade pricing is:

• Upgrade from v2.x $29.95
• Upgrade from v1.5 $39.95
• Upgrade from v1.0 $49.95

If you’d like to learn more about QuicKeys or take it for a “test drive” visit the Startly website. It’s certainly worth a look.