Jedi Mind Trick upon iPhone Restore

I had some trouble to put the iPhone OS 3.0 beta5 on my first generation iPhone. Without going to much into details, I thought that I had bricked my phone.

Fortunatly, there are some usefull hints in the Apple iPhone Developer Forum. One recommendation was using iTunes’ restore function instead of the Xcode organizer. I guessed the difference lies in using a simple update (Xcode) or a full restore (iTunes) which possibly includes some DFU-Mode access.

So, I wanted to know, what exactly is happening and took a look at the Console log. Look what I found:

iTunes uses Jedi mind tricks to … to trick my MobileDevice. Amazing. Someone at the iPhone/iTunes team at Apple seems to be a huge star wars fan.

The Magic of Applications

I stumbled upon this in one of the usual geek forums. Not exactly MVC, but a very similar concept. It made me smile.

Your program — How users see it

No idea who created this image, but I thank you for not sueing me for using your image.

You might be a compositor when …

Es gibt Threads, die finden sich in jedem Forum wieder. Beispielsweise der Thread nach dem Muster: „Du machst irgendwas zu exzessiv, wenn …“. Das schöne an diesen Threads ist, dass es ein Musterbeispiel dafür ist, wie Menschen über sich selbst lachen können. Ein Beispiel für den Typ von Thread gibt es im VFXTalk Forum.

Hier sind meine Favoriten. You might be a compositor when …

… you look at your plate of spaghetti and see a shake script

… you open up photoshop and wish it was node based

… you actually ’study’ the way dust blows around, while cleaning out your vacuum cleaner

… you put garbage mattes on people you don’t like

… you see blue and green transparent

… you try to fix your life in the post

… you look more closely at the edge of things than at the things themselves

… you see blonde hair blowing in the wind against a light background you think to yourself. “This is going to be a pain in the ass.”

… you wake up and instantly start complaining that the suns gamma is cranked up too much

… you ask the photographer for the “clean plate” of your wedding

… you think reality is becoming fake

… every movie you watch is paused several times

… you think that if you wear a green suit you will probably disapear

… you look at the ultra sound picture of your very first baby and think “Hmm… I can probably fix this with some grain removal and some slight contrast adjustments”

… your friends think you NEED to get a LIFE!!! AND you just ignore their comments as you are busy creating a really complex alpha mask

… when you’re replacing photoshop with shake

… you feel like your girlfriend needs a fast blur adjustment layer in the morning

… you know what ‘rotoscoping’ means

… you understand the fact that softwares doesn’t really matters but the basic concepts do!

… your spell checker has been updated so it doesn’t suggest “composted” every time you type composited

… you track the road while driving

… you watch a panorama and think that could be a great mattepainting

… you no longer find beautiful people attractive because they look too “CG”

… you look at a shot, and the people behind you say it looks so fake, but you know deep inside it’s actually real.