Make My Home Office Amazing: Part 1

As a freelancer or small business owner, there’s always the pressure of putting your best face forward, and for a time I felt that if I had a regular office (outside of the home), it would help me normalize my schedule while making me look more professional. After much soul searching and budget crunching, I’ve decided that a not-at-home office does not work best for me. At least not now with my odd hours and the responsibilities that being the mother of two young boys requires. In three months’ time, I literally used it twice.

Thus, I bring you the “Make My Home Office Amazing” series, wherein I make my home office amazing.

iPhone Woes (and how I got over it!)

I want to thank a really swell guy (you know who you are) for giving me his old iPhone when I stupidly lost my own 3 month old 3G. I felt like I’d lost a limb, and he came to my rescue! Upon receiving said iPhone, I ran into some problems, however.

I opened the package, took out my new gently used iPhone, which he had wiped, as he should have. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get it past the pink “Sync with iTunes” screen. It wasn’t responding like it should have. After much searching I found that I needed to reinstall the original firmware. After having done that, I was able to sync with iTunes and download the new 3.0 firmware.

Ok, so I’m all excited about having an iPhone again so I started downloading a TON of apps all at once. It didn’t like that. At all. All the icons were there but greyed out and saying “loading”. The phone stayed that way for a few hours while I waited patiently for SOMETHING to happen. Obviously it was locked. To fix this little issue, I synced with iTunes and looked for “Available Downloads” in my iTunes account. All of the apps I was trying to download were listed there. I manually started the download on each, re-synced with my iPhone and viola! It took a little fussing with, but I managed to get everything working again.

Whew! Now to find an app that will let me find my iPhone should I lose it again…

Hamster Ball O’ Death

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