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Howto: find UDID of the iPhone or iPod Touch

Easiest way is to get it through iTunes.

On the main device screen, click on the serial number (the blured area below):

When you click on it, it will change into this screen, which has the UDID:

Now do Cmd+C (Mac) or Ctrl+C (Win) — or use menu Edit/Copy — to get it into clipboard.

Using existing iPhone apps

If you have an iTunes Store account, get the free Ad Hoc Helper application. You need to have an email account setup so you can send the UDID to whom ever it’s needed.

The same thing can be done with iStat app, which is not free and it’s main purpose is not to get the UDID. But it does displays it and also allows you to send it over email.

Using backups

On Mac, iPhone backups are at:

/Users/{USERNAME}/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/{UDID}

On Windows Vista, iPhone backups are located at:

C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\{UDID}

On Windows XP/2003 it’s:

C:\Documents and Settings\{USERNAME}\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\{UDID}

Using iPhone Configuration Utility

On the iPhone Enterprise page at Apple’s site, you can find links to Mac and Windows versions of this utility. One of the things it does is allows you to get the UDID.

Once you connect the device, this is the place to get it:

Now just select the identifier and copy into clipboard.

How not to do business, in two takes

I went for 10 days of “disconnected” vacation and when I returned I found some really unwelcome news.

One is that Photoshelter Collection is being immediatelly discontinued — for reasons that leave me with 0% faith that those people are worth investing any time and effort, for any product. I guess I can count myself lucky I spent two nights total in uploading my photos.

The other, seriously worrying piece of news is Apple’s rejection of an iPhone application because it duplicates the feature already present in their desktop application. If this is not mistake by some approval editor, it’s utterly despicable. As I’m working on my own iPhone app (first of several planned) it sends a chill of uncertainty down my spine.
Fraser Speirs, John Gruber, Harry McCracken, Paul Kafasis, Dave Winer have more.

Things were much more rosy before the vacation. :(

iPhone developer program enrollment doesn’t work?

I tried tonight to apply for the iPhone standard development program. After login, I picked “an individual” option, then “Standard program” and clicked continue. I was then greeted with this page:

Which was the same as previous one minus the radio buttons for choosing the program. Confused, I clicked the “continue” button again, which gave me this:

Click Continue will again give me the first screen.

Has anyone experienced this, what’s the deal?

That annoying neighbor

Apple’s approach to Windows – that whatever exists there is crap and it’s our mission to offer a glass of water to those in hell – continues with interesting push technique.

First there was iTunes – yet another media player, one of many with its own idea about the interface. Microsoft is not less guilty here, with each new version of Windows Media Player bringing yet another graphical experiment that has no connection to actual OS interface. Then, with iTunes 7 (can’t really remember which minor version) came Apple’s Software Update. It controlled QuickTime and iTunes, since they came bundled together.

Now it seems that Safari is being pushed through it, even when you did not have it at all. Continue reading That annoying neighbor

Apple fixes MacBook Pro graphic issues

Last night I installed the 341MB System Update 10.5.2 and then Leopard Graphics update (48MB).
The size of the update re-iterates my belief that Leopard release was rushed with Apple cutting corners wherever it could to get it by end of October. 10.5.1 fixed only the most glaring issues – this looks to be much closer to what final version was supposed to be.

The most important issue fixed (for me) is the severe graphics problems that plagued nVidia 8600-based MBPs (like mine 2.2GHz model). As soon as the update finished installing (graphics update has several restarts during installation) I ran iDVD.

Preview of the 7.0 theme (Revolution) based DVD interface, with videos in the background drop-zone, now works without problems and creating the DVD image also worked.
Now I can finally finish my wedding DVD. :)