iTunes will now proceed to download the firmware from Apple’s website but due to network or Apple server congestion issues, people always complain that after waiting the download for hours and it is failed at the end. Some people even gave up upgrading their iOS because of this issue.

I will advice you to manually download the firmware and then ask iTunes to perform the upgrade for you. You can download the firmware from this website: http://www.iphonefirmware.com/firmwares-download/. Of course there are a few more websites hosting iPhone’s firmware but so far I have been using this site and the firmware is clean and original. I assume you know your device’s model such as iPhone 4, 4S, iPod which generation so please make sure you are selecting the right firmware to download.

After the download completed, launch your iTunes and make sure your iDevice is plugged in. If iTunes ask you about the firmware upgrade again, please say no to it. Go to the Summary page, you should see a “Restore” button. Press and hold the shift button and click at the “Restore” button. iTunes will now ask you to locate the firmware file (.ipsw). I assume you know where you downloaded it, so just point iTunes to the file. That’s it, you just wait for the rest of the process to be done by iTunes.

Good luck in upgrading your iOS.

I was using the one and only tools called Absinthe to jailbreak my iPhone 4S and first time using Mac OS to do that.

I don’t know is it because of Mac OS or the apps itself…. I don’t have to struggle thru the way to put my phone in DFU mode. Unlike all the previous JB apps, I have to do this and sometimes successfully and sometimes no which is quite tedious. Nevertheless, I still need to do the 3rd round before I can successfully jailbreak it because it always failed at the last step.

有它们陪伴着，我的新年一点都不寂寞。还有谢谢FB的朋友不断地upload照片和status，让我的新年更精彩。Doh jie. Haha…

Compare to 2 months ago with the situation now, the condition is totally different, now everyday I can see blue sky, ya, it is very good for photo shooting but the weather is super hot. I don’t feel like walking under the sun because my skin feel pain, imagine that how’s the heat.

The worst thing is my air cond is not functioning now. I don’t want to fix it yet because I might be moving to my new condo in a few months time. Therefore, I have to bare with the hot weather without air cond now.

Every morning when I wake up, I already start sweating non stop. Go out and come back from lunch also make me sweat like shit. I hate this kind of weather and that’s why I never complain when it rains even everyday.

Tonight I’m taking air Asia flight back to Penang again. Looking at the sign board on the taxi way and runway, they remind me of my dream of being a pilot, learning how to play flight simulator, reading up pilot materials and printing out the cert from flight sim. Even the purpose of changing to a faster and better performance desktop computer also because of want to have a better gaming experience in flight sim.

Later on I found out that I couldn’t install the pirated expensive plugin (see, I can’t even remember the name already) and there is no solution at the moment unless I pay for it. The price is not cheap so I have to let it go first and wait for a better solution to come in.

While waiting and waiting I have totally forgotten about it and slowly venture into another hobby which is photography.

Well, life moved on, I can’t just stay there doing nothing and wait. Maybe it’s time for me to go back to the aviation field again? At times I do ask myself do I really so into aviation? Is it a goal that I must achieve in my life? I guess my answer is YES but money is the only reason that’s pulling me back. Since I have finished paying for my car, is it time to pick it up?

p/s: I’m composing this blog while I’m at 30 over thousand feet above the sea.

Ever since the braces been removed, I not only like to keep looking myself at the mirror but also cam whore. Lol… Just feel that the effort, time and money spent on the orthodontics are not wasted, at least I’m satisfied with the outcome now. I have never been so vain to keep looking at the mirror and smile before but today I did it more than any other days. I think I will continue to do it more until I have get used to the “new look”.

Glad that I found this useful tools before the start of a new year. Now I can start my journal writing right at the beginning of 2012.

When I was young, I want to grow up soonest possible and guess what? The nature, the God heard me, so they accelerate my life, with just a blink of my eyes, I was at the age of 21. Woohoo!!!… The era for 1980s babies has just started, this is our world and we were going to rule it. I was so happy because once I started to work, I can buy whatever I want and I was so free, I like the freedom and I really like it.

While enjoying the freedom given by my parents and the nature, while I was enjoying the fun time being young, I didn’t realize that I have reached at the age of 25. I was like oh gosh… can I step on the brake and stop there that I never grow further. There is no stop in life and time, everything just move as fast as it could, I don’t even have the time to catch my breathe. I started to realize that I haven’t have enough fun yet and I was at the age of 29 already. OMG… I was finding all these years, finding the brake for my life but I couldn’t find one. Does it really exist?

When I was 29, I really can’t imagine how’s the world of age 30s looks like, what should I do before entering another decade. I did cry at night, I hate myself I hate everything around me and the world, time is the most cruel thing around me, it never stop regardless how hard I pray for. God never heard me from here anymore. Ya, I still can’t accept myself stepping into a new decade.

Finally, I reached the 30th year in my life, wow… amazing, I just can’t believe it that I have been living on earth for such a long time. When people around me start asking what’s my new year resolution, I don’t know how to answer as I really don’t have one all these years and never think of setting one as well. By the time, I know what should I set for my new year resolution, I turned 31.

Now while I am composing this blog, 32 is just around the corner and waiting for me. Sigh… why would my birthdate is at the beginning of the year? Why on earth it is not at the end of the year? Last time I felt proud that my birthdate is early because I can have the privilege to get a driving license first while my fellow friends are still waiting for it.

Well… while life is still going which I can’t push at the brake to stop it, I just have to slowly accept the fact, work hard and enjoy harder too. Life goes on…

There is an update for Yes Life for iOS again and from the update log we can see that there are some bug fixes, better handling of network switching and account balance display.

I always think of they should show the account balance some where in the apps, it is not that convenient to keep logging in from a phone browser to yes.my portal to check it out. So the good news now is you can check within the apps itself.

I don’t know why the value displayed in Account Balance and Rebate Value being showed as negative as it suppose to be positive (showing correctly in the web portal). The value showed in Data (MB) also weird, do I really need to know until so precise for so many decimal points? Haha… Will it confuse non IT literate users?

I still have so much minutes and SMS to use. Argh… how am I going to finish them all? Oh ya, sometimes I just feel reluctant to use this apps to call because the the voice is too soft for both parties. Anyway, this is a new version, I don’t know whether they have enhance this part or not. Let me try it out later. If you have tested it out or face the same problem, you are welcome to share it out with me via my twitter, KevCKW.

Where to see the account balance display? Go to More –> Account Details.

By the way, this is one of the bugs, a serious one that I encountered in the previous version.

The screen went blank after tapping on the “voice call” button. Ya, I am making a voice call without control and the most important button that I want to tap on is “END CALL”. How am I going to end a call in this situation? The only way I can think of is kill the apps from the taskbar but does it really end the call? Am I still being charged? I am not sure and this is really freaking me out and make me feel very reluctant to use the apps for calling.

Bravo! After the long wait, the Yes Life for iOS 5.0 is finally arrive at the store and ready for you all to download. I have been waiting for this apps ever since I upgraded to iOS 5.0.

I didn’t know that Yes Life cannot be ran in iOS 5 and felt regret after the upgrade, without this apps, I can’t fully utilize the free minutes and sms given. I know I can still use the PC version but it is not as convenient as using it in a phone.

From the previous version until now the voice is still very soft. I can hardly hear what the other person is speaking and same to the receiver. Of course, I already set my volume to the max. I hope in the next release, the apps can amplify the voice a little bit more, else it is really difficult to use in a slightly noisy environment.

Just found a bug in the new version when you are making a call. The apps went into calling mode but without any buttons (even the end call button) displayed. Imagine how panic am I when I can’t even end a call, the only thing I can do is to kill the apps from the taskbar and keeping my finger cross that the call get terminated. I don’t want to be charged unnecessarily.

Besides the bugs that I have mentioned above, the new apps did improve a lot and easier to use now.

In a group of friends that I always hang out with, after I took photo for them they will offer their help to take for me, I really appreciate the initiative that they had. The initiative and the thoughts that count, that make me feel like I am part of them, not hired by them.

Whenever I take photo for my friends, I will tell them how to pose from legs, hands, until the facial expression, the smile and where the eyes should be looking at then usually come out with some satisfactory shot. When it comes to my turn, no one is telling me what to do and of course the photo turned out to be unacceptable by myself. Imagine that, I can’t accept myself in the photos. How ironic it can be? This is not subject’s problem, why I can take so many satisfactory photos for them but not when I am become the subject. It is the skill that counts.

This is so unfair but who can I blame? No one but myself… FML…