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**Update**

I had to do a full restore of my iPhone to fix an issue with the battery life (without using a backup, and had to re-add all apps etc), which inadvertantly fixed my issue with the reminders app. It now appears as it should have originally. If you are having problems with your iPhone, I recommend doing a full restore.

**Original post**

In order to create a new reminders list I had to do a search, cancel the search, press the newly revealed “Edit” button and create the list from there.

Is anyone else having a problem with the “Edit” button not being immediately available in ios 5?

Read on to see the screenshots showing the issue.

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I loooooove upgrading software. I don’t care what program it is, I just love to see new things, new buttons, new menus etc. It’s an addiction, and it’s pretty sad. It also means that I’m one of the first ones to find problems.

At work, this can be an issue. We’re a software company, which means I love to have the latest and greatest. Our support tracking software is always upgraded as soon as they release a new version (we’ve found quite a few showstoppers as a result, rather than wait a few weeks for an update after everyone else has reported the critical issues). I’m always nagging my boss when Microsoft release a new version of Windows, begging to be the one that tests our software for compatibility. You’d think they’d be happy that someone is so keen right?

So as soon as ios 5 came out this morning, I knew I’d have to install it straight away.

The problem is that my iPhone used to be synced with my home computer which died a few months ago. Since then I’ve been running without backing it up. I managed to save my hard drive from my old computer, and installed it on the work computer so I still had access to my old iTunes though. I’m waiting a few months until I buy a brand new computer at home, which explains why I brought the hard drive into work rather than just leaving it at home. Just this week I finally synced my iPhone with my work machine, and transferred purchased apps across as well as re-adding the ones from my old iTunes from my old hard drive. I didn’t, however, sync it so that it was adding the apps from my machine. That was probably my big mistake.

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Yes, it’s true. I gave up the internet for the weekend as part of a 52 in 52 challenge, and it was scary and yet empowering. I missed it and I’m glad I had it back, but I really felt the true impact of just how much our lives rely on the internet. Well, mine does anyway.

I thought that rather post a boring long post of what I learned, I thought I’d show you. Here are a few notes I took over the weekend when I was pining away for the internet:

Day 1:

5.55pm I’ve just switched off 3G and cellular data from my phone, but not before I tweeted goodbye. I’m officially offline. Thank god I have plans for tonight.

8.30pm I want to check sports scores and I have nothing. We’re watching the football, and thankfully my friends have pay TV so we can flick between about 2 – 3 different codes of football. Still feeling up to date. This is good.

11.00pm I had dinner at a mate’s place tonight, and normally I would just transfer the money for dinner straight over to them using mobile netbanking. Tonight it’s either I use phone banking or I go for a drive to get some money out of the ATM. Screw that, they can just wait until I have the internet back.

Day 2

7.45am I have personal training this morning, and thank god I screenshotted an email from the trainer yesterday before I went offline, otherwise would have had to text Chere to get the address. And thank god for the non-Internet based app Tom Tom, otherwise would have had to drag a street directory with me to find my way!

1.00pm just had lunch with C, couldn’t show him a place I was trying to describe to him because I couldn’t use google maps. It wasn’t until we had gone our separate ways I realize I could have used Tom Tom. Also couldn’t check in at the beach OR the lunch location, felt a little strange not to be advertising my social life.

1.10pm Had to text a friend to see what she was up to cause I couldn’t check twitter. Starting to feel a little disconnected now.

4.27pm Just realized I couldn’t go online to congratulate someone who got engaged on Friday. No other way of contacting them, guess it waits until Monday.

5.39pm I’ve started watching blesdisloe cup, and have an overwhelming urge to tweet about it. Used to reading other people’s comments on twitter so it feels strange to only rely on the company I’m with (not that that’s a bad thing either, but when we’re both a little new to rugby union we have to reply on commentators to educate us, and we know that’s not exactly a good idea!

8.00pm I’m not a fan of watching sport without twitter anymore. It feels wrong.

Day 3

8.15am I just scored a bargain at the markets: a pineapple for $1, 10 apples for $2 and bag of avos for $2.50. Can’t go on twitter to talk about it, so I guess I’ll just have to feel proud of myself.

9.04am Sitting in front of the tv to watch the second half of the Under 20′s world cup game, Australia vs. Spain. Australia is losing 5-1 already, and Ican’t go on twitter to complain. I’ll have a text relay with Tina instead.

9.35am Wondering about the tattoos on the face of the player Bulut (bullet?). Can’t google and can’t ask twitter so will come up with stories. The tears on his right eye means he has murdered two people, the star means he is part of an organised religion that believes that they need to get together once a week and pray to the stars. They believe in a higher being, meaning that there’s a being that’s physically higher than them. In space maybe? Perhaps they worship C, he’s higher than them. He’s higher than most people. Through a lack of the internet I have established that Bulut is weird, he worships my boyfriend. Maybe this is how people come up with conspiracy theories?

12.01pm Have just driven to Brisbane with my Mum for my cousin’s engagement party, and feeling a bit shy. Wishing I could use my phone to browse the news since the last update on anything was from listening to the news on the radio last night. A war could have broken out and I wouldnt know, although I would hope my family would tell me.

1.00pm I have been informed I tweet too much, and that I need to “shut the fuck up”. Fair call, it’s true. I’ve made a mental note to quit with the random lyric tweets and to try and keep my tweets to something substantial. Yet it’s a bit sad that I’m currently “tweeting offline” as my sister calls it. Ha – doesn’t she realise that these offline updates are longer than 140 characters? SHEESH!

3.51pm It’s the end of the family gathering. After half an hour I ended up putting my phone in the car since I didn’t really need to use it for anything.

3.52pm I’ve just realised my phone hasn’t been charged since Friday, and it’s still at 54%. Goes to show the iPhone’s battery is actually pretty impressive if you don’t use 3G or cellular data like push notifications etc.

7.39pm I’m out again for dinner with C and friends, and still no check-ins from me. No one will know how social I’ve been!! I’m bored while the guys get dinner, I have no idea what to do with myself. I know, I’ll text Kim and tell her how social I’m being.

11.35pm Still out and about and drinking, and I’ve informed C how long it is until I’m allowed to use the internet. There’s been a couple of points during a discussion tonight I had the urge to google something but haven’t. It’s become apparent to me that I google a lot of stuff to find it out during discussions. I need to stop doing that – it’s an annoying habit and I’m not even on the receiving end of it. Probably the reason why my memory is so bad too.

12.01am I’M BACK BITCHES! The internet is MIIIIIIIIINE! Cellular data on, 3G on, lets see what tweets I missed!!

…are you going to miss me?!

As much as I try to deny that I’m a geek/nerd/tech head, I have to admit that I live for the internet. I blog, I tweet, and I facebook a LOT. Despite only having been on twitter for 2 years, my tweet count is already over 24,000 tweets. That’s 12,000 pointless updates a year! I don’t even want to know how many facebook updates I’ve made in the time I’ve been on there.

Thus, it’s time to give it all up. At least for the weekend anyway.

As one of my 52 in 52 challenges I decided to try living without the internet for the weekend. I’ve gone without it for substantial times before, for example when I’ve gone camping for a few days (sometimes up to a week) and there’s no reception whatsoever, not even for phones. I cope just fine, I love camping and can easily give up the technology when I’m away. But trying to give up the internet while I’m at home within full reach of a computer or a phone with next G internet speeds?!

It’s going to be tough.

At 6pm tonight I will disconnect the wifi from my home computer and turn the cellular data off from my phone. It’s going to be a complete internet blackout. I’m going to a friend’s place tonight, and Sunday I’ll be in Brisbane all day so it won’t be as though I’m sitting at home twiddling my thumbs. Except I plan on being home for most of Saturday, which will be the toughest day of the lot. I’ve just realised this means I’ll most likely miss out on finding out if Harry Kewell signs for Melbourne Victory though, which is news I’ve been waiting months on (he should still go to the best team of the lot – Brisbane Roar). I might just have to spam text my sister and tell her that as soon as she finds something out she’s to let me know immediately. To be cruel, she’d probably send me a message on twitter then claim innocence when I get upset over not knowing

I’m expecting to see a few benefits from the internet blackout though. It will be interesting to see how much study I get done on Saturday without facebook to procrastinate on, or to complain on twitter that I’m sick of studying. I might actually be able to focus for once! Likewise, I won’t be able to check in on my phone to tell people where I’m at, or what tv shows I might happen to be watching at the time.

So without a social media presence for 48 hours, I’ve gotta ask….are you gonna miss me?

Last night was the most epic State of Origin game ever. Queensland won, taking out 6 straight series in a row while simultaneously sending off one of the greats of the game, Darren Lockyer. I was there my friends, and it was incredible. My lack of a voice today is proof.

Unfortunately I managed to lose my phone in the taxi on the way home. Goddammit!

The good:

• Thanks to Apple and their AMAZING Mobile Me service, after we did the initial “ring the phone” (it went to voicemail) we loaded up “Find my iPhone” on C’s iPhone to see if we could locate it. We couldn’t, thus reinforcing that someone had already taken ownership of it and switched it off. Knowing there was stuff on there I didn’t want people to see, I immediately sent through a request to wipe the phone, so the next time someone switches that baby on it’s going to wipe it clean. Awesome.
• Again, thanks to the Mobile Me service I have a list of all my contacts (totally up to date) online, so I haven’t lost anyone’s numbers.
• Thanks to gmail sync, I still have a fully up-to-date calendar available online, so I haven’t lost any of my upcoming appointments either.

The bad:

• I don’t have a phone, that’s annoying.
• I have lost 1.5 months of my “photo of the day” photos that I hadn’t gotten around to uploading yet. Goddammit.
• I use that phone for EVERYTHING, so I’m back to going through the process of not having a phone instantly available for my every whim. Now I have to look out the window to check on the weather – urgh!

The ugly:

• It doesn’t look like I had insurance on the phone; at least from memory Telstra didn’t have it available when getting the plan. I’ll be visiting the Telstra shop tomorrow morning to see what they can do for me.
• I don’t have rental insurance, which means I can’t even claim my phone on that.
• I’m possibly going to be up for the cost of a brand new phone, and there’s just on 12 months left on my contract. Fingers crossed they can work out some sort of a deal where I get a new phone for the remaining 12 months and have monthly repayments on my bill. I’m not getting my hopes up though, I doubt they have this available. Worst case scenario I’ll buy my sister’s friend’s iPhone 3GS for $300, and deal with that until I save up the money for a new iPhone (which is most likely never). The thought of going back to a 3GS makes me shudder.

The only blemish on an otherwise incredible evening. Bugger.