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Being well on the techie curve, I went and tried to update my iPhone to the brand new 2.1 firmware...and have very almost (it's almost done fixing it now...hopefully) iBricked it.

So a word of advice to everyone...don't try to update your iphone whilst running Windows in a VMWare Workstation 6 virtual machine on Ubuntu...it may work...but it definately didn't for me...

I am now going to have to walk home with no "Short History of Nearly Everything" to listen to :-(

So I've got a new shiny iPhone, and have been testing out Apple's .Mac replacement, MobileMe, and unfortunately I have to agree with the illustrious Walt Mossberg in that it's broke.

I love the notion of OTA (over the air) syncing of my iPhone with my desktop and laptop and even my work Windows box, if only for the fact that not having to plug things in is (as far as I'm concerned) the way forward. Its very unfortunate that on at least 2 occasions the Windows client has reported inconsistent data and asked that the data on MobileMe be refreshed, and even worse that upon doing so MobileMe was updated to, well, nothing...no calendars, odd calendars and definately no entries :-(

So back to the drawing board in terms of the Windows/Outlook syncing...On the upside it has worked a lot better for me on all my Macs, which is good given they're Apple's toys.

My problem however is the whole MobileMe set up. I just want syncing: I've got Google for Domains running pretty much every other aspect of my online services, and my own personal webspace.

So please (pretty please) even can someone allow me to do all my own syncing via my own servers and services without having to pay some one else for the priveledge!?