Another of my Tech Tips for Nerds! My regular readers will not understand or care about this at all, but as Ultimate Cal-Pals know, I’m actually a super geek when not performing on stage or in A/V media. I often encounter techie problems that require lots of intensive Googling to find solutions, and I’ve decided to post the solutions when I can, so that other people with the same problem can Google and find my solution without having to go through so much trouble!

Problem: Native Instruments Kontakt 3 opens with a white or blank splash screen, options screen or preferences screen. It was running fine before on your Mac.

Solution: Go to System Preferences >> Displays >> Color  and select “sRGB IEC61966-2.1″ as your color profile (for both monitors if you have two). If you don’t see this as an option, you may need to uncheck “Show profiles for this display only”.

If that fixes it, you can probably switch the profile back to the default.

iPhoto blank when you plug in your iPhone 4 ?

Has this happened to anyone else? My old iPhone 3G and 3GS always connected fine with iPhoto 9 (v 8.1.2 424). You plug in the phone, it shows as a device in the left side of iPhoto and the images/video are there to be imported. With my new iPhone 4, i plug it in, open iPhoto, it shows as a device BUT there is no media to be imported, even though the camera roll has items in it.

By following the steps below, I am able to get iPhoto to see my iPhone 4 and its contents for ONE TIME ONLY. Then the process below must be repeated and the computer restarted before iPhone 4 media can be accessed in iPhoto again. It appears that you do not always need to restart the computer.

• Quit iPhoto
• Open Activity Monitor (Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor.app)
• In the search window at the top right, search for PTPCamera
• Click on PTPCamera in the list of results to highlight it
• Click on Quit Process (the red stopsign icon in the upper left of Activity Monitor)
• Choose “Quit”
• If you don’t already see “Image Capture Extension” in the list, search for it in the search box. Click on “Image Capture Extension” in the list of results to highlight it
• Choose “Quit”
• Go to Macintosh HD > System > Library > Image Capture > Devices and open PTPCamera.app back up
• Unplug and re-plug the iPhone 4. iPhoto should open, if you’ve set it to do so when a camera is plugged in. Otherwise, open it. You should see your media available for import from the iPhone 4 when you click on the iPhone 4 in the devices list.

This posting is part of Calpernia’s “Tech Tips for Nerds” series… if you are not a techie nerd, ignore this!

Ok kids, after a long day of searching every nook, cranny, blog and rumor mill following the iPhone software 3.1 upgrade released by Apple, here is the definitive finding:

If you upgraded your 3G or 3GS iPhone to 3.1, you cannot at present downgrade it to 3.0, jailbreak it or unlock it. There are some blogs out there saying you can, but that’s ONLY if you somehow upgraded the phone software to 3.0 but your baseband modem software remained not upgraded (which didn’t happen unless you were a developer who forced an upgrade of the phone software with a preview copy outside of the normal iTunes upgrade process).

To put it with ultimate clarity, if (as of Sept. 13, 2009) you upgraded your 3G or 3GS iPhone to 3.1 using iTunes, you cannot Jailbreak it, Unlock it or revert, restore or downgrade it to 3.0… yet. Use the Google search I put below to keep updated, I’m sure Saurik or someone will have this sorted out soon.

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