Having your office in your pocket is awesome—except when your office shuts down and you cannot get in.

If you are new to the blog, please take a minute to check out my previous posts on the iPhone, and how I can essentially run my entire office through it.

While out of town for a consumer lawyer convention last week, my iPhone inexplicably decided to shutout while touring the Liberty Bell. The battery was at full charge, and I had not dropped it or gotten it wet. Bad news.

I ran back to the hotel and tried plugging it into my MacBook Air—no dice. After a quick Google search, I found a possible solution—”hard reboot” by holding the power and home key simultaneously. All this got me was a dialog box showing a picture of plugging my iPhone into iTunes.

I followed the directions, and iTunes told me it needed to download an update, and restore my entire iPhone—restoring everything to factory resets. Not cool. But, I needed to head to the airport shortly, and really needed functioning phone. Unfortunately, the update was 300MB, and on the hotel’s free wireless, it need