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Facebook 3.1 Contact Syncing — Got Bikini Pics?

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As if Facebook 3.1 for iPhone and iPod touch didn’t have enough problems, dmackdaddy let us know this potentially embarrassing problem he’s experiencing with the new contact picture syncing functionality:

Beware of your profile pics, or your boss might get one of you doing something you don’t want them to see! What happens is, [...]

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Dear Facebook — Please Fix Facebook 3.1 for iPhone and Soon

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Facebook 3.1 brought the much-in-demand push notification service to the iPhone’s most popular social networking app, but no good deed goes unpunished, and along with broken push, it also brought a host of problems. Now, not everyone is having the same problem, but a lot of you have told us about one or more of [...]

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Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server Not Playing Nicely with iPhone?

OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard for Mac and iPhone?

Ars Technica puts font to screen explaining how, even after the jump to version 10.6 Snow Leopard (and several updates), Apple’s own Mac OS X Server still fails to integrate push notification and other compatibility for the iPhone:

The iPhone’s e-mail, contact, and calendar features integrate poorly into a Mac OS X Server environment, [...]

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App Store Bugs: App Updates Downloading Over and Over and Over Again

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There appears to be a bug on Apple’s iTunes App Store that’s causing apps to show up as having updates available even after they’ve been downloaded over and over again. We’ve gotten quiet a few readers writing in about it now, and there’s the usual huge thread up on Apple’s discussion boards.

Here’s what it looks [...]

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iTunes App Store “Release Date” Sorting Sorta Broken?

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Swing by the iTunes App Store, pick a category, and get/go to the Sort by: Release Date listing and it may look like Apple hasn’t added any new iPhone and iPod touch apps since November 19 — only they have, and it’s just the iTunes listings that are broken.

Rewind: We started getting questions from users [...]

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Intel Responds to Busted iPhone Sync on Windows 7 with P55 Express Chipset

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A few days ago we mentioned issues users were reporting about iPhone Sync being busted on Windows 7 with Intel P55 express chipset. Microsoft said they were looking into it, but now Intel has issued a statement. CNet has the quote and the background:

“Our leading theory is a BIOS or system configuration issue, [...]

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iPhone Sync Busted on Windows 7 with Intel P55 Chipset

iPhone BSOD + Laughing Ballmer

According to The Register, if you’re running Microsoft’s latest OS, Windows 7, and your PC has an Intel P55 Express chipset, you’re in for a world of iPhone sync hurt:

For the past six weeks, complaints from users running this trifecta of pain have been clogging a thread on Apple’s discussion board. The posts [...]

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iPhone Cellular Network Data Meter Dialed Down After Reboot?

Bla1ze brought this to our attention and while we’re likely not the first to notice this, we haven’t found or figured a good answer for it either. If you have a low data usage on your iPhone (in the MBs rather than GBs) and you do a reboot, when your iPhone comes back up, the [...]

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iPhone 2.1 Bug Watch: SMS Security and Mail Phishing/Spamming

Reader Karl writes in to let us know his twelve year old son discovered a glitch in SMS security:

Being security conscious he turned on the passcode lock and disabled SMS Preview. [...] If a message is received during the passcode entry or while the screen is locked, a generic message of “New Text Message” appears, [...]

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Cellular Data Meter a Little Untrustworthy?

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tsopanos emails in and points us to this iPhone Hellas story. Yes, it is literally Greek to us (groan), so here’s a Google Translation.

Here’s the scoop: the Data Meter on the iPhone is very helpful for letting you know how much data you’ve used, as Rene pointed out a few weeks ago. Sadly: it’s [...]

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