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Quick Video on how you can create a iPhone Contact on iOS5 operating system, on a apple iphone 4s in white 16gb model
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iPhone 4 / 4S How To: Insert / Remove a SIM Card

This video shows you how to insert the SIM card into the Apple iPhone 4S and can also be replicated on the iPhone 4. Directions: 1. Locate the MicroSIM Slot 2. Use a paperclip and align end with the pinhole 3. Push paperclip in until the tray slides out 4. Remove tray and fit the MicroSIM card (contact point facing down) 5. Align the two pin holes and reinsert tray into phone 6. Press tray into phone and that's it – drink a beer!
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Popular iPhone social network, Path has been updated again, this time to version 2.1.1 to further address the privacy concerns that gained widespread media attention over the last couple of months. The new version of Path will hash your Contact data including names, e-mail addresses, Twitter handles, and Facebook profile IDs. Hashing basically takes the data and applies a cryptographic algorithm to it that renders it unintelligible to anyone who might try to intercept it as it’s transmitted between your device and Path’s server. (A so-called “man in the middle” attack.)

We take privacy and security seriously, and we believe your data deserves to be well-protected. That’s why, with the release of Path 2.1.1, we are enhancing our security by hashing user contact data so that it is anonymized. This means last names, phone numbers, email addresses, Twitter handles and Facebook IDs. We collect this data to connect you with those who are closest to you.

The extra precautions are welcome, and if it increases sensitivity to privacy in general, well worth the controvery and attention it got a while back. It wasn’t the first time, it won’t be the last, but hopefully it will become even less frequent going forward.

Although developers should be responsible with how they store and utilize people’s data, it’s also vital for us to understand how our data can be used online. Apps like Girls Around Me used data in a way that can be described as just plain scary. The worst part is they weren’t really pulling anything that the entire world didn’t already have access to. This is why it’s so important for users to understand how to change and edit their privacy settings across all social networks. And the best rule still applies — if you don’t want the whole world to know or see something, just don’t post it to begin with.

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Dustin Curtis points out that in the latest developer seed of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple now requires OS X Apps to get explicit permission to access your address book information.

The move mirrors recent changes made to iOS which will also ask the user for permission for an App to access their contact data. The change in policy came after it was revealed that some iOS apps were quietly collecting and transmitting customer address book data without their permission.

At the time, Apple issued this statement:“Apps that collect or transmit a user’s contact data without their prior permission are in violation of our guidelines,” Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr told AllThingsD. “We’re working to make this even better for our customers, and as we have done with location services, any app wishing to access contact data will require explicit user approval in a future software release.”The policy now appears to extend to OS X Mountain Lion as well as iOS. Users can later manage these permissions in a new “Privacy” tab in System Preferences.

For a long time now, Apps have been able to access your Camera Roll as long as you give the app permission to access your location. The reason it needs that permission is that there may be geolocation (GPS) date included in your photos, and Apple protects that. Once you grant the location permission, however, the app has unfettered access to your photos and can do pretty much anything it wants with them, including great things like applying filters, doing edits, and sharing via social services. That’s how all the popular photography apps work.

It’s a non-intuitive, and frankly a little confusing way to handle Camera Roll access, but it shows Apple has thus far focused on protecting location data more than other type of data, including your photos. That means, yes, theoretically, a fake, malicious app could be created just to trick you into giving them location permission, and then they could steal your photos.

But that could happen with all sorts of content, with all sorts of malicious apps.

So is it worth pointing out? Absolutely. Is it worth sensationalizing? No, of course not.

This issue with the Camera Roll has been widely known for years. It’s not new. It’s just timely given the recent brouhaha over iOS apps uploading Contact information without permission. (Which was also widely known before the latest outcry.)

Apple has indicated they’ll be adding Contact permission settings in a future update of iOS, perhaps even iOS 5.1 expected to be released next month alongside the iPad 3. However, there’s a greater issue concerning iOS and privacy, and the manageability of privacy options that Apple still needs to address.

So, while nothing new and a tad sensational, it’s good that these issues are getting attention, and that privacy is considered something platform makers like Apple need to keep in mind. Hopefully the renewed attention leads to better privacy protections for everyone.

More: 9to5Mac, New York Times

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Cydia Tweak: Quicktweet- Notification Center On Ipod Touch, Iphone and Ipad

In this video, I will show you how to tweet from your notification center. Contact: twitter: twitter.com Google+ plus.google.com Facebook Page: on.fb.me Other channel: youtube.com htte://youtube.com/TheCanTran/ Send me stuff: TechFilmsProductions@gmail.com
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What do some popular iOS apps to with your Contact data? Do they grab it without permission, transmit it without protection, and store it without regard to privacy? Or do they treat it right, with respect and responsibility? That’s the question both Dieter Bohn of The Verge and Matthew Panzarino of The Next Web sought to answer today.

The reason for the sudden interest — in a years old problem — is because a popular app, Path, was discovered taking users Contact data without asking, and uploading it in an insecure way to their servers. It wasn’t nefarious; as with other apps that do likewise, they were trying to provide a service — match users with friends who are also users. They just coded first, asked questions never.

For more background, and the solution iMore would like Apple to implement, see our recent editorial: iOS 6 and privacy: How Apple should draw inspiration from Android for better app permissions

The Verge spent the day packet sniffing popular apps, basically running their own man-in-the-middle attack, to see if any Contact data was being transmitted and if so, how it was being handled. The Next Web received an assist from Tweetbot developer Paul Haddad, who ran his own, similar tests.

Of the apps found to be on the naughty list, or in the gray-zone, it sounds like the publicity will be causing swift updates.

Hit the links below to see the results.

Source: The Verge, The Next web

Like with Notification Center, Apple should look to and improve on what Google’s done with Android to better keep our Contacts safe.

Earlier this week the internet got itself into a kerfuffle over Path, a small-circle social networking app for the iPhone, which took Contact information without asking and openly transmitted it to Path’s servers. It’s an important issue to be sure, one worth getting into a kerfuffle over, and Path eventually apologized and vowed to make changes. But Path was only one of many, many apps to act this way.

A couple of years ago there was a similar kerfuffle over Dragon Dictation when Nuance was transmitting Contact information to their servers as well. Nuance did this, it turns out, so that its server-side voice recognition services could better understand the names of your friends and family.

Path, it turns out, did this so it could notify you if your friends and family were already using, or started using, their service and offer to connect you in the app as well. (Though the “open transmission” part was concerning — hashing or otherwise encrypting the data between iPhone and server would have been a good idea.)

It could have been any of a number of other apps in Path’s place, however, if they’d been discovered first. Many of them are now updating, adding security if they weren’t already, and custom-making request popups for user permission before transmitting Contact information. And that’s a good thing. But it exposes a problem with the way Apple currently handles user privacy on the iPhone.

If an app, any app, even a built-in Apple app, wants to know your location, it has to ask for permission. If it wants to send you Push Notifications, it has to ask for permission. If it wants to access Twitter integration, it has to ask for permission. If it wants access to any of your personal information, however, like Contacts, it doesn’t have to ask at all.

Apple should change that, of course. They should require that apps ask permission to access Contacts — and Calendars, and any other personal data — and insist any information be transferred in a secure manner, and never be stored permanently on a developer’s servers.

Just like with Push Notifications back before iOS 5, however, their popup requester system doesn’t scale. Right now, if you launch a new Twitter app for the first time and you get popup after popup, asking you to tap to approve Twitter account access, location, and Push Notification. Imagine when Contact access, Calendar access, and conceivably other information is added to the list. As the number of popups grow, the likelihood that a user will read and consider each one falls precipitously. They’ll just start tapping through to get to their app.

Current iOS permission requests come via popups, which limits their scalability.

There’s a school of thought that says inattentive users deserve what they get — if they don’t read, they abdicate their right to complain later. Apple doesn’t usually subscribe to that school of thought, however. That’s probably why they’ve kept permission requesters to a minimum for now.

Just like with Push Notifications, however, a better solution exists outside popups, and Android could once again be drawn upon for inspiration.

Android requires an app to list all the services it wants access to when you buy it

When you browse an app on the Android Market, whether via the web or in the Market app proper, there’s a clearly defined place see what permissions that app will require. Arguably, Android presents way too many permissions and users might not bother to read them any more than they would a popup, but having them there as a permanent reference is invaluable.

Even on the web, Android Market presents you a list of permissions requested by an app

for iOS 6, Apple could do what they did with Notification Center in iOS 5, remove the cumbersome nature of popups, simplify Android’s implementation, and, when an app launches, present a simple sheet of toggles allowing a user to pick and choose which ones they’re willing to grant access to.

Mockup: What an iOS 6 "Permissions" sheet could look like, providing persistent access to information and toggles

Things like storage access are more noise than information, but Contacts and other areas that touch on personal information should absolutely be there.

Likewise, the permissions sheet could be kept available in the settings for the app (or in the general Settings.app), so users could easily change them at any time. Under special circumstances, if a service is absolutely required for an app to work — for example, location is required for a photo editing app to access potentially geo-tagged photos in the Camera Roll — then a popup could be generated explaining the situation.

For special circumstances, when an app absolutely needs a specific permission to function, a popup could then be used to inform the user.

Adding a list of permissions each app requires to the App Store, on device, in iTunes, and on the web would be a nice-to-have as well.

Path deserved the push-back they got for doing what they did with Contacts, but Apple deserves push-back for letting them do it in the first place.

Apple has shown a relentless drive to tackle the rough edges of iOS in recent releases, and as iPhones and iPads become more powerful and apps more sophisticated, privacy becomes one of the rough edges they need to get a handle on quickly.

They’ve used Privacy as a differentiator from the competition in the past, and Notifications and Location Services in iOS 5 are a huge leap forward when it comes to granularity and usability. Hopefully Apple brings it all together, and gathers up the loose ends like Contacts, in iOS 6.

Find a Contact using Microsoft Lync for iPhone

Quick video that shows how to find a contact using Microsoft Lync for iPhone. Microsoft Lync mobile clients enable you to stay connected wherever you are.
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