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Increasing Facebook Security with an SMS Password

Dave Taylor shares another tech tips video to help you increase your Facebook account security by connecting it to your cell phone and setting an SMS password.

Keywords: Inside Scoop, facebook, security, sms, password

Question answered on September 23, 2011 at 10:57 AM :: Comments to date: 0

How can I hide incoming text messages on my iPhone?

Okay, this is embarrassing. I was at an important business meeting and as usual, we all put our cellphones in the middle of the table before we started talking. Then a text message from my girlfriend showed up on my iPhone 4 with a, um, suggestive picture of her. My boss grabbed it, read the message out to everyone and raised his eyebrows at the photo. Super embarrassing! Short of telling her not to text me, how can I avoid this kind of situation in the future?

Question answered on April 25, 2011 at 08:05 AM :: Comments to date: 3

Save the number of a text message sender on my iPhone?

I would like to know how to save the number of a person that has sent me a text message on my iphone 4! Thank you so much

Question answered on April 9, 2011 at 08:23 AM :: Comments to date: 3

SMS text message fail on my iPhone? Now what?

I've never seen this before, but on the icon for Messages on my iPhone 4, there's a small white exclamation mark in a red circle. Not a number indicating how many new text messages I have, but an exclamation mark. Apparently that shows up when something failed. Now what??

Question answered on January 19, 2011 at 08:24 AM :: Comments to date: 3

Include a photo in an iPhone SMS text message?

My sister sends photographs in the text messages she sends me from her iPhone, but on my iPhone I can't see how to do the same thing. Is there some trick to this, or something I need to enable on the iPhone to text message photos? Or is it something I need to sign up for with AT&T?

Question answered on January 14, 2011 at 08:46 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How do I copy / paste a Web URL on my iPhone?

Sometimes when I'm browsing the Web on my Apple iPhone 4, I bump into a Web page that I'd like to send to a friend or two via text message. I know that there's a way to email someone the URL of a page I'm viewing, but how can I just get the URL into the copy/paste buffer so I can paste it anywhere?

Question answered on January 1, 2011 at 08:36 AM :: Comments to date: 1

iPhone beep repeatedly on new text messages?

This is just weird. In the last month or so my Apple iPhone has started beeping for an incoming text message multiple times if I don't indicate that I've read it, whereas before it just notified me once and was satisfied with that. Has something evil happened to my iPhone that everything's in triplicate now?

Question answered on November 27, 2010 at 08:56 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How to set a custom iPhone text message alert?

In the latest version of Apple's iPhone operating system (iOS), I understand that you can now set custom text message alert tones on a per-person basis, which is awesome: I'll then know who a text message is from before I even look at the phone. Nice. But how do I actually set up these custom alert sounds on my iPhone?

Question answered on November 26, 2010 at 08:06 AM :: Comments to date: 0

How can I text message an iPhone map to a friend?

I don't know how the heck he did it, but my boyfriend just texted me a pushpin from his iPhone and when I tapped on it, it transferred the point to my iPhone map application. I want to be able to do the same, so can you enlighten me please, Dave? You're my last hope of saving face!

Question answered on November 15, 2010 at 08:22 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How can I save a text message on an iPhone 4?

How do I save a text message on my Apple iPhone 4? Can I forward it to an email address on my phone, for example?

Question answered on August 6, 2010 at 08:53 AM :: Comments to date: 3

How do I enable "emoji" on my iPhone?

I got a text from a friend of mine, iPhone to iPhone, and darn if she didn't have all sorts of cute little icons in her message to me. When I asked how she did it, she said "emoji!" I have no idea what that is or what it means, but I really want to be able to respond in kind ASAP. Help?!

Question answered on January 29, 2010 at 08:35 AM :: Comments to date: 5

How do I send a TXT message like "HAITI" to a numeric shortcode on my iPhone?

I've been hearing a lot about how the American Red Cross has raised millions of dollars in relief funds for the Haitians through people "texting 'HAITI' to 90999" but I have an iPhone and I know how to send text messages to my friends by finding them in my Contacts app, but how do I send a text message like that to a non-phone number numeric code [they're called "shortcodes" in the industry, btw --Ed]?

Question answered on January 18, 2010 at 09:05 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How can I stop Twitter sending updates to my cellphone?

I've signed up for Twitter and am having lots of fun with it, but every time I add someone new, all of their Tweets end up going to my cellphone as SMS text messages. This is bad, and it's driving me crazy. Is there some easy way to fix this?

Question answered on March 29, 2008 at 08:24 AM :: Comments to date: 1




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