Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat » Starbucks Archives – Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat http://blog.fosketts.net Understanding the accumulation of data Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:40:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= April Fools 2011 Roundup http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/04/01/april-fools-2011-roundup/ http://blog.fosketts.net/2011/04/01/april-fools-2011-roundup/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:29:52 +0000 Stephen http://blog.fosketts.net/?p=5106

I'd love to be greeted by this scene on April 1!

I love April Fools day. Like Halloween, it gives us all a chance to take ourselves a little less seriously and just have some fun. And the best April Fools pranks are those that point out real limitations in our thinking and mindset. That’s always been my April 1 goal: Why not combine Wi-Fi and PoE? And doesn’t the “giant iPod Touch” sound like a hoax?

I’ll be cataloging my favorite April Fools pranks from this year on this page. Check back as I update it!

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Here’s the situation:  You are tired of iTunes syncing whenever you drop your phone into the dock, so you uncheck “automatically sync” in the iPhone Summary page.  While at your local Starbucks, you decide to download the latest from KT Tunstall.  Yup, it downloaded, and you can listen to it.  Later, you place your phone back in the dock and go about your business.  But, surprise surprise, Katie’s song is now gone from your world!  Somewhere, somehow, the iPhone deleted it!

As we all know, Apple doesn’t allow multiple downloads of purchased content.  So what should you do if this happens to you?  Do what I did when “I’m Shipping Up To Boston” vanished:

  1. Open a copy of iTunes that is authorized and linked to your iTunes Store account
  2. Click “iTunes Store”
  3. Click “Account” and log in
  4. Click “Purchase History”
  5. Click the tiny grey arrow in a circle next to the purchase in question
  6. Click the “Report a Problem” button
  7. Click the words “Report a Problem” next to the track in question
  8. Select “I didn’t receive this song” and explain yourself in the box provided
  9. Apple will re-authorize the song(s) in a few days
  10. Then, in iTunes, select “Store” and “Check for Purchases” and the missing tracks will be downloaded
  11. Pray that this doesn’t happen again!

Seems like a weird problem, all told.  One would think that Apple would not allow this kind of weird interaction, lest it discourage people from using the Wi-Fi Music Store!

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