Error Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Safari users seeing random '404 not found' on valid support.apple.com pages

by TJ Luoma (Feb 2nd, 2012)

For the past few weeks, I have run into a problem with links to Apple.com coming up 404 "not found." Specifically, these have all been links to pages on http://support.apple.com/. For example, this morning I did a Google search for 10.7.3 combo. One of the first results was a link to ...

iPhone 4S-specific iOS build is for "No SIM Card Installed" errors

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 19th, 2011)

Last Thursday Apple quietly issued a new build of iOS 5.0.1 specifically for the iPhone 4S. There were no release notes issued with the new build and users who had already installed and earlier build of 5.0.1 on their iPhone 4S couldn't update to the new one without restoring their iPhone. The ...

Developers bemoan trouble with in-app purchases

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 23rd, 2011)

Twitter was buzzing this morning about a problem with Apple's in-app purchasing system. According to the comments, Apple's receipt verification system is down and developers are losing potential sales. An unconfirmed report from Engadget suggests, Apple may be trying to purge the system of fake ...

iTunes servers appear to be wonky today

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 20th, 2011)

It started with a few tweets and progressed to our own internal tests, and it would appear as though Apple's iTunes servers are, at some level, not working properly. For me, it began with an all-too-familiar timeout while trying to update apps. Then I tried to download the currently-free ...

iTunes - the item you tried to buy is no longer available

by TJ Luoma (Sep 13th, 2010)

I tried to update my iOS apps today using iTunes and was greeted with this error. Given that I had told iTunes to update all of the 60+ apps it told me were out of date, this was hardly helpful. There are a lot of things wrong with this error message. First of all, it gives me absolutely no idea ...

Sixteen new Apple patents, from CoverFlow to iDVD

by Mike Schramm (Apr 8th, 2010)

The USPTO published a whole slew of new patent applications from Apple today, covering everything from iChat to some CoverFlow animation. Patently Apple has the whole writeup as usual. Probably the most interesting thing among them is a "virtual keyboard for media players" that uses a modified ...

About the 1st generation iPhone/push notification post: an apology

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 20th, 2009)

On Tuesday evening, in the leadup to the release of the iPhone 3.0 firmware update, TUAW ran a post that included wrong information. The post stated that first-generation iPhone owners would not be able to use the push notification feature of 3.0 and receive phone calls at the same time. This was ...

Timezone confusion baffles eager 3.0 downloaders

by Michael Rose (Jun 17th, 2009)

We're not innocent of error, and on occasion we create our own dramatic bits of fail, but in this case we can help clarify things: If you are visiting an "official Apple site" that shows a release date of June 18 for the iPhone 3.0 software update, take a closer look at that URL before you start ...

Firefox 3 and MobileMe not working? It might be Ubiquity plugin

by Robert Palmer (Jan 27th, 2009)

While this might not be news for everyone, reader Brad and I seemed to be having the same problem: Using Firefox 3, we would see the "unsupported browser" message pictured while trying to use me.com. Obviously, Firefox 3 is a supported browser for MobileMe. A TUAW colleague gave it a try and found ...

iPhone 101 (Canadian edition): Don't forget to sync with iTunes

by Jason Clarke (Jul 18th, 2008)

For the past year when it comes to the iPhone, us Canadians have had to watch enviously as our American neighbors got to have all the fun. Well, no more! As of today I have joined the ranks of the enlightened -- at least, my wallet has been "lightened". I am, like many of you, a software junkie. As ...

Apple leaves placeholder text in a published MobileMe page, eh?

by Cory Bohon (Jun 23rd, 2008)

Canada has many things going for it: maple trees everywhere, single-payer health care system and a one-of-a-kind Apple page. One of our readers just tipped us about an error on the MobileMe signup completion page for Canada. Apparently, Apple's designers left in some placeholder text on the signup ...

What's Keeping Me? 1.0.5

by Cory Bohon (Jun 19th, 2008)

Have you ever tried to empty the Trash on your Mac only to receive a dreaded message that said the trash couldn't be emptied because a file was in use? Well, "What's Keeping Me" hopes to solve this problem with it's advanced trash-error detection technology (we kid, it's really just magic). If ...

Mail slowing you down? Rebuild its database

by David Chartier (Apr 12th, 2006)

Apple's flagship email client had me banging my head against a wall again when I finally dug up this tip on rebuilding Mail.app's 'Envelope Index' SQLite database at Hawk Wings (If you're wondering what that file is all about, check out Hawk Wing's "What's in your Mail folder?" post). ...

iTunes 6.0.3: "the digital signature for this package is incorrect?"

by David Chartier (Feb 15th, 2006)

I'm no software expert, but if you receive an error similar to the one I have pictured here when trying to install the iTunes 6.0.3 update that Dave Caolo just mentioned, I wouldn't recommend following through. I have no idea what this could mean or what could have caused it, but I think this is ...

Fix for .Mac sync errors with Mail and random signatures

by David Chartier (Dec 24th, 2005)

I recently set Mail on both of my Macs to chose a random signature. From time to time during a .Mac sync, I'll receive an obnoxious sync error claiming that a 'default' signature on one Mac is conflicting with the other. No matter which signature I choose to resolve the conflict, the sync process ...

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