Friday, October 26, 2012

TIPS & TRICKS: iPhone Syncing Error

Syncing my iPhone with iTunes on my workstation yielded an error message that said "The iPhone cannot be synced. An unexpected error occurred (1150)." The only way I could figure out a way around this error was to disable all restrictions on the iPhone itself. I tried disabling individual restrictions, but nothing worked. Only completely disabling all restrictions helped the sync complete.

Oh, it also helps to unplug the sync cable if you have it plugged in after disabling all restrictions. Unplugging and replugging the iPhone to the computer seems to tell iTunes that changes were actually made.

Hope that helps you.


Wednesday, October 17, 2012

TIPS & TRICKS: Force Facebook to Clear Page Cache

To be clear, this tool really refreshes Facebook's cache of a particular page. In addition, this tool doesn't clear any caches in Facebook pages. Rather, it checks third party pages for updated content.

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

I came across this while posting a status update with a link on a Page I manage. The link's preview showed some outdated information, which I knew had been updated already. Using this developer tool helped to update the cache to show the current information on the link preview.