I had an issue with people trying to send iMessages to my phone number. for some reason ios7 had set iMessages to only send to my email address and not to my phone number. to fix it, I had to get the help from my boss at work :) its Read more…
This is an excellent setting! when you get an alert in ios6 for a new sms, or email, or imessage then your phone will beep at you till you read it. you can turn off the repeated alert notifications pretty easily though: goto: settings > notifications > messages > repeat Read more…
This post will show you hoe to delete the history of your chat messages in osx iMessage. firstly, you should disable chat history, this will stop all chats from being stored (but it wont delete the ones already saved) to disable chat history goto: imessage > preferences > messages untick Read more…
When trying to login you get a message similar to cannot verify login with facetime or messages on osx. warning: this is quite a complex set of instructions. In the end I ended up creating a new user account on my mac and transferring my documents to the new user Read more…
In osx mountain lion you can send imessage messages (or google chat / facebook chat if thats setup in your messages app) directly from the addressbook / contacts app open addressbook / contacts find the contact you want to message click on the ‘mobile’ or ‘phone’ or ’email’ tag next Read more…
This post will show you how to merge or show all imessage contacts in one window or contact list. open imessages goto preferences > general tick the box that says ‘show all contacts in one list’ you are now done :D
Google two factor authentication is causing problems for osx. if you had your google account setup in previously, you only needed one password for all apps to use now, if you have googles two factor auth, then you need to setup passwords for each app. i think its from a Read more…
How to sync imessages between iphone ipad and mac osx Once you have setup your mac and iOS device to use the same method to send and receive iMessages then anyone who sends you an iMessage (ether to your phone number or email address) will have that message delivered to Read more…
I tried to add a new contact from an sms message in my iphone, it was not obvious at first jow to do it. what you have to do is: scroll to the very first message from that contact. you will see an ‘add to contacts’ button. you can then Read more…
Imessage does not show contacts list in messages. By default when you open the imessages application it shows the sent / received window. This is ok if you are only going to send and receive to imessages contacts as you can search them from the search bar. It does get Read more…
You can download and install the public beta version of the upcoming mountain lion messages app right now! you can get the app from here When you install Messages, it replaces iChat. But iChat services will continue to work. And Messages brings iMessage to the Mac â just like on Read more…
The interwebs are all a-tweet with the news of osx mountain lion. it will bring with it a few things that I had pointed out for osx lion, most notable are airplay mirroring for your desktop, notes from the ipad, reminders from the ipad, imessage and notification center :D there Read more…
This will show you how to use ichat or imessage to talk to msn on osx, without using the jabber method. go to cocoon.drinkbrainjuice.com download and install their (beta) plugin open ichat > preferences > accounts click ‘add’ pick ‘MSN’ from the list enter your details! You now have MSN Read more…
Ok, so ive been using osx lion and ios5 since they launched. ios5 is nice, notification center and imessage are fantastic. airplay mirroring is an excellent idea too. now, if osx lion had airplay mirroring it would be awesome, I wouldnt have to plug my macbook pro into the telly. Read more…