Along with Apple’s FaceTime beta release came a new iTunes Store account security flaw. While people were poking around in the app, they noticed that they could easily access their iTunes Store accounts right from the app. In doing so, they’re able to update their account settings without re-entering the iTunes Store password. To make matters worse, the application automatically saves your username and password even if you sign out — as demonstrated in the Gallery of pictures attached to this post. While the original intention of this post was to show you a quick fix through the removal of a .plist, it seems Apple has beaten me to the quick fix punch. First, the easy… yet annoying fix: Go to your User Folder / Library / Preferences and delete com.apple.FaceTime.plist That will reset the settings for the app and clear out your password. If you’re like me, you probably played with this app as soon as possible. This meant that I installed FaceTime and signed into my iTunes Store account on a friend’s machine so I could test it out. I obviously didn’t want to leave them with access to my stuff so I immediately went to remove the .plist. [...]
Apple introduces FaceTime for Mac (beta)
One more thing from this morning’s press event: Apple’s bringing FaceTime to the Mac. This comes as no surprise due to the heavy integration of iOS design concepts in Mac OS Mufasa (Lion). FaceTime is video calling app that Apple added to the iPhone 4 and the 4th Generation iPod touch. It was pretty limited considering the fact that there aren’t many 4th Generation iOS devices in the wild… my wife doesn’t even have (or want) one. It’s nice to see it make its way to the Mac, but I have a question: why not just integrate it with iChat? Mac users are familiar with iChat — I daresay that a lot of people buy Macs because they think the video chat capabilities look cool and easy. Adding the video calling features under the name of FaceTime convoluted Apple’s branding: they created feature duplication between iChat and FaceTime. Sure, iChat couldn’t video chat with phones previously but it’s perfectly capable of video chat. That brings me to my next question, why didn’t Apple just create iChat for iOS? That would have had the video calling and give us the coveted iChat interface. (As a side note, Apple seriously needs to [...]