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Apple Fixes Photo Stream Bug With Aperture 3.2.2 Update

Apple Fixes Photo Stream Bug With Aperture 3.2.2 Update

Apple has issued an update to Aperture today which fixes a Photo Stream bug that prevented new images from automatically importing into your library once it had reached 1,000 images. Despite being such a minor fix, however, the update weighs in at a whopping 551 MB.

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Apple: Siri Is Neither Pro-Life Nor Pro-Choice, It’s A Beta

Apple: Siri Is Neither Pro-Life Nor Pro-Choice, It’s A Beta

While Siri will happily find you the ideal location to bury a dead body or pick up an escort, ask her where you can get an abortion and she’s not so happy to comply. In fact, she’ll do the exact opposite and look for anti-abortion pregnancy “crisis” centers.

This makes her an “anti-choice extremist,” according to one petition, which is calling for Apple to make changes to its new intelligent assistant.

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Fix Your Spotlight Search Results By Forcing Spotlight To Re-index [OS X Tips]

Fix Your Spotlight Search Results By Forcing Spotlight To Re-index [OS X Tips]Fix Your Spotlight Search Results By Forcing Spotlight To Re-index [OS X Tips]

I’ve had a few friends experience a problem with their Spotlight search results after upgrading to Mac OS X Lion and at other times for other reasons. They claimed to search for items that they knew were somewhere on their computer, but Spotlight wasn’t able to find them in both cases.

Here’s a down and dirty fix for Spotlight that is useful when Spotlight seems to stop providing the results you expect. It is also useful when you just want Spotlight to re-index your system.

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iPhone 4S Users Around The World Report Frequent Loss of Service For No Apparent Reason

iPhone 4S Users Around The World Report Frequent Loss of Service For No Apparent Reason It seems early iPhone 4S adopters the world over have discovered a new issue with Apple’s latest handset. No, it has nothing to do with poor battery life, but rather a complete loss of signal for no apparent reason. To be clear, this isn’t a new “antennagate” — the issue does not occur while holding the device in a certain position — it’s a new problem that causes the device to lose its signal randomly. Users report they can be enjoying a full five-bar signal one minute, then be greeted by that frustrating “No Service” status the next.

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iOS 5.0.1 Won’t Fix Your Battery Life, But It Will Forget Your Contacts

iOS 5.0.1 Won’t Fix Your Battery Life, But It Will Forget Your Contacts

Apple issued its first iOS 5 update to the public yesterday — an update which was released to fix “bugs affecting battery life” under the latest firmware, amongst other issues. Following the update, however, users have reported that their battery life has seen no improvement, and that iOS 5.0.1 comes with more bugs of its own.

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Apple Updates iPhoto To Version 9.2.1 Fixes Unexpectedly Quitting Bug

Apple Updates iPhoto To Version 9.2.1 Fixes Unexpectedly Quitting Bug

Apple has released an update to iPhoto bring it to version 9.2.1. This update primarily addresses the complaints about iPhoto quitting unexpectedly that we’ve received from Cult of Mac readers.

The update is available now via Software Update on your Mac. Check out the complete details about iPhoto after the break.

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Potential Fix For iOS 5 Bricked First Gen iPads

Potential Fix For iOS 5 Bricked First Gen iPads

William Joye, who originally reported the problem about iOS 5 updates bricking first generation iPads, has reported back that the prescribed fix using Redsn0w fixed the problem with his iPad.

Here are the steps he used to bring his first generation iPad back to life.

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Apple TV iOS 5 Update Got You Down? Then Try This Fix [Work Arounds]

Apple TV iOS 5 Update Got You Down? Then Try This Fix [Work Arounds]

I went to bed last night and my Apple TV stated that the update was gong to take a whopping nine hours. I get up this morning only to find out that it wasn’t even close to being done or that it had even moved along any. It looked stuck. So I started over and guess what?!?!?! The time went from nine hours to an extra galactic 41 hours – I guess the download was coming from the Andromeda galaxy.

Here’s how to work around all this update drama and get the update done in under 15 minutes.

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Apple Quietly Issues a Fix for Flickering Cinema Displays on Thunderbolt Macs

Apple Quietly Issues a Fix for Flickering Cinema Displays on Thunderbolt Macs

If you’ve got a new Thunderbolt-capable Mac and you’ve got it hooked up a 24-inch Cinema Display, you’ve probably encountered a bit of flickering every now and again. I know I have, and so have a number of users on Apple’s discussion forums.

Thankfully, Apple has issued to firmware update to resolve the issue, but it won’t be coming via Software Update.

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How To Fix Self-Assigned IP Addresses In Mac OS X [Video How-To]

How To Fix Self-Assigned IP Addresses In Mac OS X [Video How-To]

Not being able to get online can be a frustrating problem. It can cost hours of time and test your patience. See, Mac OS X doesn’t always work properly all of the time, and will occasionally assign itself an IP address, which will result in you being unable to connect to the internet. Luckily, there is an easy solution. You can use System Preferences to set a new Network Location, as well as renew your DHCP lease to fix the problem. This video will show you how to quickly fix the problem of self assigned IP addresses through System Preferences.