Someone elses Facebook profile information syncing to his #DroidX contact record

This is a weird one that I am helping my son to troubleshoot. This is what's happening. 

We have setup his DroidX to connect with Facebook (providing his Facebook login and password) which also lets you synchronize your Facebook contacts with your Google/DroidX contacts. As you know, with a Google account you always have a record for yourself that typically starts with 'me' in the name. We allowed this sync to occur.  All appeared to be fine.

This is where it gets weird.  We then opened up the 'me' contact that represents his own contact information we found not only his own contact info but also someone elses phone number, email address, and date of birth as additional contact details in the same record. 

I think I have discovered what appears to be happening.  The other person (who's contact information is being erroneously added to my sons contact record, has the same name as my son.  Yea, it's a very common name so it happens.  He is also a 'friend' with this person on Facebook, therefore he has access to the contact information in this other persons profile.  Apparently the functionality that synchronizes the Facebook contacts is picking up that other 'like-named' person and assuming it's my sons profile info.  It's combining that with his real profile info on his DroidX phone.

I can think of some interesting tricks to do with this.... like getting specific profile data pushed out to someone else's address book without them knowing it.  Hmmm.... working on testing a few ideas now. 

KEN

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No more forgetting to take AC adapter with me - here's what I did.

As I sat down at Starbucks the other day planning to get some work done, I turned on my computer and got the dreaded "battery is critically low" message.  Yeah, I forgot to plug it in to charge again.  Not only that but I had left the AC adapter at the office.  I decided to fix this.

I "mounted" an AC adapter to the outside of my computer bag.  I used one of the thin Dell AC adapters so it doesn't add bulk to the bag.  The bag has one of those straps on the back to hook it over the handle on larger rolling luggage.  This is a perfect place to attach the adapter using it's cord strap and a few nylon tie wraps.  One wire runs into the compartment where the PC is and the other end (AC plug) can be pulled out and plugged in.

It works well and mounting the adapter like this doesn't take up precious storage space inside the bag.  Something else I realized is that this keeps the adapter away from the notebook, especially the screen.  So if the bag gets squished I'm not going to end up putting pressure on the notebook screen.  When I put the computer in the bag I instinctively plug the power cord into the notebook.  It helps if the power jack on your notebook is on the top or bottom edge.  Whenever the bag is near an outlet I plug it in.  When I am using the notebook I just take it out of the bag, leaving the power cord attached - unless I need ultimate mobility. 

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You are looking at the owner of the last #DroidX available in this market

My oldest holding his new pride and joy.

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After iPhone OS4 update, Bluetooth may act weird. I fixed it by doing this.

After updating my 3GS I noticed that Bluetooth audio didn't sound that
great, there was obviously some breakage up as if some of the audio
stream were getting dropped or clipped. I have a BlueAnt Q1.

Removing and re-pairing the headset resolved it but only when I did a
reset after removing the device.

The steps:

1. In Settings, General, Bluetooth select the device and then select
'Forget this device'.

2. Reset the iPhone (hold the home and top buttons, etc).

3. Pair the headset with the phone again.

All was working fine again.

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Found interesting use for video recorder in my phone for troubleshooting

A 'blue screen of death' was popping up on one of my old notebooks that the kids use. Problem was that the message flashed for only milliseconds and then the system would reboot. I went through this about a half dozen times and just could not read what the error was.

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I broke out my iPhone and video taped this sequence. Then played it back and was able to find the frame where the error message displayed and was able to read what the error was. Take a look at the clip. If you stop it at the correct frame you will see that it looks like sad news about the hard drive.

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