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myapplestore@mac.com iPhone Problem

July 14, 2008 By Troy 1 Comment

I will do a  writeup soon on my experience buying the new iPhone 3G, but for now I wanted to share the fix for any new iPhone users who have tried to access the iTunes store / iPhone applications area to install new programs on their iPhone, only  to be plagued by a certain error:

The email address myapplestore@mac.com has been registered to your iPhone.

This error occurs during the in-store activation if the person activating your iPhone went the “extra mile” of service.  Unfortunately,  it also activates your iPhone with the apple store’s username and password.

You can tell if your new iPhone is doing this by opening up the application store, searching for an application, and trying to install it on your iPhone.  If the email address under ACCOUNT sales myapplestore@mac.com  – then yep, you need to do one more small step before you can access the store.

SOLUTION:

You need to sync at least one playlist or content from your computer/iTunes account to your iPhone.

You will then be asked to register the computer with the phone, which you will click on Yes, and the phone will sync and then magically have your email address plugged into it instead of myapplestore@mac.com.

While some people might sync as soon as they get it, I wanted to install apps as soon as I could, which was my problem.

so there you have it – that is the easiest and fasted way to solve the iPhone application store myapplestore@mac.com issue.

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Big Fish Gets Cut Down To Size – And Smiles

July 8, 2008 By Troy 3 Comments

Last year I went to PodCamp Boston 2 to listen to some of the top thinkers in the social media / podcasting world.   I went there with the perception that I was very isolated living here in Iowa, and there were no like-minded people in the area that could possible be interested in the same things as I was, and certainly nobody along the lines of my mentors Chris Brogan, CC Chapman, Jeff Pulver and others.

Enter a couple of months ago.

Because of a chance mention by a friend that Iowa native Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome fame was coming back to the area for a couple of days, I went to downtown Des Moines, and my perception of the area changed forever.

Sure this isn’t Los Angeles, San Francisco or even Boston – but I have learned that Des Moines has its own market share of new media thinkers and strategists that were just looking to be connected.

I have since joined a group called #dmtweetup, a bunch of people in the area who get together almost spontaneously for a drink, or just to get together.  While the majority of the members seem to be in the tech field, there are people from all industries present, with one common thread – they have embraced the power of Twitter to market their businesses and skills.

I have also been going to meetings that is officially called “Central Iowa Bloggers” but is also known as The Des Moines Bloganostra.   This group is more unanimously comprised of people working in technolog – bloggers, web designers, marketers, etc.  We get together the first Friday at a local Panera in West Des Moines to share tips, techniques and URLs.

Through these groups I have found out that I am hardly alone in the new media world here in Des Moines.  There is actually a new media marketing firm in Des Moines, Podcasting News is based in Des Moines, The Age of Conversation project is organized by Drew in Des Moines, the world’s first social bank is in Des Moines, and it continues.

With this new-found knowledge and professional associations, I am seriously considering a move to Des Moines from Ames in the future.  It is quite humbling to find out I’m not such a big fish in a small pond as I thought.  But the opportunity to actually challenge myself and learn new techniques from these new associations is very exciting.   Thank you to everybody I have met in the last few months, and here’s looking forward to some great years coming up!

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