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iPhone App: Photo Phonebook

joelaz:

This useful, free iPhone app updates your phone’s address book with your friends’ profile pictures from Facebook. That way, when people call, you see their photo instead of just caller-ID. It takes just a minute to update hundreds of contacts. Note: when you get to the screen that shows all the available pictures for import, there’s a check box that says something like “request updated photos from friends.” I unchecked that option since I thought it would email all my friends as a way to virally market the app (ie. spam all my contacts).

This app is utter fucking garabage, and I’m angry at myself for falling for it. After making an account in their service, giving them my phone number and logging into facebook, it came back with zero picture out of 300+ contacts. Not only was it a waste of time, but according to the TOS, they now have complete permission to SMS spam me. Awesome.

Their TOS also states that users can delete or edit information at any time, but there is no way to do that on the site. All I could do was change my name to a fake name, change my picture to some random thing on the internet, and email “support” asking why I can’t remove my info. Horrible app.

Edit: Support emailed me back, saying that the “delete function is in the works” and offering to manually remove my account. They get one point for that, but it’s still a bullshit app.

Have you tried this out?

http://lifehacker.com/software/address-book/download-of-the-day-facebooksync-mac-250072.php

Source: joelaz