E Online articles always display an error message using Safari Mobile

iPhone firmware: 5.1.1

I keep wondering if I am the only one who is seeing this.

For several weeks now, I have never once been able to get an article from E! Online to work correctly on my iPhone.

Every article I have loaded from E! Online, gives me the following error message:

"This page contains the following errors:

error on line 121 at column 50: EntityRef: expecting ';"

Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error."

I see the top of each article, but I am unable to scroll the page up, to read the article. I have gotten this problem 20+ times. Each time i've gone to Google News to look at featured entertainment articles, selected an E! Online link, and gotten stuck on a page with the same error message from above.

Repro Steps:

1. On an iPhone, use Safari Mobile to travel to an E! Online web page

2. Note error message and inability to scroll down through article

Result: My iPhone hasn't displayed a single E! Online article correctly for weeks

Expected: I expect no error message from E! Online articles that I read on an iPhone using Safari Mobile

Repro Rate: On my iPhone, 100 %.

The above screenshot is what i've been seeing on my iPhone for weeks now.

This is from this url: http://iphone.eonline.com/article?id=...

Fontly iPhone App - Can't access the camera roll.

I just downloaded the Fontly app.

The app is a terrific idea!

That said, I do have a complaint.

In iTunes, the pictures included which show the app, include a picture which makes it look as if it is possible for the user to upload a photo from the camera roll of the iPhone.

I looked, and looked, and looked.  And, unless it is right in front of my nose and I just don't see, there doesn't look to be a way to access the camera roll.

Please, please, please, include the option to upload from the camera roll.

That, or remove the screenshot which implies that you can!

This is screenshot of the example image which is up for Fontly.  It makes it look as if it is possible for the user to access the camera roll of the phone.

When I click on the camera, I don't see any option to access the camera roll.  How do I access the camera roll?

Booty-Night Facebook error message isn't bootylicious, it's confusing!

Booty-Night iPhone app (version 1.0.1)

As soon as I saw an app named Booty-Night I had to download it!

As soon as I saw an error message in the app, I had to write it down.

To sum my complaint quickly: This app has a Facebook log-in prompt at first launch.  If the user declines the Facebook log-in prompt, and extremely uninformative error message appears.

An error message of:

"The operation couldn't be completed.  (facebookErrDomain error 104.)"

Appears after declining the facebook log-in.  It's a very computer-ish message.  Please see the attached screenshots.

Repro Steps:

1.  Download the Booty-Night iPhone app
2.  Launch the app
3.  From the facebook prompt, cancel the facebook prompt by using the "x" in upper right hand corner of the pop-up
4.  Scratch your head at uninformative error message of "(facebookErrDomain error 104.)"

Result:  Canceling the Facebook prompt on the Booty-Night iPhone app results in an uninformative error message of "(facebookErrDomain error 104.)"

Expected:  No regular human being is going to understand an error message like "(facebookErrDomain error 104.)"

Download the Booty-Night iPhone app.

From the facebook pop-up (which is first thing you see as you enter the app) click on the "x" in upper right hand corner of the pop-up.

You are left with a head scratcher of an error message - "(facebookErrDomain error 104.)"

Thirst iPhone App: Running searches for spaces crashes the app

Thirst iPhone App (version 1.1)

I just downloaded the Thirst iPhone app.  Thirst is a very interesting idea.

I've found an easy way to get the app to crash.

I've downloaded, deleted, and re-downloaded the app, and i've managed to get this to reproduce 10 + times with multiple twitter accounts.

The crash is extremely simple, if you run a search of a "space", a single press of the space bar, the application crashes.

Please see the attached screenshots.

Repro Steps:

1.  Download and launch the Thirst app to try it out
2.  Sign in with a twitter account
3.  From the "Newspaper" page, press the triple line thing in upper left
4.  From sidebar, select "Search"
5.  Run a search of a single space/single press of the spacebar
6.  Wait about 3 seconds

Result:  The Thirst iPhone app is crashing for me 100 percent, when I run a search of a press of the spacebar

Expected:  That the thirst iPhone app won't crash if the user runs a search of a single space/single press of the space bar

Download Thirst from the app store.

After logging in with a Twitter account, select "Search" from the side bar.

Press the <space> button and then run a search for a space.  Wait 3 seconds.  This has crashed my Thirst iPhone app numerous times.

Privacy Policy link on the Mitt VP iPhone App doesn't take user to a privacy policy

Mitt's VP iPhone App (version 1.0.0)

The privacy policy link in the new Mitt's VP app doesn't take you to a privacy policy page... it just takes you to a page that hits you up for a donation!

On the "about" section of the new "Mitt's VP" app, there's a brief paragraph that reads:

"By using this application, you may be placed on Romney for President, Inc.'s contact list to receive campaign updates but may opt out at any time.  Romney for President's regular Privacy Policy shall apply."

Underneath this paragraph that looks as if it should link to a privacy policy.  But, on the iPhone, if you click on this link, you get taken to a page asking for a donation.

No privacy information in sight!

Repro Steps:

1.  Download the Mitt's VP app from the App Store
2.  Launch the new Mitt's VP app
3.  From the home page, you'll see a white "i" in a circle in the upper right hand corner of the screen.  Tap it!
4.  From the "About" screen click on the link labeled privacy
5.  Note that you're not taken to a page with any kind of privacy policy for the app

Result:  The privacy policy link on the "About" section of the new "Mitt's VP" iPhone App doesn't take the user to a privacy policy

Expected:  Every app should have working links to the privacy policy of the organization that released the app

Download the Mitt's VP app.

Click on the "i" in the upper right hand corner of the app.

Click on the privacy link.

Not taken to a page with privacy information.

City Chatter iPhone App: Typo in error message

City Chatter iPhone App (version 1.0)

Today, while half watching the Olympics, I downloaded and played around with the City Chatter iPhone app.  It was pretty fun, and I recommend downloading it to check it out.

There was one minor problem that I discovered during account creation.  I am going to guess this will be very easy to fix.

There's a minor typo on an error message.

On the Sign In screen, the error message for a blank email input box displays as, "Please inout email".



Repro Steps:

1.  Download and launch City Chatter
2.  Select the "Sign in using my email" link
3.  With nothing entered into the Email box, tap on "Sign In"

Result:  The error message for a blank email input box has a typo, the message displays the phrase "Please inout email"

Expected:  That "Please inout email" will be changed to "Please input email"

Trover iPhone app, easy and odd way to get camera pop-up partially off screen!

Trover iPhone App (version 1.4.1)

This is an extremely minor bug with the Trover iPhone app that I had to write down.  I couldn't help myself.

If you haven't downloaded the Trover iPhone app yet, you should.  I've been using it for nearly a year now, and I quite enjoy it.

Anyways, here's an extremely minor bug.  It be quicker to just take a look at the attached screenshots, but what follows is a description of how I can get it to reproduce.  This bug is a "kick yourself" kind of bug, which are my absolute favorites.

Here's how it works:

If you're already created an account, you land on a Trover home screen when you launch the app.

On this home screen, there's a plus in the upper right hand corner of the screen, and 3 lines in the upper left hand corner of the screen.  If you press these two buttons simultaneously (which is, of course, the first thing every end user would do) you can very easily bring up the "Take with camera/Choose from library" menu option in a caddywompus way!

The "Take with camera/Choose from library" option will actually appear nearly entirely off the screen, which is not something i've seen very often in an iPhone app!  And yes, i've been doing stuff like this for years!

Anyhooter, here's some brief repro steps, but in order to see what i'm talking about, just take a look at the attached screenshots.

Repro Steps:

1.  Download Trover and have an active, logged in account
2.  Launch the Trover iPhone app (version 1.4.1)
3.  Use two fingers, and press the plus symbol and 3 lines symbol in unison (takes practice, but once you get in the groove, it's 100 percent)

Result:  Pressing the plus symbol and the 3 lines symbol on the Trover home page results in the "Take with camera/Choose from library" option being partially off screen

Expected:  That pressing the plus symbol and the 3 lines symbol in unions will not result in the camera pop-up option being partially off screen

Launch the Trover iPhone app, take two fingers, and press those two buttons at the top.

Very easy to get the camera choice pop-up to appear partially off screen.