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		<title>TidBITS: Comments on Caller ID in Messages Helps to Direct iMessages</title>
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		<description>Confused about where iMessages get delivered across iOS devices and Macs running Mountain Lion? A Caller ID option in the preferences for the iOS and Mountain Lion Messages apps provides the answer.</description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Glenn Fleishman]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:43:32 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Glenn Fleishman)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[As long as someone is using Messages in iOS (and has iMessage turned on) or Messages in Mountain Lion (and is directed to a phone number that has an iMessage icon next to it in the pop-up menu), it's an iMessage.<br><br>You can use Messages to send iMessages to any address that's associated with the Apple ID that's logged in for iMessage <b>plus</b> the phone number of an iPhone.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Dan]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:32:20 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Dan)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[So, the thing I don't understand completely!  if I set my iPhone's caller ID to my Apple ID and someone texts to my phone number, will the person texting to the phone number still be sending an iMessage?  If I knew for sure I could set the caller ID and still have the phone number behave the same as it does now on the iPhone, I would do it.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from gugus2000]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:29:58 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (gugus2000)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Sending an imessage from iPhone to an email address breaks fallback to SMS text because there is no way to know which phone number to send the sms to. Just filed a bugreport requesting that phone numbers can be associated with Messages.app accounts]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Glenn Fleishman]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:01:53 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Glenn Fleishman)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[I haven't tested whether Apple allows + addresses (which work with some services, but not all). Some sites won't let you use a + even though that's perfectly legitimate.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Matt J]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:50:15 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Matt J)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[One thing worth bearing in mind - rather than setting up lots of email accounts per device, you can use the + notation, ie: user+ipad@example.com, user+iphone@example.com - should stop you having to create lots of different email addresses.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Adam Engst]]></title>
			<link>http://db.tidbits.com/article/13186?rss#comments_15334</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:53:26 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Adam Engst)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Sounds like he needs to make sure a particular email address is set in Settings &gt; Messages &gt;Receive At and then you need to direct messages to that address.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from robert blunt]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:53:54 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (robert blunt)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to "Message" someone I work with in China.  He has a Iphone 4.0 but have been unable to connect with him on Mountain Lion or on my wifi Ipad 3.    On my Iphone 4 it works just fine.  He is on a U.S Carrier.   Got any ideas how can we hook up?  He has "message" on his iphone enabled.  Thanks]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Glenn Fleishman]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:18:52 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Glenn Fleishman)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Another whole kettle of fish!]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Kishi]]></title>
			<link>http://db.tidbits.com/article/13186?rss#comments_15251</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:33:43 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Kishi)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Send all messages to my Phone number no matter the device!  Simple]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Scott Rose]]></title>
			<link>http://db.tidbits.com/article/13186?rss#comments_15246</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:58:10 EDT</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Scott Rose)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[What about phone numbers in OS X? People can send iMessages to my phone number, and they will simultaneously appear on both my iPhone and my iPad (running iOS 6), but the Messages app never receives those iMessages because you can't attach a phone number to the Messages app. Furthermore, if you read an iMessage, it appears as "read" on all your iOS devices, but still shows up as "unread" on your Mac. It's all just too much work and confusion right now (because Apple clearly hasn't thought through any of this), so we've completely disabled the iMessage account within the Messages app on our Mac. Welcome to post-Steve Apple.]]></description>
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