How to remove Facebook friends from your iPhone's contact list

iOS 6 features tighter integration with Facebook, including adding your Facebook friends to your contacts list, not to mention adding their birthdays to your calendar. Learn how to loosen Facebook's grip on your contacts and calendar.

Perhaps I'm slow, but just I noticed that all of my Facebook friends are now littered throughout my iPhone's contacts list. This change is a result of iOS 6's tighter integration with Facebook, so I've been living with it for a few months now. (In my defense, allow me to state that for most calls, I use the Favorites list, where Facebook contacts don't show up instead of the All Contacts list, where they do.)

If you have been living with a contacts list inundated with hundreds of Facebook friends, there is an easy fix. Head to Settings and scroll down until you find Facebook. For the Facebook setting, you'll see a section titled Allow These Apps to Use Your Account. Tap the slider to Off for Contacts. Now, head back to the All Contacts list and you'll see your list returned to its state prior to iOS 6 -- listing only the contacts you entered.

Not allowing Facebook to access your contacts also has another effect: it cleans up the calendar app by removing birthday reminders for your Facebook friends. And if you'd like to keep Facebook events from showing up on your calendar, turn the Calendar slider to Off in Settings > Facebook.

For more, I would direct you to Jason Cipriani's post on Understanding Facebook integration on iOS 6. 

by Matt Elliott

South Indian chicken curry

Ingredients :

    3 green finger chillies, roughly chopped
    ½ tsp turmeric
    ½ tsp ground coriander
    ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
    2 tsp root ginger, peeled and finely grated
    4 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
    1/2 tsp salt
    10 shallots, topped, tailed and cut in half
    4 tbsp sunflower oil
    6-10 curry leaves
    2-4 cloves
    500 g boneless and skinless chicken breasts, cut into 4cm pieces
    200 ml coconut milk
    Plain basmati rice, to serve

Method :
1. In a blender or with a pestle and mortar, blitz the chillies, turmeric, coriander, cinnamon, ginger, garlic, salt and two shallots with 1 tbsp of the oil and 2 tbsp cold water to make a coarse to medium paste.

2. In a bowl, combine the chicken and the spice paste so all the chicken pieces are coated, allow to marinade for 20 minutes or longer if possible.

3. Heat the remaining oil in a heavy-based pan. Add the curry leaves and cloves and fry for 1 minute. Add the chicken and fry for 5 minutes until the spices become fragrant. Leave the remaining paste in the bowl for later.

4. Tip in the remaining shallots and continue frying for 10-12 minutes until they are lightly brown on the outside. Pour 100ml cold water and the coconut milk in the bowl with the remaining spice paste and combine.

5. Pour over the chicken and mix well. Simmer for 5-7 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through. Serve hot with plain basmati rice.