Apps can sometimes be hard to find. You have to go paging through your pages and checking folders just to find that one app you need. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could open apps just by saying the name of the app? Well, you can! Read More →
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How To: Set an Alarm on Your iPhone
For many people, cellphones have replaced the alarm clock. Just about every mobile phone offers some sort of alarm clock feature, and the iPhone is no exception.
Here’s how you can set an alarm (or several alarms) on your iPhone.
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How To: Watch Live Sports on Your iPhone
This feature is a glimpse of what the future will be like. No more big cable subscriptions just to get the few channels you actually watch. You can watch practically anything you want, when you want, on the internet. Sports are no exception.
ESPN has an iPhone app that allows customers of qualified cable providers to watch their ESPN network of channels all right from their iPhones! But yes, there’s a catch. If you read carefully, you would have noticed I said “customers of qualified cable subscribers.” We figure there is some contractual agreement between ESPN and the cable providers that inhibit ESPN from offering this for free. Here’s to hoping someday it all changes for the better!
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How To: Create and Send Awesome Cards to Anybody in the World
This one is just fun. Apple has an app called “Cards” that lets you create stunningly detailed cards to send to family and friends, sent in clean vintage-looking envelopes. And the best part is, you can do it all right from your iPhone… postage included! Your recipient will love it!
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How To: Password Protect Your iPhone
Most people have a lot of personal information–like texts, contacts, pictures, and emails—on their iPhones. But what happens if someone gets ahold of your iPhone? They will have access to all of your personal/private information.
However, there is a simple way to protect all of your private information—set a passcode for your iPhone.
This tutorial will explain (1) how to set a passcode to protect your iPhone, and (2) how to adjust the passcode protection settings to fit your needs.
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How To: Check Your Data Usage
Are you one of the select few iPhone users who nabbed the unlimited data plans before they became extinct? If not, you’re probably stuck with a plan that only allots a certain amount of data for you to use each month. This can make people nervous sometimes because they fear going over their limit and thus getting charged for more.
But fear not! There is a way for you to quickly check your data usage so you can be confident you are well within the confines of your data plan, and likewise you will be able to sleep better at night (maybe!). Read on!
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How To: Use LED Flash As Text Alert
With the addition of the LED flash in Apple’s iPhone 4 and 4S, you can now allow the flash to act as a notification alert. For instance, if your iPhone is sitting on the table facedown and the ringer is on silent, you will see a quick flash of the LED light to grab your attention. Pretty cool, huh? For those of you that used to have Blackberry’s way back in the day, you might recall one of the better features was the versatility of the LED flash indicator. Now, the iPhone has it too. Read on to learn how to set this up within seconds!
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How To: Update Your iPhone
It’s always good to keep your iPhone up-to-date. Keeping your iPhone updated ensures that your iPhone has the latest bug fixes, performance fixes, and has Apple’s latest and greatest features. In fact, Apple just released an iPhone update a few days ago on Wednesday, March 7, 2012.
Updating is super easy, and in this tutorial, I will show you how to do it.
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How To: Make Your iPhone Read Out Loud To You
Have you ever been driving or doing some other activity when you received a long email. You probably wanted to know right away what the email said, but you didn’t want to (or couldn’t) take the time to read it. Speak Selection to the rescue!
With Speak Selection enabled, you can have your iPhone read to you any text that you highlight. This can come in handy when, for instance, you are driving and receive a long email that you want to read.
This tutorial will teach you how to enable and disable Speak Selection, as well as how to adjust the Speak Selection speaking rate.
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How To: Create and Manage Photo Albums All on Your iPhone
I don’t know about you but I take a LOT of pictures with my iPhone. They say the best camera is the one you have with you, and that is definitely the case for me. One thing I loved about the iPhone is the ability to take high quality photos coupled with the ease of editing right on the device with the plethora of photography apps found on the App Store.
Before, all your photos were basically tossed together into one huge photo album on your device unless you went through the pains of organizing them on your computer first. But if you’re like me, you never did. But this has changed!
Now you can create and manage photo albums all on your iPhone. I’ll show you how!
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