The next time you’re browsing the web and come across a link that points to Twitter, you can immediately jump to the Twitter app if you want to. This is a new ability included in iOS 6 onward. To access the feature, pull down from the top of Safari when a Twitter link is opened, … Read More

Every time Apple launches a new product, a bunch of comedy surfaces around it to give us all some laughs. Now it’s late night comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s turn, and he’s jumping on the the good-humored iPad Mini bashing bandwagon in an amusing comparison of past and present Apple products. No further spoilers, but check out … Read More

The simplest way to move everything from an old Mac to a new Mac is to use the built-in Migration Assistant tool. Migration Assistant can be used at any time, but ideally, it will be used on first boot of the new Mac, that way when it’s finished everything on the new machine will be … Read More

Siri works from the Locked Screen in iOS, letting you get things like the weather, make quick phone calls, and a variety of other incredibly useful tasks, but for the privacy and security buffs out there, this may be considered undesirable.

You no longer need to create music playlists in iTunes and then sync them to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod, because the entire process can be done easily directly in iOS itself. The next time you leave home without creating a playlist, just make one quickly on the go by doing the following: Launch Music … Read More

Recent benchmarks for iPhone 5 were very impressive, but now those impressive numbers have been broken by another Apple product: the iPad 4. Not only is the iPad 4 faster than the brand new iPhone 5, it’s much faster than the iPad 3, offerring over two times the performance of the previous model. For those … Read More

Conan O’Brien is having a lot fun with the iPad Mini launch, roasting the device yet again in a new hilarious video that touches on Apple’s newly multiplied iPad lineup. It’s pretty funny, watch through the embed(s) below, one is through Conan’s website which should be viewable by worldwide audiences, and the other is through … Read More

Though we have long been able to add automatically dialed extensions to contacts on the iPhone, the newest versions of iOS handle extensions much more intelligently, allowing you to create a “Dial Extension” button to any specific contact. That extension dialer can be activated manually, making the navigation of telephony menus infinitely easier.

Mac OS X has a myriad of multi-touch gestures that have been expanded upon in modern versions of Mac OS X, and one of the better gestures is the two-fingered swipe left or right to go either back or forward in a wide variety of apps. This gesture is borrowed from the iOS world and … Read More

You can easily upload a video directly to YouTube right from your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. This feature has actually been around for a long time, but as YouTube gets more and more popular, it’ll certainly get more useful to have direct uploads like this. The process of uploading movies from iOS directly to … Read More

Everyone loves good looking wallpapers, and here are a few great space wallpapers being posted by request of our readers after seeing one shown in a recent tip screenshot. The images are originally from the press page of a very interesting documentary on Chile’s Atacama Desert titled Nostalgia for the Light, they aren’t intended to … Read More

The volume level of Siri can be independently adjusted from the rest of the system volume of an iPhone or iPad, allowing you to directly control how loud Siri is without impacting other system audio. Though the feature is not immediately obvious, it is really easy to use:

For those of us who have a bunch of apps contained within iOS folders, it’s fairly easy to misplace apps that aren’t used often. To quickly find out what folder contains an app, just swipe to the right of the iOS home screen to bring up Spotlight search, then type the name of the app … Read More

Conan O’Brien has has long been a Mac fan, but that doesn’t stop the Conan Show from ripping on everyones favorite fruit company in a reliably hilarious manner. The latest offers a revised look at the iPad Mini commercial which aired during the unveiling event, and adds some new lyrics to Heart and Soul being … Read More

If you’ve already made up your mind about buying an iPad Mini and you want one sooner than later, you’ll probably want to pre-order it tonight (October 26) at midnight* Pacific Standard Time. Grabbing a pre-order insures that you’ll get the device on it’s official release date of November 2nd and won’t have to wait … Read More

Apple has started to run a new TV commercial for the new Retina 13″ MacBook Pro titled “Colors”, embedded below. The ad follows the same theme set by the original Retina 15″ MacBook Pro commercial aired earlier in the year, and says the following: Introducing the new thirteen inch MacBook Pro, with the stunning Retina … Read More

The next time you need to quickly find a nearby hotspot with wireless internet access, grab your iPhone (or iPad) and just ask Siri. Try phrasing questions like the following: “Where are the closest Wi-Fi hotspots” – finds locations with wireless internet nearest to current location “Where are wi-fi hotspots in City Name, State” – … Read More

Interested in the iPad Mini? Don’t miss Apple’s official “Introducing iPad Mini” video embedded below, which is nearly 5 minutes long and covers all aspects of the all new smaller iPad model. Apple also has posted a much shorter 30 second video showing off the iPad Mini with the new smaller smart cover, this may … Read More