A Celebration of Steve’s Life (Video)

Oct 23, 2011 - 1 Comment
Apple campus during the Steve Jobs life celebration event

Apple has posted the full video of the Steve Jobs memorial event, held on October 19, 2011 at the Cupertino California campus of Apple. The celebration featured a variety of prominent speakers, including Tim Cook, Bill Campbell, Jony Ive, and Al Gore, as well as several prominent musicians. It’s 81 minutes long and well worth … Read More

Delete Pictures from Photo Stream & iCloud

Oct 23, 2011 - 16 Comments
Delete Photos from Photo Stream in iCloud

If you’re set up to use iCloud with an iOS 5 device, you may have noticed that Photo Stream hosts your pictures online on iCloud.com and also syncs the pictures to the Photo Stream of your other devices. Apple will remove these pictures automatically after 30 days or after 1000 photos are uploaded, but if … Read More

A Real Apple TV Coming? Steve Jobs Imagined a Television Synced to iCloud

Oct 22, 2011 - 5 Comments
Apple TV

In what seems to be a never-ending series of revelations from the Steve Jobs biography, the man apparently revealed to his biographer Walter Isaacson that he had “cracked” the TV, perhaps hinting that Apple may release an actual HDTV set in the future. This potential product bombshell was dropped by the Washington Post, who suggests … Read More

Why Apple is Called Apple

Oct 21, 2011 - 20 Comments
Rainbow Apple logo

Who named Apple? Steve Jobs of course! The story behind the naming of the company has been revealed in Steve Jobs’ official biography by Walter Isaacson.

Enable Private Browsing on iPad & iPhone with Safari in iOS 6

Oct 21, 2011 - 27 Comments
Private Browsing in Safari with iOS 5

iOS allows you to enable private browsing in Safari for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This feature is sometimes called “Incognito Mode” with other browsers, and essentially this lets you browse the web and visit web sites without saving a record of any browser history, cache, logins, or searches, and it prevents cookies from … Read More

Apple iPhone 4S Ad Featuring Siri: Assistant

Oct 21, 2011 - 8 Comments
Siri commercial

Apple has started to air TV commercials for the new iPhone 4S, the first of which focuses on Siri, the virtual intelligent voice assistant that is part of iOS 5 exclusive to the 4S. The ad features people asking questions to their iPhone, ranging from how to tie a bowtie to wondering about the weather, … Read More

Set iPhone Camera LED to Flash on Incoming Calls and Alerts

Oct 21, 2011 - 60 Comments
Flash the iPhones camera LED light on incoming calls or messages

The iPhone camera LED flash can be used to alert you to incoming calls, messages, and other alerts to your device. With this feature enabled, anytime a call or messages comes in the devices LED will flash repeatedly, even when the iPhone is on silent mode. This great feature offers an obvious visual cue with … Read More

Bypass the iPad 2’s Passcode & Lock Screen with a Magnet or Smart Cover

Oct 20, 2011 - 9 Comments
Bypass the iPad 2 passcode

Well here’s a security flaw in iOS 5 that will quickly get patched: anyone with a magnet (or a Smart Cover) can bypass the iPad 2’s locked passcode screen and access whatever app was previously left open. The passcode bypass was discovered by 9to5mac, who recorded a video demonstrating the security breach (embedded below). From … Read More

Transfer Mac Apps from One Mac to Another

Oct 20, 2011 - 6 Comments
Transfer Mac Apps to Another Mac

With the addition of the Mac App Store, transferring applications from one Mac to another is made extraordinarily simple and can be done entirely through the App Store itself. This is due to the Mac App Stores licensing agreement, which allows you to download and install Mac OS X apps on all of your personal … Read More

How to Rename an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Oct 20, 2011 - 6 Comments
iPhone

A nice addition to iOS is the ability to rename your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch device directly on the device itself through the Settings app. This is a nice software feature which prevents users from having to go about changing the name with iTunes on a computer. Instead, the entire name adjustment is handled … Read More

6 Beautiful Aurora Wallpapers

Oct 20, 2011 - 4 Comments
Where to find a DeviantArt download link

By request, here is a great 6 wallpaper pack of original variations on the classic OS X Aurora style wallpaper, each image is 2560×1600 and looks great on any Mac (or iPad). This pack was sent in to us but we can’t track down the source again, so thanks to whoever that was. Download them … Read More

Sync iMessage Across All iOS Devices: iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch

Oct 19, 2011 - 46 Comments
iOS Messages app icon

Now that you’ve set up iMessage, if you use multiple iOS devices you’ll want to be sure to sync your conversations across them all. For example, if you use an iPhone and have an iPad, you may want to have iMessage sync between the iPhone and iPad seamlessly. This is supposed to happen automatically as … Read More

How to Set Up & Use iMessage on iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch

Oct 18, 2011 - 197 Comments
iOS Messages app icon

Want to use iMessage with iPhone or iPad? Of course you do! iMessage is the fantastic messaging service that is built directly into iOS from versions 5 onward, available for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac. iMessage is great because it allows you to send instant messages, text messages, pictures, video, contacts, and locations, across … Read More

iTunes “Other” Capacity Taking Up Tons of Space? Here’s a Fix for iPhone & iPad

Oct 18, 2011 - 231 Comments
iTunes Other Capacity

Back on the topic of iOS disk usage, we have several solutions to that persistently annoying “Other” space you see in iTunes, which sometimes can take up huge amounts of space that are seemingly impossible to recover. We will show you exactly how to get your “Other” space back from an iPhone, iPad, or iPod … Read More

Check Available Storage Space and How Much Space an App Uses in iOS

Oct 18, 2011 - 5 Comments
Check how much space an app uses in iOS 5

You can quickly find out how much storage space is available on your iOS device, and perhaps more useful, the amount of storage space currently being used. This same storage information screen also gives users details on how much space each specific app is taking up, and even shows how large your music, movies, and … Read More

iOS 5 GUI Elements in PSD

Oct 18, 2011 - 8 Comments
iOS 5 GUI Element PSD file

If you’re an UI designer, iOS developer, or anywhere in between, this iOS 5 GUI elements kit makes quick work of mocking up apps and iOS interfaces. The PSD file comes from Teehan+Lax, the same guys who brought the iPhone & iPad GUI elements as layered photoshop docs as well. Download it now or visit … Read More

iPhone 4S Discounted at Walmart for $188

Oct 17, 2011 - 10 Comments
iPhone 4S discount

Want to pay as little as possible for the newest iPhone 4S? The cheapest place to buy the 4S is at Walmart, so head on over to your local Wally World and you can grab either the black or white iPhone 4S 16GB model for just $188. The deal is valid for either AT&T or … Read More

Get the Hourly Weather Forecast in iOS 5 on iPhone & iPod touch

Oct 17, 2011 - 5 Comments
Hour by Hour weather forecast in iOS 5

If you’re on a modern version of iOS you have easily accessible hourly weather updates on iPhone, but if your iPhone is running a much older version of system software it’s a bit different. Fortunately the weather app in iOS 5 has been improved to include quickly accessible hourly forecasts, in addition to the percentage … Read More

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