iPad

The iPad is a tablet computer from Apple that runs the iOS mobile operating system. Similar in functionality to the iPhone, the iPads purpose is often quite different, sometimes even serving as a general desktop computer replacement.

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Add Favorite Websites & Bookmarks to the iOS Home Screen

Jul 21, 2012 - 4 Comments
Add a website bookmark to the homescreen of iPad or iPhone

Have a favorite website that you read on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and perhaps you’d like to have faster access to it? You’re probably reading it this very minute, right? Of course you are, but rather than launching Safari first and then going to a web page, you can add this website or … Read More

Make Custom High-Resolution Wallpapers Using Instagram Photos with InstaWP

Jul 20, 2012 - Leave a Comment
Instagram wallpaper

InstaWP is a new free service that lets you create high resolution wallpaper collages compiled from Instagram photos. You don’t even need to have an Instagram account to use the service, just feed the InstaWP panel a username, category, or tag, set a few parameters, and it will automatically generate a wallpaper consisting of the … Read More

Always Show the Bookmarks Bar in Safari on iPad

Jul 19, 2012 - 5 Comments
Always show bookmarks bar in Safari for iPad

The bookmarks bar is hidden by default in Safari on iPad, undoubtedly to save screen space and to keep the experience simple, but if you access some websites frequently or use bookmarklets like View Source often you may want to have the bookmarks bar always visible. From the home screen, open Settings and tap on … Read More

Make Easy Diptych & Triptychs of Your iPhone Photos with Diptic App

Jul 17, 2012 - 1 Comment
Diptic iPhone app makes diptychs and triptychs easy

Diptic is an app for iPhone and iPad that makes creating diptych and triptych photo collages easier than ever. With a ton of layouts, filters, basic editing tools, and customizations, you can quickly build a visual story using either freshly taken photos or pictures stored in your iPhone camera roll. When you’re finished, Diptic let’s … Read More

iOS 6 Beta 3 Released to Developers as OTA Download

Jul 16, 2012 - 3 Comments
iOS 6 Beta 3

The third beta of iOS 6 has been released to developers running compatible iPhone, iPad, and iPod hardware. The new build is 10A5355d and contains many bug fixes and improvements over beta 2, pushing the newest version of iOS closer to it’s public debut later in the year. For developers already running iOS 6 beta … Read More

iPad Mini Priced “Significantly Less” Than iPad To Be Announced This Year

Jul 16, 2012 - 10 Comments
iPad Mini Mockup

A smaller 7.85″ screened iPad will be announced this year and cost much less than the current $499 iPad, according to a new report from the New York Times. The iPad mini is anticipated to arrive later this year, according to NYT’s sources. There also seems to be a suggestion that Apple is releasing the … Read More

Crop Images on iPhone & iPad Easily with Photos App

Jul 14, 2012 - 9 Comments
Crop an image on iPhone

The Photos app in iOS includes a built-in crop tool that works very well for quick edits on the go with the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The bundled function offers a free transform options, thereby providing the ability to crop an image down to any proportion you’d like.

How to Make iPhone Photos Look Better By Using Auto-Enhance

Jul 13, 2012 - 4 Comments
Auto-Enhance makes Photos from iPhone look better

Want to quickly make an iPhone photo look even better? The iPhone Photos app includes a nice little trick called auto-enhance that will make a few various adjustments to an image that almost always improves the look of the photo being adjusted. It’s not an overwhelming effect by any means, it’s more of a subtle … Read More

Hide SMS & iMessage Previews from the Lock Screen on iPhone

Jul 10, 2012 - 14 Comments
A hidden text message on iPhone lock screen

The lock screen of an iPhone (or iPad, iPod touch) defaults to showing a preview of all received Messages and SMS, showing both the senders name and the content of their text message. That can be very convenient, but it also has the potential for oversharing private information and dialog between others, which could lead … Read More

Screen Sizes of Rumored iPad Mini, iPad, Nexus 7, & Kindle Fire Compared

Jul 10, 2012 - 9 Comments
iPad vs iPad Mini and other tablet screen sizes compared

With all the recent rumors, there is a lot of talk on the tech web about the theoretical iPad mini. If you’ve been assuming the mini’s speculated 7.85″ screen would be about the same as a Kindle Fire or Nexus 7 tablet, you’ve assumed wrong, and as the above graphic demonstrates it’s actually a lot … Read More

Run iOS Simulator Without Launching Xcode By Using an Alias

Jul 9, 2012 - 9 Comments
iOS Simulator running without Xcode

Apple recently simplified the way Xcode is installed, bundling everything into a single /Applications/Xcode.app/ directory and removing the /Developer directory that used to exist. There are some advantages to this approach, but one of the annoyances is that you now have to launch the iPhone or iPad simulator by opening Xcode first. Well, that’s not … Read More

What Would a 7″ iPad Mini Feel Like? Now You Can Get an Idea

Jul 8, 2012 - 11 Comments
iPad mini mockup on an iPad

With so many rumors of a smaller iPad mini floating around, it’s sounding increasingly possible that Apple may indeed make such a device. Assumed to have a 7.85″ vertical display, it would be about 2″ smaller than the current iPad, so how would that feel and what would it look like?

Take an iPhone Photo Remotely Using the Earbuds

Jul 7, 2012 - 7 Comments
Take a picture with Camera app by pressing the volume up button on iPhone earbuds

Did you know those white Apple earphones that come bundled with an iPhone can double as a remote shutter button for the iPhone camera? With the additional length of the earbud cable, you can end up taking better group pictures, better selfies, and even better low-light photos because it can dramatically reduce camera shake. There … Read More

Shoot & Record Slow Motion Video on Older iPhone & iPad with SloPro

Jul 6, 2012 - 5 Comments
SloPro records slow motion video on iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad

If you have ever tried to slow down a standard video clip you’ll have noticed the movie gets choppy and stutters, that’s a common problem due to the frame rate staying the same despite the video slowing down. The solution for older iPhone and iPad devices to this is to shoot a video at higher … Read More

iPhone & Mac Apps Crashing on Launch? Delete & Re-Download Them

Jul 5, 2012 - 12 Comments
Resolve crashing apps by deleting and re-downloading them

If you updated or downloaded an app from the iOS App Store on the iPhone and iPad, or an app from the Mac App Stores recently and it crashes immediately on launch, there’s a fairly easy solution that should be able to resolve the crashing app issue; you should delete the app and re-download it … Read More

iPad Mini to be Released by October?

Jul 3, 2012 - 14 Comments
iPad mini mockup

Apple will release a smaller and cheaper iPad “mini” before the years end, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Citing two people with direct knowledge of Apple’s plans, the screen is said to be between 7″ and 8″ diagonally, as opposed to the 9.7″ screen that exists on current iPad models, and the device … Read More

Stop the Period Automatically Typing in iOS

Jul 3, 2012 - 15 Comments

Double tapping the spacebar on an iPhone or iPad inserts a period at the end of a sentence and starts another, a helpful shortcut feature that can really improve typing on the virtual keyboards of iOS, but not everyone likes the double-space to type a period behavior. If you don’t want the iPhone or iPad … Read More

Deal with a Broken iPhone Home Button by Enabling Assistive Touch

Jul 2, 2012 - 63 Comments
Enable a virtual home button in iOS

You can sometimes fix an unresponsive Home button by force quitting apps, but that doesn’t always work. If your iOS devices home button is completely broken then you can use an accessibility feature called Assistive Touch to enable a virtual home button instead, this lets you use an iPhone, iPad, or iPod even if the … Read More

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