Looking for more hidden features on your iPhone? I’ve collected five of them in a guest post for Mom Central, which you can check out right here. Enjoy!
Thanks to iCloud, backing up all the settings, photos, and messages on your iPhone or iPad is easier than ever. Sounds great—as long as it works as advertised. Find out what happened when I put iCloud Backup to the test. Also this week: 10 tips for navigating the...
Letting little ones armed with felt-tip pens loose on your iPad sounds like a recipe for disaster—that is, unless you’ve got Crayola’s new iPad case handy. Made of “shatter-resistant” plastic (fingers crossed), the Crayola “Trace &...
So, ready to trade in your TV remote—or remotes, as the case may be—for a smartphone or tablet? The new Logitech Harmony Link lets you do just that, although using your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone to change the channel or turn down the volume takes some getting...
Shoot first, focus later: that’s the idea behind the Lytro, a potentially groundbreaking new camera that promises to change the way we take—and view—pictures. Enticing stuff, but is the Lytro camera for real, and will it live up to the hype? Read on for 6...
Sandra writes: Hi! I am a Verizon customer and really want the new iPhone 4S, but I really want to talk and surf so I am torn between Android and iPhone. In the future, will Verizon update its CDMA network? And if I have the iPhone 4S, will I be able to download...
Meg writes: I recently got the new iOS 5 download onto my iPhone 4 and it’s working great so far. The only thing I am having trouble with is manually backing up with iCloud. How do I know if iCloud is backing anything up and why isn’t it manually backing...
Apple’s big iOS 5 software update arrived barely a week ago, and now we have Google trumpeting the next version of its own mobile platform: Android 4.0, a.k.a. “Ice Cream Sandwich.” Just like iOS 5, version 4.0 of Android packs in hundreds of new...
It taunts you when you’re at work, it mocks you on weekends, and it may even torment you on vacation. Yes, I’m talking about the bright red badge on the iPhone (and iPad) home screen that tells you exactly how many emails—work, personal, or otherwise—you...
Remember the RAZR—the original must-have cell phone, which turned heads with its ultra-slim profile and cost upwards of $500 when it first came out six or seven years ago? (Has it really been that long?) Well, the once-ubiquitous Motorola RAZR (indeed, the big...
