It happens to me all the time: I’ll be looking for a song in my iPhone’s music library and I end up fruitlessly poking around the menu for a Search button—when all the while, the search box is hiding almost in plain sight. In many of the iPhone’s and iPad’s core...
So, you’re out and about in the big city when all of a sudden, you realize your pocket it empty. Not just any pocket, mind you, but the one where your precious Android phone usually sits. Well, you can always just fire up the Android Device Manager to track your...
For some of us, double-clicking the iPhone or iPad Home key to switch from one app to another isn’t quite as easy as it sounds. If you don’t (or can’t) click fast enough, you’ll just wind up back on the home screen. Well, here’s the thing: you can actually slow down...
Amro writes: Is there a way to forward text messages and send an entire iMessage thread via email? Essentially I am trying to get an entire chat thread from my phone and forward it to a colleague. Any advice would be appreciated. Hi Amro! Yes, there is a way to...
So, you’re sitting at your laptop when the thought flits through your mind: Gotta get some milk on the way home. Cannot. Forget. But then you remember that your Android phone is in the other room (so far away!), and you get a little lazy. After all,...
Dave writes: If I don’t have a Wi-FI connection in my office, can I use my iPhone and connect to the Internet via its cellular network? If so, how? Hi Dave! Yep, you sure can. Indeed, it only takes a few taps to turn your iPhone—or your Android phone, for that...
Tired of those niggling red badges on your iPhone and iPad apps reminding you of, say, new stories in your Facebook feed, or that you haven’t played Candy Crush in awhile? Good news: it’s easy to turn off any annoying alert badges on your iPhone’s or...
Gone are the days when declining a call was a simple matter of, you know, just not answering the phone. Indeed, there are now (by my count, anyway) at least four ways on an iPhone to send an untimely call to voicemail. Some of them are fairly considerate, others are...
Click the your iPhone’s (or iPad’s) Home button once, and you’ll end up on the home screen. Double-click it, and you’ll jump to the iOS multitasking screen (you know, the one that shows all the apps that are running in the background). But what happens if...
Move over, Apple and Google. Amazon just announced its very own smartphone: the Fire, a svelte little number with a 3D (or 3D-ish) display, a camera that can recognize millions of products, songs, and even TV shows at the press of a button, and—perhaps best of...
