An invite to a can’t-miss event just landed in your inbox, and you want to mark it in your iPhone’s calendar before you forget—and while you’re at it, you’d like to add the sender’s name to your address book. Well, good news: you’re...
Ever find yourself swiping back and forth on your Android display just to read a sentence in a Gmail message? Annoying, right? That’s because Gmail for Android zooms in a bit on some email messages—mainly those with large images, banners, or other graphics—so...
So, you thought you turned off the notifications for an iPhone or iPad app, but it’s still bugging you with unwanted banners, beeps and badges. What gives? Well, just because you switched an app’s “Alert style” setting to “none”...
Thanks to the Kindle’s handy “Whispersync” feature, you can start reading a book on, say, your Kindle Fire, then pick up right where you left off on another Kindle-friendly device, like an Android phone or iPhone. But if you try to re-read a Kindle...
Karen writes: I’m looking for an iPad/iPhone app for my passwords but I’d like something simple, like the Contacts app, that I can secure with a password. It would also be great if I could sync with my computer. Any suggestions? Hi Karen! Great...
Unlike the Mail app for iPhone, the official Gmail app for Android phones lacks an obvious way (like, say, a pair of arrow keys on the actual message screen) for navigating from one email directly to the next. Given that, I’m guessing plenty of Android...
Libby writes: When I plug my Apple iPad into my PC, iTunes immediately starts an 8-step syncing saga, culminating in starting a download in excess of 5,000 photos. This I do NOT want it to do. Can you help please? Hi Libby! Yep, we can fix this. All you have to do is...
Ever wish you could snap a quick photo of whatever’s on the screen of your Android phone—say, a “screenshot” of an interesting app, or of an eyebrow-raising message thread? Well, taking a picture (or a “screen capture,” as it’s...
Alistair writes: Can you change the order of phone favorites on an iPhone 5? Great questions, Alistair—and yes, there’s an easy way to rearrange your iPhone favorites in any order you want. Here’s how… Go to your Favorites (tap Phone, then tap the...
To get back to where you were five pages ago in a desktop browser, you can just glance at your web history or—better yet—click and hold the Back button. But what if you want to jump back several pages in a single bound with Safari for iPhone or iPad? Believe it or...
