The latest version of Android—version 5.0, a.k.a. “Lollipop”—is taking its sweet time making it to Android phones and tablets. My Nexus 7 Android tablet only got the update a few weeks ago, and my newish Motorola G is still waiting for its own flavor of...
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to find lots of little ways to save time, and this year, I’m starting with an easy one: a way to automatically add alerts to all my new iPhone calendar events. As it stands, whenever I add a new calendar event on my...
Need to know the moment someone replies to an email you just sent or received? Thanks to iOS 8, setting up an alert for replies to a specific Mail thread takes just a couple of taps. The trick: when you’re composing either a new email or a reply to an existing...
Both iOS (on the iPhone and iPad) and OS X (on the Mac) let you view open Safari tabs on all your iCloud-connected devices—meaning, for example, you can use your iPhone to see which Safari tabs you have open on your Mac. Neat, right? But here’s a nifty little...
There are plenty of snazzy-looking third-party keyboards you can install on your Android phone, but for the most part, I’ve stuck with the tried and true “stock” Android keypad. But while the old Android keyboard has some nifty tricks up its sleeves...
I use the iOS Find My Friends app all the time to check on my wife’s 411, particularly in the late afternoon when my two-year-old wants to know when Mommy’s going to be home. Because I have the actual Find My Friends app tucked into a folder on one of my...
[Update 3/14/2018] Searching the web on the Safari browser for iPhone and iPad is a pretty simple, intuitive process. On the other hand, searching for words or phrases on the actual page you’re viewing is much trickier. Here’s how to do it. Before we get...
Marty writes: Just updated my iPhone to iOS 8.1 and my Mac to Yosemite. I want that new feature that lets your Mac send & receive SMS messages from your iPhone, but I said “no” when my Mac asked me if I wanted to turn the feature on. (You have to enter...
One of the more frustrating aspects of iOS’s Photo Stream feature is the fact that while your latest snapshots will appear automatically on all your iCloud-connected devices, there’s no way (short of manually setting up a shared album) to view your Photo...
Ever have second thoughts after deleting a photo or video from your iPhone or iPad? Up until now, you were pretty much out of luck—that is, unless you’d happened to save the snapshot somewhere else, or you restored a backup of your entire device. Well, good...
