Ever want to lock your iPad’s display in portrait or landscape mode, or make the screen a little brighter without digging in the Settings menu? You can do both—and more—from the iPad home screen or anywhere else, if you know what to tap and when to swipe. Now,...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8szrFilYJU&w=600&rel=0] Karen writes: Hey Ben, do you have any suggestions for how to get the Pinterest pin button to work on an iPad 2? I had no trouble installing it on my PC laptop, but the directions for adding one...
So, you’ve got the latest and greatest iPad, and you want to transfer everything on your old iPad—including your apps, contacts, calendars, music, and videos—to your new one. What’s the best way to do it? My suggestion: try Apple’s iCloud Backup...
The first reviews of the iPad 3—ahem, the new iPad—are in. The overall verdict? Get ready for a “spectacular,” “dramatically better” display, plus “zippy” 4G data speeds. But here’s the burning question: do you really need the...
Thanks to the new version of Apple’s mobile iOS software, you can at last delete individual photos from Photo Stream. First, a little background. Photo Stream, a key feature of Apple’s (relatively) new iCloud service, automatically syncs your latest...
Get ready for a brand-new iPad—one with an eye-popping display, faster performance, and support for speedy wireless data. But if you were hoping for a thinner iPad, well … bad news. Also: don’t call it the “iPad 3.” Read on for 8 things you need to...
So much for the Android Market. In its place: “Google Play,” Google’s new digital hub for Android apps, games, and media. In a blog post Tuesday, Google said it was consolidating the Android Market, Google Music, and Google eBookstore sites into...
So, eager to see what you can get for your iPad trade in? You looking to score a the new iPad—or perhaps even the iPad Mini? Well, the good news is that you can still get a decent chunk of change for your old one, provided you’ve kept it in relatively good...
There’s already a $5 app that lets you play Flash videos on the otherwise Flash-less iPad, but now there’s a new game in town: OnLive Desktop, the clever new service that “streams” Windows 7 to the iPad touchscreen. The catch? It ain’t so...
Is it a phone or a tablet? That’s the big (and I do mean “big”) question about the Samsung Galaxy Note, a new and gargantuan Android phone that—if you ask me—tries a little too hard to do it all. Slated to go on sale February 19 through AT&T, the...
