I’m a huge fan of “Do Not Disturb,” a handy iOS feature that silences your iPhone or iPad’s ring tones, alerts, and other notifications whenever you need a little peace and quiet. But here’s the thing: even with Do Not Disturb mode...
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...
So, did you put off holiday shopping until the eleventh hour? Never fear. If the special someone on your list has an iPhone, iPad or Android device, there’s still an easy—and best of all, instant—way to put a smile on her face: give her an app. In just a few...
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...
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...
