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How can I share Photo Stream pictures with my wife? (reader mail)

How can I share Photo Stream pictures with my wife? (reader mail)

by ben patterson | Nov 14, 2011 | how-tos, phones, the cloud

Jeffrey writes: If my wife and I both have iPhones, how do we get each other’s photos to show up each of our respective phones? Do we need to have the same iTunes account? Hi Jeffrey! Excellent question—and indeed, it’s one my wife and I had to tackle with...
How do I keep everyone on Facebook from seeing my photos? (reader mail)

How do I keep everyone on Facebook from seeing my photos? (reader mail)

by ben patterson | Nov 4, 2011 | how-tos, privacy, social networks

Caitlin writes: I’m okay with Facebook automatically sharing my gender, location and profile picture (among other things) but I want to make sure that “everyone” does not have access to my personal photos. From what I can tell (and according to one...
Is there a way to turn off the “new mail” sound on my iPhone? (reader mail)

Is there a way to turn off the “new mail” sound on my iPhone? (reader mail)

by ben patterson | Nov 3, 2011 | how-tos, phones

Rick wrote (in response to “How to turn off your iPhone’s unread email badge”): Unfortunately, there still doesn’t seem to be a way to turn off the actual notification [for new email messages] itself. Even if you switch everything to off, the...
How do I know if iCloud is backing anything up? (reader mail)

How do I know if iCloud is backing anything up? (reader mail)

by ben patterson | Oct 19, 2011 | how-tos, phones, tablets, the cloud

Meg writes: I recently got the new iOS 5 download onto my iPhone 4 and it’s working great so far. The only thing I am having trouble with is manually backing up with iCloud. How do I know if iCloud is backing anything up and why isn’t it manually backing...
Why can’t I put all my newspapers and magazines in iOS 5’s Newsstand? (reader mail)

Why can’t I put all my newspapers and magazines in iOS 5’s Newsstand? (reader mail)

by ben patterson | Oct 18, 2011 | how-tos, phones, tablets

Steven writes: Okay, so I can’t get rid of Newsstand. I’ll accept that. How come I can’t put my other newspapers in it? The L.A. Times, Huffington Post, etc. sit in their own folder, yet my New York Times app was automatically moved to Newsstand....
How do I recover my hacked Facebook account? (reader mail)

How do I recover my hacked Facebook account? (reader mail)

by ben patterson | Oct 17, 2011 | privacy, security, social networks

MissPhedora writes: Someone has gotten into my Facebook and deleted or changed my information (not good) and changed my password. I can not access it and it does not sent me a code (obviously they also changed my alternative email address). I want to lock my Facebook...
Why can’t I move the iOS 5 “Newsstand” into a folder? (reader mail)

Why can’t I move the iOS 5 “Newsstand” into a folder? (reader mail)

by ben patterson | Oct 13, 2011 | how-tos, phones, tablets

JohnS writes: I have absolutely no use for the new Newsstand thing in iOS 5, and I want to dump it into a folder of apps I never use. But my iPad won’t let me! Greetings, John. Newsstand, which is new for the iOS 5 system software for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod...
I installed iOS 5, and now I can’t re-download my purchased music (reader mail)

I installed iOS 5, and now I can’t re-download my purchased music (reader mail)

by ben patterson | Oct 13, 2011 | how-tos, phones, tablets

June writes: Finally got iOS 5 on my iPhone after hours of trying, but now there’s a new problem. When I go to the iTunes store, it says I don’t have any purchased music to download, even though I’ve bought all kinds of music on iTunes. And my apps...
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