GUIDES
Apr 15, 2013
Rounak Jain
Siri, the personal assistant feature that is available on newer iOS devices, isn't as good as Apple would want us to think it is. Though it works quite well for alarms, reminders, notes, calendar
CHROME
Apr 14, 2013
The latest update to Google Chrome on iOS added a couple of new features, one of which is AirPrint and Google Cloud Print support. Another related feature that has been added to Chrome in the
Mar 31, 2013
Jason
Killian Bell over at Cult of Mac recently discovered a swipe gesture that can be used in the Calcular app that allows you to delete the last entered number. The gesture is quite straight forward,
T-MOBILE
Mar 28, 2013
Couple of days back, T-Mobile officially launched its LTE network in seven cities, which includes Baltimore; Houston; Kansas City; Las Vegas; Phoenix; San Jose, Calif.; and Washington, D.C. If you're a T-
APPS
Mar 26, 2013
After listening to the horror stories due to the in-app purchase feature, I thought it was high time I wrote a tutorial that shows parents how to disable the feature before giving a child
Mar 24, 2013
Gautam Prabhu
Earlier in the week, Apple rolled out the much needed two-step verification process for Apple ID to add an extra layer of security. Since we use the Apple ID for everything we do with
HACKS
Mar 17, 2013
Activator is an awesome jailbreak tweak by Ryan Petrich that you probably already know about. For those who’re new to jailbreaking, Activator lets you assign various actions that get called when a certain event,
Mar 10, 2013
It's that time of the year when you have to set the clocks forward for daylight saving time in the U.S. At 2 a.m. local time today, daylight saving time (DST) arrived
Feb 9, 2013
The Next Web is reporting that some iPhone users are reporting issues with battery life and overheating after upgrading to iOS 6.1. Strangely we've heard contradictory reports from our readers. Some of them
Feb 7, 2013
Now that the evasi0n jailbreak for devices running iOS 6.1/6.0 is out, a lot of you folks are experimenting with your iOS devices by installing tweaks, changing themes and doing all sorts
Feb 2, 2013
While the phone app on your iPhone lets you select favorite contacts from your contact list to easily call them, it can take three taps to finally end up on the calling screen. In this
Jan 26, 2013
Tris Hussey
Most of us have a device password set. You know a four digit passcode to keep folks out of your iPad or iPhone when you're not looking. There are some of folks who don'
Using iCloud is a funny thing. The backups and file storage can be so seamless that you don't notice it. Of course when iCloud goes down (like the rare times that Dropbox goes down)
IPHONE 5
What if I told you that iPhone 5's screen can be replaced in 3 minutes? That's exactly how much time you need to replace the iPhone 5 screen according to Jerry Rig over
Jan 21, 2013
What if I told you that it was possible to use the Newsstand as an app folder instead of hiding it? I'm not kidding, a reader of iDownloadblog has discovered a hack, which makes
By and large I love the iWork and iLife apps for iOS, but… But iMovie confounded me at first (and still confuses me at times). Sometimes I'm not quite sure if it's as
Jan 20, 2013
Earlier this week we showed you how Guided Access could be used to mute notifications while in an app (for example recording a video of a demo or just wanting to be focused). Then we
Jan 18, 2013
If your iPhone is your go to point-and-shoot camera (like it is for me), then it is quite likely that you're filling up the limited storage space on your device without noticing
Jan 16, 2013
As I've mentioned before, the 'Do Not Disturb' feature is one of my favorite iOS 6 features. But it doesn't meet all my requirements as the calls and notifications are silenced only when
Jan 12, 2013
AirPrint is pretty cool, if you have an AirPrint-enabled printer that is. My mom happens to have one and when I’m at her house printing is a piece of cake. At home, however,
Either through fat fingers, an errant Bluetooth keyboard, or a complete brain fart, sometimes we not only get the passcode to our device wrong, but we get completely locked out. Apple gives us 6 tries
FACEBOOK
Dec 28, 2012
Snapchat and its clone Facebook Poke are apps that let users send temporary messages in the form of photos and videos, which get deleted seconds after they get viewed. The idea of spontaneous, temporary, visual
Dec 26, 2012
iOS hacker and developer - Ryan Petrich has discovered a hidden Topography feature in Google Maps for iPhone. The Topography mode lets you see relief maps of 3D terrain, which is very useful if you're
APPLE MAPS
Dec 22, 2012
Finally it's here! Yes, Google Maps for iPhone is here and we've all been putting it through its paces I'm sure. Now that we've had some time to use it, here
IOS
Dec 15, 2012
Mike Vardy
Custom ringtones for the iPhone have been around for quite some time, and the ability to create those ringtones yourself has also been around for some time (even if you needed Garageband at first to
Dec 11, 2012
I wasn’t around much last week as I was not only trying to get out from under a mountain of email – yes, even productivityists stuck in an overwhelmingly full inbox every once in a
Dec 6, 2012
You've seen the Apple commercials where kids FaceTime with their grandparents. Heck I FaceTime with my two-year-old nephew and it's awesome. Apple makes it seem like FaceTime is just a magical
Dec 2, 2012
In this guide we show you how to downgrade your iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS or iPod touch 4G from iOS 6.0.1 to iOS 5.x.x using Redsn0w. Some important points before we
Nov 30, 2012
If you watched my little movie playing PongWorld today you might have noticed that while it was a movie showing what was on my iPad—it wasn't my iPad. It was a window, on
If you have an iPhone, running iOS 6, fire up your Facebook app and you might see a little message that Photo Syncing is ready for you. A little over a week ago we learned
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