Guides

GUIDES

Mar 31, 2013

How To Delete a Number in Calculator App With a Swipe

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

How To Connect To T-Mobile’s LTE Network On Your Jailbroken iPhone 5

Jason

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-

IPHONE APPS

Mar 26, 2013

How To Disable In-App Purchases on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Jason

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

GUIDES

Mar 24, 2013

How To Enable Two-Step Verification For Your Apple ID

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

Tips For Supercharging Your iPhone With Activator

Rounak Jain

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,

GUIDES

Mar 10, 2013

Has Your iPhone Clock Automatically Moved Forward By An Hour For Daylight Saving Time (DST)?

Jason

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

IOS

Feb 9, 2013

How To Fix iPhone Battery Life Issues With iOS 6.1

Jason

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

HACKS

Feb 7, 2013

How to Fix Endless Reboot Loop Problem on your Jailbroken iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

Rounak Jain

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

GUIDES

Feb 2, 2013

How To Add Your Favorite Contacts To iPhone’s Home Screen Without Jailbreaking

Rounak Jain

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

IOS

Jan 26, 2013

How to: Create a Super Strong Device Passcode with Accented and Alternate Letters

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'

IOS

Jan 26, 2013

How To: Managing iCloud Storage—Not Just the Backups!

Tris Hussey

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

Jan 26, 2013

How To Replace iPhone 5 Screen In 3 minutes

Jason

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

GUIDES

Jan 21, 2013

How To Add Apps To Newsstand (Folder) Without Jailbreaking

Jason

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

IPHONE APPS

Jan 21, 2013

How to: iMovie for iOS Basics

Tris Hussey

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

IOS

Jan 20, 2013

How to: Guided Tour of Guided Access

Tris Hussey

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

GUIDES

Jan 18, 2013

How To: Find Out How Much Storage Space Your Photos And Videos Are Taking On Your iPhone

Jason

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

IOS

Jan 16, 2013

Tip: Use Guided Access As a Mute Switch For Notifications

Jason

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

MACOS

Jan 12, 2013

How to: Print from iOS to a non-AirPrint printer

Tris Hussey

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,

GUIDES

Jan 12, 2013

How to: Recover a Locked and Disabled iPhone or iPad

Tris Hussey

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

SNAPCHAT

Dec 28, 2012

Here’s How You Can Save Videos Sent Through Snapchat and Facebook Poke

Rounak Jain

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

GUIDES

Dec 26, 2012

How To Enable Hidden Topography Mode in Google Maps For iPhone

Jason

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

IPHONE APPS

Dec 22, 2012

Tips on How to Use Google Maps for iPhone

Tris Hussey

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

How to create custom vibrations on the iPhone

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

IOS

Dec 11, 2012

How to Set up Separate Signatures in Mail for iOS 6

Mike Vardy

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

IPHONE APPS

Dec 6, 2012

How to: Getting Started with FaceTime

Tris Hussey

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

IPHONE 4

Dec 2, 2012

How To Downgrade iOS 6.0.1 To iOS 5.1.1

Jason

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

GUIDES

Nov 30, 2012

How did I record my iPad screen without a camera? Reflection and AirPlay!

Tris Hussey

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

IPHONE APPS

Nov 30, 2012

Facebook Photo Sync Rolling Out to More Users: Here’s How to Turn it On

Tris Hussey

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

IPHONE APPS

Nov 29, 2012

How to: Use your iPhone or iPad as a Scanner

Tris Hussey

As much as I try to avoid paper, I do have some paper things in my life that I need electronically. Welcome to the love-hate world of scanners. Oh I've had several scanners

GUIDES

Nov 28, 2012

Evernote Wants to Help You Take Better Holiday Pictures

Tris Hussey

I provided a few photography tips a little while ago as well as picks for regular and fun photo apps, but the folks at Evernote want to help you as well with some holiday photo (