Articles about Apple Computer hardware
Lots of folks complain that the text on their iPhones is much too small and very difficult to read. Well, if you are one of those folks, relax and I will tell you how to rectify the situation so that it is very easy to […]
I remember when Windows 98 was released, being the first Windows version with full support for USB, and how it simplified hot swapping of peripherals without the need to restart the system. Since then, USB has evolved with so many different physical connection types that
You can use Check In on your iPhone to automatically notify someone that your iPhone has arrived, and choose what details they can see if you don’t successfully complete your Check In. Also, if a friend sends you a Check In but their iPhone hasn’t
How To Tell Friends You Are Safely Home – iPhone Read More »
Have you ever gotten trapped in one of those awful Reply All threads? You know the ones I am talking about right? Yes, the ones that have your phone blowing up every couple of seconds. That could drive anyone crazy right? Well, I am here
How To Mute Dreaded Reply All Email Threads In iPhone Read More »
For whatever reason, audio messages sent through iMessage go away after two minutes. Follow the steps below to learn how you can prevent your phone from automatically deleting them: Tap Settings Tap Messages Scroll down Under Audio Messages tap Expire Tap Never Pretty darn easy
How To Prevent Audio Messages From Expiring On Your iPhone Read More »
A guy brought me his iPad. I was told it was stuck in recovery mode. When they brought it to me, it was stuck on the Apple logo. I plugged it into my computer to see what would happen. Nothing happened. So I opened iTunes
A woman brought me her iPad Mini. Her Facebook App wasn’t working. The icon looked grayed out and clicking on it produced a flash of black and then nothing. I went to the App Store. The only option available for Facebook was to upgrade. So
One of the products announced at Apple’s Special Event on September 9th was the next generation Apple TV. According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, “the future of television is apps.” And, sure enough, the 4th-generation Apple TV will have an App Store. A redesigned remote
How much more adulation can we take? With yet another film about Steve Jobs due for release later in the year, I can’t help feeling that our fascination for the man knows no bounds. This latest dramatisation, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny
A while ago, I started getting the annoying ‘startup disk almost full’ message on my MacBook Pro. I emptied ‘Trash’ but that didn’t seem to do much. Next, I deleted the contents of my ‘Download’ folder. I also moved some files to iCloud. This freed
First off, I don’t use any Apple products. I neither own an iPhone, iPad or any other gadget that is iBranded. Not that I’m bitter and twisted; it’s partly through choice, partly through simple economics, but mainly because of a deep seated aversion on my
An historic Apple-1 computer built by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in 1976 sold for $750,000 at Bonhams’ History of Science auction in New York on Wednesday, almost double the anticipated auction price. With auction house premiums, the total value of the sale added up to
Vintage Apple-1 Computer Fetches $900,000 at Auction Read More »
Apple Offers Cheaper, Faster MacBook Airs Apple introduced two new MacBook Airs on April 29th: an 11-inch laptop and 13-inch laptop, each available with either 128 GB or 256 GB of storage. These models are similar to previous generations but each costs $100 less than
Twitter Changes Direct Messaging, Again It used to be that in order to someone a direct message (DM) on Twitter, you had to follow each other. Then, a while back, Twitter did away with that requirement and, basically, you could send a DM to anyone
