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Try This: How to show the battery percentage on your iPhone or iPad
Ever wonder how to show the battery percentage symbol on your iPhone or iPad? Look no further, I give you a quick tutorial right here.
Quick Tip: Tell Your iMessage Sender, “Got your text!”
With the addition of Apple’s Messages app on Mountain Lion, there are now multiple ways to initiate, receive and read an SMS message. Fortunately when Apple upgraded the iMessages app in iOS 5 to offer free messaging for iPhone-to-iPhone user (more accurately Apple ID user to Apple ID user), they …
Two More Ways to Use the Smart Cover for your iPad 2
I haven’t gone quite as case crazy with my iPad 2 as I have with my various iPhones, and while I very much enjoy using the Adonit Writer 2, my tablet still spends a good 80% of its time with just a Gelaskin on the back and a Smart Cover …
Using the iPad as Your Main Computer
One question I have heard asked by many people considering a purchase of the iPad is whether or not the iPad can be used as a main computer. What people usually mean by asking this question is they want to know if the iPad can do everything they currently do …
iOS Gamers: Make Sure You Tie an E-Mail Address to your OpenFeint Account
OpenFeint, one of the cross-platform social gaming networks, has the good sense to perform automatic log-ins on my iPhone 3GS, but not on my iPad. As it turns out, you have to manually tie your OF account to an e-mail address if you want to log in from any of …
Downsides to Auto Downloading For iTunes Purchases
One of the new features unveiled at Apple’s WWDC yesterday was the ability to enable your iOS devices (except the Verizon iPhone, which does not yet have iOS 4.3.1 for some reason..) to automatically download app, book, and music purchases to your various iOS devices. While this is a cool …
iPad Typing Tips: Quick Apostrophe and Quotation Marks
The iPad keyboard behaves and is laid out differently than the iPhone keyboard. One crucial difference is the way in which the Symbols key (.?123) behaves. On the iPhone, all you have to do is tap on the Symbols key, select a symbol you want to type, and the iPhone’s …
Awesome iOS mail app tip: one Gmail account, multiple “from” addresses
I have all of my mail forwarded to my Gmail address so that checking my mail is a one inbox affair, but what about replying? I’m not ashamed of the fact that I’m using Gmail, but using my iSource address looks just a little more official than somedude@gmail.com (not my …
Incipio Feather Hard Case + Smart Cover + Dremel = Sweet iPad 2 Protection Solution
While wandering through the airport recently, I stopped at one of the ubiquitous gadget/cell phone accessory stores and happened to notice that they had some iPad 2 cases. Amongst them was the Feather Hard Shell case for iPad 2. The Feather is a hard polycarbonate shell for the back of …
Need To Transfer Videos Shot On iPhone To iPad? There’s An Adapter For That
So, you got that new, shiny, iPad 2, and downloaded iMovie so you could put together a production that would put Spielberg in his place. One problem – you want to shoot the video with the iPhone and edit on the iPad 2 – how do you transfer the videos? …
iPad 2 Mirroring Function Works With VGA Adapter
One of the new features of the iPad 2 is the ability to mirror its display with the new HDMI adapter – allowing you to see any iPad screen on a TV, not just certain apps that enabled it like the Videos and Netflix apps. However, what you might not …