Tips & Tricks

  Having spent the last (many) months using a Galaxy Note 2 and Nexus 4 as my primary devices and not even touching an iPhone in all that time I’ve had to re-visit the many things needed to make an iPhone “mine” again. One of the things I absolutely loved …

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One of the most basic tasks when switching phones is porting contacts from your old device to a new one. The process can be particularly intimidating when going from Android to iPhone. Fear not, we break down several methods for Mac and PC, as well as direct sync via CardDAV and iCloud.

A forum is defined as a place, meeting or medium where ideas and views on a particular issue can be exchanged. Have you ever visited iSource looking to read or learn about a particular topic or subject matter, but after paging through the last few days of articles you weren’t …

Try This is a new recurring post on iSource where we will share tips, tricks, short-cuts and other helpful advice we have discovered while using our Apple products. Hopefully you will find some of our experiences to be valuable for yourself or someone you know. One of the most rewarding features …

Try This is a new recurring post on iSource where we will share tips, tricks, short-cuts and other helpful advice we have discovered while using our Apple products. Hopefully you will find some of our experiences to be valuable for yourself or someone you know. One of the biggest appeals …

iCloud tabs are quite useful because they show you the open Safari tabs across all of your iOS 6 and Mountain Lion devices. It works almost like a passive bookmarking system, allowing me to load up big websites on my iPhone and come back to them later on my MacBook …

I’ve been trying out a different way of holding my iPad mini by using the mini Smart Cover as a make-shift handle. Instead of simply folding the entire cover behind the iPad mini, I’m folding the Smart Cover back, and then collapsing it on top of itself, like an accordion. …

I wrote about how to reliably use your Personal Hotspot over Wi-Fi, and then found out in a number of subsequent tries that I hadn’t provided a bulletproof solution. Wi-Fi tethering works most of the time, but there are still very strange and very stupid little instances where my iPad …

Given yesterday’s temporary iCloud outage, it’s probably a good time for a refresh on how to send an iMessage as a text message. Apple colour codes messages in different ways: green for regular text (sent via your mobile carrier) and blue for iMessages (sent via the Internet), so it’s easy …

The VIP feature in Mail is useful for prioritizing e-mails from people that you really want to hear from. You start by selecting a contact within Mail on iOS or OS X, and tapping on the “Add to VIP” button. On iOS this will result in a VIP filter, showing …