Category: Tips & Tricks
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iPhone 5 Camera Tricks and Tips
Whether you’re a budding iPhoneographer or simply a mom who loves clicking pictures with her iPhone, here are some simple tips to make the most of your iPhone 5 camera: 1. Take a picture instantly from the lock screen. It happens all the time: you catch your little one in an adorable snap-worthy pose but…
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How to Prevent Your Child from Making In-App Purchases
by Shannon Kelly from Fueled, an iPhone application development house in You knew that you would acquire a great deal of expenses when having children, but did you know that they could be draining your bank account when they are playing on mobile devices, without you even knowing it? According to Gartner, in 2012 89% of downloads were of…
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How to Protect Your iPhone 5
From scratches and spills to loss and theft, here are my best tips for keeping your precious iPhone 5 safe and secure under any circumstances. 1. Damage There are a dizzying array of iPhone 5 cases available, but don’t just waste your money on any ordinary case. After years of buying and using budget, low-quality cases…
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5 Smart Ways to Prolong iPhone Battery Life
My iPhone battery has died on me at the most inconvenient times – like when I was lost in a Minnesota blizzard and needed to Google an address, or that time when my flight was delayed and I needed to call my husband. If the iPhone’s short battery life is one of your major…
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Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Because Their Apps Do!
By Chrissy Giglio and Shannon Kelly of Fueled, a mobile app development company in NYC (We’ve engaged our friends at Fueled to provide us and our readers with relevant tips and suggestions from time to time – we have found their technical knowledge gleaned from developing apps to be quite useful!) “Make sure you read…
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How to Clean Up Your iPad 3
What is the first thing I did after buying a new iPad 3? I downloaded loads of apps to take full advantage of the gorgeous screen. The only downside is that apps are space-sucking culprits. They use up disk space on whatever iOS device (iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch) you’re using, until the smartphone or…
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Printing from Your iPad: A Guide
Are you the proud owner of a shiny, new iPad 3? How many times have you viewed documents or photos on it and wished you could print those wirelessly without firing up your laptop or desktop? In fact, there are several ways to print from your iPad. Here are some gadgets and apps to try. 1.…
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A waterlogged iPhone
TheiPhoneMom’s iPhone is currently sitting in a bag of rice. That’s right, my iPhone took an unfortunate, accidental swim. It all started when I took my four young children to a local child-orientated amusement park. The park has many water rides. Our first stop was the lazy river. I chose not to lock my…
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How To Turn Off Apps
September 23, 2013: I’ve been away from my computer for a few days, but like most of you I also upgraded to iOS 7. The first thing I did was double tap the home button to see if I can still turn off my apps by holding and tapping…and quickly realized that there has…
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How to Share iTunes Libraries
When iTunes 9 was released it gave people the ability to share iTunes libraries with other computers on their network. My husband and I have our own iTunes accounts and libraries. He buys music and I buy apps but they stay on our own computers. When we wanted to share apps we had a work…
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How to Get Rid of Annoying Facebook Notifications
Are you on Facebook? I am and it drives me crazy to get all those silly notifications. I don’t mind the ones about comments and wall posts. It’s the ones about Willy’s Sweet Shop or how many “amazing” points I’ve earned that make me nuts. Luckily I came across an article that explains a simple cure for…
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How To Redownload iTunes Purchases on your Iphone/PC
It seems like both Apple and iTunes get a lot of bad press for some of their policies so I thought I’d share a positive experience that I had with iTunes today. This past weekend my husband revamped my computer and installed a new version of Windows for me – goodbye Vista!! He asked…
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Return to the Home Screen on iphone
This one may seem simple, but it’s a must know iPhone trick. I won’t tell you how many screens full of apps are on my iPhone right now but let’s just say it’s loaded up. Lucky for my fingers there’s an easy way to return to my Home screen (the first screen on your iPhone).…
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How to Download an App using only your iPhone – no iTunes store required!
On your iPhone you will find a button that says “App Store”. It should be on your first screen unless you’ve added and rearranged your apps. If you touch this button it takes you directly to….you guessed it…the App Store. Here you can browse apps directly, without having to go through the iTunes store. I’ll…