Tech Tuesday: App review – Wooords
My sweetheart is a sucker for a good word game and one game that has managed to steal a lot of her attention lately is called Wooords. It is one of her favourite apps for the iPad. I have to admit that...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: App Review – Home Library
A few weeks ago I suddenly got on a James Bond kick. I suppose it was a combination of the franchise celebrating 50 years and the release for home audiences of the latest film, Skyfall, that triggered...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: Deleting Contacts on the iPhone
In almost every list in iOS (the iPhone’s operating system) you can delete an item by swiping across it and tapping the “Delete” button that appears to the right of the item’s name, but there are a few...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: iTunes Movie Rentals for Apple TV
If you have an Apple TV box connected to your television, you may already know about buying and renting movies and TV shows from the iTunes store. We have been doing this for as long as we have had our...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: Sharing iCloud Calendars
My sweetie and I have been sharing our iPhone calendars for a while now and it is great for helping us keep track of all of the events in our lives. Now that my daughter is engaged, she wanted to be...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: 5 Years of the App Store
This week Apple is celebrating the fifth birthday of its App Store by giving away 10 apps including 5 games. Here is the list of Apps on offer this week: Barefoot World Atlas Day One (Journal / Diary)...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: Managing iPhone e-mail
The other day, my daughter asked me how to mark an iPhone email message as unread. Like me, she likes to keep messages in an unread state if she still needs to deal with the message in some way. This...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: App Review – Puffin Browser
In the early days of the iPhone and iPad, one of the big complaints raised in the tech media was that there was no support for Adobe Flash in the iOS version of Safari. Although many predicted that...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: Preview – Tile
I came across this interesting new device a few weeks ago and I keep being reminded of it, so I thought I’d share it with you. This handy little thing is called the Tile and it’s basically a little key...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: Checking the Boxes
Many times I have heard conversations like the following: “Have you seen my new gadget? It does such and such and it’s so cool!” ”Oh, yeah. My similar gadget does the same things, so it’s just as...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: Apple WWDC Keynote Highlights
Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) just began yesterday and the keynote presentation revealed some interesting new features for both OS X and iOS. Here are some of the highlights: Apple...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: iGrill mini
My 2 daughters are well aware of my tech tendencies, so it isn’t really a surprise that they would surprise me on Fathers Day with a gift that reflects this. This year the gift they gave me was an...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: Cool Cooler: Coolest
With summer in full swing, there’s a good chance that you have already put your trusty cooler to work at the beach, on a picnic or road trip, or keeping drinks cool in the backyard or at the game...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: Cool Tool – Chargerito
Are you tired of untangling charger cables, or worse, losing them and then getting caught with an empty phone battery? Billing itself as the world’s smallest phone charger, Chargerito promises to solve...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: Quitting Apps on iOS
Apple’s iOS which powers their iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches is very stable and powerful and you generally don’t need to worry about leaving apps running as the operating system places very tight...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: Quick Fix for a Slow iPad
Does your iPad seem to be bogged down in molasses? Is it taking forever to refresh a web page or Facebook news feed? One way to speed it up is to do a complete restart, shutting it down fully and then...
View ArticleTech Tuesday: Superfast iPhone Restart
Last time, I wrote about a quick fix for a slow iPad, which provided a quick method of speeding up your iOS device without taking all the time required to fully shutdown and startup the device...
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