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How to fix Stock Apps when they are crashing on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

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How to fix Stock Apps when they are crashing on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

This article explains how to fix stock apps when they are crashing on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Unfortunately, with every operating system out there, you will find bugs and those bugs often cause apps to crash. There is an easy way to fix 3rd party apps (the apps that you install) when they are crashing. I have previously written an article about this and you can find it here: How to fix a crashing app. However, it gets a little more tricky when you are dealing with a Stock App (the apps that come preinstalled on your iOS Device Continue Reading →

New Features in iOS 8 – What to Expect

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Apple has announced iOS 8, the next version of its mobile operating system which will be released in the fall. In this post we’ll talk about what to expect. A few weeks back, Apple gave the public a preview of iOS 8 at its World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC). There are a ton of new features that will be coming this fall to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch near you. In this post, we’ll run down and explain the most exciting new features that you can expect to see in iOS 8.   New Stock Keyboard with QuickType – Compared Continue Reading →

Peek Calendar Review – An elegantly simple calendar for iPhone and iPod Touch

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This post reviews Peek Calendar, an elegantly simple calendar app that helps you focus on your schedule a day at a time while having some fun along the way. Most calendar applications for iOS try to pack as much useful information as possible onto the screen while still remaining attractive. This approach can be helpful for giving you a detailed view of your upcoming events, but it can also be a bit overwhelming. Peek calendar is a new calendar app that takes a different approach to displaying your schedule, one that focuses on simplicity and fun. Design & Features – That Continue Reading →

Summary of Apple’s Oct 22nd iPad event

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Tuesday, in its third major media event of 2013, Apple took the lid off several new hardware and software products. The star of the show was the iPad, which received a major overhauls, but many other products were announced and released as well including new Mac computers, Mac OS X Mavericks, and more. This post is a summary of Apple’s Oct 22nd iPad event. Let’s take a quick look at everything Apple announced Tuesday! OSX Mavericks – Apple gave an extensive preview of version 10.9 of Mac OS X earlier this year, but Tuesday it released the latest version of the Continue Reading →

How to add, find, edit, or cancel calendar appointments using Siri

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How to add, find, edit, or cancel calendar appointments with Siri

This post will show you how to add, find, edit, or cancel calendar appointments using Siri on your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch. Siri is Apple’s intelligent assistant that ships on many of Apple’s newest iOS devices. Over time, Siri continues to get better and better at interpreting normal sentences and giving you the results you need. Using Siri is often much more efficient than tapping your way around your device, especially when it comes to things like Reminders, Calendar Appointments, Alarms, and checking the Weather. Using Siri to add, find, edit, or cancel calendar appointments is quite easy. Here Continue Reading →

Fantastical – Best alternative calendar app for iPhone and iPod Touch

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This post reviews one the best alternative calendar apps for iPhone and iPod Touch: Fantastical. The stock Calendar app in iOS is good, but it hasn’t changed much since the first version of the operating system. Fantastical by Flexibits is a great alternative calendar app that adds useful functionality combined with great design that is both helpful and appealing. So much so, in fact, that Fantastical has replaced the stock Calendar app on my iPhone’s home screen. The most obvious visual difference between Fantastical and the stock Calendar app is its Dayticker feature. Dayticker is an at-a-glance, five-day overview of your calendars Continue Reading →

6 Tips and Tricks to help you get the most out of the built-in Calendar App on iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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The built in Calendar App has a ton of great features to help keep you organized and manage your schedule. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help you get more out of the Calendar App on your iOS device. 1. Rotate iPhone and iPod Touch to Landscape to reveal 3-day View Whenever you rotate your device to landscape when looking at your calendar, the view will automatically switch to a 3 day view. You can scroll left or right to view other days of the week. Week View on the iPad (Mini) always reveals the entire 7 Continue Reading →

How to quickly create calendar appointments or call someone when a date or phone number appears in text form in iOS 6

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Built in to the basic features of your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch is the ability to quickly create new appointments or make a call when a date or phone number appears in text form on your device. This is true for emails, text messages, webpages, and many other places where text appears on your iOS device. You will know when you can use this feature if the date and/or the phone number is a different color from the rest of the text. Whenever you see this, all you need to do is to tap on the date or Continue Reading →

4 Improvements I hope Apple Adds to Notifications in iOS 7

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I am excited for iOS 7 whenever it makes its big debut (sometime this year, maybe in June). There are a number of improvements that I would like to see as Apple continues to add features to its mobile operating system. Here are 4 improvements to notifications I’d like to see Apple add in iOS 7. Add a “Snooze” button to the calendar and reminder notifications when alerts pop up on the screen. There are often times when I need 5 or 10 more minutes before I’m ready to jump in to my next project. When I dismiss the reminder, Continue Reading →

Get the best 2Do app out there and check your Todo App search off your list

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One of my favorite productivity apps is called “2Do”. It is an incredible todo list app that seamlessly syncs with iCloud and the built in “Reminders” app. This app has a ton of features but I will summarize a few here so you can get an idea of how useful this tool can be. First of all, this app is a Universal app which means that you only have to buy one app that works on both the iPad and the iPhone (and iPod Touch). And again, with iCloud, it can seamlessly syncs with all your iOS devices. Once installed, Continue Reading →