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App Review: Sensorly for iPhone and iPad Cellular (Mini)

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This is a review of Sensorly, one of the best iOS apps for measuring cellular carriers’ signal strength on your iPhone or iPad (Mini). We’ve all been there. You grab your iPhone or iPad Cellular (Mini) to find the best restaurants nearby, the weather forecast, or information about an upcoming event and you realize that you’re outside your carrier’s data coverage area. If this happens frequently, you might be interested in discovering which carriers have better data coverage in your area. Or, you might just wish you could find your way to a nearby area where your carrier offers better Continue Reading →

App Review: Jetscanner for iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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This is a video app review of Jetscanner. Jetscanner is a great tool for cutting down on office clutter. It creates PDFs of physical documents by turning your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch into a scanner. The app then allows you to upload your PDF to any of several different cloud storage services, including Dropbox, Evernote, and Microsoft Skydrive. UPDATE: Jetscanner is available on the App Store for $1.99. Check out the video review below:

Tutorial: Find My iPhone for iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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This video tutorial explains how to use the Find My iPhone app, Apple’s solution for finding your lost  or stolen iPhone, iPad (mini), iPod Touch, or Mac. You can download Find My iPhone on the App Store for free. Check out the video tutorial below:

Change Siri’s Accent on iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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This video tutorial will show you how to change Siri’s accent on iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch. Changing Siri’s accent is a fun way to make your iOS device unique! For more information on how to set up and personalize Siri, see our previous post here. Check out the video tutorial below:

App Review – Yahoo! Weather for iPhone and iPod Touch

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This is a video review of the Yahoo! Weather app for iPhone and iPod Touch. This app combines a lot of useful weather information with great visual design, making it one of the best weather apps available on the App Store. You can find Yahoo! Weather on the app store for free. Access the video review below.  

Hotel Tonight for iPhone, iPad (mini) and iPod Touch

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Hotel Tonight for iPhone, iPad (mini) and iPod Touch. You check out of your hotel, throw the bags in the rental car or taxi and head out with just enough time to make it through traffic as you make you’re way to the airport when you’re greeted by a sea of brake lights. After over an hour of being stuck in traffic you miss your flight… great. Now what? Hotel Tonight is a unique app in that they have worked out contracts with many different hotel companies to help ensure you get the best deal possible… and when I say Continue Reading →

Quick Tip: Swipe to delete digits in Calculator app on iPhone or iPod Touch

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This article will show you how to delete digits entered into the Calculator app on iPhone and iPod Touch. Wouldn’t it be great if you could edit entries you make into the stock iOS Calculator app without having to clear them entirely?  Fortunately, thanks to a little known trick that Apple has baked into its software, you can! Simply swipe left or right across the Calculator display to remove entered digits one at a time.      This way, you won’t need to start all over if you hit a wrong button!  Please note that this trick only works before 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 →

3 Great Apps for Entertaining Your Kids on iPhone, iPad (mini), iTouch

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Those of us with kids have all been there. You’re waiting in line, on an airplane, or stuck somewhere with your kids and the “nuclear melt down” is imminent. Guided Access paired with a fun kid friendly app can really be a life saver. The following are the top three apps that have come to my rescue when finding I’m in a tight spot with my three year old. For directions on how to activate Kid’s Mode (Guided Access), see this post: Click/tap here. Volt (FREE) This app simulates a plasma globe where bolts of electricity emanate from the gray Continue Reading →

How to use your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch as a Walkie-talkie

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How to use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a Walkie-talkie

Did you know you can use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a Walkie-talkie? It’s actually quite simple with an app called Voxer. The app is free and works globally as long as you have an internet connection. It also works between iOS and Android devices so that you can connect with all of your friends no matter what device they have. Here is a direct link to the app so you can try it out for yourself: Voxer Walkie-Talkie Here is the description from the developers: Voxer is “A truly live push-to-talk and multimedia messaging tool, without the restrictions Continue Reading →