Quick Tip: How to open an email attachment (like an MS Word Doc) in another app

How tos on your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

You can easily open any attachment with another app on your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch. If the file is a pdf that is embedded in the email, just tap and hold on it to reveal the sharing options. This will include the option to open that attachment in another app. If the file is not embedded, like a Microsoft Word or Excel document, then simply tap on the file to open it. Then tap on the sharing button in the upper right corner of the screen. This will give you the option to open the document in another Continue Reading →

4 Tips for Maps App on iPhone: Quick Navigate, Walking Directions, ETA, and Siri Navigation

how to use maps app on iPhone 4S and iPhone 5

The Maps App on the iPhone is a great tool for finding locations and navigating to them. The app is fully integrated into the system allowing you to use other apps with the navigation running in the background. You can even use navigation while your iOS device’s screen is locked to save battery (see this article for more on this: How to save battery life while using Turn by Turn directions with Apple Maps App). To help you get even more out of the Maps app on your iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, here are 4 useful tips: 1. Quick Navigate Continue Reading →

How to prep your iPhone for overseas travel (to avoid exorbitant data fees)

iPhone 4, 4S, 5 and iPad (Mini) Cellular

There are a couple important things you can do to prep your iPhone 5, 4S, 4, or older for overseas travel in order to avoid costly data roaming charges. Most cell phone carriers offer some type of international data plans. However, they are all extremely overpriced and if you are not careful, you will run up a costly bill if you are not careful. There are many horror stories of people using just a few megabytes of data overseas and getting stuck with $2000 bills (you can read more about exorbitant bills in this article on ZDNet.com: International Data Roaming Continue Reading →

4 Tips and Tricks for the Phone App on your iPhone

Most of the features of the Phone app on the iPhone are pretty straight forward. For example, you can add any contacts to your favorites list by opening a contact and tapping on “Add to Favorites” and then select the corresponding number. If you want to redial that last dialed number, tap on Keypad and tap the green Call button. The last called number will appear in the display. But there are some additional features that are not quite so obvious. Here are 4 of them: 1. How to Copy or Paste numbers in the display above the Keypad When Continue Reading →

Mailbox: The Brand New Free Email App that will Revolutionize the way you do email on iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

Orchestra, Inc. released it’s revolutionary email client (and updated it for iOS 7) that promises to change the way people interact with email. The designers of the app say that “Mailbox is a completely redesigned inbox that makes email light, fast, and mobile-friendly.” The concept behind it is to help you organize your email in such a way that you can get to zero messages in your inbox on a regular basis knowing that when you need to respond to an email it will remind you. They have integrated a task list and snooze feature that handles this for you. Continue Reading →

Quick Tip: How to look up a word in the dictionary on your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch

Your iOS device comes preloaded with an easily accessible dictionary. Whether you need to define a word you are reading in an email, an eBook, or anything else on your iDevice, all you need to do is simply select the word by tapping and holding. Then tap “Define.” This will pull up the dictionary definition of the word you just selected. If you are writing an email or composing another document on your iOS device, you can select the word you want to define by double tapping on it. Then, tap the right arrow of the Cut, Copy, Paste buttons 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 →

Did you know you can gift an iOS app right from your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch? Here’s how…

With the most recent updates to the iOS App Store, you can now select any app and gift it. Gifting an app is simple – here is how: 1. Open up the App Store app. 2. Locate the app you want to gift and tap on it. 3. Once you tap on the app you want to gift, a little sharing arrow will appear in the upper right corner of the screen. This is where you can gift the app. In the bottom right corner of the sharing icons you will see the gift icon. Tap on this to gift Continue Reading →

iOS 6.1 just released: Now you can purchase movies through Fandango using Siri

Apple released iOS 6.1 on January 28, 2013 with improvements and bug fixes. The listed improvements are: LTE support for more carriers (for iPhone 5, iPad Mini, and iPad 4th Generation only) Purchase movie tickets through Fandango with Siri (USA only) iTunes Match subscribers can now download individual songs from iCloud New button to reset the Advertising Identifier Go to Settings –> General –> Software Update to Download and Install the latest version of iOS 6.1 for your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch.

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

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 →